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5th European Microfinance Day : Empowering Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs

Masters Programme on European Microfinance 2019-2020

Call for Expression of Interest

We're hiring a Project & Administrative Assistant

27 - 29 November 2019

In
Bertinoro, Italy

Microfinance Boot Camp 3.0

Event Training
30 September - 2 December 2019

M-up Labs

Event Training
20 October 2019 (00:00 - 23:00 CEST)

5th European Microfinance Day : Empowering Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs

Event European Microfinance Day

European Commission

Social Economy Missions

Background

In February 2018, the European Commission launched the European Social Economy Regions (ESER) pilot, in order to raise awareness and foster networking among social economy stakeholders at regional and local levels. This successful initiative has attracted more than 80 regions and cities to the 2018 and 2019 editions of ESER.

Action Finance Initiative

Greek Microfinance Market Study

Action Finance Initiative (AFI) is a civil non-profitable company, operating in Greece since 2014, and founded by ActionAid Hellas and ADIE, a French microcredit institution with over 25 years of experience. Currently, its main activities are:

European Microfinance Network (EMN)

ImpaktEU Project

The Call

The European Microfinance Network (EMN) and the Microfinance Centre (MFC) are seeking a management company already active in the financing of microfinance and social enterprises in Europe to support the design, set-up and management of a new investment platform targeting unmet demand, particularly small microfinance providers and social financial intermediaries in Europe. The project is called ImpaktEU.

Deadline : 15 October 2019

Microfinance Barometer 2019

Publication Papers

Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report 2016-2017 - Peer Group Analysis

Publication Microfinance overview surveys

Exploring the impact of voluntary business mentoring on young entrepreneurs

Publication Papers

Assessing Financing, Innovation and Growth Linkage: New Evidence for Policy

Publication EMN Working papers

Analysis of the Strategy of Microfinance for Financial Inclusion of Refugees

Publication EMN Working papers

What we do

Advocacy

The development of microfinance in Europe has encountered many legal and political obstacles. It is therefore important that the European Microfinance Network be strongly involved in advocacy on a wide range of issues related to microfinance, micro-enterprises, social and financial exclusion, self-employment and employment creation.

Helpdesk

Do you have a question about financial inclusion in the EU? Want to know more about EU financial instruments for microfinance programs? Looking for recent access to financial research initiatives? Are you curious to find out how the European Code of Conduct works? We have answers for you!

Webinars

One of the many functions of the European Microfinance Network (EMN) is to organise debates and webinars addressing a wide range of subjects pertinent to microfinance in Europe. These activities are a chance to foster an exchange of ideas among different partners, and contribute to spreading knowledge of microfinance throughout Europe.

Peer-to-Peer Visits

The peer-to-peer exchange visits, exclusively intended for EMN members, provide each EMN member with the opportunity to visit another member on a specific theme, in order to deepen the understanding of their work, to encourage exchange of good practices and to develop expertise. These bilateral exchanges, tailor-made to members' needs and expectations, also facilitate cooperation and collaboration between EMN members.

Working Groups

EMN organises Working Groups to strengthen the involvement of its members in the Network. The activities carried out by the different Working Groups are very diverse: organisation of workshops, elaboration of research papers, publications, creation of new tools for microfinance management, etc.

Annual Conference

The organisation of the Annual Conference is EMN’s main activity. Every year since 2004, we have organised this major meeting. Today, our conferences bring together around 300 participants with varying backgrounds, attract sponsors and investors along with EU representatives, and are a wonderful experience for information exchange and networking for everyone interested in European microfinance!

European Microfinance Day

The European Microfinance Day initiative was launched in 2015 as a tool to highlight the impact of the microfinance sector in Europe from a social and an economic perspective.

Become an EMN member association

Get access to other members' financial data
Participate in and create working groups
Find your peers by expertise, geographic area
Organise and attend microcredit events
Promote your publications and calls for proposals

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