The Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) is a private entity that promotes the competitiveness and sustainable development of micro and small businesses.

Operating with a focus on strengthening entrepreneurship and accelerating the formalization of the economy through partnerships with the public and private sectors, training programs, access to credit and innovation, encouragement of associations, promotion of entrepreneurial education in formal education, trade fairs, and business matchmaking.

The solutions developed by Sebrae cater to entrepreneurs looking to start their first business, as well as small businesses that are already established and seeking a new market positioning, and individuals looking to build their life project by developing their entrepreneurial skills from childhood.

We offer innovative products and solutions for those who want to start, diversify, expand, or recover a business. We shape citizens with entrepreneurial attitudes and support entrepreneurs in their decisions and life dreams.

We are always close to our clients, whether in person or in the digital world, through a wide network of our own service centers and partner institutions.

We exist to inspire and drive the entrepreneurial movement that changes the lives of individuals, businesses, and municipalities, helping to turn individual and collective dreams into reality. We are here to BOOST ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND TRANSFORM LIVES. This is our Purpose, and this is what drives us!

The Practice Enterprise Network was created in 1993 in Essen, Germany, as a project funded by the European Union. Since 1997, the network has been managed by the non-profit association PEN Worldwide (formerly EUROPEN-PEN International).

The aim of the international network is to help education and training organizations in participating countries provide training in business and entrepreneurship skills through the Practice Enterprise's unique methodology based on 'learning-by-doing'.

Today, PEN Worldwide manages an international network of more than 7,000 Practice Enterprise (PEs) in schools, universities, vocational training institutions, companies and training centers in more than 40 countries around the world.

More than 200,000 interns train at practice enterprises each year. There are Central Offices in each country that manage the national Practice Enterprises.

Through their participation in PEN Worldwide, Central Offices in member countries exchange best practices, maintain international contacts to support international trade, between the practice enterprises, as well as carry out exchanges of trainees and instructors.