How to become a Positive Green Entrepreneur in Europe, as a refugee? Positive Leadership is already well known in the business world, but what we need right now in Europe is Positive Entrepreneurship: A new entrepreneurship based on Positive Psychology and the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework (EntreComp), for a sustainable green economy, which is defined in the European Green Deal: The European Union (EU) wants to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy, and to restore biodiversity and cut pollution, at the same time ensuring a just and inclusive transition. The overall goal of the EU is to be climate neutral in 2050. United Nations defines a green economy as low carbon, resource efficient and socially inclusive economy.
To build such an economy, we need to include, train and empower the most vulnerable members of society.
With so many jobless people and so many who got bankrupt with their businesses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, refugees need our support to (re-)design their life and future in the European Union. It is hard for the locals to be resilient in and after the pandemic, and it is even harder for refugees.
Positive Psychology research and its findings, applications and proven interventions can contribute much more to the new, positive, green entrepreneurship we need in these challenging times, than the usual training and support programs could do.
EntreComp defines entrepreneurship competence as the ability to transform ideas and opportunities into action by using resources. These resources are: self-awareness and self-efficacy, motivation and perseverance, the ability to mobilize resources, financial and econo-mic literacy, and the ability to mobilize others. Most of these competences are research topics of Positive Psychology, in particular self-awareness, self-efficacy, motivation and perseverance.