Building Peace Through Entrepreneurship in Cyprus

We're about halfway through the year and once again thrilled to share with you our second quarterly impact report filling you in on all the incredible things that have happened in this special space which you helped bring to life!  

With your great support, hundreds of young entrepreneurs and innovators from communities across our divided island continue to benefit from hands-on workshops and trainings, diverse panels and events, business networking, coworking space, and more that has helped them in building skills as well as creating lasting relationships and potential collaborations, or what we refer to as sustainable peace through entrepreneurship.  

In this quarterly update, we’re excited to spotlight a few key highlights that have contributed to this impact since our last report, including but not limited to:  

• Fostering island-wide collaborations via our coworking, with our resident teams, and a large-scale networking event with multiple organisations that hosted 200+ participants
• Mentoring and training 14 promising startup teams and 26 young innovators from across the island over 6 months with experts, e-courses, and free office space
• The recording of podcast series in our studio and the launch of a new series called Taste & Purpose co-presented with Colive
• Upgrades to The Base by CyprusInno including an updated conference room and a new ideation lounge with bean bags!

Our ongoing operations has also supported amazing initiatives by other local organisations who, in partnership with us, hosted activities at The Base.   These initiatives included but were not limited to:  

• A summer institute on entrepreneurship and leadership for Cypriot youth across the island
• An interactive workshop on entrepreneurial skill-building for women of SMEs
• A multi-day, hands-on training for Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot theater techies
• A book launch and reading simultaneously conducted in Greek and Turkish  

We are also excited to update you on some major milestones that happened during this time:  

• Signed an MoU with Israeli & Palestinian NGO Tech2Peace establishing a regional collaboration for peace innovation
• Received the Stelios (founder of EasyJet) Bicommunal Peace Award for promoting lasting peace in Cyprus through business cooperation
• Named a regional finalist in the South Europe Startup awards for best accelerator/incubator program and best coworking space
• Workshopped with former President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit as part of the Obama Leaders Europe program  

We have many exciting things in the pipeline for the rest of 2022, including another agrifood startup training, more panels and events, and an exciting new video! Your support helped make all of this possible. So, once again, we sincerely thank you for your belief in our vision.  

Links:

• Stelios Bicommunal Peace Award for Business Winners Announcement
• View/Download our Full July 2022 Quarterly Donor Impact Report
• Workshop with former President Barack Obama in Copenhagen

• View/Download The Full July 2022 Impact Report! (PDF)