Category: Migrant Entrepreneurship
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“For Europe to recover, SMEs need to recover.” – The European Commission announces SME Relief Package
The SMEs of Europe have been facing difficult times in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic brought uncertainty, restrictions forced many businesses to temporarily close down, while other sectors were affected by supply-chain shortages. After the brief recovery period that followed the pandemic, the world economy and SMEs are now facing new challenges: inflation, skyrocketing energy…
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The Contribution of Ethnic Minority Firms to Innovation, Growth and Trade: An interview with Monder Ram
Professor Monder Ram is the Director of the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME). He is a leading authority on small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship research and has published widely on the subject, and has extensive experience of working in and acting as a consultant to small and ethnic minority businesses. Together…
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4th European Migration Forum: Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges
The 4th European Migration Forum – the dialogue platform on migration, asylum and migrant integration – took place on 6 March and was organized around the theme “Towards a more inclusive labour market for migrants: Seizing the potential by addressing the challenges”. The EMF is a platform for dialogue between civil society and the European…
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1st EMEN conference, 23-24 April 2018 in Munich: Why Migrant Entrepreneurship Matters?
The first annual conference of the EMEN project will take place in Munich, Germany, on Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th April 2018, hosted by Social Impact gGmbH. The conference will take place at Social Impact Lab München, Balanstraße 73, Campus der Ideen, Haus 21a, 81541 MÜNCHEN It will feature: Pitches by migrant entrepreneurs Expert Café…
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“The secret of integration is to work hard”. The story of Gurung
The New European has entered a partnership with the IOM and its program Skills2Work. In the course of some weeks, these pages will showcase some of the success stories from the EU countries participating to the program and taken from the digital platform FromSkills2Work. The second article of the series is dedicated to Gurung, from…
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From refugee to self-employed: the story of Ferry
The New European has entered a partnership with the IOM and its program Skills2Work. In the following weeks and months, these pages will showcase some of the success stories from the EU countries participating to the program and taken from the digital platform FromSkills2Work. The first article of the series introduces the story of Ferry,…
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The EU’s support to migrant entrepreneurship. Interview with Lowri Evans, European Commission.
The European institutions are dedicating increasing attention to how to foster migrant and inclusive entrepreneurship at the EU level. To know more about this support, The New European talked to Lowry Evans, Director-General at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Growth (DG GROW).
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From ex-Yugoslavia to a not yet multi-ethnic Germany to starting up at the peak of economic crisis
When asked when he first thought of starting up in the automotive industry, Muamer Babajic jokes, “I didn’t think, because if I had known what I had to go through I’d have probably never started!”
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Migrant microfinance for development
Around 1. 3 billion people still live in extreme poverty today, according to the United Nations. Poor access to water and education are a daily reality for citizens in developing countries.