CALLE CRISTOBAL BORDIÚ 54
28003 MADRID
Spain
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The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Spain belongs to a network of 81 Italian Chambers in 55 countries all over the world. The network can count on 25,000 members and 300,000 affiliates, many of which are based in EU countries. This extensive network gives us indirect access to the target group because we can utilize its resources and databases to contact potential entrepreneurs via email and phone. its headquarter is in Madrid, it counts with 10 staff employed. the main funds that we have came from events, partners, sponsors, italian ministry contribution. Our incomes of the last year, 2013, were around 1.400.000€.
The Italian Chamber of Commerce in Spain (CCIS) has practical experience in projects related to entrepreneurship mobility, entrepreneurship support, cross-border cooperation, and enhancement of business collaboration.
CCIS belongs to the European Chambers council, Madrid, that represents the European Chambers Of commerce in Madrid, and organizes events like European Business Drinks, or Innovation Breakfasts attended by representatives of main stakeholders interested in foster entrepreneurship and SMEs. From 2001 organize in collaboration with Madrid Chamber of Commerce a prize for Italian and Spanish entrepreneurs that have improved trade relationship between Italy and Spain. The training department organizes like intermediary organization mobility under the framework of LLP programme, Leonardo VET, and now Erasmus +, KA1, and other mobility programmes direct to young people in VET such as national or local actions in Italy or Spain, 2000 , organizing 200-300 successful exchange per year. MAIN TASKS: finding hosting enterprises in Italy and Spain, or in the countries where the networks CCIS belongs are present, organize travel and accommodation, monitor internship, organize Spanish or Italian language courses for the trainees, evaluate the exchange and prepare Europass.
• Managed and led the WEM project, a project for aspiring women entrepreneurs in Madrid. The project was a weeklong crash course intended to teach women necessary concepts and skills needed to become a successful entrepreneur. The CCIS developed and organized the material to be taught, found appropriate participants, and taught the course. The subjectstaught were: Personal Communication Skills, Leadership, Creativity, Time Management, Negotiation, Marketing, Business Plan and Development, Legal Framework, Financial Management, English, and Information and Communication Technology (ITC). At the end of the course, we had the women fill out anonymous questionnaires to assess the quality of the course and the impact it had on them. Based on the positive responses, it was evident that the women had a great time and that they had learned a lot.
We want to spread the network and its activities, thanks to several actions, such as training courses, seminars, conferences, informing our partners. we can count with many partners, like private and public bodies, fundations, Smes, so it will be very easy for us to boost the network and its main activities. we also have mailing list, we can exploit social networks.
we would like to join the network because we want a support to create a ground where citizens can collaborate to build suitable conditions for the social and economic growth.
we belive that the knowledge of other culture can contribute to the development of a society.