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65 project proposals were submitted and based on evaluation criteria awarded are:
- Youth Entrepreneurial Service Foundation from Skopje: Start-up and
Growth: Reducing Youth Unemployment and Poverty through Business
Development – The project will work with two direct target groups:
unemployed youth will benefit from business start-up courses combined
with a business plan competition and award of seed funding; youth-run
companies will benefit from wage subsidies which will stimulate the
hiring of additional staff and in addition directly help the growth of
the youth - run businesses. Expected results are 20 new businesses and
at least that many job created through 4 business start-up cycles and
up to 40 new jobs created in up to 25 youth run companies through wage
subsidies.
- Enterprise Support Foundation Tetovo: Self-employment
in Tetovo region project – will contribute to amelioration of the
socio-economic impact of increasing unemployment due to economic
transition process, by initiating new business trainings, creation of
new job opportunities, raising awareness of opportunities and benefits
of self-employment in Tetovo region. Targeted is creation of minimum 10
new self-employed business and 50 trainees educated in business skills.
- Innovation and Technology Foundation Tuzla: New employment of IT
experts and foundation of new IT companies – The project of new
employment of IT experts and foundation of new IT companies supported
by the BIT IT Academy program is based on increased requirements for IT
specialists on local IT labour market. IT companies embedded in Tuzla
experience the same demands for well trained IT professionals and are
ready to offer jobs right after the completion of their training. This
project also offers a solid ground for a foundation of new IT
companies, initiated by the business ideas of IT Academy students. 20
new jobs will be created during the first year.
- Independent Office for Development from Modrica, in partnership with
Association for Entrepreneurship and Job LINK Mostar, Association of
Entrepreneurs and Employers Zepce and Entrepreneurship and Development
Centre Tuzla – Incubator Lipnica: Job creation through improving hard
and soft business infrastructure in business incubators Modrica, Zepce
and Tuzla and business support centre in Mostar - The idea of the
project is to gather 3 Business Incubators and 1 Business Support
Centre and work toward implementation of the common strategy – to
create better working conditions of current and potential beneficiaries
by improving energetic efficiency of all 4 centres’ buildings currently
used for business incubation and business support, to improve business
advisory services for beneficiaries and start-ups, and to improve
management of business incubators and business support centres. 24
total new jobs will be created.
- Business Incubator Centre Prokuplje, in partnership with National
Employment Service, Business Incubator DOO Krusevac, Regional Agency
for SME development Sombor: Job Opportunities through Basic Services -
By implementing the project Business Incubator Center Prokuplje intends
on contributing to the enlargement of the number of small and medium
sized enterprises in the Toplica District in support of entrepreneurs
to establish their companies, making a direct impact on reducing
unemployment, within all the municipalities of the District will be
provided free services, trainings, consulting potential entrepreneurs
with viable business proposals as well as providing advice to existing
small and medium sized enterprises. In addition, the BIC intends on
exchanging the/or prevailing experience with the management of the BIC
from city of Krusevac and Sombor, thus straight forwardly contributing
to the implementation of positive models in remaining municipalities of
Serbia. Expected results are: creation and maintenance of 100 jobs in
Toplica district, establishment of 20 new micro businesses, vocational
and technical skills provided to the project beneficiaries (500). Read
the latest news on activities of Buisness Incubator Center Prokuplje
here.
- Business Technology Incubator of Technical Faculties (BITF) Belgrade,
in partnership with Business Incubator Centre Yumco D.O.O. Vranje:
Business Skills Development in Function of Local Development - At
present, Business Incubators in Belgrade and Vranje are at different
levels of development. Efforts will be made to accelerate Vranje
business incubator (BI) placement into function and preparing it for
its first tenants. Within this project, BITF Belgrade will transfer its
knowledge and experiences to BI Vranje and support its accelerated
development so that typical mistakes can be avoided. At the same time,
BITF Belgrade will further develop its capacities by organizing
trainings, expanding existing services and developing advanced services
to its tenants. Implementation of the trainings and providing direct
support through permanent consulting services will result in developed
business skills of potential entrepreneurs and owners of start up
businesses. This will accelerate the development of small enterprises
and have an important impact on local communities. Among other this
project will result in developing capacities of incubators and creation
of 50 new working places.
- Regional Development Agency South, Prizren, in partnership with
Business Centre in Suhareka and Prizren region municipalities:
Facilitated Employment Generation - Program will directly challenge the
problem of unemployment through the process of supported employment,
self-employment, supported entrepreneurship and grant incentives to
employers by providing support to direct employment. The program aims
to provide employment through its specially designed Incentive Fund
Plan which will be used to purchase equipment for at least 12
applicants.
- RIINVEST Institute, Prishtina: Supporting SMEs in the region of
Prishtina – Objective of the project is to increase employment and
competitiveness of selected businesses through identifying and working
with the direct improvement of selected value chains, developing
partnerships and increasing the capacities of human resources. The
project aims to increase outputs of targeted businesses by at least 20%
in terms of sales and new jobs. The project will create 2 business
interest groups (mini- clusters/cooperatives/business clubs) in food
and wood processing, and strengthen their position in the market
through improvement of business processes.
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