EMPOWERING IMMIGRANT STUDENTS IN FINLAND: Through The Young CEO Entrepreneurship Event.

Abstract

In an effort to improve the state of high unemployment rate among the foreign students in Finland, an event was organised on the 18th of October 2019 called “Young CEO” at the premises of the International Evangelical Church in Helsinki Finland. The event aimed to serve as a platform to inform, train and disseminate useful information to international students with the objectives of showing how to gain insight-ful access into the Finnish start-up market, knowing the available supports, tools, practicalities, free training and networking to maximise. Speakers were invited from the government organisations, Non-profit organisations, and private. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to highlight how events can be used as a form of educative means, in reference to Young CEO event implementation, to inspire and steer foreign students in the direction of considering entrepreneurship as a form of potential career alternative.

The outcome of the event show that, with access to proper information, foreign students can be steered towards becoming business owners. Some of the highlight of the event was the presentation of the financial support made available by the government to encourage entrepreneurs and how to access the entrepreneur grant. The event also enlightened participants on how to start business from the start, how to maximise the light entrepreneurship opportunity, the job opportunities available in the tech industries, the free training and development available for start-up and how to network with other like mind in the field of start-up