Self-employed people from the Omsk region can participate in the "Mom Entrepreneur" women's business development project

The Omsk region continues accepting applications for an educational project for women who want to start their own business. The organizers announced this at a press conference.

On November 29, the federal educational program for the development of women's entrepreneurship "Mom Entrepreneur" will start in the Omsk region for the fourth time. Mothers who want to start their own business will be able to take training for free and gain knowledge in the field of management, finance and marketing.

Residents of the Omsk region who are on maternity leave or with minor children who are just planning to start their own business or have been running a business for no more than a year can apply. Applications for free training are accepted on the website mama-predprinimatel.ru until November 22, 2021. You need to fill out a questionnaire and describe your business idea in as much detail as possible. Next, the jury will select the 35 best applications, the authors of which will be invited to business training. In addition to basic knowledge in the field of entrepreneurship, each of them will have the opportunity to win a grant of 100,000 rubles for the implementation of their business idea from the Amway charitable Foundation "Responsible for the Future".

In the Omsk region, the program is supported by the Ministry of Economy of the Omsk Region, the Entrepreneurship Support Fund (My Business Center in Omsk) and the Omsk regional branch of OPORA Russia.

"According to the latest data from Omskstat, 40% of the region's individual entrepreneurs are women, which corresponds to the national average. This share was recently at the level of 35%. We see that the number of women who implement their business projects is increasing. This is primarily due to the fact that various barriers are being removed, and fears about your own business are disappearing. New support tools are emerging from the authorities, 4 years ago we launched the Mama Entrepreneur project, which has already become popular, and for the second year we have been implementing the program as part of the national project to support small and medium-sized businesses with the My Business center.  For many women, business is relevant precisely as a social business, social entrepreneurship in our region has been developing for a long time and the majority of those who implement social projects are women. Therefore, we suggest that the participants of the Mama Entrepreneur project register as a social entrepreneur: starting this year, grants of up to 500 thousand rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for their projects. Come to us for additional support measures," the First Deputy Minister of Economy of the Omsk region addressed the participants.Denis Kushner.

Over the course of five days (from November 29 to December 3, 2021), the participants will go through the entire path of a young entrepreneur: from learning the basics to developing and presenting their own business plan. Classes for moms will be held daily in a full-time format in compliance with all sanitary and epidemiological standards and social distance in the building of the My Business center.

The course coach will teach the project participants the necessary minimum: finding a niche and developing a product concept, the basics of marketing and promotion, financial and legal nuances of doing business. At the end of the program, each participant will present their business plan for the competition and the best idea will be funded by the Amway Foundation.

"It is very important that now the self-employed can apply for participation in the project, in addition, those participants who have already been trained under the Mom Entrepreneur project earlier can also participate in the program this year, but with an updated business project," said the chairman of the Committee for the Development of Women's Entrepreneurship of the regional branch. OPORA RUSSIA, Head of the Mom Entrepreneur project in OmskEkaterina Vakhrusheva.

According to Ekaterina, 36 applications have already been received from potential participants. The organizers also decided to introduce another innovation this year - now, during the training, the participants will visit the enterprises of the winners of the Mom Entrepreneur project from previous years. The winner of last year's project is still talking about the program with excitement and trepidation.

"Participation in the project gave an impetus to the realization of my idea. The project has become a powerful engine for all the participants, the girls and I communicate, regardless of who won and who lost. All the girls are moving forward and continuing to implement their ideas, it's great, I have nothing but words of gratitude to the project," she admitted.Oksana Ivanova, who won in 2020 with the project "Makeup School".

You can apply for participation this year until November 22, 2021 here: https://mama-predprinimatel.ru/application.