… was part of the wider European Network of Mentors for Women Entrepreneurs, supported by the Enterprise DG of the … recognise and support the distinctive nature of women’s business start-ups and ensure that newly-established women entrepreneurs could sustain their activity. It offered …
… the National Rural Network, the project aimed to stimulate women’s entrepreneurship and increase their use of … an ‘employability agent’ in each area, who could support women entrepreneurs. It also ran 11 online training courses which attracted 833 women, and held seminars on how to set up co-operatives. The …
… In brief The Cyprus Women's Cooperative Bank Ltd. (WCB), one of the first co-operative banks created by women in the world, started its activities in January 2001 in Larnaca. At that time, some 350 business-minded women in Cyprus founded the WCB, a non-profit lending …
… In brief The Women Entrepreneurs’ Loan Programme is an innovative loan programme initiated in response to low levels of women’s employment and entrepreneurship in Croatia. It was … and institutes which are majority-owned and led by women. It makes favourable loans to women entrepreneurs to …
… In brief The Entrepreneurship of Unemployed Women Aged 22-64 programme was an ESF-supported subsidy … of Labour and Social Insurance. It aimed to promote women’s self-employment, entrepreneurship and business … the economic and financial crisis (which has exacerbated women’s unemployment). The programme offered a grant of …
… or neutral consequences for the state of equality between women and men. The central question of the GIA is: Does a … maintain or increase the gender inequalities between women and men? The European Commission defines gender impact … policy under consideration, and the projected impacts on women and men once the policy has been implemented. It is …