Aveiro Entrepreneurial - support small ideas and fostering entrepreneurship André Cester Costa, Economic Development, City of Aveiro

1. Aveiro Entrepreneurial
Be the Change
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2. Aveiro Entrepreneurial Be the Change
How?
How it appeared?
How is it run?
How is it finance?
When?
What!
What are the Objectives!
What are the Strategic Axes!
What are the results!
It started?
Next steps!
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3. How? How it appeared?
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4. How? How is it Run?
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5. How? How is it Run?
“Community of Practice” Meeting every 3 months
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6. How? How is it Financed?
ERDF Funds
Funding for the Implementation of the project
September 2011 to September 2013
Co-financing: 600 K€
Human Capital
The Network implemented gave us the
opportunity to design specific programs with the
involvement of our partners:
. Social Innovation Workshop - in 2013 we had
the 1st edition and in 2014 the 2nd will be
implemented
. Mentoring Network 2014
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7. What? What are the main objectives?
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8. What? What are the Strategic Axes?
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2
3
4
Entrepreneurship
55
Creativity
Communication
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Innovation

9. What? What are the Results?
1
Support SMEs
Competition “Aveiro Entrepreneurial takes you to Silicon
Valley”
Number of applications = 53
Number of Finalists = 15
Number of winners = 4
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10. What? What are the Results?
1
Support SMEs
Support instruments
Investment Fund of the Municipality of Aveiro
3 New businesses suported
Millennium Microcredit
23 New businesses suported
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11. What? What are the Results?
3
Promoting Entrepreneurship @ Schools
Methodology
1. Training Teachers (Credit is given for their career)
2. Dialogue between teachers and local entrepreneurs
3. Implementing activities at Schools
4. Final activities (Ideas Contest, Entrepreneur Fair, others)
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12. What? What are the Results?
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Promoting Entrepreneurship @ Schools
Objetives
Learn – transform information into knowledge
Apprehend – transform knowledge into competencies
Entreprenneur – transform competencies into SKILLS
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13. What? What are the Results?
3
Promoting Entrepreneurship @ Schools
Number of Teachers

Total = 123 teachers
2011 / 2012 = 53
2012 / 2013 = 70
Number of Students

Total = 2 392 students
2011 / 2012 = 1 145
2012 / 2013 = 1 247
18% of total number of students
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14. What? What are the Results?
3
Promoting Entrepreneurship @ Schools
Does it Works? Are the results positive?
Based on this study from the EU from March 2012,
“the impact of entrepreneurial programmes in
education” has 4 dimensions:
. Acquiring entrepreneurial competences;
. Willingness to become na entrepreneur;
. Employability e
. Positive Impact in society and regional economy
In: Effects and impact of entrepreneurship programs in higher education, Brussels, March 2012,
Entrepreneurship Unit, Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, European Commission
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15. What? What are the Results?
4
Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture
Events dedicated to Entreprenneurship: > 1.000 atendees
TEDxAveiro
TEDxYouth@Aveiro
MF24
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16. What? What are the Results?
4
Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture
Workshops dedicated to Entrepreneurship: > 100 atendees
55 business ideas presented
8 business ideas CREATED (+ 4 in preparation)
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17. What? What are the Results?
4
Promoting Entrepreneurial Culture
Project supported: > 70 atendees
40 business ideas presented
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18. When? When it started?
September 2013 to September 2015
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19. When? Next steps?
Creating Opportunities and Jobs
Strategic Goal
Throught the network
collaboration,
implemented in a
strategic and
integrated way, we
intend to define active
policies to support the
creation of new jobs
and opportunities to
our local companies
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20. When? Next steps?
3 Strategic Areas
Based on the strategic
goal of Aveiro
Entrepreneurial
“Creating
Opportunities and
Jobs” three strategic
areas were defined.
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21. When? Next steps?
Throughout the project
with dialogue and
networking, we intend to
promote creativity and
innovation of our
entrepreneurs and
businesses, creating a
more proactive
community by
developing training
activities for
entrepreneurship.
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23. THANK
YOU!
Email: aveiroempreendedor@cm-aveiro.pt
http://www.aveiro-empreendedor.pt/english-version/
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