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women entrepreneurs · Transforming European Women’s Entrepreneurship: The Education and Training for Success Programme

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-03-01 → 2019-02-28
EU contribution
€679,500
Participants
7
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Transforming European Women’s Entrepreneurship: The Education and Training for Success Programme

Entrepreneurship in general has several benefits to society, such as fostering problem solving and creativity, helping to develop new markets/products, new jobs and promoting economic growth. Research on women entrepreneurship is even more important because female entrepreneurs are not just outnumbered by male entrepreneurs, their activities are also different in terms of sectors, business size and growth opportunities. So promoting an entrepreneurial culture for women is an issue that needs to be addressed extensively. The under-representation of early stage women entrepreneurs in the business-driven economies of Europe is a complex phenomenon that is determined by various factors, including socio-cultural, economic, and educational ones. Training and education play a very important role in the development of Women Entrepreneurs, and the necessary tools must be improved. The purpose of this project is to set up and strengthen international and inter-sector collaboration in the research field of entrepreneurial competence development. We want to increase the ratio of successful female entrepreneurs across Europe and their performance potential by using an evidence-based programme approach to make innovations in entrepreneurship education. The women entrepreneurs’ education and training programme is based on a study of more than 300 women entrepreneurs from Germany and Ireland. The programme has been developed to enhance the capacities of early stage women entrepreneurs of micro- and small enterprises from the service sectors in Germany and Ireland and increase the success of their overall entrepreneurial performance. Overall Project Objectives 1. to identify and assess the fundamental supporting competences of early stage women entrepreneurs in Germany and Ireland for successful entrepreneurship; 2. to design and implement an educational and training programme that enables early stage women entrepreneurs to develop fundamental entrepreneurial competences and that increases the entrepreneurial success; 3. to evaluate the effectiveness and the impact of the educational and training programme.

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Project objective

The objective of the women entrepreneurs project is to set up and strengthen international and inter-sectoral collaboration in the research field of competence development in young women entrepreneurs and to promote women’s entrepreneurial potential in Europe. The scientific goal is to get a better understanding of the fundamental entrepreneurial competences and to develop an educational programme to enhance the ratio of successful young women entrepreneurs across Europe. This requires academic and non-academic collaborations and the sharing of knowledge from different areas, e.g. the assessment of essential supporting competences for successful entrepreneurship, the design and provision of the educational programme, and evaluation. The partners will build a robust network covering all research areas and perfectly complement their associated expertise. women entrepreneurs is divided into five work packages (including the work packages of project management and exploitation, dissemination and outreach activities) that will guarantee the establishment of a sustainable long-lasting network. The research objectives range from an analysis of the competences of women entrepreneurs across Europe to the design and provision of a programme that facilitates the entrepreneurial competences and the development of a learning transfer framework. Through participation in events (besides scientific conferences also Researchers Night or Girls Day), the project objectives will be transformed not only into the scientific network, but also further communicated to the general public. women entrepreneurs bears a potential for the commerzialisation of innovations, building upon an exploitation plan. Moreover, the non-academic partners represent characteristic lead users of the project outcomes.We believe we can significantly contribute to the EU Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan, with the proposed collaborations and activities strengthening the sharing of knowledge in Europe.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITÄT JENA · JENACoordinatorGermany
  • 3S UNTERNEHMENSBERATUNG GMBH · WIENAustria
  • CCKF Ltd · DublinCity levelIreland
  • FUNDACION IMAGINARIO COMUNICACION PARA LA PAZ Y EL CAMBIO SOCIAL · BogotaColombia
  • FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE · BarranquillaColombia
  • TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU · LemesosCyprus
  • UNIVERSIDAD DEL DESARROLLO · San Carlos De ApoquindoChile

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