Focus on the gap year ‘social entrepreneurship project’ of two IÉSEG students
10/20/2015
Thibault-Louis Meret and Pauline Neuilly, students in the fifth year of the Grande École program, met during their activities with Enactus IÉSEG, one of the School’s many student associations. The association is part of the Enactus network, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring students to improve the world through entrepreneurial action.
Thibault-Louis Meret
With the Enactus IÉSEG team, they won the national Enactus competition in France in 2014 and then participated in the World Cup in Beijing. Following this experience, they began to develop their gap year/semester project, entitled “Live & Give“.
Their goal, for five months from July 2015, is to discover new initiatives, business models, motivations and inspirations in different countries across Latin America. Spending around 4 weeks in each country, they aim to discover 3-4 social entrepreneurship initiatives each month, projects that create jobs but also change lives.
Pauline Neuilly (pictured right)
“We have chosen to contact certain initiatives in advance, but we also wanted the freedom meet people spontaneously,” said Thibault-Louis. They have already visited, for example, a representative of the NGO AVAAZ and Impact Hub in Colombia, and a foundation that works for biodiversity in Ecuador. They will also use networks of social entrepreneurs, such as Make Sense, to find other initiatives.
“We want to meet with different actors of change in order to become, ourselves, actors of change in the future”, notes Thibault-Louis.