Project description DEENESFRITPL Promoting gender-oriented start-up programmes Although women’s employment is increasing, there are still fewer women embarking as start-up entrepreneurs. What’s more, programmes implemented by innovation agencies to assist start-ups are not gender oriented. The EU-funded SARA project will support female SME innovation programmes by developing a new model that encourages innovation agencies to engage in gender-oriented activities. The project will develop a model for smart villages and involve them in promoting innovative businesses, as the call ‘for a better innovation to SMEs’ Work Programme 2018-2020 suggests. SARA, which relies on the peer learning methodology of the INNOSUP-05-2018-2020 (Twinning), will produce a Design Options Paper to support local initiatives. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective "SARA project aims at improving the support provided to female SME innovation processes by testing and developing a new model in the innovation ecosystem.In Europe, there are 23 million SMEs with an average loss of 3.1% in turnover due to low liquidity and a lack of innovative products. Women make up 52 % of the total European population but only 34.4 % of the European Union (EU) self-employed and 30 % of start-up entrepreneurs.Innovation Agencies strive at keeping the pace of SME innovation support demand, but their programs are not gender-oriented.Starting from the main idea “It takes a village to raise a child” (African proverb that means that an entire community of people must interact with children to grow in a safe and healthy environment), SARA will develop a new model to support Innovation Agencies in better gender-oriented activities. SARA responds to Europe's indications to develop and test a model for smart villages (accessibility, sustainability, new entrepreneurship), and it supports the co-design of new tools for female entrepreneurship by involving smart villages as an unusual place to create innovative enterprises for a better work-balance.Through this, promoting new forms of innovation and entrepreneurship proactively as suggested by the call “for a better innovation to SMEs”, Work Program 2018-2020.The project will use the peer learning methodology promoted by the INNOSUP-05-2018-2020 (Twinning) involving several regional innovation agencies with complementary skills. The partners will exchange knowledge and experience and develop appropriate local case studies (achieving a ""learning by doing"" process). The joint work of the project partners together with peer learning will produce a Design Options Paper for the implementation of local initiatives to develop a "" Smart Villages an unusual place for women entrepreneurship "" and related innovation support services and will promote an improvement in the role of Innovation Agency more gender-oriented." Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.2.3.2.2. - Enhancing the innovation capacity of SMEs Topic(s) INNOSUP-05-2018-2020 - Peer learning of innovation agencies Call for proposal H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-INNOSUP-2018-2019-05 Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator DESTINAZIONI INNOVATIVE SRLS Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address Via italia 135 contrada cutura 87036 Rende Italy See on map Region Sud Calabria Cosenza Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all FUNDACION CENTRO EUROPEO DE EMPRESAS E INNOVACION DE MURCIA Spain Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Campus universitario 30100 Murcia See on map Region Sur Región de Murcia Murcia Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 PRIMORSKI TEHNOLOSKI PARK DOO Slovenia Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Mednarodni prehod 6 5290 Sempeter pri gorici See on map Region Slovenija Zahodna Slovenija Goriška Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 ACCENT INKUBATOR GMBH Austria Net EU contribution € 0,00 Address Viktor-kaplan str. 2 haus c 2. stock 2700 Wiener neustadt See on map Region Ostösterreich Niederösterreich Niederösterreich-Süd Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
