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The idea of this panel is to focus on migrant-led support programs for migrant entrepreneurs. This will allow us also discuss the needs of migrant entrepreneurs and innovative solutions proposed by other migrant entrepreneurs themselves to support them.
You will have the chance to listen to the direct experience of several migrant entrepreneurs!
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Introduced and moderated by Klaas Molenaar, Em. Professor of Financial Inclusion and New Entrepreneurship at The Hague University of Applied Sciences, founder and director of Timpoc Consultants.
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The financing needs of migrant entrepreneurs are more diversified than we tend to think. This session will help the audience to go beyond a picture of destitute migrants, in order to notice non-EU entrepreneurs, who leave their countries with a plan and preparation, who arrive with a specific asset base and diverse capital types.
The session will discuss if microfinance is the only remedy for their needs and what are the possible alternatives to provide access to finance. It will also map the necessary actions to better understand, absorb and empower the entrepreneurial migrants.
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Introduced and moderated by Grzegorz Galusek, Executive Director of Microfinance Centre
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Whether as a team or as an individual, embarking on an entrepreneurial journey can be a rather lonely pursuit. The stakes are huge and the full responsibility lays solely in the hands of the founder(s). Having a devoted, qualified mentor who follows the progress and provides feedback in a process is therefore profoundly important. While mentor-mentee relationship depends mostly on the interpersonal fit, there are several factors to consider in mentorship/coaching matching, such as expertise, desired experience, backgrounds etc. to ensure the optimal collaboration. The session will discuss which aspects to pay attention to, reflect on challenges and limitations, present a case-study of a fellow organisation and host a successful mentor-mentee match that resulted in a founded company.
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Introduced and moderated by Natasa Nikolic, Partnership Manager SINGA Deutschland
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When it comes to business support to migrant entrepreneurs, the social economy enterprises are rarely mentioned. However, the support that Social Economy can give to migrant entrepreneurs can take multiple forms.
This session wishes to analyse how actors from the social economy sector support migrants before, during and after the creation of a social enterprise. Indeed, social economy enterprises can encourage and support not just the creation of new jobs, but also entrepreneurship and access to economic activities for migrants and refugees.
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Moderated by Luigi Martignetti, Secretary General of REVES
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Co-Founder
Finally VC (Germany/France)
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Founder
ZidiCircle
Speaker
Founder
#GoingFar (Ireland)
Moderator
Secretary General of REVES
REVES (Belgium)
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Executive President
Diesis Network (Belgium)
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President of CECOP
CECOP (Belgium)
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Director
OLMEC (UK)
Moderator
Executive Director
Microfinance Centre (Poland)
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Present PerMicro
PerMicro (Italy)
Moderator
Partnership Manager
SINGA Deutschland (Germany)
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Interpreter
Univerbal (Belgium)
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Project Coordinator
Univerbal (Belgium)
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Entrepreneur
Norista (Germany)
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Founder
Bridges for Billions (Spain)
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Mentor
SINGA Deutschland (Germany)
The projects EMEN, M-UP and MAGNET were co-funded by the European Union’s programme for the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises – COSME (2014-2020)
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