WOMEN IN BUSINESS Fostering the Young Women Entrepreneurship in the Danube Region

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Discover our 27 inspiring young women entrepreneurs and learn their stories for business success!

Claudia Pressnitz, owner of "Coaching Pressnitz", Austria, feels the need to support people in their professional development and to increase their quality of life by doing a job that they enjoy and that challenges and promotes them....

Theresa Imre, Managing Director of "Markta", Austria, is a young dynamic and very successful businesswoman with currently 10 employees (www.markta.at)....

Isabella Hold, CEO and founder of the online shop BabyBox by MAMABO, Austria, admits that the first challenge was in her head and deciding whether she really wanted to take the risk or not....

Sandra Jelin - Kadrić, founder of "TORTE i to", Bosnia and Herzegovina, decided to leave the secure job at the public sector where she had a great perspective of professional development and to start new, undefined and unsecure business in private sector with no previous knowledge of running your own business.....

Zana Karkin, owner of "Retail - Concept Store", Bosnia and Herzegovina, dreamt of running her own business ever since she started with her university studies, but admits she hasn't had the courage to do it alone....

Ajla Fijuljanin, E-commerce (Design, Manufacturing, Marketing), Bosnia and Herzegovina, never needed or asked for institutional help, and always managed to get what she needed using her knowledge and network of people...

Ivelina Atanasova, founder and owner of DigitalKidz, Bulgaria, puts passion and personal attitude in the things she creates.....

Militsa Dimitrova, founder of MiliArt, Bulgaria, admits that she has to learn quite a lot about glass melting and processing, but that helped her to grow a business in the field of art glass.....

Milena Georgieva, founder of EOS 2013 Ltd, Bulgaria, has grown into a family of entrepreneurs, and since she has developed a kind of thinking having a strong family role model.....

Sania Drakulic, founder and CEO in DuartEuropeanActorsPlatform, Croatia, most often faced problems because of her youth.....

Nina Cerovec, founder and CEO in Eventour Ltd., Croatia, is a mother of three children who managed to turn her hobby into successful business.....

Adrijana Jarnijak, co-founder of Pixel industry ltd., Croatia, never wanted to be somebody's employee....

Lena Mohr, founder of Cocktails & Code, Germany, is an entrepreneur, who started running her own business in order to find self-identification and get the recognition she wants....

Esther Arroyo, founder of The Chainless, Germany, thinks that Baden-Württemberg is a good region for startups to start their business. There are especially a lot of offers concerning networking possibilities for young startups.....

Kathrin Brenker, Optobiolabs, Germany, realized that women are underrepresented, especially on specific startup-events....

Dr. Mária Pados Csejtei, CEO and owner of Sanctus Kft. Accountant Office, Hungary, is a member of a Women Entrepreneur Club Association, and won the Business Women of the Year award in 2018.....

Rita Tóth, a personal and business consultant, Hungary, believes that most of the young women, who decide to work as an entrepreneur, only choose this option, because they don’t have other choice, or because their family maybe has their own business company.....

Victoria Novac-Hancu, CEO in EDUJOC Ltd., Republic of Moldova, promotes learning through playing, creativity and inventiveness....

Lilia Untu, Manager in Military SRL, Republic of Moldova, believes that the business environment in Moldova goes to a right direction, both young people and women ....

Nadejda Cornetel, Manager in BeSweet SRL, Republic of Moldova, received a support PAC II Programme of the World Bank....

Alina Daraban, founder and Manager in Gust de Casa SRL, Republic of Moldova, is a disabled woman who managed to set up and successfully developed business.....

Anca Maria Vladoi, Domeniul Vladoi, Romania, is a young entrepreneur who knows a lot about viticulture and making wine, a passion which was instilled in her from her father during her childhood....

Magda Bei, founder and CEO of Graphtec Design, Romania, says the after 5 years and 4 unsuccesful tries she found her professional path by starting Graphtec Design.....

Cristina Chiriac, Flori de ie, Romania, shares tha her dream project started from a simple idea, to dress a traditional shirt, handmade....

Nastja Verdnik is an owner of the first dog bakery in Slovenia "HOV - HOV"  where they bake healthy and natural pet food....

Katarina Utroša, owner of Katarinca-Natural Cosmetics, Slovenia, thinks that it is necessary to work on the self-esteem so that women can easily decide to go out of their routine...

Nina Kodrič, owner of design company Nina Kodrič s.p, Slovenia, notices that people in general have a lot of ideas, but they just keep them to themselves.....

Programme co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA, ENI)