We have often organised meetings with European and international guests at the Businesswomen’s Conventions which have been being held since 1996 – so that participants can look outside the box and be inspired. Since 2009 we offer workshops developing strategies with Women Entrepreneur Associations.
February 2012: Businesswomen from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Tadzhikistan exchanged experiences with German women entrepreneurs and their networks in Northrhine-Westphalia. They got insight into projects like mentoring, magazine existenzielle and workshop for starters. Client: GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.
October 2011: Workshop with 25 Women Entrepreneurs from Africa and Asia in Bochum, Germany: “Building up sustainable connections between Business Women’s Associations of different countries”. Dinner and exchange with the German Association of Women Entrepreneurs, VdU. Client: GIZ – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.
Images: Tanja Engel
March 2011: Lecture about "Advancing women's economic growth - the role of business women's associations" and moderation of a break-out session "Strengthening the role of national women's entrepreneurs associations". 97 Experts from 26 countries across the OSCE Region analysed the situation and developed recommendations for economic growth through women's entrepreneurship.
26 OSCE-Countries brought in their experiences strengthening women entrepreneurs
Lithuania supported the conference together with the OSCE Gender Section
November 2010: Workshop „TWITTER, FACEBOOK and Co.: Modern IT-Means in Web 2.0 for Businesswomen Associations” during the conference “First International Businesswomen Forum” in Berlin, a cooperation of VdU, Association of German Women Business Owners and Global Project Partners, supported by BMZ, sequa, gtz und InWEnt.
Women Entrepreneurs from 26 countries joined the conference.
The workshop focused on social media for Businesswomen Associations
June 2010: 16 Businesswomen from Montenegro and Serbia were brought in contact with german networks and institutions empowering women entrepreneurs. During a workshop they developed ideas to strengthen their associations. Client: German Agency for Technical Cooperation.
RevierA organised the study trip for the Businesswomen from Montenegro and Serbia in June 2010.
April 2010: Concept and moderation of the international Strategy-Workshop at the North Rhine-Westphalian Businesswomen’s Convention 2010. Participants: 30 activists from Women Entrepreneur Associations in South Asia, Southern Africa and Germany. Main questions: How can Business Women Associations initiate changes in society? How can growth of women's businesses be supported by the associations?
Strategy-Workshop in the context of the international project „CHANCE – Chamber and Advisory Network and Cooperation for Women Entrepreneurs“, 17 April 2010.
After a delegation of Egyptian women entrepreneurs visited the Businesswomen’s Convention 2008, we were engaged to give a workshop on the 3rd Alexandria Businesswomen Day Nov 2009.
3rd Alexandria Businesswomen Day on Nov 7, 2009, organised by the „Alexandria Businesswomen Association“.
Presentation of the results during the workshop: "Maximising the Potential of Women Entrepreneurs – Experiences and new Ideas”, organised by RevierA, Nov. 2009, Egypt.
As part of the activities of the EU-India Network of Women Entrepreneurs, InWent – Capacity Building International put us into contact with India’s ALEAP association at the tenth Businesswomen’s Convention in 2006 and enabled us to attend the International Symposium of Women Entrepreneurs on Sustainability & Competitiveness in Hyderabad, India, from 31 August to 2 September 2007.
Kala Gopalakrishnan and Kanneganti Rama Devi from the Association of Lady Entrepreneurs of Andhra Pradesh (ALEAP) with Cornelia Sperling and Birgit Unger in 2006.
At the conference in Hyderabad, Cornelia Sperling presented the activities in Germany in 2007.
We share our experience in project development and measures to strengthen the position of businesswomen at an international level, e.g. during this course on project development for information multipliers in Almaty, Kazakhstan
The GTZ (“Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit”) arranged for us to start working with the “GTZ GENRE” project and the Moroccan businesswomen’s association, AFEM, in 2005.
The President of America’s National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO), Phyllis Hill Slater, in Dortmund in 1998.
FCEM guests from Italy and Great Britain in 2003.
Our strength lies in practical strategy development and our involvement in international networks (e.g. the Verband deutscher Unternehmerinnen/Association of German Women Entrepreneurs – International Team (VIT), Femmes Chefs d’Entreprises Mondiales (FCEM), work for the “FrauenAnstiftung” in Eastern Europe, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
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