EWA Explore
What to expect?
EWA Explore is a self-paced online course providing foundational entrepreneurship knowledge and practical tools to explore, develop and validate agrifood business ideas integrating a gender perspective.
Length:
20 hours self-paced online course
Target:
Women who want to start or strengthen a business in the agrifood sector, especially those who are:
- Exploring an entrepreneurial idea but have not yet started a business or
- At an early stage of their entrepreneurial journey, with a recently launched venture
Languages:
- English
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Content:
The course combines entrepreneurial fundamentals, sector-specific knowledge, and women’s empowerment perspectives, integrating practical tools, real-life case studies from women-led agrifood startups, and reflective learning elements.
- The food system: from farm to fork
- Become an innovator: generating ideas using the design thinking methodology
- Business Model Development and Strategy
- Financial literacy and legal basics
- Leveraging Technology and Data
- Networking and Communication
Outcome:
- Discuss the agrifood system from a women entrepreneur’s perspective, identifying opportunities across the food value chain and recognising their potential role and impact within it.
- Demonstrate entrepreneurial confidence and agency by recognising personal strengths while identifying the social and cultural barriers women have to face as (aspiring) entrepereneurs in the agrifood sector
- Develop an agrifood business idea by applying design thinking, business modelling and basic strategic tools to build a responsible, market-oriented and scalable early-stage venture.