There are many financial instruments on the market whose potential recipient is entrepreneurs or newly created companies.

There are many financial instruments on the market whose potential recipient is entrepreneurs or newly created companies.

However, identifying the most suitable ones and obtaining resources from them is not easy, mainly for the following reasons:

• Entrepreneurs and micro-entrepreneurs have difficulties in differentiating some lines of public and private financing from others and, therefore, in choosing the most appropriate one in each case.
• Entrepreneurs lack the culture and/or training necessary to access investment and negotiate with investors.
• Investors, public and private, expect entrepreneurs to have quality in their proposals and documentation to be able to analyse the investment, but in general entrepreneurs lack the necessary knowledge.

The final objective of the SAAF project is to increase the rate of creation of viable companies in the green economy and their access to finance, especially among young people. It is not just a matter of creating companies, but of them being sustainable, contributing to the three pillars of sustainability: economic, social and environmental.

This project will specifically work on the training of entrepreneurs with the following objectives:

• To increase the financial education of the entrepreneurs of the Emprendeverde Network.
• To facilitate the meeting, with favourable results, between projects and sources of funding.
• Support the consolidation of funded projects.
• Stimulate the creation of companies.

In short, SAAF will be a platform that will allow entrepreneurs to focus their company’s communication efforts with investors and, in addition, to have specialized training.

The recipients of the project are entrepreneurs who have their project underway or require a round of financing to be able to take the final step towards the creation of the company.

Through this initiative, training will be provided to 1,350 recipients, although the project will reach 1,500 workers. In addition, 75 new companies will be created or new lines of business will be consolidated and new financing will be given to 50 companies.