Beta-i (Association for the Promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship) and Startup Weekend, a non-profit organization based in Seattle, USA, dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship, will perform in Portimão, in the Museum's cafeteria, on the 20,21th, 22st and XNUMXnd of July, a new edition of the Startup Weekend, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Portimão.
This is an international initiative that aims to support the creation of new companies and businesses, in one of the regions of the country most affected by the economic crisis, but at the same time with greater potential for creating new opportunities.
The objective of this initiative is to support the creation of new companies and businesses in the region of the country with the highest unemployment rate, but where there is simultaneously greater potential for business diversification and creation of new opportunities complementary to tourism.
It is an intensive weekend where participants learn, network, build bridges between various trades and show the result of their work. The Startup Weekend event has the support of mentors and speakers, experts and local, national and international entrepreneurs, from various areas.
Startup Weekend is above all a relaxed and informal event that aims to create an environment where people passionate about entrepreneurship can come together and put their ideas into practice.
Pedro Rocha Vieira president of Beta-i says: «we believe that the Startup Weekend in the Algarve is extremely important to foster the creation of new businesses in a region that has enormous economic potential. Remember that Tourism is one of the key sectors of the national economy, new projects are needed, differentiators, which bring greater added value and variety to the sector and in particular to the Algarve region, so this bet has had the support of the first hour of Portimão City Hall».
For the Municipality of Portimão, «fostering the area of entrepreneurship implies creating conditions for carrying out initiatives that promote an entrepreneurial spirit, in addition to facilitating a set of instruments aimed at empowering entrepreneurs. In this sense, Portimão Startup Weekend is a unique opportunity to support the transformation of ideas into businesses, developing the local business fabric».
Startup Weekend Portugal is part of Startup Weekend.org, which already has almost 500 events held in more than 170 cities around the world, surpassing 45.000 entrepreneurs and contributing to the creation of more than 5000 startups. In Portugal, since 2010, it has held several events in Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, having helped to create several startups, including Uniplaces.com, an online platform for renting rooms for university students and Table&Friends, a community online of people who meet at themed dinners.
Registration for the Portimão Startup Weekend is open to anyone interested in http://portimao.startupweekend.org, with special conditions for students.
This event has the local support of ETIC-Algarve and Inesting and the media partnership of Sul Informação.
CRIA- Regional Center for Innovation in the Algarve, the Academic Association of the University of Algarve, ANJE and NERA also joined in this initiative by supporting its dissemination to the community of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs and students in the Algarve.
About Beta-i:
Beta-i – Association for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is a non-profit association with the mission to innovate entrepreneurship; acts in 2 areas:
1) Inspiration – through events such as Silicon Valley Comes to Lisbon, Beta-Talks, among others;
2) Acceleration – through acceleration programs for start-ups such as Seedcamp Lisboa (1 day), Start Up Weekend (three days), and Beta-start (six weeks).
Beta-i seeks to identify and support entrepreneurs, actively contributing to the innovation of the very concept of entrepreneurship, based on a young culture, stimulated by visionary, passionate, optimistic, innovative, fulfilling people who, above all, have the values and attitudes of commitment to social change and sustainable and alternative economic development.
Beta-i currently has associates from the most diverse areas of activity, from managers, sellers and marketeers, physicists, engineers, and designers. All of them, in their most diverse backgrounds, constitute a heterogeneous group of innovation and entrepreneurship enthusiasts and find in Beta-i a way to affirm their civic intervention.
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