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Celebrating the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020

& Women’s Entrepreneurship Day (WED)

25 November 2020 | 3pm – 5pm London time

Belgrade, Evora, Lisbon, Novi Sad

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.

In order to support women´s entrepreneurs and celebrate the Women´s Entrepreneurship Day 2020, Dialogue Café network will organise a specific session on Micro and Small Business led by Women in the framework of the Exchange of Businesspersons and Entrepreneurs organised by our partners in Évora, the ADRAL Regional Agency for the Development of the Alentejo region and the Europe Direct Initiative.

The session, which will take place on 25^th 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.

Programme

• Tânia Oliveira, Creative Thinkers
• Tânia Gomes, Meduse
• Joana Fialho, Crossmind box
• Cristina  Faria, Founder of Lead Yourself and Consulting on organisational development
• Nade Mašić,  Member of Association of Business Women in Serbia (Founder “Children house – Love, hope, faith”)
• Belizanda Quintos, Picos D´Sabor
• Esther Cano, Omicron

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