GROWING EUROPE
Boosting migrant entrepreneurship networks
“Growing Europe. Boosting migrant entrepreneurship networks” is a series of online events on each Thursday in September 2020 and dedicated to current issues and future challenges of migrant entrepreneurship in Europe.
Topics of discussion include the importance of migrant entrepreneurship, its development in the last years, new trends, support tools for migrant entrepreneurs, integration processes, best practices and lessons learned, the point of view of EU institutions and actors working in the field, the impact of COVID19 on migrant businesses, and more … : the 3rd, the 10th, the 17th and the 24th of September!
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The 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th of September
from 2:30 to 4:30 pm (CEST)
Partners
The events are organized by 3 EU-funded projects, EMEN, M-UP and MAGNET, that have worked on topics of migrant entrepreneurship in the last three years.
EMEN is a European Project aims at supporting the creation, the improvement and the wider dissemination of support schemes for migrant entrepreneurs in order to help migrants to become self-employed and build a successful enterprise.
The project focuses on sharing approaches and lessons learnt across and between public administrations, business development support and financial organisations, social enterprises, non-profit organisations, educational institutions and other public and private organisations supporting migrant entrepreneurship at all levels: cities, regions and countries.
Based on the concept of a supportive ecosystem, the partnership brought together relevant players at European, national and regional levels to form transnational networks. These are conceived as being Communities of Practice (CoP), within which practitioners can share their knowledge and experience and learn from each other. The CoP were focused on: coaching and mentoring, access to finance and Professionalisation & Diversity Management.
Website: http://emen-project.eu/
M-UP is a Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP) aims to improve and promote opportunities for migrant entrepreneurs. The newly created network brings together expert organisations from across Europe to help migrants navigate the challenges of turning their existing microbusiness into a successful small to medium sized enterprise (SME) in Europe. M-Up works collaboratively to create transnational, scalable solutions that tackle the problems head on. We use our findings to advocate for government policy changes and ultimately break down the barriers that prevent migrant entrepreneurs from creating successful businesses and improve communities and economies in their new countries.
Website: https://emen-up.eu/about-m-up/
MAGNET is a transdisciplinary network for migrant entrepreneurship support. MAGNET aims to promote the creation, further development and broader dissemination of existing support schemes for migrant entrepreneurs in Europe. In order to achieve this, MAGNET connects migrant entrepreneurship support organisations amongst each other as well as with public and private actors, builds their capacity to deliver migrant entrepreneurship support programmes and fosters research-practice exchange. This involves in particular MAGNET’s ‘Migrant Entrepreneurship Academy’ (a train-the-trainer-programme for Migrant Entrepreneurship Support), an ‘Open Toolkit for Migrant Entrepreneurship Support’, networking events at regional and EU-level, and complementary research outputs.
Website: https://migrantacceleration.eu/
Programme of the days
DAY 1
The importance of migrant entrepreneurs
Speakers
Speaker
VUSF (Bulgaria)
Speaker
Economist
OECD (France)
Speaker
https://ahmadsb.com/ (Germany)
Moderator
Director of Strategic Projects
YBI (Colombia)
Moderator
Executive President of Diesis
Diesis Network (Belgium)
Speaker
Entrepreneur
Shofrica (Germany)
Speaker
President
UNITEE (Belgium)
DAY 2
Needs and support to migrant entrepreneurs
Speakers
Moderator
Executive Director
Microfinance Centre (Poland)
Speaker
Founder
Finally VC (Germany/France)
Moderator
Secretary General of REVES
REVES (Belgium)
Speaker
Executive President of Diesis
Diesis Network (Belgium)
Speaker
President of CECOP
CECOP (Belgium)
Speaker
Director
OLMEC
Speaker
Founder
ZidiCircle
Speaker
Founder
#GoingFar (Ireland)
Speaker
President PerMicro
PerMicro (Italy)
Moderator
Partnership Manager
SINGA Deutschland (Germany)
DAY 3
Inclusive entrepreneurship
Speakers
Speaker
Autoccupaciò (Spain)
Moderator
Project Manager
Diesis Network (Belgium)
Speaker
Project manager and coordinator of the NT4EU project
Simplon (France)
Speaker
Founder of Mygrants
Mygrants (Italy)
Speaker
Founder of Mosaic Boards and Trained Trainer at TERN
Mosaic Boards (UK)
Speaker
Founder of Haven Coffee and Trained Trainer at TERN
Haven Coffee (UK)
Co-Moderator
Founder of Meet me at Fatma’s and Trained Trainer at TERN
Meet me at Fatma’s (UK)
Co-Moderator
Founder
TERN (UK)
Speaker
Founder of Sangha and Trained Trainer at TERN
Sangha (UK)
Speaker
Founder
Molengeek (Belgium)
DAY 4
Future and potential of migrant entrepreneurship
Speakers
Speaker
VUSF (Bulgaria)
Speaker
Dean of Faculty of Business & Globalisation, Professor of Organisation Communication and Innovation
Danube University Krems (Austria)
Speaker
Coordination nationale Entrepreneuriat et Project Design
Singa (France)
Speaker
Journalist from The Local
The Local (Sweden)
Speaker
Entrepreneur
Dilbi Restaurant and cultural centre (Belgium)
Moderator
Project manager
Unitee (Belgium)
Speaker
Researcher
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands)
Speaker
Owner of Baby Café Haricot Magique (Belgium)