Portuguese entrepreneurial women – fostering learning communities

• Author(s): Gonçalves, Maria José
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/4929
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Entrepreneurial women; Learning communities; Business idea; Lifelong learning
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

This article repports findings on a project - DONA EMPRESA - that the Portuguese Association of Women Entrepreneurs has been promoting for four years now. The project aims at supporting unemployed women, having a business idea, to create their own employment. So far about one hundred enterprises have been created in the scope of this project, their surviving rate being very high after one year of business running.