Over the next two years partners of the FemStart initiative will actively encourage the public debate on why so few women scientists start their own business on graduation. FemStart is an initiative funded by the European Commission’s 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technology within the Science and Society Priority. It was launched on 1st September 2006 and will start a public debate on the issue of how female scientists can be motivated to start their own businesses after university.

FemStart is coordinated by Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Stuttgart, Germany. Other partners are the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg – ifex (DE), the Polytechnical University Valencia (ES), Wroclaw University of Technology – Wroclaw Centre for Technology Transfer (PL), Banking Institution of Higher Education Riga (LV), University of Agronomics and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest (RO) and Twente University (NL). Each partner is involved in a number of further reaching networks and will engage key local stakeholders in the debates.

The first conference and debate of the series will be organised by Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum in Stuttgart, Germany, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg – ifex and Innovation und Bildung Hohenheim GmbH and bga National Agency for Women Start-ups & Entrepreneurs on Wednesday, 14th – Thursday, 15th February 2007.

Download the invitation: Invitation_Femstart.pdf

and the detailed program: Program_Femstart.pdf

and register, here !