Young female Baltic Entrepreneurs creating the future

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2024-03-26

Description

Description (EN):

BE the future empowers entrepreneurship and leadership among girls in the ages of 15-18. A challenge we still are facing year 2019 is that it is more common for men to start companies or be an active CEO´s than for women. With this project we want to encourage the target group to test their ideas and in an early age see entrepreneurship as a potential path forward. We want young women to see the opportunities with joint, international ventures. We see the opportunity to strengthen an entrepreneurial mindset and business capacity within young women - through inspiration, networking, role models of female leaders and entrepreneurs as mentors in the project and foremost through running their own student company. We need an equal and healthy business climate that gives youth, both women and men, prerequisites to convert their ideas to sustainable operations and companies. Our vision is of Baltic Sea countries with strong competiveness through an entrepreneurial society.

Achievements (EN):

Young female Baltic Entrepreneurs creating the future to gain practical experience of running their own business. The main result in the project was developing the participants – young females - entrepreneurial capacity, mindset and skills. For many participants, the project was a start into the world of entrepreneurs and an eye-opener for the help they can get to take the next step in their career. Several participants continue to develop themselves after the project via other training and support systems to develop their business ideas and leadership skills. Project created opportunities for young female entrepreneurs to gain practical experience of running their own business. During three interactive training cycles 50 international student companies were created, some of which actually got a product or service to the market. In addition, project encouraged the participants to see that they have grown as entrepreneurs and leaders and to see that they can use their entrepreneurial skills in other contexts now and in the future. For project partners from Sweden, Estonia and Latvia, the project deepened the knowledge of what the process of business start-ups and relevant support systems look like in three participating countries. For the participants, the international value was a part of the learning. Participants gained perspective on their own entrepreneurship by reflecting it in an international perspective. Many participants described working together in international teams and learning effective communication as both a challenge but also one of the best things about the project. As female leaders and entrepreneurs, the participants of the project are better equipped for future assignments.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R1.2. Number of established joint student companies

Expected Outputs (EN):

During the 3 years of the project of BE the future we will engage 225 young female entrepreneurs, in the age of 15-18 years. They will create a minimum of 50 student companies, at least 16-17 student companies per each cycle. In these student companies the students will develop their entrepreneurial capacities, grow in self-esteem, and be trained to see opportunities around them and in themselves. The participants will gain an international network of peers, within the Central Baltic sea region and obtain access to business ideas generated during their participation, as well as start up resources within the partner countries and regions – all in all, good prerequisites to start new international ventures. We will build an entrepreneurial mindset and a business capacity within the participants, through hands on experience, training in business tools, entrepreneurship mentors and an international network of like minded peers. Through the program there will be idea generation, that can benefit future ventures, international and domestic.

Thematic information

Social inclusion and equal opportunities SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: More entrepreneurial youth

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: STARTcentrum Social Impact ekonomisk förening

Department: N/A

Address: Rudbecksgatan 26, 70223 Örebro, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://emaxsverige.se

Total budget: EUR 473 162.70

ERDF budget: EUR 354 872.02

Tartu Loomemajanduskeskus

Name: Tartu Loomemajanduskeskus

Address: Kalevi 13, 51010 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: https://loovtartu.ee/lmk

Total budget: EUR 198 186.30

ERDF budget: EUR 168 458.36

Zaļo un Viedo Tehnoloģiju Klasteris, Biedrība

Name: Zaļo un Viedo Tehnoloģiju Klasteris, Biedrība

Address: Veca Ostmala 24, LV-3401 Liepaja, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://greentechlatvia.eu/en/home/

Total budget: EUR 207 015.48

ERDF budget: EUR 175 963.16

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Summary

Project name (EN): Young female Baltic Entrepreneurs creating the future

Project acronym: BE the future

Project start date: 2020-02-01

Project end date: 2022-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 878 364.48

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 699 293.54

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 699 293.54.

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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