Women Entrepreneurship Portal
One of the findings of the project "Promoting Entrepreneurship amongst women" carried out by the European Commission was that networking and access to information for women entrepreneurs should be further promoted. As a follow-up to this project, the Commission has set up this portal on EUROPA specifically devoted to the promotion of women's entrepreneurship.
This women's entrepreneurship portal aims at providing links to the websites of women entrepreneurs' representative organisations, networks, projects and events that relate to the promotion of female entrepreneurship.
Should you wish to include your organisation, network, project or information about an event in this portal, please read carefully the "Guidelines" 
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National organisations of women entrepreneurs
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BPW Finland Finland |
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suomi, finnish, svenska, swedish, english |
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CNA Impresa Donna Emilia Romagna (Committee of Enterprising Women) Italy |
Italian regional organisation representing women entrepreneurs of the Emilia Romagna region who are members of CNA (Confederazione Nazionale dell'Artigianato - National Confederation of Craft, Small and Medium Enterprises) |
Italian |
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Confartigianato Donne Impresa |  |
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Italian |
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Confartigianato Donne Impresa - Associazione Artigiani della Provincia di Vicenza Italy |  |
This is the female entrepreneurs group within the Crafts and SME Association of Vicenza Province in Italy |
Italian |
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Commissione Dirigenti Cooperatrici Confcooperative Italy |  |
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Italian |
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Diversitelles (Diverseladies) France / The Netherlands
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Diversitelles is women's network entrepreneurs launched in 2008 whose first vocation is to create bridges between women of diverse horizons who often start-up to create their own job, in small structures with strong societal imprint. Diversitelles also organizes a biannual competition to award innovative or new type of projects and small business. |
French English
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Enterprising Women United Kingdom |  |
Enterprising Women is a dynamic UK-wide networking community of over 8000 Women. It was founded in response to a recognised need to unlock and stimulate the economic potential of women's entrepreneurship. It provides business support and specialist information to assist women’s businesses from their pre-start through to high-growth stages. We have one goal: to increase the numbers, sustainability and success of women in business by providing a wide range of business support, training, networking events, mentoring and loan fund. |
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Federatie Zakenvrouwen (Federation of Women Entrepreneurs) Netherlands |  |
Federatie Zakenvrouwen is a Dutch organisation of women entrepreneurs and co-entrepreneurs |
Dutch |
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Fédération Pionnières France |
The Pionnières Federation was launched in February 2008, at the initiative of Paris Pionnières, new type of women incubator, targeting support to innovative enterprises created by womenentrepreneurs in the sector of innovative services B to B and B to C (www.parispionnieres.org). The Pionnières Federation gathers all the Pionnieres incubators created in France (Paris, Caen, Rennes, Nice, Nantes),and abroad Morocco (Casblanca) and Serbia (Belgrade). |
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FCEM - France (Femmes Chefs d'Entreprises Mondiales - World Women Entrepreneurs) |  |
FCEM-France has four missions:
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Frau in der Wirtschaft (Women in Business) Austria |  |
Woman in Business is the contact partner within the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber for 100,000 female entrepreneurs in Austria |
German |
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FYROMacedonian women enterpreneurs FYROMacedonia |
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English and Macedonian |
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ΣΥΝΔΕΣΜΟΣ ΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΜΑΤΙΩΝ ΓΥΝΑΙΚΩΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ GREEK ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS Greece |
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Greek English |
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Go-Woman! Limited United Kingdom |
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Go-Woman! Ltd established in March 2006, works on the principal of centralising current provisions for women wishing to start or grow their business. Go-Woman! has built strong partnerships to deliver the Go-Woman! magazine ensuring that it reaches its target audience through existing networks and organisations, providing inspiration, support and access to information. |
English |
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LIDERE (LEADER) Latvia |  |
Lidere is a Latvian non-governmental organisation which puts together women entrepreneurs and leaders in their professional area |
Latvian English |
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Organización de mujeres empresarias y gerencia activa (OMEGA) Spain |  |
OMEGA, created in 1989, is a national Spanish federation of professional women and women entrepreneurs regional and local organisations. |
Spanish |
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"Terziario Donna CONFCOMMERCIO" Italy |
Terziario Donna is an Italian non profit association representing 350,000 women entrepreneurs in commerce, tourism and services sectors. It is present in 102 Italian cities through "Sportello Donna" and offers consulting services for start-up of new enterprises and for problems concerning the women workforce. |
Italian |
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Türkiye Kadın Girişimciler Derneği (KAGİDER) Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey Turkey |  |
KAGIDER was chartered in September 2002 as a non-profit and non-governmental organization, by 37 prominent Turkish female entrepreneurs. Today we have 142 members from various sectors, including textile, communication, human resources, tourism, chemicals, mining and health. |
Turkish and English |
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Udruženje poslovnih žena Srbije Association of Business Women in Serbia Serbia |  |
The Association of Business Women in Serbia is the largest national organization for female entrepreneurs and is the leading force in organizing women in business, providing first-class support and promotion of female entrepreneurs, advocating improvement of the business climate and actively fostering networking on a local, regional and international level. |
Serbian, English |
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Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen e.V. (VdU) (Association of German Women Entrepreneurs) Germany |  |
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German |
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WEConnect International |  |
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English |
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WEETU (Women's Employment Enterprise and Training Unit) United Kingdom |  |
WEETU is an independent Norfolk based organisation which helps women succeed in work and enterprise. |
English |
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Women's Enterprise Scotland
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Women's Enterprise Scotland which is a non-profit organisation that aims to support and conduct research on women-owned businesses in Scotland |
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Yrittajanaisten Keskusliitto ry - The Central Association of Women Entrepreneurs Finland |  |
Finnish for some parts also Swedish and English |
International organisations of women entrepreneurs
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Name of organisation or association |
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Description |
Language and link to Website |
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BPW International |
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English |
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FEM - Female Europeans of Medium and Small Enterprises |  |
Umbrella Organisation representing 35 associations of women entrepreneurs from 9 European countries |
English, French, Italian, Spanish |
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The Women’s Organisation England |  |
We promote entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable business growth for women on an international level. We enable women to achieve greater prosperity, to become leaders and to connect with each other. We fulfil the role of advocates for women's interests across a whole spectrum of areas, becoming both a creator and a disseminator of knowledge, and influence policy and perception at all levels. The main thrust of our ground level services support women to develop personally, and to set up and grow their own business enterprise |
English |
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Turkish Federation of Business and Professional Women - BPW Turkey |
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Turkish & English |
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Yente (indepentant organization founded in 2006) Netherlands |  |
Inspire greater economic independence for women in less advantaged areas worldwide. |
www.yente.org (Dutch)http://www.yente.org/en/ (English) |
Networks Promoting women's entrepreneurship
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Name of organisation or association |
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AFAEMME Association of Organisation of Mediterranean Businesswomen |  | AFAEMME is a European and Mediterranean platform for projects that promote gender equality in the labour market and the access of women to decision-making positions in the economy. AFAEMME currently comprises 37 businesswomen organisations from Albania, Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Palestine, the Principality of Monaco, Slovenia, Syria, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey. |
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B-WCo Balkan Women Coalition for Professional Qualification and Training in the field of Business and Economic Science Greece |
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FemStart Fostering the public debate on university support of female scientists to start a business Germany, |
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Very few female students consider starting a business after university as a career path. FemStart debates in Germany, Spain, Poland, Latvia, Bucharest and The Netherlands will look at specific measures which encourage women in science to choose entrepreneurship and will discuss how entrepreneurship support structures in universities might be optimised to reach their full potential by encouraging more women to think about an entrepreneurial career. |
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Mreza zena u biznisu Women's Business Network Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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With the purpose of improvement of economical situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, strengthening of market position of businesses run by women, enlargement of their results, ensuring better economic position of women entrepreneurs and their families within the society in general, MI-BOSPO decided to establish Network of women in business. |
Bosnian Croatian Serbian and English |
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MYente international network – online community for women entrepreneurs |  |
MYente, the World Wide Web community, is 100% for women entrepreneurs and their networks. MYente offers a treasure trove of possibilities: |
English, Spanish, French and Dutch |
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PROWESS ("Promoting Women's Enterprise Support Services") United Kingdom |  |
PROWESS is a UK-wide advocacy network working towards equal numbers of women and men starting their own business. PROWESS supports members - who work directly with businesses - to develop and improve their services for women. |
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The Women’s Organisation Business Club
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The Women's Organisation offer FREE membership to our 'Business Club' for women in Merseyside and Greater Manchester who are currently running their own business. Being a member of this network will offer you opportunity to attend regular networking events and other specialised business master classes. |
English |
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WENETT Germany, UK (Scotland), Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria |  |
Business women and women scientists have a key role to play in the future of regional economies. However, it is vital that these "Women Innovators" gain access to international networks and other like-minded people in Europe. |
English |
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WOMEN CEO Spain |  |
Our main goal is to promote the women access to the company boards and board of directors. To enhance the scope of this purpose:
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Spanish |
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YWEA Young Women Entrepreneurs Association Italy |  |
Young Women Entrepreneurs Association is an international not-for-profit organization with the aim of accelerating the growth and internationalization of women-owned companies. |
English |
Projects Promoting women entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurship
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Name of organisation or association |
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Description |
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ASIMAG,
Spain
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The E-chance 2.0 project granted by Spanish National Agency through the Leonardo da Vinci Programme is aimed at the inclusion of women entrepreneurs into the knowledge society. The main outcome of the project is an e-learning platform combining formal and informal training and providing women entrepreneurs a set of basic skills and capacities regarding the Web 2.0. |
English, Czech, Italian, Latvian, Romanian, Spanish
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Bundesweite gründerinnenagentur - bga (National agency for women start-ups) Germany |  |
The German national agency for women start-ups is the first organisation active nationwide for the support of women business starters or considering starting a new business. The agency's activities are targeted at establishing a women-friendly climate for female business starters and increasing the number of businesses started by women in Germany. The Agency offers information about services for women entrepreneurship all over Germany, in all branches, during start-up, consolidation and succession phases. |
German |
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Euroimpresa Legnano Italy |  |
Euroimpresa Legnano is a limited consortium company founded in 1996. Euroimpresa's mission is to activate endogenous resources, promoting development projects supported by resources from various expense centres. Euroimpresa offers assistance and consultancy services to the local communities and SMEs. It has promoted several interventions in West and North Milan aiming at evaluating the efficacy of the instruments for increasing female employment rates, paying attention to adaptability and to self-employment and small entrepreneurship prospects. |
Italian, English (homepage only) |
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Female Entrepreneurship Support Network – FEM.EN.S. |
FEM.EN.S. is being implemented by the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry in cooperation with the Association of Greek Women Entrepreneurs (SEGE). It started in November 2010 and concluded in November 2012. In the Network are 15 Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors that work together for the promotion of female entrepreneurship, the promotion of female innovative entrepreneurship in male dominated and sectors of economy and the promotion of supportive measures addressed to women. |
Greek English
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FEPIC (Female Engineers Pushing Innovation in Companies) |  |
FEPIC produced an e-learning tool to increase competences on creativity for innovation and leadership in a gender perspective. |
The English version of the e.t.t. is available at The website of the FEPIC project is www.fepic.eu |
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"Integrated Plan - Open Roads to the development of Social Economy" (Heraklion Development Agency) Greece |  |
The main aim of the project is the fighting of unemployment and underemployment of vulnerable groups of people in Crete (especially women of low education profile, young people, and people with disabilities), by setting up social enterprises comprising disadvantaged categories, enterprises and entities of the local government. The project is implemented in the Region of Crete, Greece, by a partnership of 22 local social actors named "Active Citizens". |
Greek |
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La plate-forme entreprendre au féminin (Women entrepreneurs' platform) France |
This regional organisation is a product of a project Equal done in the department of the Finistère (Britanny) in France. It proposes a complete training programme to women who want to be entrepreneurs or who are already entrepreneurs. This training includes an original approach (as for example, how to balance professional and personal life), individual mentoring, a women entrepreneurs' network and conferences open to anybody wishing to learn more about women's entrepreneurship, management, etc. |
French |
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WE-Mentor (Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum) Project partners from: Germany, Belgium, Italy, UK, Romania, Turkey, Israel and India |  |
The main objective of the project is to motivate women entrepreneurs to participate in European research projects. WE-Mentor is building on a consortium of 8 Members, 4 "mentors" from EU Member states (Belgium, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom) who lead 4 "newcomers" to the topic of integrating women entrepreneurs into European Research (Romania, Turkey, Israel and India). |
English |
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We Mentor Uk England |  |
We Mentor UK is a European mentoring project that aims to provide guidance and support for women entrepreneurs to further grow their business enterprise. |
English |
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Women entrepreneurship development in Sofia and Vratsa Bulgaria |
The project has provided training to 100 women from Sofia and Vratsa in business planning, marketing plans, SWOT, financial planning. 18 business plans developed by the participants have been evaluated and 12 of them partially funded. A Centre for Women Entrepreneurship has been created in the framework of the project. It provides services for unemployed women willing to start their own business or intending to expand their business. |
Bulgarian, English http://www.rbc-pernik.org/index_en.php or |
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Wirtschaftsagentur Wien Mingo Frauenservice (Vienna Business Agency Mingo Women Enterprise Service) Austria |   |
Wirtschaftsagentur provides a number of services: first counseling and establishing a business plan, information on financing possibilities, workshops for business starters, internet platforms, as well as mentoring |
German |
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BPW Danube Net Business and Professional Women (BPW) |  |
BPW Danube Net is the network for business women in the Danube countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and the Ukraine). |
English More information about BPW: |
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WISE - Women Integration and Skills for Entrepreneurship Co-ordinating organisation: |  |
The aim of WISE is to support the needs of women entrepreneurs in the ICT/ICT-supported sector in order to create gender-awareness between all players. Studies conducted at European and national levels showed that there exist women-specific needs that are by no means reflected by the working and business environment. WISE identifies these needs and develops tools and measurements to improve the overall performance of women entrepreneurs. |
English The WISE website provides a summary of the recent Benchmarking report, gives links to self-assessment tools to check your entrepreneurial skills, and lists WISE workshops organised in several countries in Europe: www.ubique.org/wise If you wish to shape the results, we invite you to fill in the questionnaires, available in English, German, Spanish, Polish and Estonian: www.ubique.org/wise/quest.htm |
Events related to women entrepreneurship
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