The EC, in the frame of the Small Business Act “Create an environment in which entrepreneurs and family businesses can thrive and entrepreneurship is rewarded”, has already initiated concrete actions aiming to promote women entrepreneurship such as the European Network of Mentors for Women Entrepreneurs, the European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors and the European Network to Promot
e Women’s Entrepreneurship (WES). As such, ladybizIT is a Leonardo da Vinci project and part of the EC effort to support women entrepreneurship and promote how ICT can facilitate women entrepreneurship. ladybizIT addresses this need by promoting European projects, representing a great variety of European countries / transnational consortia that could facilitate women entrepreneurship growth and development at European level. ladybizIT builds up a dialogue, through a set of interlinked and complementary dissemination actions that will lead into the European Conference and Show Case to take place in Athens, in October 2012 with the ultimate aim to present the useful results of 12 European projects, mostly LLP. More specifically, ladybizIT will present 12 projects, already identified and evaluated to meet the quality criteria established by the project expert partnership, that focus on women entrepreneurship and how ICT facilitates and possibly fosters women entrepreneurship. Promote Lifelong Learning interventions, specific project outputs, amongst current and future women entrepreneurs;
2. Encourage and motivate women, regardless of age and origin, to learn what LLP can do for them, by offering them a personal development advantage and a new career path, through the access and use of available ICT;
3. Focus on solutions and means, such as the use of ICT, that foster women entrepreneurship;
4. Encourage women to launch their own businesses, identify markets, provide spotlight trends on the role of women in sustainable economic recovery;
5. Disseminate and inform on recent experiences and know-how and raise awareness among women on the dynamic process of entrepreneurship in an emerging knowledge-based society;
6. Build an informal sustainable network between all the presented projects and the events’ participants of ladybizIT. After the project women will be more aware of the exiting tools and projects presented, more informed on the current status of women entrepreneurial growth at European level and the opportunities offered that will facilitate them to start up their own business. ladybizIT will also trigger discussion amongst decision makers, women associations, and lobbyists towards simplifying procedures for potential entrepreneurs to be encouraged and assisted in this field, finding methods of binding ICT and new business start-ups. This will be enhanced by a set of policy recommendations to be targeted to policy makers. For more information about the project and the conference visit the website: http://gender-it.eu/
