A network building awareness programme to help refugees find out more about the business environment in their new context.

1. Anne Fox ApS

2. A sea of paperwork
• To secure support
• Build networks
• Avoid financially damaging pitfalls

3. Biggest barriers
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Language
32% had previously run
a business but lacked
support to start a new
one in Europe
Underuse of owned
electronic devices
Unwillingness to change
career direction
EU businesses are
willing to employ
refugees but unsure if
they can
Big difference between
those who arrived
spontaneously or
through resettlement
schemes

4. Spontaneous
versus
resettled
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5. Cultural differences
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Finance
Risk
Trust in authority
Networking
Gender

7. What works?

8. 9
Conversations
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10. The App

11. The
programme
Introduction to the BMC
What are my skills? EU Skills profile
What is the local business
landscape?
Building my BMC
Presenting my BMC & giving
feedback to the rest of the group

12. How you can help
Test our EU Skills Profile
tool guidance
Let us know what you
think of the FAQ
Start a study group to test
our materials
Come to our next public
event in Rome in
November or our final
conference in Lithuania

13. Sources
• 9 Conversations project https://www.9conversations.no
• Business Model Canvas
https://www.flickr.com/photos/marcfonteijn/4752335906
• Entrecomp: The Entrepreneurship competence framework
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-
technical-research-reports/entrecomp-entrepreneurship-
competence-framework
• Refugee map
https://www.state.gov/j/prm/policyissues/issues/protract
ed/
• Talent displaced: The economic lives of Syrians in Europe
https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/about-
deloitte/articles/talent-displaced.html