New Beginnings

The New Beginnings project aims at developing a business training programme which will help migrants harness their differences and stories for setting up and growing businesses. The main point of departure will be to maximise the experience, knowledge and skills of migrants and use these for business ideas and business growth. We will be using their migration as their unique selling proposition.

The project will deliver 4 workshops (online or face to face) to train coaches/volunteers/ workers dealing with migrant populations, 4 online modules on an e-learning platform, and 4 workshops to train entrepreneurial migrants (with a focus on female migrants) to enhance business skills. Matching guidelines will be produced acknowledging intercultural sensitivities, exclusion and intersectionality.

We expect to support migrants to increase their confidence through coaching, mentoring and networking, and to train them to develop entrepreneurial skills. This will allow them to create achievable business propositions which would be suitable for funding, recognizing local and legal constraints and to make new jobs. This project aims at supporting migrants to better understand their new contexts and to use their journeys to potentiate new business endeavors.