Currently only 1 in 3 small, medium and large businesses are owned by women, varying across regions from 18% in South Asia to 50% in Latin America & Caribbean.

Advancing women entrepreneurship changes the lives of women and girls by helping them break the gender biases in the communities and changing perceived social norms on gender. Women entrepreneurs create income for their families, which translate into better education for the children and better health and housing conditions for the whole family. They create employment for their communities and women businesses tend to employ more women employees and workers. Finally, they bring new values to product and services, they are innovators. Entrepreneurship helps women build a socio-economic environment that empowers them economically and protects them from sexual and gender-based violence.

Our intent is to boost entrepreneurship and contribute to its worldwide development through education, allowing participants to understand the ecosystem in which they operate, start-up and grow their businesses and integrate into the regional and global supply chains.

For 2 months, October 3rd to November 30th, the seminar will provide participants with academic materials such as research papers, case studies, as well as pre-recorded lectures by professionals in each of the six modules; to examine the different phases of a business from the conception of an idea to how to make it tangible. Throughout the program participants will attend 2 live sessions with experts, academics, and industry leaders in the lifestyle industry.
Materials will remain available for participants until December 18th.

The seminar will also have three separate chapters with some content in Spanish directed at the LATAM and Spain Chapters that focus on those specific business contexts.

UN Women is the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. A global champion for women and girls, UN Women was established to accelerate progress on meeting their needs worldwide. UN Women supports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to ensure that the standards are effectively implemented and truly benefit women and girls worldwide. It works globally to make the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals a reality for women and girls and stands behind women’s equal participation in all aspects of life. UN Women also coordinates and promotes the UN system’s work in advancing gender equality, and in all deliberations and agreements linked to the 2030 Agenda. The entity works to position gender equality as fundamental to the Sustainable Development Goals, and a more inclusive world.

The Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator (WEA) is a multi-stakeholder partnership on women’s entrepreneurship convening 6 United Nations agencies (ILO, ITC, ITU, UNDP, UNGC and UN Women) and Mary Kay Inc. to empower 5 million women entrepreneurs by 2030. The ultimate goal of the initiative is to maximize the development impact of women entrepreneurship in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by creating an enabling ecosystem for women entrepreneurs around the world. The Accelerator exemplifies the transformational power of a multi partnership of unique magnitude to harness the potential of women entrepreneurs.

mindway is born in 2007 when online education was still taking its first steps. We are pioneers in creating an agile experience in online learning to reinvent the way things are done. We created a new methodology to assist universities in developing the best and most interactive and dynamic programs. We collaborate with prestigious universities worldwide, and we define the most relevant areas of knowledge for today’s professionals.

SDGs represent the priorities of the global community regarding human development as well as actions for the public and private sectors to realize economic, social, environmental development and well-being. The role of women in entrepreneurship, management and corporate governance has been regarded as central to successful sustainable development and welfare of economies.

Catalyzing women’s entrepreneurship and economic empowerment will accelerate the achievement of the SDGs, especially SDG 5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.

Entrepreneurship is one of the main pathways for women’s economic empowerment and equality, which can in turn have a “multiplier effect” on family well-being, poverty reduction (SDG1), inclusive and equitable quality education (SDG5), sustainable economic growth (SDG8), industry, innovation and resilient infrastructure (SDG9), reducing inequalities (SDG10), climate action (SDG13) and strengthening partnership for sustainable development (SDG17).

During this edition, ELLE Education x mindway will be holding an entrepreneurship contest open to anyone that wishes to join from anywhere in the world.

The contest consists of students presenting their entrepreneurial project before a jury where two winners will be chosen for first and second place, per chapter.

Winning Prizes:

What are the admission requirements?

This seminar is accessible by all individuals worldwide with access to the internet, they just have to provide their willingness to learn!

To sign up you must click on “register now” on the right hand side of this page.

What certification will I receive after completion?

All participants receive a completion certificate issued by ELLE Education x mindway, ELLE Education, UN Women and The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard University.

Who are the guest speakers?

• Academics and researchers experts in their domains 
• Business leaders who want to share their vision  
• Public bodies explaining their work in sustainability, entrepreneurship and innovation 
• Entrepreneurs of the lifestyle industries who have set up new and innovative business models Pioneering educational institutions

Who is this seminar for?

• Professionals of all the lifestyle industries interested in understanding the current business context. 
• Aspiring entrepreneurs who want to learn how to lead their businesses. 
• Students with an interest in learning
• Any individual with an interest in entrepreneurship