CENTRE FOR WOMEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP
TEODORA
www.teodora.rs
Wishing to empower active women entrepreneurs and point to their contribution to economy and society, and at the same time, encourage and motivate unemployed women to choose self-employment career and start up businesses of their own, in September 2005, we established the Centre for Women Entrepreneurship „Teodora“ at the Regional Chamber of Economy Niš as the first business support service within the Chamber system of Serbia for active and potential women entrepreneurs.
What is our mission?
• Creation of positive business environment for development of female entrepreneurship
• Promotion of gender equality and equal opportunity rights in economy
• Greater participation of women in economic decision-making processes What are our priorities?
• Improvement of business performance of SMEs owned by women
• Creation of new businesses owned by women
• Professional training and improvement of knowledge and skills of women
• Promotion of a positive image of women in business
• Networking of women entrepreneurs from the region with similar organizations in Serbia and abroad During only 2006 and 2007 we organized more than 80 entrepreneurial trainings in Niš, Pirot and Prokuplje, numerous business meetings, presentations and promotions, a few hundred women from all over Serbia contacted us asking for information and advice, and our web site has been visited by several thousand users. We have been cooperating with the local self-government, NGOs, other Chambers in Serbia and abroad, associations of business women and women entrepreneurs. We have also been very active in implementing projects funded by the European Union and USAID. „Teodora“ has become a synonim for female entrepreneurship in South Serbia and a true brand of the Regional Chamber of Economy Niš. After having established the Centre, we have made a step further in promoting female initiatives in business and established the Coordination Board of Women Entrepreneurs as a medium for expressing, balancing and building opinions and attitutes of its members, the official body through which measures and activities of interest for all Chamber members are submitted and proposed. The members of the Board are established women entrepreneurs from the region of Niš, owners of companies and small businesses, but also women-representatives of important local stakeholders that can contribute to the development of female entrepreneurship.
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