FYWE YWEA | The age of a New Frontier

Young Women Entrepreneurs Association is an unique international platform bringing together young female entrepreneurs and matching them across the world, by taking advantage of the opportunities of globalization and expanding an awareness of cross-cultural differences.

We decided to launch a new on-line version of the Survey because of the increasing interest in the CCE - Cross-cultural Entrepreneurship project.
The on-line version is easier and faster to fill in and will give you a better solutions for your problems.

Are you a young female entrepreneur looking for suppliers or business partners?
Would you like to launch or expand your products/services abroad?
Let us know, what your needs are!
Fill in the questionnaire and we will contact you.
Start now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YWEASurvey

Are you an early stage entrepreneur? Would you like to spend between 1 and 6 months learning new skills, making new contacts and getting fresh ideas while working in another EU country as a participant on a grant-funded placement programme?

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs could be for you!

The programme aims at helping new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing and growing a small or medium-size enterprise by working with an experienced entrepreneur in another European Union country for a period of 1 to 6 months.

As a new entrepreneur, you will benefit from on-the-job training that will ease the successful start of your business and strengthen your new enterprise. You can also benefit from access to new markets, international cooperation and potential possibilities for collaboration with business partners abroad.

The stay is partly financed by the European Commission.

Are you interested? Contact us for more information: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Visit the EYE Programme Web-site: www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu

Download the brochure

YWEA promotes the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards, a business plan competition for start-ups led by women organized by Cartier in partnership with McKinsey and INSEAD business school.

This social entrepreneurship competition aims at supporting creative, financially sustainable and responsible women-led start-ups, in all countries and industries.

The Awards will be given to six laureates in the following categories: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa, North America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
The laureates will receive a year of coaching, US$20,000 in funding, valuable networking opportunities as well as media exposure.

The business project to be considered for the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards must be:
- An original for-profit business creation
- In the start-up phase: at least one year old 
and no older than three years
- The main leadership position must be filled 
by a woman

Candidates should apply directly online through the application form: http://www.cartierwomensinitiative.com/site/application
The submission deadline this year is March 13, 2012 at 10am CET.

Download the Cartier Women's Initiative Awards' Brochure

December 2011. Panorama Economy, one of the most important business magazines in Italy, has published an interview with Sandra Sucher, conducted by YWEA.

Who would be capable of steering the world’s finances to safety? The legendary bankers John Pierpont Morgan and John Davison Rockefeller. The contemporary Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, would have a chance. And an all-round leader for Europe today? Helmut Kohl.

This original ranking comes from a course entitled “Moral leaders” by Sandra Sucher, a professor at Harvard Business School, who explains that the aim is not to proclaim what’s right and what isn’t but rather to teach entrepreneurs and managers to change viewpoint and separate their perceptions from other people’s. The objective is for them to learn to think in ways that are completely different from the usual ones.

The originality of Sucher’s proposition lies not only in her objectives but also in her teaching methods: she works not through case studies but through readings of the great classics of literature and visits to museums.

Read the article (only in Italian)

YWEA promotes The Second International Balkan Countries Women and Business Conference that will be held on December 22, 2011 in Edirne, Turkey.

The theme of the conference is Determining Strategies for Better Women Cooperation in Business Between Balkan Countries.
The conference will also focus on topics including law and regulation on business and women in Balkan countries, practical issues for business and women in Balkan countries, good and bad cases of women and business in Balkan countries.

For more information, please download the Programme.

YWEA in collaboration with the Embassy of The Republic of Poland in Italy presented “European dialogue on women’s entrepreneurship: Italian and Polish female entrepreneurs compared”.
The event was held in the Palazzo della Ragione on 5th December 2011, during the “Polish Days in Verona”, and was organized under the auspices of the Polish Presidency of the EU Council.

Eminent Polish and Italian women in politics, culture and business discussed current issues related to entrepreneurship.
Two roundtable sections were focus on the following topics:
- Does politics serve women entrepreneurs?
- How I became a businesswoman? Reasons, challenges, support.

Guests included Henryka Bochniarz (President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers, Lewiatan), Giuseppe Scognamigli (Executive Vice President, Head of Public Affairs, Unicredit), Irena Eris (President, Dr Irena Eris Cosmetic Laboratories), Olga Grygier–Siddons (President, PricewaterhouseCoopers Poland).
YWEA was represented by our President, Joanna Musialik.

Download the programme (Italian version)
Download the programme (Polish version)

August 2011. New members from United States joined YWEA. After Italy, China and Poland, U.S. is the fourth country represented in YWEA.
Our journey in New York and Boston was a fruitful occasion to introduce our Association to local organizations involved in entrepreneurship development.

May 2011. YWEA was invited to attend the Women-in-Business Leadership Awards 2011, presented by Ernst&Young in Beijing.

Two of our Members were recipients of this prestigious Award:
Alicia Zhou, founder and Managing Director of ET-Gate Trade Solutions, was awarded as Entrepreneur of the Year.
Emily Roblin, founder of LEAP Training and Consulting China, was awarded in the Inspiration category.

In Beijing YWEA has started its Cross-cultural Entrepreneurship Project.

YWEA successfully participated at the Salone del Risparmio in Milan, April 6-8, 2011.
The Salone del Risparmio is the most important Italian event focused on the asset management industry.
Our President, Joanna Musialik, together with Russell Reynolds Associates were speakers at the conference on the first day of the event: New investors, new demands, new professional profiles.
Joanna spoke about the Role of women as investors. Women are becoming increasingly important drivers of growth and are no longer seen as housewives or stay-at-home mothers. They play an integral part in keeping our economy moving and supporting their families.
They need financial stability in the short-term to cover their needs as well as long-term stability to ensure a secure financial future. Fast-moving financial institutions can seize this opportunity and break stereotypes.