… Pionnières is a network of business incubators which helps women entrepreneurs to establish themselves in innovative … a gender perspective on business was in its infancy, and women were not expected to be active in business outside the social economy. It aims to enable women from different geographic and social backgrounds to set …
… 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 2006 in Berlin in order to strengthen networking among women who want to set up their own businesses, women entrepreneurs and business experts. … has built up a very good reputation. More than 10,000 women have made contact, 3,700 have attended meetings, and …
… (€15m) fund which makes equity investments to help strong women’s businesses grow. It works on a co-investment basis in … expertise on finance measures to support SMEs. In the UK women are about half as likely as men to be entrepreneurs. … fund’s objective is to increase the number of successful women-led businesses in the UK, ensuring that those with real …
… 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 …