The Network for Migrant Entrepreneurs to Scale Up and Grow (M-UP)
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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Almaz Andezion
Almaz recalls her mother busily operating her successful home-based beer brewery as a child. People loved the local, Eritrean beverage and the income helped her mother to better support her family during the difficult war days. However, once the conflict...
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Listen: Migrant Entrepreneurship Webinar Series
Are you an NGO, incubator or service provider for migrant entrepreneurs in Europe? Are you interested in learning more about how to effectively provide training, access to funding and mentoring programs for migrant entrepreneurs? Do you want to share your experience...
read moreSustainable Support of Entrepreneurs with a Migration Background
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...
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‘#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’,...
read more“Call Me a Business Owner, Not a Refugee!” Challenges of and Perspectives on Newcomer Entrepreneurship – WRC Research Paper No. 7
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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3rd – 5th April 2019 – Barcelona, Spain
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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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