Tavoite

Project outline: Empowering Women’s Entrepreneurship (EWE) by enhancing regional entrepreneurship ecosystems.

Challenges to be addressed:

· women are generally under-represented in entrepreneurship – project seeks to increase the contribution of women to growing the economy

· youth out-migration, especially young women, seeking education / employment – project seeks to reduce outmigration by retaining existing female entrepreneurs and encouraging young women to become entrepreneurs in remote and sparsely populated communities

Target groups  are female business start-ups and experienced female entrepreneurs, including young women, indigenous and immigrant women.

Target sectors are determined by regional circumstances and potentially include retail, media and marketing, health and beauty care, leisure and recreation (bio-economy, creative businesses) food and natural products (green care), ICT, childcare, elder care, agriculture.

Project has four main themes:

WP1 – Improving regional business environment

WP2 – Transnational learning of woman entrepreneurs

WP3 – Gender-sensitive coaching concept for business advisors

WP4 – Innovation platform for new pre-startups

Tulokset

Outcome of the project

  • greater understanding of regional and transnational barriers which impact negatively on women entrepreneur
  • enhanced business support ecosystem across regions for start-ups and small businesses which helps address these barriers (including gender-aware / gender-specific delivery
  • application of interventions to participant female start-ups and existing entrepreneurs which help address these barriers
  • sharing of transnational learning on successful business models to the benefit of each region

Tulosten hyödynnettävyys

Hankkeessa käytettäviä mentorointi- ja sparrausmenetelmiä hyödynnetään hankkeen jälkeen. Myös start-up-yritysten ja olemassaolevien yrittäjien yhteistyötä jatketaan hankkeen jälkeen.