About Going Abroad
We are a project amongst partners and associated organisations from Sweden, Germany, Lithuania and Poland. The project is part-financed by the South Baltic Programme and lasts from June 2011 until December 2013.
The objective of this project is to strengthen the business potentials of women’s enterprises across borders by creating networks and providing new knowledge to enable them to run their enterprises sustainable and competitive. It helps the female entrepreneurs to tackle the problems associated with accessing new markets and facilitates the steps to export and international trade. Thus, the project’s efforts will contribute to economic growth in society. Who are you?
You are our target group if you are a female entrepreneur running a micro-enterprise in the participating regions in Sweden, Germany or Lithuania.
You need help with learning all you need to know about the regulations on different markets, financing, establishing sales channels and contacts in other countries. If you join the project, we offer you a range of activities supporting your "journey" towards export and international trade. The other two target groups, the secondary ones, play a crucial role when it comes to dissemination and durability. They consist partly of Women´s Resource Centres, including Winnet Sweden and Winnet Europe. Moreover, they consist of business and information organisations working with female entrepreneurs, partly enterprise organisations like branch organisations, Chambers of Commerce, National Trade Agencies, Regional and Local business service providers and incubators. How the cooperation between Going Abroad and the participants of the project works:
We provide thematic workshops that allow you to acquire new knowledge about business training and coaching in branch networks. In the next step, you will meet entrepreneurs from abroad to exchange your experiences, discover potential, and get ideas for development and cooperation.
The project builds networks that connect small enterprises. Exchange of knowledge between enterprises from the three countries will be essential in order to increase trade. Identified best practices will be documented in a handbook which will be used as a transferable system of how to increase revenue in small enterprises through trade. This project contributes to increase trade between small companies and lay the ground for a higher competitiveness of the whole South Baltic area by forming cross-border clusters of small enterprises that can act together.
This project contributes to the achievement of the European Growth and Job Strategy, more specifically, the achievement of the targets for smart growth.
Components and project organisation: Component 1: Management and coordination Component 2: Communication and dissemination Component 3: Branch networks Component 4: Success Teams