EU|BIC Essentials Training: Deep Dive People – Business Mentoring – EBN

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Entrepreneurship mentoring is a key dimension EU|BICs and other Entrepreneurial Support Organisations (ESOs) integrate into their programme and service portfolio. It plays a crucial role in unleashing the entrepreneurial potential of their clients through dedicated personal and professional advice and support.

During this training, we will understand the role of entrepreneurship mentors and advisors and investigate different mentorship programmes and tools developed/implemented by EU|BICs. We will also investigate how to create and manage inter-regional mentoring schemes and their impact on local, regional and national innovation ecosystems.

In this session, we will delve into:

Training | INSPIRE. GUIDE. TEACH. The role of Mentors, Advisors and Coaches and the art of integrating them in incubation and acceleration programmes.

Trainer: Carlos César Yammal, Innovos Group

Mentors’ identikit: Who are mentors? How do they differentiate from a coach or a business advisor? Where can they be found? How do they align to the broader incubator strategy?

How to build a mentoring programme? Defining the scope, structure, recruitment, financial model, and impact assessment of a successful mentorship programme.

Best practices & Peer Learning | MENTORING SCHEMES & TOOLS from the EU|BIC Community

business mentor madri+d: International Quality Mentoring Certification

Expert: Eduardo Diaz, EU|BIC madrid+d Foundation

Do you want to identify the knowledge and skills needed in effective Quality Mentoring for Entrepreneurs? Eduardo Diaz will guide us through the accreditation scheme madrid+d Foundation implements since 2006 to effectively boost the work of Mentor of Entrepreneurs or Manager of Entrepreneurship Support Programmes, implementing a proven work methodology and acquiring new skills to facilitate and manage more effective Mentoring Relationships.

From PLATINN Programme to Ynovate Platform: the evolution of the Czech innovation experts’ network

Experts: Lenka Gábrišová , EU|BIC JIC and Philipp Roden, EU|BIC Lipo.ink

They will take us through the steps that brought the Czech innovation ecosystem to connect and collaborate under the Ynovate Platform. Bringing entrepreneurs together with experts and mediating consultations or mentoring is an essential service provided by innovation agencies: under Ynovate, Czech innovation agencies share contacts providing a lot wider range of know-how to ensure clients get the very support they need. Lenka will focus on how the different regional agencies share, connect and manage a wide network of mentors and experts, while Philipp will tell the specific experience of Lipo.ink and the way the mentoring dimension was a cornerstone of the development of the overall EU|BIC strategy and programmes.

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Schedule

13.45-13.55 Check in and intro EBN Staff (Moderator and EBN CEO)

13:55-14:05 Inspirational talk

14:05-14:50 Mentor identikit + Mentoring programme

14:50-15:00 Breath, stretch, drink, pause

15:00-15:15 Mentoring Scheme 1 > business mentor madrid+d

15:15-15:30 Mentoring Scheme 2 > PLATINN & Ynovate JIC and Lipo.ink

15:30-15:55 Peer Learning Session

15:55-16:00 Conclusions

The take-aways from this session are:

Clear understanding of the role of business mentors, coaches and advisors.

A roadmap to define and integrate mentoring schemes in the incubator strategy.

Hands-on exposure to EUBIC –deployed mentoring tools and programmes

Experts

Carlos César Yammal, President of Innovos Group

P.h.D in Chemical Sciences (UNC), Fulbright Scholar and Magister in Business Administration (MBA), specialized in Management Consulting (University of Maryland), César is an expert in Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. César is experienced in the design, coordination, implementation, supervision and evaluation of development and investment projects in the areas of science, technology and productive innovation, covering both technical and fiduciary aspects. President of Innovos Group S.A. and professional in international individual consultancies, he is involved in a range of multidisciplinary teams and experts from around the world. He has field experience in more than twenty countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Oceania, and Eastern Europe.

Eduardo Díaz, Head of Entrepreneurship Unit at Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

Eduardo, physicist from the University of Salamanca and MBA from IE is an expert in the management of R&D, Innovation and Technology-Based Entrepreneurship. He is currently Director at the madri+d Foundation´s Entrepreneur Support Area with technology-specialized incubation and acceleration programs (ESA BIC Madrid Region, healthstart, cleantechstart). Quality Mentoring is promoted through its madri+d Mentoring Network and its businessmentor certification, and the search for funding through its Business Angel Network BAN madri+d. Startup Radar Platform facilitates access to the Regional Startup Ecosystem. With more than 25 years experience in managing programs related to European, National and Regional Public Policies, Eduardo has been, among others, Strategy Consultancy Manager at Socintec, University Lecturer and Software Engineer in the electronics and aeronautical sectors.

Lenka Gábrišová, Empowering Expert Network at JIC

Lenka has been working at JIC in various positions since 2011. JIC create globally successful companies in over twenty years. For the last two years, Lenka has been empowering the JIC expert network and in September 2024 she also took responsibility for the development of the shared expert network Ynovate, which is the biggest expert network in Central Europe. Ynovate is a network of 13 innovation agencies from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, that support the creation and development of Innovative, ambitious and sustainable businesses by finding synergies, working directly with entrepreneurs and sharing contacts.

Philipp Roden, Director at Lipo.ink

Philipp is the Founding Director of Lipo.ink – a publicly funded business incubator in the Czech Republic. He has been working in management consulting since 2005. Among other, he spent 7 years with Korn Ferry, a global organizational consulting firm, where he helped building up the Prague office as well as the EMEA Headquarter in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2014 he joined Jablotron, a leading Czech technology group, to lead multiple change and development projects. In 2017 he became the first employee of Lipo.ink. A native Czech who grew up in Germany, Philipp has worked with individuals and organizations across the globe. He has advised clients from all types of industries as well as development stages – start-ups, SME, multinational corporations and government institutions.

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