by Cigdem Guven | Jun 13, 2022 | Advocacy, News Round Up
Keeping you up to date on the latest news and developments in women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment. Closing the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship Could Add Trillions to Global GDP This impressive 136-page report from Citi GPS points out that supporting women...
by Cigdem Guven | Mar 7, 2022 | Advocacy, News Round Up
Keeping you up to date on the latest news and developments in women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment. Glaring Gender Disparity in Access to Covid Grant Funding in Scotland In 2020 grant support was made available to SMEs in Scotland to help them during the...
by Cigdem Guven | Feb 7, 2022 | News Round Up
In March 2007 I registered as a business owner. My ‘eenmanszaak’ was then called: Dymphna Business Assistance, and I have been a personal assistant since then. I have worked for many different entrepreneurs and must confess that when I started, working...
by Cigdem Guven | Jan 10, 2022 | Advocacy, News Round Up
Dymphna Elsink reflects on why having a theme for the year helps us gain insight and focus and introduces the WBII theme for 2022 – WORTH! It all started at the end of 2019 where I, as programme coordinator, had a thought: why don’t we introduce a theme for our...
by Cigdem Guven | Dec 6, 2021 | News Round Up
The Women’s Business Initiative International* (WBII) and Webster Leiden campus again joined together to host the autumn 2021 ‘Start Your Own Business’ seminar. Held online on Thursday, 11 November 2021, this year’s seminar was also registered as an official...
by Cigdem Guven | Nov 8, 2021 | Advocacy, News Round Up
Looking around the EU, we can find numerous grassroots associations organized with the purpose of supporting women entrepreneurs. Many of these are registered on the WEgate platform. Through these organizations, and particularly in times of difficulties when the need...
