ESI Student Innovation Programme of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga invites to join a short course on Inclusive Startupreneurship, which starts already on February 21, 2023.
The application deadline for this course is February 13, 2023!
This short education course will be taught by Anna Andersone (Riga Tech Girls, LV) and Alise Gurenko (Riga Tech Girls, LV). Upon completion of the course, students will earn 3 ECTS. The course is open to all students from partner universities (RGSL, RTA & LMA) without entry prerequisites. Students from other Latvian universities must provide proof that participating in the course will not interfere with their studies at the university. Non-student participants must have at least an EQF Level 4 qualification.
Gender balance in entrepreneurial and especially in startup entrepreneurial ecosystems has been historically poor. And even if in recent years the share of female-founded or female-led startups globally is coming closer to 20%, in the investment arena 86% of deals in 2021 across Europe were raised by all-men founding teams.
For a venture to succeed on an international scale, startups need to access new markets. Given that women still are less represented in decision-making positions in business, starting or expanding their ventures can be made more difficult as they don’t have the same connections or opportunities as their male peers.
It is important to diversify the scene and encourage diverse individuals to test and validate their ideas and try themselves as entrepreneurs.
The inclusive Startupreneurship course is a practical/ hands-on course that is focused on sustainable business development and enabling the knowledge and skillset for starting and running your own venture while fostering and putting forward an inclusive culture approach and diversity.
The course is tailored for diverse innovators and entrepreneurs, who are eager to make the world a better place. Its goal is to facilitate your innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, either by shaping, polishing, and validating your existing idea or by encouraging those who currently don’t see themselves as entrepreneurs or don’t believe themselves to be entrepreneurial enough and build inner strength through practical workshops, experienced guest lecturers and by plugging in a broader international network of mentors and community partners, to help to improve the statistics on gender diversity among entrepreneurship and startup founders in the nearest future.
The course will be implemented face-to-face, it will start on February 21. The course will be taught in English.
More detailed information about the course you can find in the course outline.
In order to join the course, the following questionnaire should be filled in.
More information about the ESI Student Innovation Programme and application for other events:
Instagram for ESI Sustainability Challenge: https://www.instagram.com/esi_sustainability_challenge/
Our website: https://esi-startup.lv/
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ESIdrosmigs
LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/esidrosmigs
E-mail: info@esi-startup.lv
The programme is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
The programme is supported by: Art Academy of Latvia (LMA), Rezekne Academy of Technologies (RTA), Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL), Civitta, TechHub, Riga Tech Girls, LSUA, LETERA, LU CF
Project number: 1.1.1.3/21/A/008.a.
