A +7,000€ worth fellowship programme funded by the EU is inviting diverse, creative and collaborative women entrepreneurs.
Sponsoring Agency: EOI (Escuela de Organización Industrial)/Impact Hub
Type of Fund: Fellowship
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 05/31/2022
Size of the Fund: Less than USD $50,000
A +7,000€ worth fellowship programme funded by the EU is inviting diverse, creative and collaborative women entrepreneurs.
The Fellowship is funded by the European Union and powered by Impact Hub Madrid and Escuela de Organización Industrial EOI School. 280 female entrepreneurs will embark on a transformational journey: a two-month entrepreneurship programme, including a 28 day retreat in Spain.
Goals
- Break to Accelerate
Take your project to the next level through the latest design and management methodologies, high level alliances and expert mentoring. Experience collaboration and collective learning while focusing on your project. - Break to Connect
Forge a more sustainable and participatory women-led business ecosystem for a stronger EU. Let’s break the entrepreneur gender gap. Connect to 280 like-minded business leaders and expand your impact. Our community is both face to face and digital. - Break to Reshape
Share your expertise, empathy and creativity and help us co-design solutions to 12 key sector challenges linked to unique locations. Group-up in clusters and be hosted by a Local Innovation Community in Spain. Learn from systems thinking and open innovation approaches across very diverse territories.
Phases
- Phase 1 – September remote sessions
- In September you will initiate your journey working from home. It’s a key moment to plan, think about your expectations, start connections and establish your objectives.
- Enjoy our online opening event where you will meet all your fellows, organizers and talk about what you will experience and discover in the upcoming months.
- Expand your knowledge and learn from business leaders through inspirational and training webinars.
- Meet your mentors and co-create your working plan
- Learn from other fellows and share your entrepreneurial and life experiences through team mentoring sessions
- Phase 2- Travel to Spain
- Travel to Spain in two cohorts of 140 fellows (October or November cohort).
- Enjoy a 2 day welcoming event in Madrid to personally meet your fellows, solve challenges, participate in innovation workshops and more!
- Travel to your assigned Local Innovation Communities in Spain for 24 days.
- Develop your business plan though one to one mentoring sessions
- Bring your skills, your talents, your creativity and play a crucial role in transforming your peer experience.
- Submerge in your Individual work to boost your business.
- Solve a local challenge through the latest social innovation methodologies.
- Share your experiences and learn from other’s experiences through group mentoring sessions to share
- Meet local and international experts,entrepreneurs and business partners.
- Experience culture, social life, food and all that Spain has to offer.
- Phase 3- Next Steps
- After the 28 days retreat you will travel back home to start implementing everything learned during your journey.
- Participate in webinars to strengthen identified needs and a final meeting with your mentor.
- You will develop a working plan for the upcoming months.
- Final closing Global Online Event, to share your experiences and opinions on the programme.
- Phase 4- Remember the Break
- The community will always be alive
- 6 months after the end of the program they will host an online event to reunite our community and share experiences
Eligibility Criteria
Note that the following requirements are mandatory:
- Women candidates must be at least 18 years old. They encourage women of all ages to apply!
- They are looking for open-spirited women determined to learn, question, boost their business and create an international community to transform our planet.
- Have a fluent level of conversational and written English.
- EU residents (except residents in Spain) regardless of their country of origin.
- Be in charge or hold responsibility in an entrepreneurial project:
- Early stage: in case the business is not yet established, the candidate should have at least an MVP proposal or market validation proposal.
- Have an operating entrepreneurial project with no more than 5 years since constitution. This may include start-ups, scale-ups or high growth businesses.
- Be a Spanish national residing in the EU except in Spain, with an entrepreneurial project and wanting to expand into Spain.
- It is recommended that your entrepreneurial project is part of the following sectors (please consider them as opened and inclusive, they want to attract very diverse projects and skills):
- Industry: with sustainability and digitization as the main challenges for the improvement of production processes and competitiveness, and favoring a new industrial model based on collaborative innovation, productive means connected and flexible, transparent and integrated supply chains, and more technological distribution channels and customer service.
- Tourism and Culture: sustainable and inclusive tourism, tourism technologies or travel tech, creative industries, generation and dissemination of culture, management of cultural and historical heritage, crafts and traditional trades, digital creation…
- Mobility: both in urban and rural areas and that has an impact in individual and collective transport, freight transport, logistics, infrastructures and citizen awareness for a change of model towards sustainability and circularity.
- Health: e-health or electronic health, m-health (access via mobile), innovation in the processes of health services, use of RRSS to interact with the population, development of new drugs and therapies, etc.
- Construction and Materials: new buildings, more sustainable reforms and rehabilitations, new materials, intelligent automation and home automation, new models of property and/or coexistence (coliving, cohousing…)
- Energy and Ecological Transition: energy efficiency in buildings and industry, renewable energies for a «decarbonized» economy, new technologies for energy storage, waste management, environmental restoration, circular economy, water efficiency…
- Banking and Finance: innovation for a change of model both at the technological and interaction with its stakeholders, omnichannel, office of the future, etc.
- Digital and Telecommunications: AI, supercomputing, cybersecurity, and all initiatives that help reduce the digital divide between populations in order to achieve real equality of opportunity.
- Agro-food and livestock sector: especially aimed towards an ecological and sustainable agriculture and livestock.
- Biotechnology: with specific applications in medicine, industry, agriculture or environment.
- Social Entrepreneurship: business initiatives clearly driven to solve social and environmental challenges specially focusing on vulnerable groups. .
- Rural development: attraction of professionals, support services for rural populations so they don’t have to emigrate, talent return initiatives, technological solutions, etc.
- Early stage: in case the business is not yet established, the candidate should have at least an MVP proposal or market validation proposal.
More information at: https://the-break.eu/
Eligible Countries:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom
Business Categories:
Agriculture, ICT, Social Entrepreneurship, Women Entrepreneurs, Food Industry, Business, Biotech
