Checklist for Host Entrepreneurs – 3 – Find a New Entrepreneur

Find a New Entrepreneur

③ Find a New Entrepreneur

  • How to find them?
    • As soon as you have access to the programme’s database (IT-Tool), you can start to search for suitable New Entrepreneurs (NE) and propose “matches”; NEs can also propose a match to you.
    • Your IO offers to guide you during the searching and matching process. Should there be an interested New Entrepreneur (NE), your IO will forward the proposal to you and reply to the counterpart your final decision.
    • Search for a NE outside of the IT tool (e.g. make use of contacts through fairs, conferences, social networks, etc.) and convince him/her to register in the programme (your IO can support you).

  • Not an employment relationship? Keep in mind that the EYE programme promotes business relationships between New (NE) and experienced Host Entrepreneurs (HE). It is not an internship programme and there are no employment relationships foreseen, i.e. the programme expects entrepreneurs meeting on an eye-to-eye level. The NE receives an EU grant as a financial aid to the extra costs (travel, accommodation, subsistence) resulting from the stay abroad. If you plan to support your NE additionally, please get first in touch with your local contact point to be able to follow the programme’s rules.

  • Prior existing (business) relationships are not funded. Please be aware that it is not allowed to have a prior business relationship or professional cooperation before your relationship isn’t accepted in the IT-Tool. Prior existing business relationships are not supported, hence not funded by the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs programme.
  • Please take into account that it sometimes can take longer time to find your perfect match. If this is the case, please countercheck your CV, IT-Tool profile and motivation if they are up to date and adapt them accordingly.


Find a New Entrepreneur