RediStar: Start-up Support and Promotion
Strengthening Mainstream Start-up Support Structures through a Diversity-Sensitive Approach
Project Description
The RediStar project aims to improve access to qualification and training programmes within publicly funded start-up support services for women with migration experience. It focuses on the transition into self-employment and examines the non-formal educational sector of entrepreneurship and start-up support.
The educational phase under consideration is situated in the pre-start-up stage and typically follows vocational training, periods of unemployment, or the migration process itself. These programmes are usually offered through mainstream public support structures, such as chambers of industry and commerce, economic development agencies, or universities. During this phase, women with migration experience encounter a variety of barriers and face a double risk of disadvantage: on the one hand due to gender, and on the other due to their positioning as persons with a migration background.
Within a research–practice partnership, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, together with the migrant organization Migrafrica e.V. and additional migrant organizations, as well as public support institutions, will conduct an intersectional analysis of the barriers faced by women with migration experience who are interested in starting a business.
The findings will be translated into diversity- and gender-sensitive professional knowledge and will inform the joint development of training formats as well as more sustainable forms of cooperation among all participating stakeholder groups.
Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences will develop the scientific foundations for the intersectional analysis of barriers affecting aspiring entrepreneurs with migration experience and create a conceptual framework for diversity- and gender-sensitive professional practice. Migrafrica will be responsible for implementation and will develop training and workshop concepts. Both partners are committed to close collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange in order to effectively connect research and practice.
Organisations
Subproject: Analysing Contexts, Identifying Barriers, and Activating Resources
Hochschule Niederrhein – University of Applied Sciences
Subproject: Strong in Self-Employment – Promoting Entrepreneurial Pathways for Migrant Women through Collaboration
Sponsors
The project “Meta-project Migration, Integration, and Participation in Education” is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education, Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth and the European Union through the European Social Fund Plus (ESF Plus) as part of the “Integration through Education” program.
