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INSME welcomes a Vietnamese delegation participating to an Italian Development Cooperation Programme “Raising Youth Employment through School-Enterprise Connections in Bac Ninh Province”
On the 27th of June INSME has welcomed a delegation from Vietnam participating to an Italian Development Cooperation Programme “Raising Youth Employment through School-Enterprise Connections in Bac Ninh Province” implemented by ELIS NGO and aiming at increasing the access to the labour market and the average wage level of young people in Bac Ninh Province in Vietnam by transferring innovative best practices in the formulation of courses to trainers, improving their skills and stimulating the creation of linkages between training institutions and enterprises.
Through classroom lessons, project works and site visits with the participation of recognized Italian experts INSME and ELIS NGO will carry out a four-week training course providing participants with a general understanding of the Italian education system and the socio-economic situation; a better comprehension of the Italian culture and relevant cross-cultural issues; methodologies, tools and techniques to develop a project and case studies and best practices related to work-related learning in Italy.
Find out more about the project at this page.
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Highlighted events
2017 Asia Pacific Cities Summit & Majors' Forum
10 - 13 September 2017
Organized by Brisbane City Council in collaboration with WTA - World Technopolis Association
15th Triple Helix International Conference
14 - 16 September 2017
Organized by the Triple Helix Association (INSME Member)
Daegu, Korea
16th International Entrepreneurship Forum
14 - 16 September 2017
Kathmandu, Nepal
Organized by INSME, IEF, University of Essex, Essex Business School and King's College
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‘Gender, Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development’ - an online course launched by UNIDO and UN Women
UNIDO (INSME Member) and UN Women have launched ‘Gender, Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development’, a new online training course that is part of the e-learning course I Know Gender.
By completing the 'Gender, Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development' module participants will be able to:- explain how women and men are differently affected by industrial policies;
- contribute from a gender perspective to shared prosperity, economic competitiveness, and safeguarding the environment.
To access the module, it is necessary to first complete the three I Know Gender core modules, which explain basic gender concepts and international frameworks for gender equality. The course can be completed in one and a half hours.
ISPIM Innovation Research Skills Special Interest Group launched
ISPIM (INSME Member) has launched the Innovation Research Skills Special Interest Group (SIG) addressing academics who wish to improve their innovation skills or anyone else interested in academic research. The objective is the enhancement of research skills within the ISPIM Community in order to enable ISPIM Scholars to execute and publish more impactful and rigorous research in the field of innovation management.
The SIG will promote traditional research methods as well as explore the potential, application and development of less common used methods and will run on a multi-year basis focusing around ISPIM events and overlapping with other activities such as the PhD Lab and the Community.
For detailed information please contact this e-mail address.SME Finance Policies for MSMEs Owned by Women and Women Entrepreneurs
The Alliance for Financial Inclusion – AFI recently released a survey report on “SME Finance Policies for MSMEs Owned by Women and Women Entrepreneurs” whose original and primary aim was to check if member institutions that finance SMEs have put policies facilitating access to finance for MSMEs owned by women and women entrepreneurs at the top of their agenda.
The analysis shows that only a few countries included access to finance for women within their national strategies. Among the most important challenges, the survey reports a lack of definition of what “MSMEs owned by women” and “women entrepreneurs” are. Data collected was also scarce with regard to access and usage of financial services. Survey respondents did not manage to provide answers when asked what financial products were used by MSMEs owned by women and women entrepreneurs in their country. The publication also points out that most member countries reported that women’s employment is mostly concentrated in the informal sector.
In conclusion, given the scarcity or non-existence of data available and the numerous challenges faced by women entrepreneurs identified, the report stresses this represents evidence that further research is needed in order to enable countries to make access to finance for women entrepreneurs a top priority in their agenda. Nevertheless when assessing best practices in the field of SME finance policies, the report suggests to monitor the work done by four countries, namely Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Indonesia and Tajikistan.
To learn more, please click here.The European Commission promotes the Horizon Prizes
Nowadays citizens face pressing problems that need to be solved and in this frame the European Commission is promoting the Horizon Prizes.These prizes are called ‘challenge’ prizes (also known as ‘inducement’ prizes) as, after the identification of a problem for which no solution exists, a challenge is set and a monetary prize offered to whoever finds how to effectively face it.
Through these initiatives the Commission intends to attract a wider range of innovators, provides an opportunity for innovators to take a risk and to forge new partnerships, leads to sustainable new products and services, spurs interest in a particular issue.
Prizes in diverse categories are foreseen, among which the one dedicated to Social Innovation. In this frame the European Commission, in cooperation with the European Investment Bank Institute, plans to launch a € 2 Million Horizon prize on a social challenge chosen by the public, as part of Horizon 2020, the EU's biggest ever research and innovation framework programme.
