The INSME Association
INSME supports the World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum 2017 organized by UNIDO Investment & Technology Promotion Office Bahrain together with the Arab International Center for Entrepreneurship & Investment from the 31st of October to the 2nd of November in Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain. Under the theme “Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through Promoting Entrepreneurship & Innovation” participants will have the chance to share ideas with more than 1,000 entrepreneurs and representatives of MSMEs and entrepreneurship support institutions expected to join the event.
For further information, we invite you to visit the official website of the initiative at this link and register here.
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Highlighted events
AGORADA+: “Industry 4.0 for eco-efficiency”
The Mediterranean Workshop 2017
23 - 24 October 2017
Organized by the University of Naples Federico II, the University of Naples L'Orientale, SVIMEZ and Studi e Ricerche per il Mezzogiorno - SRM (INSME Sustaining Member) among others
The World Entrepreneurs Investment Forum 2017
31 October - 2 November 2017
Manama, Bahrain
Organized by UNIDO Investment & Technology Promotion Office Bahrain and the Arab International Centre for Entrepreneurship & Investment under the patronage of HRH Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, in collaboration with INSME, among others
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The Future of Work Center of Excellence (CoE) launched by Deloitte
Deloitte has recently announced the launch of the Future of Work Center of Excellence (CoE), a first-of-its-kind platform to create solutions that anticipate market disruptions, address the skills mismatch challenge, and identify future job requirements.
Based in Singapore and with an expected investment of US$20 million over the next three years the new CoE will help to develop a suite of data analytics, automation tools, and workforce-planning cloud models for businesses and governments to address clients’ current and expected workforce needs.
The Center will catalyze job creation in Singapore and around the globe, and it will enable knowledge and skills transfer to Singapore’s core workforce while building local capabilities and labor solutions. Furthermore it will train and employ local Singapore and global talent in highly sought-after areas such as data science, UX, HR analytic, actuarial science, and natural language processing, among others.
The Future of Work Center of Excellence is the first in a series of Singapore-based, digital solutions-focused centers of excellence Deloitte is planning to establish with public and private sector players. These innovative public-private collaborations also aim to position Singapore as a global IP export and capability development hub.
More information is available here.Call for Co-Hosting and Co-Organisation of the 14th INSME Annual Meeting in 2018
The International Network for Small and Medium Enterprises – INSME is now accepting applications to host the 14th INSME Annual Meeting in 2018. Once a year, in collaboration with a co-host organisation, INSME members meet to discuss and decide about issues related to the life of the network and about potential future activities to be possibly developed among the members of the Association. The meeting, which is held indicatively between April and July of each year, represents one of the main highlights of the yearly activities of the INSME Association and it is composed of 3 or 4 day event, comprising the INSME Board Meeting and General Assembly, an International Conference, an International Training and Innovation Tours.Submit your application to:
- play a protagonist role in an event welcoming more than 200 innovation stakeholders from all over the world;
- discuss the latest trends in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship;
- raise international awareness of the business attractiveness of your country.
Please express your interest by sending an e-mail to secretariat@insme.it.Youth. Women. Entrepreneurship – understanding labour market policies across the G20
The G20 Labour Ministers’ meetings in Melbourne (2014), in Ankara (2015) and more recently in Beijing (2016) resulted in a series of commitments by Labour Ministers in the fields of employment, with a specific focus on youth, education, gender, occupational safety and health (OSH) and other policies. To monitor the implementation of these commitments, Deloitte, the International Organization of Employers and Business at OECD have undertaken two surveys, whose results can be found in the report “Youth. Women. Entrepreneurship – understanding labour market policies across the G20”.
Concerning youth employment, the report states that countries are addressing this issue mainly through structural reforms, including promoting mobility or increasing the quality and availability of apprenticeships and traineeships.
With regard to women, the challenges they mainly face are related to: a) affordability of childcare (with 27% of countries stating it is a challenge being addressed, while 60% said it is not); b) and achieving senior leaderships positions as just a little more than half of respondents (53%) stated there were laws supporting female share of executive positions in the public and private sector. Entrepreneurship is being recognized more and more as an important driver of innovation, job creation and growth.
Entrepreneurship seems to be increasingly included in the curricula, although this is most prevalent in the vocational sector (73%) while it is not foreseen in primary school (10%) and it is usually not included in teacher training programmes.
Find out more insights at this link.