Empretec offers a unique and transformative approach to entrepreneurship, focusing on practical entrepreneurial skills learning.
Participants engage in real-world challenges, develop the ability to identify and seize opportunities, and cultivate key traits essential for entrepreneurial success.
Empretec empowers entrepreneurs to think strategically, embrace creation and innovation and drive sustainable and inclusive growth.
Empretec is based on a methodology designed specifically for new entrepreneurial thinking and has been successfully applied by more than 550,000 entrepreneurs over 30 years.
Training is delivered by over 500 certified trainers who are themselves entrepreneurs.
- Own the entrepreneurial mindset: to cultivate key skills and behaviors for entrepreneurial success.
- Validate and innovate: to master market research and refine business ideas to meet real-world demands.
- Support growth: to equip entrepreneurs with tools to turn ideas into scalable and sustainable businesses.
- Expert trainers: Delivered by 500+ certified trainers with proven entrepreneurial experience.
About the workshops
The Empretec training programme targets SMEs with a track record of good business performance, potential entrepreneurs with promising business ideas, and start-up companies with bankable project proposals.
- Empretec Training Workshops for all types of entrepreneurs
- Empretec Startup Programme: Diverse tracks from half a day to 4-5 days targeting founders and CEOs at different stages of business development and business sectors
- Empretec Induction Workshops: 10 hours, spread over a few days
- Webinars: Flexible online sessions
Most workshops are combined with mentoring and advisory services, study tours as well as other business development services.
Participation in the Empretec programme should lead to business growth, job creation, increased investment, inclusion in value chains and enhanced competitiveness and innovation.
Target beneficiaries
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1Micro, small and medium-sized business owners
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2Start-up founders
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3Youth entrepreneurs
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4Women entrepreneurs
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5Intrapreneurs
How to apply
Participants go through a rigorous selection system based on recommendations and interviews in which both personal proven entrepreneurial competencies and an innovative approach to business are addressed.
Fees
Workshop fees vary from country to country, depending on the local context and the availability of donor funding.
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