About FYSE
The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) is a regional organization with the aim to inspire and empowering young people to become entrepreneurs. By building an entrepreneurial environment for young people we support them to realize their ideas, to make a positive impact on their society and to gain valuable soft skills while doing so.
We believe young people in Asia have the passion and potential to succeed asentrepreneur, all they need is further encouragement and support to turn ideas into successful ventures.
By providing a range of tailored support including our regional youth entrepreneurship campaign, and entrepreneurship and social innovation training that is youthful, exciting and dynamic we aim to inspire youth to take actions now, no matter how big or small their actions might be.
Aim
- To promote stimulate an entrepreneurial environment for young people in Asia and to raise entrepreneurship awareness among young people in the region
- To promote and facilitate entrepreneurship education for young people
- To bring youth entrepreneurship at the forefront of the policy agenda
- To connect young entrepreneurs to their peers and essential resources to achieve business success
Vision
Asia’s young people are inspired and empowered to change their community for good.
Motto
Unlocking Potential. Igniting Ideas. Empowering Actions.
What Makes Us Unique
Our unique positioning arises as we not only support already entrepreneurial youth as other entrepreneurship programs, we take one crucial step back and aim to stimulate entrepreneurial activities and inspire youth on a large scale to become entrepreneurs.
- The only regional program in Asia Pacific focusing on raising awareness and inspiring young people to become entrepreneurs on a large scale
- The only regional network celebrating and developing young youth entrepreneurs, both social Changemakers and commercial entrepreneurs
- The only community network of young entrepreneurs from Asia, to mobilize peer-to-peer action- learning and the generation of business relationships
- A program that catalyzes on the collective strenghts of various organizations incl. Media, Youth Federations, Chambers of Commerce, Universities and NGOs to collectively make a difference to youth entrepreneurs in the region
About Us
FYSE
The Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship (FYSE) is a regional organization with the aim to inspire and empowering young people to become entrepreneurs. By building an entrepreneurial environment for young people we support them to realize their ideas, to make a positive impact on their society and to gain valuable soft skills while doing so.
Approach
In order to foster entrepreneurship in Asia Pacific an entrepreneurial environment is needed in which young entrepreneurs find the reseources to grow their ventures. On the other hand we need to provide successful role models to inspire more young people in the region to venture out.
Fellowship
The profile of the Paragon 100 fellows includes young entrepreneurs and social changemakers of up to 30 years of age who are an inspiration to other young people.
Paragon 100 members are young people who dared to stride out by setting up their own business, social enterprise, NGO or sustainable project. They have overcome challenges by realizing their vision and believing in themselves.