Entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and it provides economic opportunities everywhere.
Despite women entrepreneurs are to make a greater impact across economies, only 34.4 % of the European Union (EU) self-employed and 30 % of start-up entrepreneurs are women. In order to increase women´s participation in economy and entrepreneurship, special policy attention is needed on matters including but not limited to education, and non-discrimination, in areas such as access to finance and property rights.The OECD Recommendation on Gender Equality calls on governments to reduce the gender gap in entrepreneurship activity and support women entrepreneurs in confronting issues and strengthening the necessary skills to their success. Women´s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking, including the economic, as well as to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over financial services are some of the targets established by the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030.
The session, which will take place on 25th November from 3pm to 5pm London time, aims at sharing businesswomen knowledge, supporting women´s entrepreneurs and promoting networking within the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WEDO) global movement.
Businesswomen and women´s entrepreneurs invited to the online discussion will share experiences, views and testimonials as well as will address the following questions as well as other raised during the session:
What led you to follow your own project?
Why do you think there is still such a big difference in the gender of entrepreneurs?
What were the main difficulties you have faced as entrepreneur, as women entrepreneur? If you have come across some.
What are the major challenges that women face in micro and medium business?;
What are the business skills all women entrepreneurs need to develop to achieve success?;
Share a tip about entrepreneurship
Best business models;
The role of cooperation and networking in business development.
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.
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?
Technology has entirely modified the way we live life and in years to come the changes will be incredible. Never before the symbiosis of Technology and Social Entrepreneurship was been so perfect.
Social entrepreneurs often have to find creative solutions to everyday challenges and also combine technological competence with strategic thinking.
Digital technology has a big contribution to stand up entrepreneurship and social impact.
During the session experts, makers and organisations from Portugal and Brasil will be invited to present their knowledge, resources and share their experiences.
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.
Source: The Inspiring Entreprise
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:
Dialogue Cafe is facilitating dialogue between people from all walks of life, across the world, to address social issues ranging from youth literacy to urban development.
Hi Ashique,
Thank you for your interest!
Our cycle is finalised but more sessions on crafts will take place at Dialogue Cafe. For instance you can visit our profil in vimeo and attend online some sessions recorded. https://vimeo.com/dcafe
Otherwise we plan to publish a book with the recommendations and findings of our discussions on crafts. Keep posted!
Thanks again for your interest
DC team daliasendra on 2019.07.29
