Entrepreneurship together with refugees is a win-win strategy. Innovation is a charming world, especially for those who have no place in the conventional one. Imagine if you live a life without a citizenship: how can you create a home and replace the lost one? To survive people invent the way and, when there is nothing to lose, they find the only way to win. Being a survivor, an immigrant or a refugee implies having an entrepreneurial soul, a risk taking attitude and the persistence to break walls and create opportunities.

Bisan Abdulkader is active in the development of projects aimed at transferring knowhow between Italian innovation enterprises and technological and scientific parks in the MENA areas (Middle East North Africa). After obtaining a university degree in Physics, she has worked for the department of Engineering of the Arab International University as a manager and laboratory teacher. At the same time, she has collaborated on sustainability projects with the United Nations and the Youth Engaging Program in Damasco.
She moved to Europe in 2010 and completed the MBA at the CEU Business School in Budapest of the New York University.
She is in charge of the develpment of projects in the MENA region for LUISS ENLABS and co-founder of Artichalk, an online platform for food health.

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