A description of the Imageen Partnership - EU programme focused on best practice on enterprise development.

1. IMAGEEN Turin September 2011 Paul Hanna Director Economic Development & Programmes

2. What I will cover Imageen - Partners -Approaches The Birmingham Experience Key themes and next steps

3. Improvement of Methodologies and Governance of European Entrepreneurship Network (IMAGEEN) Three year programme to Identify and benchmark best practice in developing Entrepreneurship across the partnership. Explore how this best practice can be transferred to each partner and the wider EU. Develop a range of materials which are available to both policy makers and local practitioners in how to influence and implement these approaches locally.

4. The Partners Birmingham Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Group Gothenburg Business Region Gothenburg Granada County Council of Granada Lyon Lyon Chamber of Commerce and Industry Munich The City of Munich – Department of Labour and Economic Development Turin Province of Turin Warsaw The City of Warsaw

5. Partner Approaches Gothenburg Mind your own Business / Expedition Forward Granada Working in rural communities, taking the support out to the people who need it most Lyon LVE building an integrated network of quality assured Business Support Specialists Munich Diana will tell you more in her presentation Turin MIP network of start up support Warsaw Network of local information points across the city and access to start up finance

6. Birmingham Case Study Stimulating Enterprise through Coaching The Problem High Levels of Unemployment Low levels of Entrepreneurship in key communities Low take up of the existing mainstream Start- Up provision

7. Birmingham Case Study Stimulating Enterprise through Coaching The Solution Engaging with people in their local communities. Building individuals confidence in their business idea through 1:1 coaching Supporting them into the mainstream provision and helping them make the best of the support on offer.

8. Imageen Key themes to emerge so far. Similar initiatives developing across the partnership Engagement at a local level Work with the networks that already exist Access to low cost finance is critical

9. Next Steps Partner meetings Turin and Granada Development of good practice guide Present the guide and findings to the wider EU policy makers.

10. Finally Thank you to the European Union ERDF and Interreg IVC for supporting and partly financing the project. All newsletters, partner programmes and information can be found at WWW.imageen.eu

11. Questions

12. Imageen Partners visit Turin September 2011