women entrepreneurship

The opportunities created by novel technologies and innovations promise to deliver a fair and sustainable recovery for the EU. Despite the need for more female innovators, three quarters of start-ups in Europe are founded by men. The lack of diversity has resulted in few investments in female-led...

Unlike many digital awareness initiatives for women which focus on the general ICT sector, ECSO’s Women4Cyber initiative targets the cybersecurity field. It goes beyond awareness and networking and aims to develop a concrete agenda to meet the growing demand for cybersecurity professionals in Europe...

On 22 June, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus had their third session about gender balance in clusters and industries. Dana Puia Morel from DG GROW, the European Commission​, presented the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework which can support programmes that want to foster...

Opportunities created by innovative technologies will help to deliver a fair and sustainable EU recovery. Deep tech or deep technology refers to startups whose business model is based on high tech innovation in engineering. Currently, European deep tech companies are valued at €700 billion. Despite...

The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. Applications to the 2021 edition of the EU Prize for Women Innovators are now open. The deadline for submissions is 30 June 17:00 (CET). All applications must be submitted via the Funding and...

On 20 April, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus had the second session on women as a competitiveness factor in clusters and ecosystems. This session built on the first webinar that took place on 25 March. Rozalia Weisz from the Skåne region in Sweden​ spoke about gender equality in cluster...

In the meeting on 25 March, the European Clusters Alliance invited female speakers to talk about gender as a competitiveness factor in clusters and ecosystems – a topic that will picked up again in upcoming webinars. Elise Durey from France Clusters shared her experiences to foster the feminisation...

The third session of the EiA series of conferences on entrepreneurship and innovation to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals will be held on September 29. This time the discussion will be around African girls and women in STI. We have invited Monique Kwachou (Better Breed...

Deadline: 05/09/2019 17:00 h Brussels time The general objective of this call for proposals is to enhance women entrepreneurship in Europe by facilitating networking and sharing good practices between actors such as intermediary stakeholders to improve the support effectively delivered to women...