AER Training Academy - Woman Entrepreneurship

The AER Training Academy on women entrepreneurship has the aim to give regional politicians and officers an in depth view on support schemes from different European regions and help them to develop their own support programs.

The Training Academy will include lectures on:

• Raising awareness for female business start-ups among support institutions, banks and the business community,

• Initial consulting and first information, e.g. how to reach business starter, how to assess their profile and signpost them to the right support institution

• Training and qualification for female business starters and women entrepreneurs, e.g. specific content such as negotiation skills, starting part-time, reconciliation of professional and private work,

• Consulting, advisory services and mentoring for women entrepreneurs

• Access to finance, including financing institution, micro financing, guarantee schemes,

• Networking as a means to link women entrepreneurs in a region and beyond

• EU and other international policy on women entrepreneurship, including European funding to support women entrepreneurship in the regions and interregional cooperation in concerning women entrepreneurship

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