Workshop on EIT Women Entrepreneurship Initiatives
EIT is a leading supporter of female entrepreneurship. Supernovas leads the interaction between activity leaders to exchange learnings, help each other and strengthen the EIT brand on gender support.
EIT Food as coordinator of the Supernovas Programme, organized the workshop, interviewed all participants in advance to map the activities and managed/facilitated the interaction before, during and after the workshop.
Women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, particularly high-tech and deeptech startups. EIT plays a key role in trying to change this with different programmes across the KICs focused on attracting women into STEAM studies and entrepreneurship, supporting female entrepreneurs, developing strong networks and giving visibility to female role models.
There is a strong potential for collaboration and cross-learning between these activities. One of the objectives of Supernovas is to help exploit those synergies.
About Supernovas Programme
Supernovas is a programme that aspires to promote an entrepreneurial ecosystem with more women to shape the available innovations in the market.
We deliver 4 activities:
- Startup Stairway: We identify startups and scaleups from high-tech or deep-tech fields and match them with young women from STEAM careers. We want to expose them to a startup experience early in their careers, in order to inspire them and foster their entrepreneurial spirit.
- Rocket up: We support entrepreneurs to entry a new European market with a solid strategy and local validation of the product and service. The goal is to have more women entrepreneurs growing and getting funded.
- Women2Invest: We aim to help women with STEAM University studies start their careers in venture investment by training them in the fundamentals of this profession and matching them with investors (venture capital, corporate venture capital or corporate venturing units) for an internship opportunity.
- Mentoring for women leaders: offers EIT community women access to a broad network, mentoring, coaching and training opportunities to take their managerial and leadership skills to the next level.
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