Having just won the 60-Day Challenge, the future cannot look any brighter for Kars Gerrits and Sivan Breemhaar. With their enterprise Afriek, they create blazers for men. These blazers come in a wide variety of vibrant colors and prints, hand-tailored by the most skilled craftsman in Kigali, Rwanda. Resulting in an interesting, intercultural miscellany, African prints, culture and craftsmanship cross-pollinates with Dutch design.

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With Rutger Bults as the Project Lead, the fifth edition of the 60-Day Challenge, a program that is designed to help social entrepreneurs accelerate their business idea or project, has just come to an end. To get an impression of this season’s harvest, Rutger assessed how it all went, and what the program comprises.

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Impact ventures play a vital part in the adoption of green and inclusive technologies, policies and behaviours. But in order to have real impact, they need to scale globally. This requires serious investment. Yet what does it take for impact ventures to become investment ready? The Investment Ready Program supports entrepreneurs to answer that question and attracts the necessary capital to scale.

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July 9th @ 12am-1pm 

The European Cultural Foundation invites individuals, collectives and organizations working in the arts and cultural sector as well other societal sectors, to submit an innovative, daring idea for cross-cultural collaboration that engages Europeans in re-defining and shaping “public space”.

50 ideas will be invited for the first Idea Camp, co-hosted by Les Têtes de l’Art. 25 of those ideas will be then selected for a €10K R&D grant.

We will conduct our first #AskECF event on Twitter and Facebook on the 9th of July between 12:00 and 13:00 to help with your application before the approaching deadline. During this online session, you will be able to ask your questions directly to us via Facebook and Twitter and we will do our best to provide answers.

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July 17th @ 7pm-9.30pm

Impact ventures play a vital part in the adoption of green and inclusive technologies, policies and behaviours. But in order to have real impact, they need to scale globally and for that they need serious investment. What does it take for impact ventures to become investment ready? The Investment Ready Program is launched to support entrepreneurs to answer that question and attract the necessary capital to scale.

A selected cohort of 10 to 14 participating entrepreneurs will commit to a 4-month program in which they receive support from peers and experts to systemically review their business and make their investment plan. 

We invite you to be part of building an amazing program that is truly focused on supporting entrepreneurs that are building solution to real global problems. Come if you are a player in the field of impact investing, if you are an entrepreneur ready to scale or if you are just interested to learn more about the program!

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August 1st & 2nd | € 150,- (btw-vrij)

De summer school is een inspirerende en vooral praktische 8-daagse cursus voor startende ondernemers. Je kunt alle 8 dagen meedoen, of kiezen voor een van de vier modules, afhankelijk van waar jouw eigen behoeftes liggen.

Tijdens de summer school leer je je idee om te zetten in een finance ready business plan met hulp van experts en ervaren ondernemers. Daarnaast bouw je een zeer interessant netwerk op. Andere deelnemers van de summer school zijn net zo ondernemend als jij. Met elkaar ga je dezelfde uitdaging aan. Je leert dus ook nog eens ontzettend veel van elkaars ervaringen!

Met een goed businessplan kun je deelnemen aan de businessplancompetitie Ondernemen Zonder Grenzen. Winnaars krijgen toegang tot investeerders via BiD Network en de Investeerdersclub.

De 8-daagse cursus bestaat uit een gevarieerd programma, waarin inhoudelijke colleges worden afgewisseld met praktische sessies waarin vooral jij aan de slag gaat. Het eindresultaat? Een werkbaar concept!

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