Mygrants is the first most used educational and assessment web-app by migrants and asylum seekers in Italy.
It is based on the microlearning and has a specific goal: to transform immigration into an opportunity, both for migrants and for host communities.
Developed specifically to provide more than 10,000 progressive thematic quiz modules, to validate and strengthen one’s formal, informal and non-formal skills, identify one’s interests, strengths and weaknesses up to recognizing further training needs, Mygrants facilitates daily the meeting between skills and professional profiles sought after by the labor market.
Today Mygrants, used by more than 386,000 registered traineessince its inception has identified 43,000 highly qualified people of which, thanks to Mygrants, 3,992 have found work.
The startup, founded by Chris Richmond N’zi and Aisha Coulibaly in 2017, has just closed registrations for the first edition of MygrantsDays Summer Editionthe training course dedicated to the most innovative business ideas and companies already active on the market.
The usual annual appointment of the Community di Mygrants which promotes and supports the contribution that young migrant entrepreneurs make to the growth and socio-economic development of the country doubles for the first time in conjunction with the World Refugee Day.
Four online workshops and a physical event to prepare participants to present their ideas and companies in front of a pool of incubators, accelerators and investors.
For the MygrantsDays Summer Edition will be selected four business ideas e four innovative companies (in this case already active), tech-based, with a high social impact and business-oriented operating in the following sectors: information, education, work, new technologies, financial services, health & well-being, welfare, transport & infrastructure, renewable energy (smart grids), food, augmented reality / gaming, cultural heritage, environment, fashion, agriculture, beauty, arts & creativity / entertainment, tourism & hospitality.
But why invest in migrant entrepreneurship? Migrants represent 3.6% of the world population, but generate 10% of world GDP.
In Italy, 1 company out of 10 is foreign-owned: we are talking about more than 600 thousand companies scattered throughout the Italian territory, proving to be a strongly consolidated element in the national entrepreneurial fabric (for a total of 10.5% – data updated as at 30 June 2021).
“The objective of the event is to support migrant-led businesses to identify new paths, new tools and new opportunities to grow, thrive and generate greater economic and social value for the reference communities – comments Chris Richmond N’zi – But also create healthy competition to identify the most promising founders and stimulate constant growth “.
At the end of the four workshops the young entrepreneurs, in the course of a physical event to be held in Bologna on June 18th (on the occasion of World Refugee Day), they will have the opportunity to present their pitch and discuss with advisors, investors, accelerators, who will make their experiences, best practices and advice available to them.
The workshops are divided into two branchesone dedicated to business ideas and the other intended for companies already active on the market.
For business ideas, the four workshops (the first scheduled for May 24, the others, to follow, May 31, June 7 and 14) will address issues related to how to generate a business idea and how to map solutions already existing; we will talk about markets, customer segments, the phases of a startup and the tools and metrics to choose from creating a pitch.
For companies already active (26 May, 1, 9 and 16 June) we will start by talking about investors, both the identification of their own futures and those who work with competitors; we will talk about financial and social metrics, their representation, how to structure a deal flow, how to set up your investment plan and how to manage your current and future cap table in order to increase the probability of successfully closing the next fundraising .
The last stage of both routes is dedicated to presentation of your idea or businesshow to illustrate it and how to answer investor questions.