With the aim of supporting entrepreneurship in creative sectors, Dialogue Café Association in partnership with the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation is organising a session on Hubs for Creative Industries and Entrepreneurship to share knowledge and good practices as well as to promote networking.
Participants will be invited to reflect and discuss the following questions, as many
others.
- What Creative Hubs Are?
- What services do Creative Hubs provide to Entrepreneurs?
- What led to the creation of Creative Hubs?
- Which creative industries are promoted by creative hubs and how best?
The session will take place on 28 April from 3pm to 5pm London time. Participation is free and open. Keep posted to know more about the programme or contact us for further information at info(at)dialoguecafe.org
Soft skills are defined as the interpersonal qualities that do not depend on acquired knowledge – hard skills – and combine different interpersonal abilities, character traits and career attributes, as well as social and emotional intelligence among many others. These capacities are becoming extremely relevant because in the very competitive world we live, such capacities might help you to become a successful candidate from other job seekers. It is about “something” that distinguish you when everyone possesses the same level of knowledge, training, and technical abilities. Some examples of soft skills are: communication skills, leadership, work ethic, creative problem solving, design thinking, time management, conflicts resolution, integrity, flexibility, teamwork, and socioemotional intelligence.
Soft skills are extremely relevant in the field of entrepreneurship because they allow you to connect with costumers, clients, partners and other stakeholders as well as share your ideas and knowledge. Indeed, soft skills might be the key to make your entrepreneurship project successful.
Entrepreneurship is at the heart of Dialogue Café action and many sessions have been organised with the aim of supporting entrepreneurs and sharing knowledge in this field. With this purpose, the Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, one of Dialogue Café Évora hosts, and Dialogue Café Association organise a session aimed at analysing the role of entrepreneurship in promoting soft skills and giving a space to young entrepreneurs to share their testimonials and knowledge.
The session is celebrated in the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Week, celebrated annually during a week in November “to engage in connecting entrepreneurs with collaborators, mentors and stakeholder groups in order to develop a network of synergistic partners and new opportunities”[1].
For this session, young entrepreneurs and organisations supporting entrepreneurs will be invited to reflect about key soft skills for entrepreneurship and to discuss the following questions, but not limited to:
- What are the soft skills that new young leaders value?
- Why are soft skills so valued?
- Soft skills are as important to the success of our youth as indicators more traditional academics?
- Soft skills play a key role in the emergence of a business idea and growing a new company?
Programme
Dialogue Café Belgrade – Youth Office
Dialogue CafĂ© Évora – ADRAL | EvoraTech Fab Lab & Eugenio de Almeida Foundation – Social Innovation Centre
- Carlos Ramos, B-Brincar
- Nuno Gomes, Consultant on entrepreneurship projects
- Natália Melo, Specialist on communication and history taking
Dialogue CafĂ© Novi Pazar – Centar Duga
And the involvement of Dialogue Café Lisbon (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia (Pedro Pires Institute)!
Participation is free and open!
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Contacts for detailed information
- Dialogue Café Association and Dialogue Café Lisbon - Dalia Sendra (daliasendra@casadoregalo.pt)
- Dialogue CafĂ© Belgrade – Biljana Vukosavljevic (unaserbia@gmail.com)  Â
- Dialogue Café Évora – Margarida Oliveira/FEA (margarida.oliveira@fea.pt) & Ana Rita Valido/ADRAL (ana.valido@adral.pt)
- Dialogue Café Novi Pazar – Fatima Durovic (fatimadurovic@gmail.com)
- Dialogue Café Cidade de Praia – Indira Pires (ipires@institutopedropires.org.cv)
[1] https://www.genglobal.org/
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Dialogue Café is come back with interesting and useful sessions!
In the framework of our cycle Global Exchange of Crafts Makers, Dialogue CafĂ©s based in Évora, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro will organise a session on “Business Development and internationalisation” with the aim of providing makers with key information on how to strengthen their business and promote its development at the international level, as well as sharing information on business sustainability and shared business strategies.
During the session experts, makers and organisations from Portugal and Brasil will be invited to present their knowledge, resources and share their experiences.
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The session will take place next 26 October from 15h to 17h London time in our respective locations:Â
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Overview
Social entrepreneurship and social innovation are at the heart of the Dialogue Café Association mission. The recommendations received during the sessions organised in 2015 on women´s empowerment through creative industries and on creative hubs and entrepreneurship as vehicle for social change, and in 2016 on incubation models for social and creative entrepreneurship: sharing knowledge and testimonials, gave us the opportunity to identify the need of organising follow-up activities focused social entrepreneurship. Activities including exchanges, networking opportunities, trainings, conferences and seminars.
In this framework and with the aim of promoting global exchanges and networking opportunities, as well as strengthening youth capacities and skills on social entrepreneurship, a cycle on social entrepreneurship will be implemented in 2017. The cycle will address challenges and issues previously identified by the participants and partners of Dialogue Café Network.
With this project we aim at stregthening youth entrepreneurs capacities, developing networking opportunities, promoting global exchanges, identifying good practices, addressing the needs of social entrepreneurs and developing a global community on social entrepreneurship around Dialogue Cafe Network.
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How the cycle will be implemented?
Activities will be organised each month (with exception of holidays periods) and will alternate, conferences, debates, exchanges and meetings. The topics proposed are:
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For further information and registration, do not hesitate to contact us.
A vibrant and diverse social enterprise incubation landscape has been rapidly evolving over the last years. Incubators and accelerators have been pioneers in successfully combining support services including mentoring, funding, business development and infrastructure, to support the emergence of innovative social enterprises and start-ups. In this framework, social and creative entrepreneurship has also found a place and the support from different specialised incubators. Variations in the focus of social incubators have also led to emergence of unique operating and financing models of these social enterprise incubators.
As follow-up of the cycle on social and creative entrepreneurship organised by Dialogue Café in 2015, we would like to launch an knowledge exchange session with the main purpose of review the existing incubation models in the social and creative sector, provide an opportunity to exchange practices and promote networking between social enterprise incubators and other eco-system players from across the world.
With this objective incubators and projects incubated working in the social and creative sector will be invited to participate in this session and share challenges and experiences.
The session will take place in portuguese and will join participants in Dialogue Cafe Lisboa (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) and Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro (UCAM University).
Special organisations will join is in Évora: ADRAL and Lisbon: Fab Lab and Creative Hub Mouraria!
For more information download the concept paper and the programme.
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