New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation
Newbie Portugal participated in the “Jornadas do Mundo Rural”, an event that took place on the 28 and 29th February in Alcoutim-Algarve in the South of Portugal and which brought together about fifty stakeholders working in rural development in the region. We shared our experience of the opportunities for new entrants that are linked to […]
The idea came at the beginning of 2011, when two young entrepreneurs, Rita Beltrão and Filipe Verdasca, wanted to build a differentiating and innovative project in the agrifood sector in Marvão. Marvão is municipality with its centre in a medieval village located in a small montain area of São Mamede, a Natural Park in the […]
NEWBIE European Project launches 2019 Award for New Entrants The Newbie Prize is promoted to reward new agricultural business models that result from innovative ways to overcome the barriers that new agricultural entrepreneurs face when trying to establish themselves. In the Newbie project, these new entrepreneurs are defined as anyone who starts an agricultural business […]
The Institute of Mediterranean Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (ICAAM) of the University of Évora welcomed from 13-15 November a French delegation, including a member from RENETA – a French network of incubators for agricultural businesses, a member from a farm incubator of Gironde that is RENETA member and a rural press journalist. The visit is […]
Pepe Aromas, a family farm located in Herdade da Azinheira and Sobral, in Évora-Portugal, is engaged in the production and marketing of Opuntia Ficus Indica and its by-products. The Portuguese National Rural Network (RRN) talked with the owners Susana Mendes and José Ferrão about the biological and sustainable project they are developing and their participation […]
The Portuguese Newbie team visited Paulo Martins. Paulo Martins, is a young chef which, at the age of 37, switch the big cities, restaurants and bars by a small rural village in Alentejo and the kitchen by a distillery. He was responsible of a restaurant kitchen in Portugal capital, Lisbon, and one day, challenged by a […]
