BITE Toolbox

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implement effective projects with limited resources. On the other hand, it guides local authorities
in delivering need-based and effective policies, programmes and funding schemes
that can work as a framework for other public and non-public stakeholders.
The toolbox follows the structure of the BITE project and presents evidence on how to reach
out to and select participants (chapter 1), how to implement business training (chapter 2),
how to provide continuous business mentoring and financial inclusion (chapter 3) and how
to communicate, disseminate and replicate projects and programmes (chapter 4). All chapters
outline how every task was structured under the BITE project and provide recommendations
on issues that could likely occur, on the coordination between project partners and
on the collaboration with key external stakeholder. An information box on how to conduct
a project/programme modelling (chapter 4) aims to support stakeholders in transferring
practice. The final annexes include templates that were used throughout the project.
To ensure reflexivity, every chapter features information on how the different BITE components
were addressed by external stakeholders. In particular, data on two projects having a
similar structure and timeframe was collected through interviews and written contributions:
• The YMCB Project (Young Migrants Capacity Building) is an EU-funded project aiming at
developing an innovative approach towards creating the appropriate ecosystem to support
young migrants entrepreneurship. It does so through a combination of education
and training, mentoring and access to finance. The approach was tested in Austria, Belgium,
Italy and the Netherlands with the goal of scaling it up and replicating it in other
territories.
• The Enterprise4Integration Project aims at fostering integration of migrants and unleashing
their human and social capital through entrepreneurship. The project provided
training and mentoring to migrants in Italy while supporting access to relevant network
and financial opportunities.
Building Integration Through
Entrepreneurship