SWITZERLAND

“In Switzerland women entrepreneurship is among the lowest in the world.
Female entrepreneurs run 4,8% of the companies.
We have five focus groups, consisting of 50 persons. Obstacles for women entrepreneurs:
Lack of self-confidence, no role models, lack of support from family, school, enterprise, little information about possible career opportunities for
women, socio-cultural norms. Life organisation is important, we need to work with self development and networking.”

GOOD PRACTICE:

1. OpportunityBooster Program at the university of Geneva, focusing entrepreneurial behaviour, the strategy is a toolkit based on Management by opportunity approach. Programme is a combination of exercises, roundtables role-plays with concrete real-world case studies.

www.managementbyopportunity.com

2. Apprendre ΰ Entreprendre (Learn to enterprise), a model that will be generalized to schools all over Switzerland. The focus is on students between 15 and19 years old.
The objective is to stimulate entrepreneurship, raise awareness of being an entrepreneur. Team-building, individual responsibility.
Coaching by experts and entrepreneurs.
Partnership between schools, economic development.
This has attracted girls more than boys.

• Life organisation, social context
• Self development
• Networking
• Support and action to young women – before they become university students