Scaling Women-led Businesses: Generating opportunities to Grow

Looking for organizations/institutions working in the field of entrepreneurship, specifically with scaling and nurturing women-led entrepreneurs. Preferably with previous KA2 Project experience!

Entrepreneurs are critical to economic growth and prosperity of any community across the world. The recent boost of entrepreneurship in Europe and Asia has led to launch of new enterprises and currently more and more young adults view entrepreneurship as a viable livelihood option. Yet most startups are run by men and often women are held back from launching or growing up their companies due to wide range of obstacles e.g lack of entrepreneurial education, societal discrimination and stereotypes, lack of confidence and personal ability as well as access to finance and a nurturing support system.
Despite the mentioned obstacles preventing women to launch businesses, the past decade shows an increasing interest among women to take up entrepreneurship as a viable livelihood option. More than 126 million women entrepreneurs have started a new business in 67 economies in 2012, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Women's Report.
The EU has had various actions to boost female startups since 2004, e.g. European Network of Female Entrepreneurship and other initiatives foreseen in the Commission's 2008 Small Business Act, that has helped to encourage women launch businesses but it is critical to not only provide support and encourage women to become entrepreneurs, but more importantly the focus should be put on ensuring sustainability of the businesses run by women.

LOOKING FOR ORGANIZATIONS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP WITH FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY AND SCALE OF WOMEN-LED BUSINESSES! To read more download the project info PDF!