A guide for fostering women's entrepreneurship : five key actions towards a digital, green and resilient Europe

Europe needs to acknowledge the social and economic importance of women entrepreneurs. With the challenges of the digital and green transition as well as the COVID-19 pandemic's implications for the labour market, women's entrepreneurship (WE) could be reinforced as a viable career option - for women of all ages. This Guide is a final output of the project "Peer-Learning Activities in Entrepreneurship Education and in Women's Entrepreneurship" (2018-2021). The target group of this Guide is decision makers in governments, educational institutions, civil society organisations, businesses, and their associations - on the local, regional, national and European level. The project led to recommendations with five themes that decision makers can target. These recommendations are interlinked and reinforce each other mutually. For example, promoting entrepreneurship as a career path requires role models, sufficient funding, and networks. A new women´s entrepreneurship funding platform requires a sound base in the education system to bring out competent, motivated, and ambitious women entrepreneurs.