ProWomEn Promotion of Women Entrepreneurship Sonia Marques SteinbeisEuropaZentrum Stuttgart Germany

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Participating Regions
Thuringia
North-Rhine-Westphalia
Central, North, South and Western Sweden
Brussels City
Yorkshire and Humber
East Sweden
Pilsen
North East of Southern Ireland
East Poland
Brittany
Prague City
East Hungary
Aragon
Baden-Württemberg
Catalonia
Umbria
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Objectives

• Stimulating and supporting regional strategies
  and actions for the promotion of women
  entrepreneurship
• Creating better conditions for women to realise
  their entrepreneurial potential
• 4 key issues dealing within the network with the
  corresponding specific objectives
• How to make regional decision makers aware
• How to support women
• How to set up regional networks
• How to change education and training

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Sub-nets

• The creation of 4 sub-nets corresponding to the 4
  thematic key issues
• Sub-net I Problem awareness
• Sub-net II Instruments of support
• Sub-net III Regional networks
• Sub-net IV Education and training

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General achievements

• Understanding the special situation of women
  entrepreneurs
• Pilot project plans developed by regions for
  themselves
• Models/recommendations how to create and
  implement activities
• Networks as change agent for regional innovation
  process
• On-going projects and co-operations among the
  members to implement innovative structures
• Integration of NACs in the innovative processes
  of women entrepreneurship

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Four Workshops for every Sub-net

• WS 1 Data Collection - (State of the art for
  each thematic objective)
• WS 2 Critical success factors (4 x List of
  critical success factors)
• WS 3 Development of best practises (3 best
  practises for each objective)
• WS 4 How to implement best practices in the
  regions (exchange of experts)

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Results WS 1 Data Collection

• Identification of data ("Identified issues")
• campaings, promotion activities
• workshops, trainee programmes, coaching
• incubators
• business angles
• support of access to finance and market
• networks
• entrepreneurship in education
• regional policies in the different regions

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Results WS 2 Instruments of support
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Results WS 3 best practices
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Results WS 4 Implementation of best practices

• Objectives
• Identification of regional strengths
• Identification of regional key players and their
  interests and needs, identification of problems
  and weaknesses
• Generating ideas for bilateral/trilateral
  projects
• Presentation of and discussion of a model for a
  regional implementation plan

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General Results (1)

• Bilateral meeting
• Baden-Württemberg and Brussels
• North Rhine Westphalia and Yorkshire Humber (3
  meetings)
• Baden-Württemberg and East Hungary
• Thuringia and Sweden
• Ireland and Barcelona
• Ireland and Yorkshire
• Regional awareness

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General Results (2)

• Study cases visited
• Stuttgart, DVisit of incubator in Hohenheim
• Dundalk, Irl Visit of Regional Development
  Centre
• Brussels, B Visit of incubator Dansaert
  Enterprises Centre
• Barcelona, E Visit of Barcelona_at_ctiva and
  Programa Odame
• Zaragoza, E Visit of incubator
• Pilsen, CZ visit of a women entrepreneurs
• Stuttgart, D visit of NewCome 2002 (fair and
  congress on entrepreneurship)
• Umbria, I Visit of female incubator
• Warsaw, Pl Visit of women entrepreneur and a
  representative of a microloan programme

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General Results (3)

• USA Study-trip
• Best practices transfered
• TWIN (North Rhine Westphalia to Yorkshire
• Web page 10.000 Viewers
• Final Conference

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USA Study-Trip

• One of the remarkable characteristics consists
  in the strong importance attributed to the
  imitative behaviours and the traditional one and
  entirely American philosophy of the give - back
  or rather, to the awareness that the entrepreneur
  develops an important rule in the society and in
  the culture of the country

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Final Conference Stuttgart, Germany 17th-18th
of September 2003