National Projects
African Business
SIFE Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
To make university students more conscious about the problems related to doing business in development countries and the ethical aspects concerning this topic, SIFE Groningen will organize a lecture about entrepreneurship in Africa in May 2008. The lecture will be followed by a workshop about SIFE.
BigMamma - Taking Care
SIFE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Bigmamma helps young people to create the world of tomorrow by empowering their actions in different organisations. The project will try to create an overview of the different youth groups and organisations active in Europe and empower youth actions and motivate people to look beyond borders: all to let them have a bigger impact in the process towards a more sustainable world. On this international platform all youth organisations in Europe that work for a more sustainable future are represented. Main outcome of the bigmamma project is an interactive website where you can easily find organisations and projects, share information and connect to like-minded people beyond borders for inspiration and project ideas. New initiatives and projects can be started in only a few mouse clicks. For more information please contact Anne Walraven.
Center of Amsterdam Schools of Entrepreneurship
SIFE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in cooperation with SIFE Universiteit van Amsterdam
SIFE was contacted by the Amsterdam Center for Entrepreneurship (associated with the University of Amsterdam) to contribute to the brand new and ambitious CASE project. CASE stands for Center of Amsterdam Schools of Entrepreneurship and is a cooperation between University of Amsterdam (UvA), Vrije Universiteit (VU), Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA) and INHOLLAND in order to coordinate all offered educational initiatives around the topic of entrepreneurship, to give an impuls to the entrepreneurial climate in Amsterdam. CASE is a 4-10 year project and has a budget of more than 6 million euros. For more information contact Douwe Dronkert.
Coaching
SIFE Universiteit Leiden
Many starting entrepreneurs find the starting phase very difficult. The foundation SIFE Leiden has set up programme together with the chamber of commerce and the city of Leiden which offers coaches for these starting entrepreneurs. Initial results are great and the project is rapidly expanding.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
SIFE Wageningen Universiteit
Many farmers go bankrupt in The Netherlands because the production process is too expensive. We would like to help farmers who want to produce organic food to have a sustainable income by implementing Community Supported Agriculture in their business. The most important aspects of the CSA-structure are that there is a shared company risk and the farmers have a sustainable income. We want to bring the farmers in contact with established CSA-farmers and give workshops/seminars about CSA and business characters to students and practicing farmers. Currently we are taking our first steps and we already have contact with a farmer who is setting up a CSA-farm. We hope to help him with getting consumers and establishing an open- bookkeeping. The aim of the project is to assist this farmer with setting up a successful CSA-farm.
Fairtrade Gemeenten
SIFE Universiteit van Tilburg
To make Tilburg a ‘Fair-trade-city’ six criteria have to be accomplished. For example, there has to be an active workgroup, fair-trade products have to be sold in supermarkets and used in restaurants. In Tilburg there already was a workgroup working on this goal. We joined this workgroup and together with them we will do our best to make Tilburg a ‘Fair-trade-city’.
fanTAStisch
SIFE Universiteit Utrecht
In Utrecht the fanTAStisch team will help women to set up their own business in making and creating bags. The team will teach these women entrepreneurial skills and set up a course in making bags.
FUSAS
SIFE Universiteit Utrecht
The FUSAS team of Utrecht SIFE is helping former minor asylumseekers who have to return to their country of origin. The students teach these men and women how to start a new life with a business of their own.
Jong erbij
SIFE Universitieit van Amsterdam
A new developed project of SIFE UvA is aimed at young mothers in the age of 14 to 23. We offer financial literacy courses and interactive workshops to improve their changes on the labour market. We hope to make them financially independent en well organized, so that they can focus on raising their child. With this project we are creating chances for about 20 young mothers in the vicinity of Amsterdam.
Kleurrijk Brabant werkt
SIFE Universiteit van Tilburg
Entrepreneurship is popular among high school students but often they do not know what it is about. The main goal of this project is to educate high school students about entrepreneurship by giving them a look in the actual world of entrepreneurship. SIFE Tilburg is working together with the organization Palet to find out what is the best way to implement the project for these schools and eventually we will be responsible for the realisation of the project.
Minipreneurs
SIFE Universiteit Utrecht
Utrecht SIFE is currently teaching over forty young VMBO-students in Utrecht very the basics of entrepreneurship. The students initiate their own projects which should come out profitable. Whit that money the support the Payatas project of Utrecht SIFE.
Personal Financial Management project
SIFE Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
To avoid young people in the Netherlands getting into debts, SIFE Groningen is organizing a workshop about financial management for high school students in Groningen. The target group is about to go start studying at the university: SIFE Groningen will be preparing them for possible financial issues they might encounter.
SimEconomy
SIFE Stenden Hogeschool Drenthe
For our project SimEconomy, we work together with the German SIFE team from Münster. We go to Dutch schools and teach youngsters basic market economics. The students play a specially designed business simulation where they assume certain roles, for example factory owners or intermediaries. Through learning by doing, basic knowledge of market economics and negotiation skills are conveyed.