E-Chance for Women Entrepreneurship
Lifelong Learning
ProgramGrundtvig Learning Partnership
2013-1-TR1-GRU06-48094-1
Kick-off Meeting Report
16-17 December 2013
Istanbul, Turkey
Minutes of Kick-Off Meeting
Kick-off meeting was held on in Istanbul on 16th-17th
December, 2013 with representatives from all partners
Organization Name: SuleymanSah University
Country: Turkey
Person: Assist.Prof. Habibe ILHAN
E-mail :hilhan@ssu.edu.tr
Organization Name: SuleymanSah University
Country: Turkey
Person: Ayse SES SAATCIOGLU
E-mail :asaatcioglu@ssu.edu.tr
Web Site: www.ssu.edu.tr
Organization Name: SuleymanSah University
Country: Turkey
Person: Habibe YUCEL
E-mail :hyucel@ssu.edu.tr
Organization Name: Institute fürLern-Innovation
Country: Germany
Person: Paul Held
E-mail :paul.held@fau.de,paul.held@fim.uni-erlangen.de
Organization Name: Institute fürLern-Innovation
Country: Germany
Person: Claudio Fischer
E-mail :claudio.fischer@ili.fau.de
Organization Name: Institute fürLern-Innovation
Country: Germany
Person: Katharina Gernardinger
E-mail :katharina@gernardinger-online.de
Organization Name: Institute fürLern-Innovation
Country: Germany
Person: Katharina Nolte
E-mail :Katharina-nolte@gmx.net , Katharina.nolte@ili.fau.de
Organization Name: Institute fürLern-Innovation
Country: Germany
Person: Esther Paulmann
E-mail :esther.paulmann@ili.fau.de
Organization Name: M3 Cube
Country: France
Person: Annais Fernandez
E-mail :annais.fernandez95@gmail.com
Organization Name: M3 Cube
Country: France
Person: Daria Kyslitska
E-mail :daria.kyslitska@gmail.com
Meeting has started with a welcome speech delivered by
Ms. Habibe İLHAN. She presented OECD statistics on women employment and
entrepreneurship from OECD annual reports.
After an exchange of cordialities and introductions other
each partner organization presented their organization and project experience.
All partners presented best practices on women
entrepreneurship projects and institutions. ( e.g BGA from DE, KOSGEB from TR)
After lunch, the project consortium visited a sample
women incubation center(PendikKİSGEM) in Pendik and received brief
information from the manager of KİSGEM. This visit also drew a frame in
participants mind about the needs of women entrepreneurs.
Afternoon session started at 15:45 where all were tasks
summarized by SSU with a discussion in order to clarify what was aimed to be
done at proposal.
The project will start by need analysis of female
entrepreneurs.
Project partners
will:
Define/ describeneeds of ourpopulation (takeintoaccountcountrydifferences)
· Information (findtheresearchcategories):
o usingsocialmedia as promotiontool
o Fundingandsupportresources
o Basic businessskills ( business plan, risk analysis, SWOT) guidingtoexistingresources
How weassertneeds:
Questionnaireto(50 perpartner)
a) Women (employed, unemployed, Professional, allages, alllevels of education)
b) Organizationsconcerningwithwomensenterpreneurshipissues (anykind)
Recordedinterviews (at leasttwoperpartner)
SSU: preparequestionnaireand sent for feedbacktopartners; incorporatefeedbackandhave link runningbymidjanuary
Dissamination plan andquestionnairewill be createdby FR(Annais)
Discussion of potentialDatabase
- Contactlinks
- Organizations
- Best practices
- Resources
o Funding
o Support
o Legal advice
o certification
1st day of theKoM has ended at dinner.
2nd daywasreserved for citytour.