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aims to promote and seek to new opportunities for creation and growth of migrant enterprises, through the participation of public and private actors from 10 different countries.

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Samwich - An Iranian business with an American flavour in Germany

“nothing is impossible. You just have to keep on going and not care what others say”

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Samwich

Jan 23, 2020

Iranian friends, Sepehr Borumand and Sam Rastegar, always dreamt of becoming entrepreneurs. The two friends worked alongside each other as managers in a Tehran-based company and later, Sam married Sepehr’s sister, making them a closenit family. Until Sam left for...

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Sustainable Support of Entrepreneurs with a Migration Background

Dec 3, 2019

At the symposium of the Hessian Entrepreneurship Day on 1 November 2019, the four experts Amira Bieber (Pro Arbeit – Kreis Offenbach), Manuel Güll (SINGA Business Lab Berlin and Magnet project), Jörg Schoolmann (Young Business International) and Markus Weidner (KIZ...

MoneyGram Awards 2019

Oct 25, 2019

A MoneyGram Award is born in 2009 and it was the first italian award for migrant entrepreneurs. It rewards the courage and the dedication that it took to implement new business ideas by migrant entrepreneurs, in a country that was not home, but it is become. On the...

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‘#Refugees can be entrepreneurs too!’ Humanitarianism, race, and the marketing of Syrian refugees

Dec 10, 2019 | 0 Comments

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’,...

“Call Me a Business Owner, Not a Refugee!” Challenges of and Perspectives on Newcomer Entrepreneurship – WRC Research Paper No. 7

Feb 5, 2019 | 0 Comments

Written by UBNA RASHID:Participating in the labour market is vital to newcomers’ successful integration in the host country. Although most newcomers participate through wage earning, some start their own businesses. Refugee entrepreneurship has substantial benefits...

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This website is part of the project Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow — EMEN-UP (no. 764398) which has received funding from the European Union’s COSME Programme (2014-2020)

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