The benefits offered by support networks for entrepreneurs

Expand your business opportunities and partnerships

Not being alone when facing difficulties is essential for any entrepreneur. Just as it is important, suivre les dernières tendances de votre domaine d’activité, it is also necessary to surround yourself with others, receive support and network.
In Belgium, there are many organisations capable of helping you in this respect. Discover the most important support networks for entrepreneurs, which can be very useful when running an PME.

Réseau Entreprendre, strong support for businesses

With 7 locations in Belgium, Réseau Entreprendre offers free support to people launching a business project in various Belgian provinces. It enables them to join a club of new entrepreneurs. Among support networks for entrepreneurs, Réseau Entreprendre stands out for its mentoring principle. Indeed, the entrepreneur receives long-term support from an experienced business owner.

Réseau Entreprendre helps future entrepreneurs launch their businesses, an extremely crucial stage. It supports them during the first few years, which are pivotal. Finally, it provides a network of contacts made up of other new entrepreneurs experiencing similar difficulties, helping them to overcome isolation.

The Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants Belgium among international support networks for entrepreneurs

Among support networks for entrepreneurs, the CJD is perhaps the best known, undoubtedly because it is active and recognised internationally. Its mission is to defend humanist values, with a focus on training, experimentation, networking and reflection among entrepreneurs.

The CJD helps entrepreneurs who face the isolation associated with their role, allows them to take a step back from their business and learn the profession of being a company director. As a network of professionals with similar concerns, it encourages the sharing of experiences, skills and ideas.

The Enterprise Europe Network for SME innovation and internationalisation

Thanks to its various services, the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) fs one of the leading support networks for entrepreneurs. It brings together several organisations with the aim of supporting SMEs on issues relating to innovation and international development. Present in 60 countries, it operates in all three Belgian regions.

The Enterprise Europe Network plays an important role in helping businesses find partners. Indeed, when innovating or expanding internationally, it is necessary to find partners and be able to communicate with them. Faced with this difficulty experienced by many entrepreneurs, EEN helps by providing the necessary contacts. LV Linguistics language school, for its part, is there to teach you how to communicate easily with these contacts.

FCE, a support network specifically dedicated to Belgian women entrepreneurs

While the life of an entrepreneur is an obstacle course, that of a woman entrepreneur is even more complex. There are many support networks for women entrepreneurs throughout Belgium.

FCE (Femmes Chefs D'entreprises Belgique) supports women entrepreneurs, provides them with visibility and develops networking opportunities.
FCE offers numerous activities to support women business leaders. It helps break isolation, encourages the transfer of good practices and energises members of the network. It can also provide business opportunities through its many contacts.

In your life as an entrepreneur, have you ever been in contact with such networks?

If so, which ones would you recommend? If not, are you now convinced of their benefits?