Online database for migrant entrepreneurship in a digital economy

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Microstart offers loans up to 25,000 per project. It also offers support for new businesses free of charge.

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Since June 2019, the Montreuil incubator has been helping refugee entrepreneurs with their business projects. Thanks to individualized support and collective thematic workshops, entrepreneurs are guided in their administrative procedures towards creation of their business.

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Have you recently arrived in France? Are you thinking of launching an economic activity based on your know-how? Meltingcoop supports you in your project and promotes exchanges with other entrepreneurs in your sector of activity.Through the Migracoop program, Meltingcoop more specifically supports projects around cooking and textile crafts.

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It is a new mobile app for migrants in Turkish - American Community, which was developed to facilitate the cooperation and exchange of information between immigrants. Some of the benefits of this applications are: you can follow internship and job vacancies and find new job ideas, you can instantly access the location and contact information of doctors, lawyers, businesses, consulates and embassies.

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Since 2007 “Türkiye's Woman Entrepreneur Competition” has been organized by KAGIDER a non-governmental organization aiming to develop women entrepreneurship and leadership in Türkiye, Garanti Bank the first private bank in Türkiye to carry out various activities for women entrepreneurs, and the Ekonomist Magazine which attaches great importance to entrepreneurship and covers the subject. The objective is to boost the business and social entrepreneurship spirit of women in our country, and help their numbers grow to global levels. Within the scope of the competition, projects and success stories of women who do business throughout Türkiye are considered. Encouraging women entrepreneurs and publicizing their success stories to set an example for women all over Türkiye is aimed for.

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Within the scope of the Women First in Entrepreneurship Project carried out by the Ministry of National Education in cooperation with the Vodafone Türkiye Foundation and the Informatics Foundation of Turkey, 10,000 women in Ankara, Antalya, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Eskişehir, Giresun, İstanbul, İzmir and Samsun will receive training in entrepreneurship and technology through consultant teachers.

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With the project carried out by Beykent University with the support of ISTKA, infrastructure, methodology, consultancy and mentoring services will be provided for international entrepreneurs to enter the market easily in Türkiye.

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Funded by the German Marshall Fund's (GMF) Alumni Leadership Program implemented by METUMIR (METU Migration Studies), INTERSECT (Inclusive Entrepreneurship: Bringing Refugee, Migrant and Host Communities Together Project) aims to bring young people into the labor market by providing entrepreneurship training. The entrepreneurship modules will be delivered by experienced trainers, enabling 40 young participants to become successful entrepreneurs, gain skills and become involved in cooperation networks by receiving a training certificate. Participants will follow the training modules supported by EntreComp Europe and TOBB. The entrepreneurship project selected by the jury will be supported by METUMIR, TOBB-ETU TTO and EntreComp Europe. After the successful completion of the training program and the Networking Event, with a training certificate. All successful participants will have the chance to become a member of the INTERSECT Alumni Network and its online platform.

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This document compiles different practical experiences, reflecting the most human side and the hopes of people who, having arrived in Spain and carrying in their backpack the experience accumulated in their country of origin, decide to start up a second business. The aim of this document is to highlight the fact that immigrant companies and entrepreneurs bring us a much greater wealth than the merely economic: an INTERCULTURAL wealth.

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A programme to promote the entrepreneurship and employability of immigrant women in which workshops and advice are given and access to microcredits of up to 25,000 euros is facilitated for women from countries outside the European Union and without Spanish nationality. They promote the creation of businesses and employment for a group with many difficulties in accessing the labour market.

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Asesoría para inmigrantes is a blog aimed at informing, supporting and providing resources for immigrants in Spain. A great source of information where you can find: entrepreneurship, taxes, legal requirements, roots, visas, etc.

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Parainmigrantes.info processes for all of Spain any of the Residence Authorisations regulated in the Entrepreneurs Law, which has changed in Spain to adapt to the social reality of teleworking, combining work as an employee with self-employment and its requirements.

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Non-profit organisation dedicated to fostering, promoting and developing excluded entrepreneurs (including migrants). Pioneers in the development and application of microcredits in Spain as a strategy for the social, labour and financial inclusion of vulnerable groups.

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The World Economic Forum identifies the digital divide as a critical threat. This report therefore focuses on how Irish policy can improve digital inclusion.

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This handbook provides best practice information on how to support migrant entrepreneurs.

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The focus of this study is to: 1) Gather data and identify good practices among initiatives supporting migrant entrepreneurship. 2) Disseminate lessons learned from these successful initiatives in Europe and beyond and to encourage replication of good practices. 3) Provide a self-assessment tool to be used by service providers to assess their services and identify concrete ways to improve them. 4) Enable policy makers to assess the current performance of migrant entrepreneurship support schemes and feed any lessons learned into the next round of decision-making.

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Key message from Elizabeth Stuart, speaker at the session “Designing policies for inclusive digital economies” of the Frontiers of Inclusive Innovation Forum: Formulating Technology and Innovation Policies that Leave No one Behind, held from 1 November to 3 December 2021. For more information: https://www.unescap.org/frontiers

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This High-Level Session, co-organized by UNCTAD and the OECD, will provide an opportunity to discuss with leaders in the Development Co-operation Community and from partner countries how to better harness development co-operation and financing fit for our digitalizing world. Key findings from the OECD’s Development Co-operation Report 2021: Shaping a Just Digital Transformation will provide inputs for discussion. Key questions for discussion • How can the development co-operation community leverage its knowledge, skills, resources and networks to foster a just digital transformation, with a focus on equity, safety, and poverty reduction? • In view of the COVID-19 pandemic, how can development co-operation actors best work with partner governments, the private sector and other stakeholders to support development gains from e-commerce and other forms of digital transformation in low- and middle-income countries? • What good practices exist in terms of integrating the digital dimension in current development assistance policies? • How can development co-operation help ensure meaningful participation of developing countries in inclusive global processes for designing the rules and values underpinning the digital future?

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It is intended to inspire policy makers in Europe and beyond to introduce new national and local actions to give people from all parts of society the opportunity to succeed in business creation and self-employment, drawing on experiences that have been tried and tested elsewhere.

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Café ImmiCo - Migrants with exciting business ideas can apply as young entrepreneurs in Vienna for an ImmiCo support package worth around €4,000. Café ImmiCo is an initiative of apaei.org, which specialises in supporting Viennese ImmoCos (young companies and start-ups with a migration background = Immi(grant) Co(mpanies)) in their first steps on the Austrian market with start-up capital in the form of advice, training, operational support, marketing PR and mentoring.

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Do you have a migration background and want to become self-employed in Vienna? A dedicated point of contact offers free and multilingual services. Foundation, financing and expansion coaching as well as workshops and individual counselling are available in several languages.

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Immipreneurs® of Austria is an initiative to help young ethnic / minority enterprises, ‘ImmiCo’, located in Austria by providing support and financing. They offer in particular: - General consulting & support; - Funding to cover working capital, capital assets & specific operating expenses

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The start-up service provides support on the way to self-employment. In particular, the "Guide for Start-ups" provides a good overview and answers to possible questions in the course of setting up a business. free start-up The workshop offers a general overview of the trade regulations, company law/legal forms, social insurance, taxes/start-up subsidies law and subsidies.

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