Nicholas Hopper

Nicholas manages Enac-tus UCD and organises project resources.

Justin Mathew Joe Bradley Niall McFadden

Justin has founded Enac-tus in UCD and manages the Play Cricket project.

Joe is in charge of BAB communications and sponsorship.

Niall organises the Inno-vation Cafe and the Brain Bunker.

Team Leader Founder & PM Corporate Liaison Project Manager Ic

Darragh O’Neill

Darragh is the Youth Entrepreneurship Fund chairman.

Project Manager YEF

Milan Shah

Milan organises the IT course for secondary school students.

Veronica Peng Iain McCall

Veronica helps on all fronts and has proved to be an invaluable asset.

Iain set-up and organises the Connecting Trough Sport initiative.

We have recruited 20 new members from 10 nations, who have committed to take over our projects and ex-pand the Enactus UCD portfolio in 2013/2014. Detailed plans for 2 new projects are already being drafted and several others are still in the planning stages. Our existing projects are expanding rapidly and interest in ENACTUS on campus along side it. We are currently in talks with Plan-MyGapYear UK to organise volunteer-ing trips to 3rd world countries and Davis Business Consultants to set up a charity online platform.

Project Manager ITC Marketing & PR Project Manager CTS

Next Year’s Committee

Annual Report UCD Team

FACTS MEMBERS

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YEF

Youth EntrepreneurshipFund & Associated Projects

The Youth Entrepreneurship Fund (YEF) started as a lobbying initiative to secure funding for young entrepreneurs and ultimately fight youth unemployment in Ireland. It has been immensely successful with the Labour Party and Fine Gael unanimously backing the proposal. It outlines a € 1 million fund on a 2-year trial basis with our proposal reaching the Euro-pean Commission in Brussels who are considering the project on a European scale. We have had extensive media coverage and have developed several other projects to tie in with the overall goal of the YEF: decreasing youth unemployment.

1. The Youth Entrepreneurship Fund Initiative

2. IT Course in Secondary schoolsOur IT Course started in Marian College teaching young secondary school students basic web programming to improve their job prospects and excite them for third level education and a career in innovative web industries. We partnered with Fadoo Technologies Ltd who have helped us design a curriculum for an 8-week course at extremely low cost (€50 per person for 16 hours) and some extra places for students who cannot afford the registration fee. As the Irish IT industries feature the high-est demand levels for specialised employees we are trying to improve the employability of young people, while simultane-ously promoting future entrepreneurship in these sectors.

3. Business Plan Competition in Secondary Schools (in Progress)Over the last few months we have built up a network of schools interested in a business plan competition organised by Enactus UCD. St Joseph’s CBS and St David’s CBS are already on board and more are bound to follow soon. This initiative is targeted towards transition year students and aims at getting them interested in entrepreneurship as a future career path. The material we designed will help students develop their ideas and conduct basic feasibility studies to learn how to spot the right opportunity.

4. Innovation Cafe & Brain BunkerThe Innovation Cafe brings students from all disciplines together to share their ideas and offer each other support. The project is based on the premise that by working together, students can increase their chances of achieving entrepreneurial success. Over 25 students attended the first 6-hour workshop, discussing a wide variety of online and offline business and charity ideas. 4 pro-fessional contributors from different industries offered guidance and mentoring support to 7 self-formed project groups.

We are currently in talks with the university and students’ union about opening a full time premise on the Belfield campus called the “Brain Bunker”. This innovation hub will facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote entrepreneurial activities across the univer-sity. The “Right Brain” - the creative center - is planned as a lounge cafe, while the “Left Brain” - the planning center - will feature project rooms and group offices.The sketch to the right is an illustration of the old (and currently empty) student bar building in UCD, which we are trying to reopen as the Brain Bunker. We envision this entrepreneurship hub as a pilot program for a nation wide model promoting business innovation across Irish universities, as an incubator for the YEF.

€1.000.000committed

Empowering Young People in 4 steps

16 kids

2ScHools

1hub

so far...

on board

Other

Youth EntrepreneurshipFund & Associated Projects

“The Committee recommends that the Government, in collaboration with industry, consider rolling out a national youth strategy on entrepreneurship. In addition the Government could introduce a Youth Entrepreneurship Fund, of €1,000,000 on a two year trial basis, pend-ing further review. The Committee recommends that Ireland consider developing a scheme for encouraging entrepreneurship among first-time jobseekers (aged 18-35), that would follow the example set by Portugal, which provides aid for the start-up of small, for-profit companies that create jobs. In Portugal, two credit lines with low interest rates were launched to support the ap-proved initiatives.”

- JOINT COMMITTEE ON JOBS, ENTERPRISE AND INNOVATIONHOUSES OF THE OIREACHTAS

“Our OtherProjects

As our second empowerment approach focuses on integration, Connect2 our headline project in this area, targets marginalised students in and beyond UCD. As the social groups of Chinese students seldom intersect with the rest of the student body Connect2 was designed as a social and business network to bridge the cultural gap and ultimately connect the 2 cultures. We expanded the network to universities in China bringing Irish students with interest in Asia and incoming exchange students closer together. Through a wide variety of social and business related events and our headline activity - the Connect2

5. Connect2

Our second sports integration project runs in Rockbrook Park School, tar-geting children from very diverse ethnic backgrounds and a wide variety of sporting abilities. We organised regular cricket sessions and several matches against other cricket teams, as well as different schools to pro-mote inclusion and a healthy life style for young people to tackle mental health problems immigrant children are frequently facing.

7. Play Cricket

WHO WE HAVE WORKED WITH - Our Project Partners & Supporters

Connecting Through Sport is an initiative dedicated to promoting social integration among young people through sporting events. The general structure of the events is a sports tournament followed by a BBQ with a ce-lebrity guest to further promote social integration and a healthy life style.The project has won a EUR 2.000 grant through the O2 Think Big program as the most promising mental health initiative.

6. Connecting Through Sport

Case Study Competition - we partnered Chinese, Irish and international students to work together towards a common goal. The initiative has been very successful thus far attracting media attention, support from Deloitte, O2, the Confucius Institute and several universities across the country.

1. Youth Entrepreneurship Fund€ 1 million fund sponsored by the govern-ment to fight youth unemployment

2. IT Coursein secondary schools

3. Business Plan Competitionin secondary schools

4. Innovation Cafe/Brain Bunkerpilot project started in UCD

5. Connect2China/Ireland network promoting integra-tion

6. Connecting Through Sportintegration and healthy living

7. Play Cricketintegration and healthy living

2013 7 4 ~50 € 5961This year’s ENACTUS UCD team restarted

operating in Jan 2013. Within less than 5

months we have built a strong project portfolio.

Our portfolio features 7 successful projects; all under one motto: em-

powering young people and furthering integra-

tion.

Our project managers promoted our projects

on numerous radio pro-grams across 4 different

stations.

About 50 students were involved in the organi-sation of our 7 projects as committee members.

We raised € 5.961 through grants, dona-

tions and entrepreneur-ial activities with all our

projects this year.

Projects

We believe that we can most effectively improve the lives of young people through the promotion of entrepreneurship and integration. All of our 7 projects aim to decrease youth unemployment levels and help young people lead happier lives with better future prospects.

Our approach

Nicholas Hopper - Team Leader UCD Kathy O’Reilly - Faculty Advisor UCD Brona Kavanagh - Administrator UCD

Enactus UCDAnnual Report 2013

Contact: nicholas.hopper@ucdconnect.ie

Youth Unemploymentin the Rep. of Ireland

Youth UnemploymentEuropean average

Youth UnemploymentGlobal average