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The European Prize for Women Innovators support innovative women entrepreneurs. Having a breakthrough innovation, provides a solution for a real life problem and has a huge impact for human/planet and of course being a role model for yound women and girls. European Prize for Women Innovators has three main categories: -In the EIC Women Innovators category, three prizes of EUR 100 000, EUR 70 000 and EUR 50 000 are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications; -In the EIC Rising Innovators, three prizes of EUR 50 000, EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications from promising ‘Rising Innovators’ under the age of 35.  -The EIT Women Leadership Award, awarded to exceptional women leaders from the EIT Community. The winner is awarded EUR 50 000, and two runners-up are awarded EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 respectively. Last year, a Turkish woman-scientist, Rana Sanyal was awarded in the EIC Women Innovators category 💖 I am sure there is more role models for our young girl generation in EU and beyond. If you are curious about the award and want to hear more, why don't you register for the info webinar? #WiPrizeEU #researchandinnovation #EUeic #EUeit https://lnkd.in/d9B83ZYQ

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Unveiling Your Pitch DNA: A Powerful Workshop for Female Innovators! Ever wonder what makes a truly impactful pitch? This week, I had the honour and pleasure of hosting a workshop titled "Zeig dich mit dein pitch" (Master Your Pitch) at the FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency Programm #Innovatorinnen Sommerfest in Vienna. 🇦🇹 This program empowers women in #appliedsciences, and it was inspiring to work with such a passionate group! The core message? Finding your #PitchDNA! This isn't just a one-size-fits-all elevator pitch. It's the core message you can **expand or contract** to fit any situation – from a networking event to an op-ed. We delved into the power dynamics of pitching as women. We explored how societal norms can lead us to downplay ourselves. But together, we discovered how to: * Own our space with confidence (without being forceful!) * Elevate ourselves and each other * Craft a compelling narrative that showcases your impact The workshop culminated in a powerful exercise: Participants created their *personalized Pitch DNA*, then used it to craft new introductions. The results were incredible! A huge thank you to the amazing women who participated! Your vulnerability and shared experiences made this workshop truly special. #femalescience #pitching #innovation #womenintech #FFG #feministperspective P.S. Want to learn more about crafting a powerful pitch? Let me know in the comments!

💡🏆 The European Prize for #WomenInnovators, supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT), is a prestigious award that celebrates the exceptional achievements of #WomenEntrepreneurs who are driving impactful innovations in various fields. 🚀 🏅 With prizes divided across three categories: Women Innovators, Rising Innovators, and EIT Women Leadership Award, the prize seeks to shine a spotlight on groundbreaking #innovations that are bringing positive change to people and the planet. 💚 ⏰ The application deadline for this esteemed award is September 25, 2024, and it serves as a powerful reminder of the vital roles women play in technology and leadership within the EU. 👇🏻 #VEDA #EIC #EIT #VEDAArticle #EuropeanPrizeforWomenInnovators

One step forward, a big shove back! This is getting beyond disgusting for female founders (especially in the UK). It's already hard enough being a female founder what with lack of funding, lack of recognition and lack of support compared to their male counterparts. So, how can female founders get any semblance of fairness when the very orgs that are claiming to be their champions go seemingly back on their words, act without transparency and disappoint thousands of founders. Innovate UK promised 50 awards to female founders (with a supposed total value of £4M) through the Women in Innovation 2024/25 Awards. Awards that required an application process taking hours and hours of precious time and resources from the founders. IUK then got thousands of applications (obviously!) and now, with no explanation, have decided to only award 25 of the 50 awards. I mean, come on! Thank you to Emmie Faust, Hattie Willis, Emma Jarvis and more for asking why, holding them to account and bringing it to all of our attention. Thanks also to who have shared and commented on this topic. MY ask: If you a founder in my community (and I may have already reached out to those who I work with directly) AND you applied for Women In Innovation 2024, please tell your story here via the form; the community needs to know what went wrong and how. They will use this data to take to IUK and it will be anonymous. https://lnkd.in/eGMNQRqB There is also a survey here capturing information (thanks to Charlie Rosier for sharing on Emmie Faust's post): https://lnkd.in/emNCyE5G If you didn't apply, please share so those who did can have their voices heard. Please make some noise that Female founders deserve respect, honesty and accountability. I know this fight is exhausting but if we all collaborate, I am confident it will be worth it. #startup #innovateUK #femalefounders #startupcoach

Philip Salter have you seen this post by Emmie Faust? As you (TEN & the APPG) know many people who are female founders or who support our efforts to encourage more females to start and grow businesses, please spread the word about this situation regarding Innovate UK awards for female founders.

🏆2025 European Prize for Women Innovators is now open for applications. 🔹UK applicants are eligible and the deadline to apply is 25 September. The European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) are behind this initiative that celebrates the achievements of women entrepreneurs driving positive change for people and the planet through their innovative ventures. With the UK’s association to Horizon Europe, the prize is open to UK-based women innovators - in the following categories: 1. EIC Women Innovators category: Open to women founders and co-founders from the EU and Associated Countries, including the United Kingdom. Three prizes of EUR 100 000, EUR 70 000 and EUR 50 000 are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications. 2. EIC Rising Innovators category: Targeting promising innovators under the age of 35. Three prizes of EUR 50 000, EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications. 3. EIT Women Leadership category: Focused on women with a direct link to the EIT Community. Three prizes of EUR 50 000, EUR 30 000 and EUR 20 000 are awarded to the three highest-ranked applications. ℹ️ More information here: https://lnkd.in/etnWftQz

Head above the parapet time. We Peachie were one of the 1452 businesses that applied for this grant. We are 4 female founders with an innovative purpose lead business and experience of writing winning grant applications. 50 awards were promised and only 25 awarded. We were not successful. If we realised that only 1.75% of applications were likely to win we may not have chosen to use one of most valuable finite resources. Time. Let’s talk time, 1452 business applied assuming an average 2 days to apply (it took us more than this). That is 12 years of average employee working time for all the applications. Umm… It is incredible, in the true meaning of the word, that only 25 awards were made when 50 were proposed. Emmie Faust thank you raising this with Innovate UK on behalf of the female founders community. Let’s hope the UK Government invest in women task force gets going fast and we see more funds available to many more female led founder businesses.

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💡 Insightful speech from Ms. Maria Helena de Felipe Lehtonen, President of AFAEMME -the Federation of Mediterranean Businesswomen Organizations, partner of ASCAME- at today's kick-off of the MID of MED Mediterranean Business Summit in Izmir (Turkey). AFAEMME has also been represented by Ms. Elizabeth Trallero, Former President ENMD, CEO of Congost Plastic, S.A. and Responsible for International Relations at AFAEMME, and Ms. Marta Maiques, Communications Manager at AFAEMME. 📌 These are some of the main takeaways from Mª Helena's intervention at the summit: 🔸 There is the need to talk about "women entrepreneurs" as specificity, because pre-conditions might be different depending on the person's gender. Women entrepreneurs are an important untapped source of economic growth. They create new jobs for themselves and others, and they also provide society with different solutions to management, organisations and business problems as well as to exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. 🔸 Women are faced with specific obstacles that have to overcome in order to give them access to the same opportunities as men. There are 5 main obstacles: lack of experience -the majority of unskilled or less skilled women entrepreneurs lack the ability to prepare their companies for survival and growth-, lack of role models -by having less women entrepreneurs than men there are automatically less successful women entrepreneurs than men-, lack of capital -women's position in society has led a lack of financial assets which are a prerequisite for starting a firm-, lack of time -due to domestic responsibilities, women do not have enough time to develop their entrepreneurial skills or to develop an existing business- and lack of relevant networks -women are less present in professional networks than men-. 🔸 A natural solution for changing this situation is therefore a mixture of different policies and a change of attitude. Affordable childcare and equal treatment at workplace have to be guaranteed, in addition to educating society about the value of women's entrepreneurship. 🔸 The good news is the increasing examples of women entrepreneurs in recent years: Several women-owned enterprises are well-positioned to enhance- national prosperity and to contribute to economic growth and a better future. #midofmed #Mediterranean #unitedbytheMediterranean #MedConnect #cooperation #greeneconomy #blueeconomy #womenentrepreneurs #Mediterraneanbusinesswomen #shappingthefuture #WeAreASCAME #ASCAME2024