“Tackling Young People´s Welfare in Europe”TYPE Project

First Transnational Exchange Workshop

“Amadora Empreende” Project – Social and Youth

Entrepreneurship Seville, 6th – 9th February 2012

Câmara Municipal da Amadora

Amadora EMPREENDE

Amadora Empreende is a Municipal Project of support to Entrepreneurship created in 2008, based on the recognition of personal skills and on the identification of the best solutions for each case:

Entrepeneur Path: Creation of Enterprises/self employment

Alternative solutions: Education-Qualification-Employment

PRESENTATION

Main Goal:To identify viable ideas of business and to make easier the paths of Entrepeneurs to achieve success, having as a result the creation of enterprises or projects of productive character in Amadora

Amadora EMPREENDETARGET GROUPS

Individuals with age between the 16 and 65 years (including), with Portuguese citizenship or legal residents in Portugal, as well as profitable or non profitable organizations, since, in each entrepreneurship initiative, 50% of the beneficiaries are resident in Amadora. The enterprises or resultant business must be located in Amadora

AREAS OF INTERVENTIONAmadora EMPREENDE

Main goal:- To give support to the all citizens who intend to implement business in Amadora

Phases of the process:

1. Motivation and contact – spread in mass of the project, realization of Sessions of explanation / information;2. Reception of Applications – initial evaluation of business ideas and selection,

taking into account the profile of the candidate and the relevance and exequibility of the business;

3. Coaching – specialized consultancy support for the preparation of the Business Plan;

4. Qualification– Qualification for management and development of the business, with thematic workshops and seminars directed do the necessities of the Promoters

I –Entrepeneurship Support Center

AREAS OF INTERVENTIONAmadora EMPREENDE

5. Implementation –Specialized consultancy for the concretization of Business, support in accessing financing sources, support in services of

accountability, concession of Incubator;

6. Follow-up – Periodic contact with the business promoters, to check the situation point and the development of the business project;

7. Meeting – Annual realization of a public event to present the Projects supported by the Project

EIXOS DE INTERVENÇÃOAmadora EMPREENDE

Main Goals:

• To promote sensibilization/information on Entrepreneurship next to teachers and students in schools of Amadora;

• To contribute to the qualification of young people through pedagogic and Innovative proposals, that can turn basic skills into entrepeneur skills

ACTIVITIES:

Teachers’ qualification in the area of Entrepreneurship

“Right Arm” – One day in your future (Action addressed to students)

II – Sensibilization/Information about Entrepreneurship in Schools

AREAS OF INTERVENTIONAmadora EMPREENDE

Main Goal: To promote the integration of discriminated publics in situation of social exclusion in entrepreneurship projects, with the objective of creating self-employment

ACTIVITIES:Qualification in basic skills for the most appropriate development of an entrepreneur path or other, more suitable, such as education or employment

Attendance of proximity to residents in vulnerable territories that intend to develop business ideas

III – Promotion of Entrepeneurship in vulnerable territories

Amadora EMPREENDE

Specialized support in the search of capitals and investors

Concession of work spaces in the “Quick” Incubator (rooms equipped with autonomous islands of furnishings / equipments, attributing to the entrepreneurship initiatives)

Concession of commercial spaces of municipal property (In areas of reaccommodation, by means of rules of temporary attribution, based on viability and effective results of the project)

Financial Support (attributed by private partners who support the business ideas)

SUPPORTS

Amadora EMPREENDERESULTS

Year Final Projects Sucessful Projects

Edition 1 – 2008

21 3

Edition 2 - 2009

25 5

Edition 3 - 2010

18 3

Edition 4 -2011

9 0*

Amadora EMPREENDE

*The third Edition started in April 2011. The 9 projects are still in process ofDevelopment and Coaching

Amadora EMPREENDERESULTS

General Evaluation

STRENGTHS: involvement of diverse target groups (age group, level of schooling, etc); involvement of population groups living in vulnerable territories; qualification of the individuals with entrepreneurship skills; development, renovation and dinamization of the local business cloth and consequent creation of employment

WEAKNESSES: Low rates of success in the implementation of the ideas of business, comparing to the number of final projects

Amadora EMPREENDEFINAL PROJECTS 2008

Simulator of Real Loads in Means of transport

of Shut Cabinl TECHLACE

Caffee /Snack BarRissóis & Cia

Rissóis & Cia

Computer Repairing

Architecture and UrbanismProjecto . mínimo

Gardening

Amadora EMPREENDEFINAL PROJECTS 2009

Project Soluções Eficientes

PropriedadesOliveira

VITRALÍSSIMO: O Renascer do Vitral

nadia Lubiva

Atelier de Costura

Minimercado

turismo de habitação

Amadora EMPREENDEFINAL PROJECTS 2010

Dotylandia – Party Spaces

Home care services

Education/Qualification (Special education for children and young people; sénior qualification)

Consultancy and services in the area of management (project analysis, accountancy, auditing)

Web Projects and electronic commerce

Services of Plumbing

Photography of events

School of hairdressers and hairdresser

National tourism

website for sale / spread of national products

House of cakes, based on the excellence of the production and on the quality of the products

Craftwork Shop

Amadora EMPREENDEPARTNERS

Promoter: Câmara Municipal Amadora (City of Amadora)

Partners: ISCTE/ AUDAX (Consultive and Formative Entity)Fundação GulbenkianDolce Vita TejoEscola Intercultural das Profissões e do Desporto da Amadora

More informations:

www.amadora-empreende.net

Câmara Municipal da Amadora (City of Amadora)Divisão de Intervenção Social (Division of Social Intervention)T. 214 369 053  E-Mail: accao.social@cm-amadora.pt

Amadora EMPREENDECONTACTS