3rd edition of Llançadora, scholarships for entrepreneurship

6 November 2024

Autoocupació promotes the third edition of “Llançadora, scholarships for entrepreneurship”, an innovative project for maturing business ideas through the Dual Occupational vocational training program, subsidized by the Catalonia Employment Service. You can consult the participants of the first edition here. The program’s objective is to help 39 entrepreneurs from Barcelona, Girona, and Tarragona, aged between 18 and 29 and currently unemployed, to mature their business ideas, test them in the market, and create their companies.
  Llançadora offers participants the following services: 1. Scholarships for entrepreneurship An employment contract, under the alternating training modality, with a duration of one year, which will allow them to earn a salary and have the necessary resources to dedicate themselves full-time to working on their business project.   2. Training A face-to-face training itinerary, with a total duration of 540 hours, which will help them develop their technical and transversal competencies in the following areas:
  • Planning the entrepreneurial initiative
  • Entrepreneurial competencies
  • Marketing of products and services
  • Sales skills
  • Administrative and economic-financial management
  • Business activity management
  3. Coworking A workspace at Autoocupació’s facilities in Barcelona, where they will have the resources and tools necessary to develop their business project and actively collaborate with the other participants.   4. Support Guidance and advice from the maturation of the idea to the creation of the company, provided by a consultant specialized in business creation, and additional support from an established entrepreneur as a volunteer mentor once the activity has started.   The activities will begin in January 2025 and will last for 1 year.  

If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible by completing this form.

 

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