Felismina Mendes, Presidente da ACVS, vai participar a convite da Federação das Organizações Cabo-verdianas (FOC), na qualidade de Representante da Comunidade cabo-verdiana no Conselho Consultivo para os Assuntos de Imigração (COCAI), no Inter Diaspora Meeting que se realiza no dia 28 de Novembro, em Roma.
Esta iniciativa insere-se no projecto “Dias de Cabo Verde”

Programa:

9.00:     Participants’ registration
Introductory session

9.30:     Opening remarks
H.E. José’ Eduardo Dantas Ferreira Barbosa, Ambassador of Cape Verde in Italy
9.45:     Presentation of the DIAS DE Cabo Verde project
            Alvaro Apolo – President, Instituto das Comunidades, Cape Verdean Ministry of Foreign Affairs
10.00:   Launch of the website www.diasdecaboverde.org
            Marta Bronzin, IOM Lisbon
 
Chairs: Tana Anglana, IOM Rome
10.30 – Coffee break
Session two – Diaspora needs and resources

11.00:   The Dutch experience
            Ivone Mendes, Avanço Foundation
            Margarida Silva Mendes and Artemisia Maria Araujo, Intercambios Netherlands
11.20:   The Italian experience
            Tabanka association
            OMCVI association
11.40:   The Portuguese experience
            Felismina Mendes, Federation of Cape Verdean Associations
Mario Moreira, Association of Cape Verdean Entrepreneurs in Portugal
Discussion
Chairs: Clara Silva – University of Florence
13.30 Lunch
Session three – Cape Verdean migrants and the enterprise: opportunities in Cape Verde and Diaspora resources

14.30:   Priority investment sectors in Cape Verde
Cabo Verde Investimentos
14.45:   Services to new entrepreneurs
Agência para o Desenvolvimento Empresarial e Inovação, CV Ministry of Economics
15.00:   Access to credit in Cape Verde
            Banco Caboverdiano do Negocios
15.20:   Business emigrants in Cape Verde
Angela Coutinho, researcher
15.40:   Example of entrepreneurial project
Rolando Borges, Associação Recreativa do Talude
 
Discussion
Chairs: Maria De Lourdes Jesus, Journalist