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Mohamed Alshartah
“Learn about the culture of a new country, region, and city first. Learn from your mistakes. Know yourself, your strengths and your weaknesses.” In 2014, Mohamed Alshartah travelled from Syria to Belgium as a refugee. A new and different culture has motivated him to...
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Five reasons why mentoring is key to supporting migrant entrepreneurs
This blog post was first published by Youth Business International on 7th September 2020. YBI shares insights from Professor Bob Garvey, one of Europe’s leading academic practitioners of coaching and mentoring, along with contributions and context from Joerg...
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Become a Member of The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP): M-UP aims at contributing to the effective engagement of diverse European actors in improving and promoting existing schemes and lobbying for more opportunities for the creation and...
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Barcelona Declaration to Support Migrant Entrepreneurship
On April 4th 2019, 40 different organizations working in migrant entrepreneurship and related fields gathered in Barcelona and worked on creating a declaration to support migrant entrepreneurship. The declaration outlays certain rights for migrants and calls for the...
read more‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees
Written by Lewis Turner Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2019 In the recent years, the ‘refugee entrepreneur’ has emerged as a prominent figure in humanitarian, media and academic portrayals of refugees – stressing their ‘self-reliance’,...
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