GAEIN Vision

To promote and ensure the highest standards of professionalism in entrepreneurship education required for sustainable, inclusive and global prosperity.

GAEIN Mission

• To register and license Entrepreneurship Educators and firms and make provisions for the control of entrepreneurship education offering.
• To determine the academic standards of courses and accredit programmes to be offered by institutions offering entrepreneurship education.
• To foster speedy acquisition of relevant entrepreneurship and enterprise education skills through Continuous Professionalism Development.
• To ensure that entrepreneurship and enterprise education is practiced to improve the quality of life and promote sustainable development.
• To promote and ensure stability and cooperation within professional entrepreneurship bodies in the world.
• To serve as a scholarly community that supports its members to develop high-quality intellectual contributions in entrepreneurship innovation and small business research, teaching and societal interaction to advance entrepreneurship and small business worldwide.
• To create an entrepreneurial society - where knowledge-based entrepreneurship has emerged as a driving force for economic growth, employment creation and competitiveness in global markets.
• To challenge the prevailing understanding of prosperity by developing alternative models and ways of thinking.
• To use robust empirical evidence, innovative policies and emerging technologies to secure future prosperity.
• To equip ambitious, entrepreneurial students with new approaches to prosperity and help them become transition leaders in their domains of interest. .

GAEIN Purpose and Goals

The purpose of the Association is to advance the understanding of entrepreneurship and small business issues as well as the creation of new entrepreneurship and small business knowledge in research, education, and practical business policy.

To realise its purpose the Association:
1. Organises conferences, educational meetings and other events to its members and interest groups in order to promote interaction in the fields of MSME activities and entrepreneurship
2. Distributes academic material and publications in order to increase the expertise of its members and interest groups,
3. Carries out communication and information activities related to entrepreneurship and MSMEs,
4. Puts forward proposals and motions related to entrepreneurship and MSMEs to national and international authorities and organisations,
5. Acts in cooperation with other public and private organisations dedicated to the promotion of entrepreneurship and MSME activities

Objectives of GAEIN are to

1. Dignify entrepreneurship as a field of study and profession.
2. reposition entrepreneurship education for positive impact
3. Contribute our quota to national and regional development by promoting and deepening the field and profession of entrepreneurship through aggressive training and research.
4. Provide a rallying point as an umbrella body for entrepreneurship, innovation and small business researchers/scholars, consultants, practitioners and policy makers, as well as vehicle for participating members to collaborate on and communicate about the specific issues and challenges confronting tertiary institution-based entrepreneurship.
5. Serve as a vehicle to develop curriculum, initiate collaborative projects with international partners in the field of entrepreneurship education.
6. Create a platform for the global exchange and integration of best practices in entrepreneurship education.
7. Engage in intensive training of top level entrepreneurs, retirees and would - be-retirees in the field of entrepreneurship.
8. Identify, protect and advance the common interest of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Educators/researchers/scholars/consultants.
9. conduct examinations and also award certificate to qualified members as a mark of professionalism in Entrepreneurship and allied fields
10. Regulate entrepreneurship education standard and practice, and formulate code of conduct and take disciplinary measures against erring practitioners.
11. Disseminate information about Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Education and Small Business Management in an official Journal to be published by the Council.
12. Make meaningful contributions to government policy on entrepreneurship education
13. Maintain close relationship with other professional bodies working in the allied fields as well as joining hands with notable tertiary institutions in the world for the promotion of entrepreneurship education.
14. Recognise entrepreneurship educators in various capacities as entrepreneurship merit awardees in all forms of entrepreneurship education.
15. Confer Student membership, Associate of Certified Global Professional Entrepreneur (ACGPE), Member of Certified Global Professional Entrepreneur (MCGPE), Fellow of Certified Global Professional Entrepreneur (FCGPE), Institutional membership and corporate membership on practising and qualified entrepreneurship educators and practitioners as well as establish a roll of honour for distinguished entrepreneurship educators and professionals. .

PROFESSIONAL CODE OF ETHICS

The Certified Global Professional Entrepreneur (CGPE) recognises the responsibility of the entrepreneurship education professional to foster ethical standards in our profession.

The CGPE. does hereby adopt the following CODE OF ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS to provide direction in attaining high principles of truth, justice, zeal and good faith dealings.

• To abide by all international regulations.
• To maintain high standards of conduct when seeking employment, performing services and negotiating transactions so as to create a high ethical standard to the public.
• To continue building the knowledge-base of our professional community through study collaboration and continuing education.
• To build confidence and the trust of the public and our employers using diligence, honesty, cooperation and confidentiality.
• To provide occasional pro-bono assistance to disadvantaged persons who may seek insight and advice in the entrepreneurship and related fields where we are qualified to do so.
• To work with tertiary institutions, other professional bodies and academic groups in building entrepreneurial society characterised by sustainable, inclusive and global prosperity.
• To illustrate zeal and professionalism with all our dealings with clients and customers.
• To observe the Certified Global Professional Entrepreneur – CGPE designation trademarks, service marks, intellectual property rights of the GAEIN
• To reduce waste, improve efficiency and protect the environment through the effective use of natural resources without causing more harm than good.

GLOBAL PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE