Deadline: 31-Jan-23
Do you have a project with a positive impact on the rural environment? Take advantage of the opportunity and present your application to the TalentA Program!
TalentA is a program that reflects the commitment of both organizations to promote the talent and entrepreneurship of women in rural areas, detecting the potential offered by the territory and boosting the local economy.
TalentA is a training and financing program for women entrepreneurs in rural areas who are working on projects in the agricultural or agri-food sector.
In this fourth edition, thanks to the participation of the Corteva Chair in Digital Agriculture and Sustainability of the University of Seville, a new category is included in the TalentA program to promote rural entrepreneurship by supporting university women who have an innovative agri-food project to develop in a rural setting. Specifically, this new category aims to provide these women with additional tools so that they can put their academic innovation projects related to agriculture into practice.
TalentA was born with the aim of supporting and making visible the talent and entrepreneurship of women in rural areas. In addition, in this 4th edition, in order to bring the program closer to a broader female audience, two categories are presented: Entrepreneurial Rural Woman , the original candidacy of the program, and Cátedra Corteva , a participation option for university women who are developing an initiative with a positive impact on the agricultural or agri-food sector. Review the bases of the initiative and introduce yourself in the option that best suits you!
Categories
The TalentA program will have two applications this year: a general category for professional women in the agricultural or agri-food sector, and a second aimed at female students who develop a project with an impact in this same field.
- Rural Women Entrepreneur Category
- They may be presented in the general candidacy of female entrepreneur to the 4th Edition of these awards
- Rural women entrepreneurs with projects in the agricultural or agri-food sector, developed in rural areas.
- That they are located in rural environments with no more than 20,000 inhabitants, except for the islands and rural neighborhoods or districts with more geographical dispersion.
- That they are projects that are in an initial phase of preparation and planning.
- That they are projects already underway in rural environments and that want to start a new line of business or improve the one they already have.
- Corteva Chair Category
- Any woman may be submitted to this new category of the 4th Edition of these awards:
- That they come from any university field in Spain (either Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Master’s), and are currently studying it or have done so in the last two years (2020-21 or 2021-22 academic year).
- Coming from any type of academic modality, as long as their project is linked to and has a positive impact on the agricultural or agri-food sector: be it agriculture, science, biology, engineering, architecture, communication, business…
- Therefore, the project must be related to the agricultural or agri-food sector, and must seek future development in rural areas
- That they are projects that need external support to be able to develop and that their purpose is to add value to the development of women in rural area
- Any woman may be submitted to this new category of the 4th Edition of these awards:
Award Information
- Your project may win professional advice and training, a visibility campaign, and even opt for an economic prize of €8,000.
- Rural Women Entrepreneur Category
- Cash prize of €8,000
- Access to Lanzadera de Emprendedoras Rurales RURALTIVITY, from FADEMUR, with a mentoring and training program throughout 2023. With this program, the winner of this category will have access to an online training program that will allow them to access digital, technological advice and entrepreneurship for your project, as well as other important aspects of the agricultural sector, such as participation in the local or social economy for its future development.
- Dissemination campaign of the winning project and visibility among associates,institutions, media and social networks.
- Two finalist projects:
- Access to the Rural Entrepreneurs Shuttle RURALTIVITY, from FADEMUR, with a mentoring and training program throughout 2023. (Like the winner of this category).
- Dissemination campaign of the finalist projects, visibility among associates institutions, media and social networks.
- Category Corteva Chair
- A winning project:
- Access to Lanzadera de Emprendedoras Rurales RURALTIVITY, from FADEMUR, with a mentoring and training program throughout 2023. With this program, the winner of this category will have access to an online training program that will allow them to access digital, technological advice and entrepreneurship for your project, as well as other important aspects of the agricultural sector, such as participation in the local or social economy for its future development.
- Dissemination and visibility campaign of the project among associates,institutions, media and social networks.
- Rural Women Entrepreneur Category
Valuation Criteria
- The main purpose of the TalentA program is to find projects that need external support to be able to overcome the barriers that women usually encounter in rural areas and, thus, continue betting on female talent in the agricultural sector. This fact will be taken into account in both categories. In addition, of the following aspects in the projects to decide the winning project.
- Criteria Women Entrepreneur Category
- Fight against depopulation. Population and masculinization index of the municipality in which the project is located.
- Impact and Sustainability:
- Environmental. Projects framed in the green economy and the circular economy, the conservation of biodiversity, the ecological transition of the economy.
- Economic: Contribution to the revitalization of the local economy, creation of synergies with other projects or sectors, impact on people and social sustainability
- Social: The impact on people and social sustainability will be assessed.
- Innovation and digital transformation. Technological, organizational or commercial, to give new answers to old problems.
- Economic empowerment. Women who drive it/work.
- Scalable or replicable. Possibility of growing or replicating in other areas.
- Corteva Chair Category Criteria
- They will be considered:
- The level of development and structuring of the project
- Knowledge and research process.
- The link of university studies with the agricultural or agri-food sector
- The direct impact that the project may have in this sector.
- The implementation of agricultural digitization as part of the project
- Likewise, the general criteria valued in the previous category will be taken into account:
- Fight against depopulation. Population and masculinization index of the municipality/region in which the project is sought to be located
- Impact and Sustainability:
- Environmental. Projects framed in the green economy and the circular economy, the conservation of biodiversity, the ecological transition of the economy.
- Economic: Contribution to the revitalization of the local economy, creation of synergies with other projects or sectors, impact on people and social sustainability.
- Social: The impact on people and social sustainability will be assessed.
- Innovation and digital transformation. Technological, organizational or commercial, to give new answers to old problems.
- Economic empowerment. Women who drive it/work.
- Scalable or replicable. Possibility of growing or replicating in other areas.
- They will be considered:
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