An excellent example of this is our partnership with Girl MOVE Academy, a Leadership and Social Innovation Academy, based in Mozambique, focused on the empowerment of a new generation of women changemakers, turning them into agents for change and impact of their country and the world, breaking the women’s planned cycle of poverty by empowering a new generation of female changemakers through mentorship and sisterhood circles between different generations. 

Girl MOVE Academy is a place where girls and young women find the opportunities to play an active role in their community, society and economy. Girl MOVE tackles one of the reasons why it’s so hard for women to get such opportunities: the absence of role models. With an innovative mentorship methodology sat on female changemaker role models, promoting their connection and talent multiplication through Sisterhood Circles that boost, leverage and nurture new impact models and are keen on expanding and impacting communities. These circles are the safe places where Mozambican Girls from the 7th grade, university leaders and graduated young women changemakers find such new models of reference and mutually activate and motivate themselves, boosting their talent, voices, plans and careers, elevating each other to a new level. 

CATÓLICA-LISBON has been working closely with Girl MOVERS, providing Executive Training in social innovation and entrepreneurship to these graduated women, contributing to activate and develop their talent as changemakers. CATÓLICA-LISBON also co-creates and develops training & inspirational events with the Girl MOVE Academic team, such as the initiative “34 ao cubo” – that brought together 34 Girl MOVERS, 34 Leaders and 34 Católica University Students to design and develop solutions aligned with the SGGs – or the event “Different Stories Coming Together as One” to raise girls’ voices and causes, connecting them with international leaders.  

More recently CATÓLICA-LISBON also participated in the Girl MOVE Academy international initiative called ’30 min to Power Change’ in which Girl MOVERS connect with world leaders to reflect and discuss a new leadership paradigm towards a sustainable world. Isabel Capeloa Gil (Rector of UCP and President of the International Federation of Catholic Universities) and Filipe Santos (dean of CATÓLICA-LISBON) were special guests invited to join this insightful and impactful conversation.

CATÓLICA-LISBON initiatives with Girl MOVE are transforming these empirical results into effective strategies, solutions and impact. 
We invite you to be part of this MOVEment that is lifting humanity by joining us here. 

 

The Women Entrepreneurship Award (WEA) is bestowed by the Center for Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CTIE) and wants to recognise a Portuguese female CEO, Founder or Co-Founder or entrepreneur of any nationality with a project created in Portugal who stands out for her current contribution and vision of the future.

The winner of the Women Entrepreneurship Award will have access to an Advanced Program of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (or another equivalent program) at the Católica Lisbon School of Business & Economics, a personalised media training, mentoring from one of the jury members, as well as visibility in the media.


You are interested and want to know more about the Award before registering? You can download the rules and regulation document here and contact our team for assistance at ctie.clsbe@ucp.pt

We@Católica-Lisbon is a program of the CEA and the Catholic University of Portugal that aims to support female entrepreneurship. As a program open to all, its vocation is to combat economic inequality between genders.

With this free initiative, CATÓLICA-LISBON aims to provide women entrepreneurs with the necessary tools for their professional success and the success of their businesses.

It is, therefore, aimed at all women who have launched or are thinking of launching their own business.

For now, the program has three main pillars of action.

 

The first pillar is CAPACITY BUILDING.

And it is materialized in theme workshops with, e.g., the following themes: How do I develop a business plan? How do I know my client? How do I communicate my business? How do I use social media? How do I access Portugal2020 funds? How do I manage a negotiation? How do I improve my website? How do I enhance networking? How do I attract and manage my employees’ expectations? How do I control company costs? How do I internationalize my company? 

The purpose is for these workshops to have a strong practical component, since the main objective is that participants learn something very concrete that they can immediately put into practice.

 

The second pillar consists in the delivery of CONSULTING PROJECTS.

The Consulting Program aims to support women entrepreneurs by offering them consulting projects carried out by students and supervised by professors from this University.

All women who run, own, or partially own a business are eligible to apply for consulting projects in areas such as drafting of a Business Plan or a Marketing Plan, development of a digital communication strategy, development of an internationalization strategy, or launching of a new product.

Application deadlines for these projects are in September and February.

 

The third pillar is the BACK-TO-MARKET Program

The main goal of the Back-to-Market Program is to support female alumni of the Catholic University of Portugal to re-enter the job market.

This program is based on the desire to help women who have had, for various reasons, to interrupt their professional activity and who currently find it difficult to reintegrate the job market, either for lack of a network of contacts, or for lack of recent professional experiences to add to their CVs. The challenge will be, for a period of 3 months, to integrate a consulting project, in real companies and accompanied by professors from the University. Those interested should send their intentions of application to cea@ucp.pt, indicating the reference "Back-to-market program".