What is TMEI?

Toronto Met Entrepreneur Institute (TMEI) leverages Canada’s largest business school and entrepreneurship program to spread a culture of entrepreneurship and empower those in need. Our goal is to unleash and support a values-driven culture of innovation, prosperity, and achievement by igniting and supporting a passion for entrepreneurship.

TMEI is a global leader in entrepreneurship education and sustainable co-curricular student engagement. It inspires and supports educators and students as they engage in transformative co-curricular projects.

EMPOWER

University students through the positive power of co-curricular entrepreneurship.

CONNECT

Entrepreneurial Companies to top students and world class co-curricular projects.

PROVIDE

Best practices in entrepreneurship programs for Entrepreneurship Educators.

TMEI's Mission Statement

Our mission/goal is to provide students with a deeply experiential and transformative learning experience in a vibrant urban environment. We empower students with a philosophy of entrepreneurial thinking, passion, and action orientation that they can apply to their lives, their jobs, their communities, and/or their own new ventures.

 Canada’s preeminent and largest entrepreneurship program, we deliver innovative educational programs and support multi-disciplinary experiences globally with local, national and global impact. We provide entrepreneurship educators with resources and thought leadership in designing a course, program or university eco-system.

We are attuned to the highly diverse values, language, and approaches that different faculties, students and alumni bring to their enterprising ventures. Our Entrepreneur Ambassadors, engaged from throughout the university, help us stimulate a culture of entrepreneurship and ensure that our programs are relevant to all disciplines.

Entrepreneurship Awards

 

Awarded the Prosperity Leadership Award by the Canadian Urban Institute, TMEI has been influential in TMU being recognized as a global leader in Entrepreneurship. TMU’s many honours include the Entrepreneurial University Award by the Deshpande Foundation, being named Canada’s first Ashoka Changemaker Campus, building the World’s #1 University-based Business Incubator (the DMZ, awarded by UBI Global 2018) and empowering Enactus TMU – one of the largest student-run social entrepreneurship organizations in the world with over 100+ students per year generating funding of $100-500k per year for their co-curricular projects.  Enactus TMU (formerly Students In Free Enterprise) has won over 50+ Regional and National Entrepreneurship Championships by empowering those in need through the positive power of entrepreneurship.

  • Regional Champion, Desjardins Youth Empowerment Challenge 2024
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, Canadian Tire Environmental Sustainability 2024
  • National Semi-Finalist, ACE National Exposition 2023
  • Regional Champion, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2023
  • National Top 5 Team, ACE National Exposition 2022
  • Regional Champion, CWB Financial Education Challenge 2022
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2022
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, Scotiabank Climate Action Challenge 2022
  • Excellence in Innovation Award, Enactus Championship 2021
  • National Champion Runner-Up, Co-operators Youth Mental Wellness 2021
  • National Champion Runner-Up, Financial Ideathon Challenge 2021
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2021
  • Regional Runner-Up, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2021
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2020
  • National Top 5 Team, ACE National Exposition 2019
  • National Champion Team, Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge 2018
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2018
  • National Champion Team, Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge 2017
  • National Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2017
  • National Top 5 Team, ACE National Exposition 2017
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge 2017
  • Regional Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2016
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2017
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2017
  • National Champion Team, Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge 2016
  • National Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2016
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2016
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotiabank Youth Empowerment Challenge 2016
  • Regional Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2016
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2016
  • Regional Champion Runner-Up, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2016
  • 3M Canada Problem Solving Partnership Best Project of the Year 2015
  • National Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2015
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotia Bank Eco-Living Challenge 2015
  • National Runner-Up, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2014
  • Regional Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2014
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotia Bank EcoLiving Challenge 2014
  • National Champion Team, ACE National Exposition Tim Hortons Cup 2013
  • National Champion Team, Scotia Bank EcoLiving Challenge 2013
  • Regional Champion Team, Enactus Entrepreneurship Challenge 2013
  • Regional Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2013
  • Regional Champion Team, Scotia Bank EcoLiving Challenge 2013
  • National Champion Team, TD Entrepreneurship Challenge 2012
  • National Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education 2012
  • National Champion Team, Campell’s Let’s Can Hunger Awareness 2012
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2012
  • Regional Champion Team, TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge 2012
  • Regional Champion Team, Capital One Financial Education Challenge 2012
  • Regional Runner-Up Champion Team, Green Challenge 2012
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2011
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, HSBC Financial Literacy 2011
  • Regional Champion Team, HSBC Financial Literacy Challenge 2011
  • Regional Champion Team, Green Challenge 2011
  • Semi-Finalist, SIFE World Cup, Annaheim, CA 2010
  • National Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2010
  • National Champion Team, HSBC Financial Literacy Challenge 2010
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, RBC Bluewater Challenge 2010
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, Scotiabank Green Challenge 2010
  • National Champion Team, HSBC Financial Literacy Challenge 2009
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, Walmart SIFE Green Challenge 2009
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2009
  • Best Campus Administration Award, ACE National Exposition 2009
  • Regional Champion Team, TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009
  • Regional Champion Team, HSBC Financial Literacy Challenge 2009
  • National Champion Team, TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge 2008
  • National Runner-Up Champion Team, ACE National Exposition 2008
  • Regional Champion Team, TD SIFE Entrepreneurship Challenge 2008
  • Most Improved Team, ACE National Exposition 2007
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