EO-Bangladesh hosts GSEA campaign at DU

A campaign was held on the Dhaka University campus on Tuesday aiming to encourage students to be entrepreneurs and bring the emerging talents in the front line.
Bangladesh chapter of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO), an international organisation, in collaboration with Dhaka University Entrepreneurs' Development Club (DUEDC) & Institute of Business Administration Communication Club (IBACC), organised the programme.
Prof Dr Rafi Uddin Ahmed of DU Marketing Department delivered welcome speech at the event.
Nafees M Khan, MD of Gears group and Co-chair (Finance) of the EO-Bangladesh for 2023-24 session, Sadat Omi, director of Elson Consumer Products Ltd & chair of GSEA Bangladesh, Shaon Tanvir, and Mostafa Quamrus Sobhan Chowdhury, among others, addressed it.
The speakers urged the students to go beyond the traditional ideas and become entrepreneurs in building a career.
They observed that in a populous country like Bangladesh, there is an opportunity to be developed as an entrepreneur with innovative ideas.
Sadat Omi informed the students about the activities of the Entrepreneur's Organization and the Bangladesh chapter of the organisation.
He said the organisation's flagship programme is the Global Student Entrepreneurs Awards competition where participating students can gain the ability to lead at the global level.
Earlier EO-Bangladesh arranged similar campaign on RISE and BUET campus on September 5 and DIU campus on September 12 and NSU campus on October 1. This year EO-Bangladesh is hosting GSEA awareness campaign in universities.
The deadline of the registration for this competition is November 7 this year, and the application link is gsea.org/apply. The chapter's grand finale will be held in mid-January of 2024.
The prize money is Tk3lakh for the Bangladesh chapter, and the global prize is $50,000 for the 1st place, $20,000 for the 2nd place and $10,000 for the third place.

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