Study trip to establish long term cooperation of Nor - Hun institutional stakeholders to adopt innovative women business development methods

Project ID: HU01-0032-PIERO-A1-2017

The overall objective is to study Norwegian best practices of cooperation among different institutions taking part in the acceleration and assistance of innovative women entrepreneurs. The project aims to examine and analyse the existing cooperation models of institutions in depth in order to facilitate the adoption of the most sustainable ones in Hungary. The planned two visits of leaders - who are active in female enterprise development - will exchange experiences of the key institutions starting the development of a long-term partnership between the institutions of the two countries around women in business. The goal is to strengthen gender equality and participation in business in Hungary with lessons learned in Norway while strengthening understanding about the Hungarian side. The project will focus on the main points of enterprise development: innovation, training and incubation; access to and accumulation of finance; therefore will include the relevant institutions to increase the female contribution to entrepreneurship. For these themes Innovation Norway, Professional Women’s Network, Business and Professional Women Follo (Norway), Norwegian Business Angel’s network, the No. 1. Start-up accelerator, Impact Hub Bergen, a University with engagement programme for STEM and for including more women in IT are planned to be visited. The Hungarian visit will be organised with the Norwegian Project partner, the Hungarian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce. The Project Promoter, KultUnio Foundation will organise the visit to Hungary in collaboration with the Norwegian project partner. SEED Foundation, Business and Professional Women Budapest , HBLF, Kaptár, ImpactHub, Hunban are planned to receive the Norwegian delegation preferably coinciding with the Visegrad 4 female business conference expected for the first quarter of 2018. The project's events and results will be publicised on the website of the Project Promoter, KultUnio Foundation and its Project Partner.