The Community of Madrid, through its Directorate-General for Equality, launched an acceleration programme to promote equal opportunities between women and men in the field of entrepreneurship. To this end, it entrusted Cink Venturing with the design, development and delivery of the first edition of the Entrepreneurship for Equality Programme.
This initiative provided specific resources and tools to support participating entrepreneurs, helping them drive the growth and consolidation of their projects.
Cink Venturing designed a comprehensive plan covering the entire journey: from outreach and analysis of applications to the organisation of training activities, personalised mentoring and dissemination through events and digital channels.
The main challenge was to establish a benchmark programme on entrepreneurship with a strong equality focus, while meeting all the requirements defined to ensure proper delivery and measurable results.
To achieve this, an initial eight-week project recruitment phase was planned, followed by several months of specialised training and a final event where the accelerated projects were presented publicly.
The specific objectives of the programme were to:
Given the specific nature of the call, an active eight-week outreach campaign was designed to identify viable projects that met the programme’s requirements.
Key actions included:
During the application period, 17 proposals were received. After analysis, 15 projects that met the criteria were pre-selected, and finally 6 projects were chosen to take part in the acceleration programme.
The launch of the programme was officially announced at a press conference, attended by institutional representatives, media outlets and key stakeholders from the Madrid entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The six selected projects went through an intensive acceleration phase that included:
Throughout this period, workshops, meetings with experts, analysis of success stories, visibility sessions for the initiatives and advisory support on funding were organised. The process concluded with the participation of the projects in a Demo Day as the official closing of the programme.
The Demo Day served as the programme’s final event, where participating projects presented their proposals and progress in front of various stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem of the Community of Madrid.
The event was covered by the media and shared on social networks, reinforcing the visibility of the programme and its impact.
After completion, Cink Venturing produced a results report confirming the positive evolution of the participants, as well as the client’s high level of satisfaction with the outcomes achieved.
The indicators from this first edition reflect active participation and a very positive assessment of the initiatives supported.
