While women’s influence in society, business and politics is growing, there is still a gender gap in terms of leadership positions, earnings and career opportunities.
In the startup realm, female founders are still underrepresented and have difficulty securing financing through venture capital or scaling-up.
Within the framework of “Female Shift”, the Business Scouts for Development (BSfD) programme aims to create digital offers for African and German women entrepreneurs and set up a mutual mentoring programme.
WORTH
- Exchange of experience between female founders from Germany and Africa
- Reverse mentoring – Exchange of skills, knowledge and understanding of entrepreunership for mutual benefit
- Bridging the cross-cultural gap between different countries.
ELIGIBILITY
- female entrepreneurs from Germany and Africa, with a focus on the Berlin-Brandenburg region and the countries of Namibia, Rwanda and South Africa.
- Applicants should have a running business in the last one year
DEADLINE: December 15 2021
To apply and for more information visit here
