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Start-up with NEnA!Wanted: 32 junior female scientists in nanotechnologies!
Start NEnA I: 30.9. – 5.10.2007 at Paderborn. Women take off in science and are no longer rarety in the former domaine of men. For instance the share of women in technical and scientific subjects has increased to between 21 and 37 percent, depending on the branch of study. However only every seventh start-up in this field has been initiated by a women. Nanotechnology is an especially forward-looking sicence. The Nano-Entrepreneurship-Academies (NEnA), a new start-up initiative of the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and nano4women strive for the objective of conveying the necessary know-how to women, who are interested in starting up their own company to be successful in the nano market. To activate by means of cross-country networking and role models
In autumn 2005 the international network nano4women has been launched. It intends to promote the career of young female scientists in the future market of nanotechnology. An international specialist conference at Paderborn patronized by the Fedral Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) was the start of the well directed networking. “Within our Kick-off-conference it was first of all important to create a platform for expert exchange and to show that there are successful role models for women in this field of technology,” said Ilka Bickmann, initiator of the network.
NEnA – Nano goes
Entrepreneurship Germany is currently a very good starting basis for the economic realization of activities in nanotechnologies. However the excellence in research does not reflect the whole range of economic feasibility and this is exactly the point we come in with NEnA”, states Prof. Ralf Wehrspohn, former professor at the Univesity of Paderborn and since October 1st, 2006, director of Frauenhofer Institute in Halle (Saale). “Our Nano-Entrepreneurship-Academies show young female scientists in nanotechnologies and related sciences, that there is the possibility of starting up their own company, that they can be successful and that this is an exciting alternative or addition to their current professional roadmaps.” “The aim of our initiative is to discover your own entrepreneurial options, do develop your own creative ideas professionally in teamwork to a real company, to discuss in consideration of questions regarding the reconciliation of start-up and family and to show solutions and after all to offer a tangible metoring with personal coaching“, completes Ilka Bickmann, project leader of nano4women - NEnA.
Register now! The second NEnA II at Halle (Saale) will follow in March 2008 and NEnA III will take place in March 2009 in cooperation with the University of Marburg. The project is supported by a strong regional and national network of around 60 partners from politics, sciences and economy..
Start-up with NEnA
– who can participate?
Coaching facilitats
the realization of the business idea
NEnA goes USA –
International experiences as an additional success factor NEnA at one glance: NEnA = Future3 - academies, three locations, three dates:
> Course: Registration to NEnA I at Paderborn via www.nano4women.com. Pre-registration for NEnA II and NEnA III is also possible > Selection of the 32 participants, feedback and composition of teams by the jury > Advanced coachings subsequent to the adacemy provide individual accompanying and support of the teams when realizing their subiness idea, even after NEnA. > The winners of each NEnA participate in a three-months exchange programme with the USA. They will develop further competences regarding the international transfer of their business modell in cooperation with Margaret Hines, founder of Evident Technologies and mentor of the nano4women network.
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