Guide was awarded the 2016 Anita Augspurg Prize last night. The project offers advice and support for women starting their own businesses and makes a significant sociopolitical contribution in Munich: Through its work, it contributes to gender equality, self-determined living, and social equality between women and men.
The City of Munich annually awards the prize, endowed with 5,100 euros, to promote equal rights for girls and women. It is named after Anita Augspurg (1857-1943), one of the most important representatives of the first women's movement. As a Munich citizen, she campaigned for women's suffrage and equal access to higher education and university for girls and women, among other causes. She was very active in the international women's and peace movement.
This year the project guide of the carrier GründerRegio M e.V. was awarded the prize at a ceremony in the Old Town Hall. The prize was presented by Mayor Christine Strobl on behalf of the mayor Dieter Reiter.
Clear focus on practical start-up support
The guide project offers a coordinated program of information, motivation, advice, training, and support. It supports women in a gender-focused, competency-based manner, with a clear focus on practical start-up support throughout all phases of the startup process.
The programs are geared toward the needs of mothers, women returning to work, and women seeking employment, as well as the requirements of female entrepreneurs in the liberal professions and service sectors. Within Munich's educational landscape, the "guide" project, with its distinctly gender-sensitive and emancipatory approach, establishes a distinctive profile.
Guide's offerings are also aimed at migrant women interested in starting a business, older women founders, part-time founders, part-time founders, women who are disadvantaged in the labor market, and solo self-employed individuals. These women may already have developed a concrete, marketable idea or may simply be interested in learning about the opportunities and conditions for starting a business.
Important contribution to the diversification of Munich as a business location
The effectiveness of the work is exemplary, particularly through the support and expansion of female entrepreneurship in Munich, the resulting security of women's livelihoods on the one hand, and the diversification of Munich as a business location on the other.
With this award ceremony, the City of Munich recognizes this continuous and successful municipal commitment.
