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Our first Corporate Sustainability Report Sustainability is not a product but a process: it requires attention to the unexpected, organizational culture and a spirit of innovation.[Giampietro Pizzo, President of Microfinanza, Introduction to the Corporate...

Young entrepreneurs succeed, YES! Workshop in Munich Munich Business School hosted the second workshop of the year 2022 under the Young Entrepreneurs Succeed, YES! Project. The two-day workshop started with a welcoming address by the dean of Munich Business School in...

MicroEurope will have its headquarters in Bilbao, where Seed Capital Bizkaia will be in charge of its technical secretariat. The presidency of MicroEurope will be held by Giampietro Pizzo, and Andrea Limone will be the CEO.

Online webinar: Auxiliary services for the microfinance sector   In the framework of the European programme EaSI (Employment and Social Innovation), the Italian Microfinance Network (RITMI) and the European Microfinance Network (EMN) have organised a webinar on...

Venetex joins the R-imprendo initiative, launched in April as a potential solution to the social and economic hostilities that the pandemic generates. With an appropriate ethical and inclusive approach, the partnership, composed of Microfinanza Srl, MFR, Ecomill, modefinance, ImpactAge and Venetex, aims to support businesses in accessing credit and to prepare them for tomorrow’s economy.

On the 2 of December, a workshop led by the Italian Microfinance Network (RITMI) will take place online. The workshop will address the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on the microcredit sector in Italy as well as the strategies and action implemented to mitigate the crisis.

The partners of the “Scaling Trust-based partnership models to recharge youth entrepreneurship: supporting underserved communities with innovative entrepreneurship support instruments (TPM-RYE)” project organized the 5th Project Internal Workshop. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the workshop was conducted digitally on 6-7 October 2020.

We are pleased to announce that our team published a new working paper: “Measuring microfinance impact: A practitioner perspective and working methodology”.

Supporting young unemployed people and revive the tourism sector strongly affected by the COVID-19 crisis are the two aims of the collaboration between Microfinanza, a Vicenza-based company operating in the field of financial inclusion and in support of youth entrepreneurship, and the Municipality of Savoca (ME).

Today in Morocco, still more than 70% of the population does not have access to a bank account[1]. As many people who might not be able to seize a professional or personal opportunity if it presented itself to them. As many people who would have to resort to informal...