GIMED: The Green Impact Med Project – Positive Investments for Positive Impacts
The development of a green economy in the Mediterranean area to combat environmental degradation represented an excellent opportunity for job creation, particularly for young graduates and women who were three times less likely to be employed than men.
Strengthening eco-innovative entrepreneurship was a recognized solution, even though green ventures faced a complex set of challenges, including limited access to funding, underdeveloped markets, and fragmented support from sector stakeholders.
Entrepreneurs admitted to being unprepared and poorly supported concerning access to finance and markets, which called for the creation of GIMED to make an impact amid the lack of information, knowledge, and skills in the region.
GIMED’s primary goal was to support entrepreneurs, mainly young and women, to better access to finance and markets in the five Mediterranean countries.
On the ground, the project trained and coached eco-innovators and encouraged financiers to invest in the Mediterranean eco-innovation sector. In numbers, the project included 200 coaching sessions on access to finance and markets, 200 capacity-building initiatives on eco-design and green business modeling, and eight sub-grants.
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Duration
September 2019 – June 2022
Countries
Spain, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt and Italy
Partners
European Union, The European Neighborhood Instrument (ENI) CBCMED, and Regione Autonoma De Sardigna
Budget
€1m – €5m
News and Announcements
Nov 4 – One-to-one Coaching Assistant
Complementary support through one-to-one coaching sessions to GIMED early-stage ventures plays an integral role in ensuring that project participants receive all the needed support and assistance services needed. One-to-one coaching sessions aim at providing individualized training to GIMED participants in order to scale their businesses, fortify their business models, and facilitate their entrance into local and global markets.
One-to-one Coaching Assistants must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
Each two-hour one-to-one coaching session will demand for two hours of preparatory work and reporting.
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Nov 4 – Group Coaching Assistant
Complementary support and group coaching sessions to early-stage ventures play an integral role in ensuring that GIMED Participants receive all the support and assistance needed to successfully validate their ideas. Coaching is a key tool in the capacity-building element of the GIMED Project, ensuring that the individual needs of each participant are met.
Group coaching sessions aim to cover knowledge and advance skills that are applicable to all participants, with the ultimate goal of encouraging exchange of ideas and experiences within Project participants.
Group Coaching Assistants must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
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Sep 17 – Expert Coach – Group Coach
Complementary support and group coaching sessions to early-stage ventures play an integral role in ensuring that GIMED Participants receive all the support and assistance needed to successfully validate their ideas. Coaching is a key tool in the capacity-building element of the GIMED Project, ensuring that the individual needs of each participant are met.
Group coaching sessions aim to cover knowledge and advance skills that are applicable to all participants, with the ultimate goal of encouraging exchange of ideas and experiences within Project participants.
Coaches must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
Each two-hour group-coaching session will demand for two hours of preparatory work and reporting.
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Sep 17 – Expert Coach – One-to-One Coaching
Complementary support through one-to-one coaching sessions to GIMED early-stage ventures plays an integral role in ensuring that project participants receive all the needed support and assistance services needed. One-to-one coaching sessions aim at providing individualized training to GIMED participants in order to scale their businesses, fortify their business models, and facilitate their entrance into local and global markets.
Coaches must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
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April 18 – Startup Selection
Twenty three green solutions from Palestine have been selected to join a capacity building programme to turn their ideas into successful green businesses. Entrepreneurs will build their circular-economy business models and gain new skills and connections to improve access to market and access to finance – Learn more.
March 29 – Certified Facilitator Workshop
Identification of Certified Green Trainers (Expert Workshop Facilitators) who will conduct capacity building workshops that comply with the methodology that is to be provided by Leaders International to early-stage GIMED Participants.
Expert workshop Facilitators are responsible for giving GIMED participants the necessary training to establish and manage their green businesses. The intensive training program provided through the workshops is meant to allow GIMED participants the necessary skills-base and comprehensive knowledge to be able to operate a green business whilst understanding local market needs.
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January 19 – Expert Coach One – to – One Coaching
Complementary support and one-to-one coaching sessions with the ideation-stage entrepreneurs play an integral role in ensuring that entrepreneurs receive all the support and assistance needed to successfully validate their ideas. Coaching is a key tool in the capacity-building element of the GIMED Project, ensuring that the individual needs of each participant are met.
Coaches must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
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January 19 – Certified Trainer workshop facilitator
Workshop Facilitators are responsible for giving GIMED participants the necessary training to establish and manage their green businesses. The intensive training program provided through the workshops is meant to allow GIMED participants the necessary skills-base and comprehensive knowledge to be able to operate a green business whilst understanding local market needs.
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January 19 – Expert Coach Group Coaching
Complementary support and group coaching sessions with the ideation-stage entrepreneurs play an integral role in ensuring that entrepreneurs receive all the support and assistance needed to successfully validate their ideas. Coaching is a key tool in the capacity-building element of the GIMED Project, ensuring that the individual needs of each participant are met.
Coaches must have comprehensive knowledge and experience in providing complimentary support services to new business, alongside a solid background in green entrepreneurship.
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November 22 – GIMED is currently accepting applications in Palestine.
GIMED project, funded by the EU, supports green entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean by fostering job creation and economic growth, particularly among young and women entrepreneurs. It strives to boost the development of eco-innovative ventures in order to create employment and drive the green and circular economy in the region.
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