The Fundación Tres Culturas has launched the INTREPIDA Project (Internationalisation of Women Entrepreneurs from Spain and Portugal towards Insertion, Development and Partnerships), an initiative within the framework of INTERREG Spain-Portugal (POCTEP 2014-2020), Operational Programme for Cross-Border Cooperation between Spain and Portugal, and financed with European Union ERDF funds.
The INTREPIDA Project will boost the business competitiveness of SMEs managed by women in the cross-border territory of Andalusia, Algarve and Alentejo, promoting their internationalisation through new models of business development and cooperation. To this end, Tres Culturas has a large number of partners from both countries, whose representatives met on 13 July at the headquarters of the Foundation in an event which was also attended by the Consul of Portugal, Jorge Monteiro, as well as Alfonso Garrido, coordinator of the General Secretariat for External Action of the Junta de Andalucía, and the director of Fundación Tres Culturas, José Manuel Cervera.
The launch meeting was attended by Paula Paulino, executive director of NERE-Núcleo Empresarial da Região de Évora, and her technician, Ana Santos; Rui Perestrelo, project technician of the Núcleo Empresarial da Região de Portalegre (NERPOR); Ana María Mira, president of CELAS (Centro de Estudos Luso Arabes), and José Mário Neves, from its management team; Elsa Vieira, from Universidade Aberta, CLA de Silves; Jose Manuel Sánchez, coordinator of the Masterup of the University of Cádiz, and Raúl Medina, from the Chair of Entrepreneurship of this University; Beatriz de Vicente, María Pilar Rodríguez Fernández and Antonio Galán, from the Provincial Council of Huelva; Mayte Jiménez, from the Mancomunidad del Condado de Huelva; and María García, representing the Fundación Centro Tecnológico Andaluz de Diseño, SURGENIA (Córdoba).
Among the activities planned in this project, which will run until March 2019, four lines of action stand out: the creation of a digital guide to companies managed by women and located in Alentejo, Algarve and Andalusia; the organisation of four international forums in Seville, Huelva, Evora and Silves, as well as the promotion of business tourism initiatives; training for internationalisation; and ICT training for businesswomen, self-employed and cooperative members with the aim of improving the internationalisation of their products by taking advantage of the opportunities offered by digital commerce.
