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The people’s paper ISSUE NO. 1840
8 - 14 October 2020
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FOCUS ON FEMALES FEMALE entrepreneurship is on the rise in the municipality of Santa Pola with specific business talks and businesses being launched by women in the area. The successful launch of a Women in Business networking event, held at La Piazza in Gran Alacant, saw women from across a range of businesses, including; language teachers, lawyers, estate agents and scuba diving instructors, gather together to discuss ideas and help promote each others entrepreneurial ventures. Recently, Santa Pola
City Council welcomed two local female entrepreneurs, Diana Carrasco and Mª Angeles Cáceres, to discuss their co-working spaces in the area. The pair had the opportunity to meet with Mayor Loreto Serrano, Nely Baile, the Councillor for Commerce, Trini Ortiz, the Councillor for Urban Planning and Industry and Llanos Córcoles, head of the Emprende Santa Pola Service to present their businesses. The two entrepreneurs explained that their coworking spaces were shared offices in which
professionals.’ Mayor Serrano personally congratulated the women for their businesses and highlighted the importance of having spaces of this type in the municipality, where entrepreneurial ecosystems and the creation of transformative and innovative professional communities
ON THE RISE: Female entrepreneurs doing well in Santa Pola. self-employed professionals, teleworkers and entrepreneurs from different sectors share the same space without losing their independence. Both women elaborat-
ed on the role of their coworking spaces likening them to ‘working in a company, but instead of having colleagues in different departments, you are surrounded by other
are created. She has committed to visiting the two spaces and contemplating the possibility of signing a possible public-private agreement that allows the collaboration of the Entrepreneurs department of the City Council and the two spaces.
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