The European Union is offering a one-day peer-to-peer online session under the EaSI Technical Assistance programme for European microfinance institutions interested in exchanging experiences online with the Seed Capital Bizkaia, Spain. The online session will take place on 7 July 2021.

Seed Capital Bizkaia – public company, with a unique business model that offers financial support for micro-enterprises and SMEs via seed funding and crowdfunding, as well as traditional microfinance. For more than 30 years, the Seed Capital Bizkaia has been encouraging innovation and regeneration of business practices in Spain, Bizkaia region.

The aim of the online peer-to-peer training is to share knowledge and generate ideas around questions such as how different small to medium businesses could rethink and re-evaluate their business models to address the raised challenges of the COVID global crisis. The event brings an opportunity to exchange and collect innovative practices that could potentially help microfinance institutions to overcome the circumstances of the global pandemic.

The following key topics will be covered:

• Seed Capital Bizkaia: financing for social enterprises
• Investment and SMEs
• Crowdfunding
• How to discover financial resources?
• Fundraising

The webinar is funded by the European Union Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and participation is free of charge.

Other European microfinance providers, either selected as EaSI Technical Assistance beneficiaries or interested to apply for the programme can contact easi.ta@fs.de to receive more information about these events, as well as to request the participation in or organisation of similar events.

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