One of the major obstacles for women to take the option of European entrepreneurship is the limited access and use of ICT tools. The forthcoming European Conference will address this need by promoting European projects, representing a great variety of European countries and transnational consortia that could encourage and facilitate women to launch and/or maintain their own sustainable businesses through the use of available ready-to-use ICT tools.

The conference is being organized in the frames of the EU co-funded project with the acronym ‘ladybizIT’ (www.gender-it.eu).

ladybizIT suggests existing EU solutions and means that foster women entrepreneurship; it identifies markets; it provides spotlight trends on the role of women in sustainable economic recovery; it informs on recent experiences and know-how; and, it raises awareness among women on the dynamic process of entrepreneurship in an emerging knowledge-based society.

In brief, ladybizIT encourages women to launch their own sustainable businesses through the use of available ready-to-use ICT tools!

The ultimate goal is to have more informed women on the exiting EU tools and projects, as well as on the current status of women entrepreneurial growth at European level and the opportunities offered that will facilitate them to start up their own business.

It is envisaged that women will gain the advantage of the opportunities provided by ICT tools to pursue entrepreneurship and will increase their entrepreneurship participation rate in the European economy.

ladybizIT builds up a dialogue, through a set of interlinked and complementary dissemination actions that will lead into the European Conference and Show Case to take place in Athens, in  6th November 2012 with the ultimate aim to present the useful results of 12 European projects, mostly LLP.

More specifically, ladybizIT will present 12 projects, already identified and evaluated to meet the quality criteria established by the project expert partnership, that focus on women entrepreneurship and how ICT facilitates and possibly fosters women entrepreneurship.

Thus, the project will:

• Promote Lifelong Learning interventions, specific project outputs, amongst current and future women entrepreneurs;
• Encourage and motivate women, regardless of age and origin, to learn what LLP can do for them, by offering them a personal development advantage and a new career path, through the access and use of available ICT;
• Focus on solutions and means, such as the use of ICT, that foster women entrepreneurship;
• Encourage women to launch their own businesses, identify markets, provide spotlight trends on the role of women in sustainable economic recovery;
• Disseminate and inform on recent experiences and know-how and raise awareness among women on the dynamic process of entrepreneurship in an emerging knowledge-based society;
• Build an informal sustainable network between all the presented projects and the events’ participants of ladybizIT.

Get involved! Follow the link and register now! http://gender-it.eu/?page_id=229~!noredirect

The participation is free of charge! Priority will be given to first comers