UNWE Is Part of Project on the INTERREG Programme Encouraging Students to Enhance Their Entrepreneurial Potential

Friday, 15 July 2022 14:15

The project entitled Promoting Entrepreneurship by Supporting Perspective Innovative Ideas Through the Creation of Pre-Incubation Mechanisms /CO WORKING/ in which the UNWE is a partner aims to encourage students to enhance their entrepreneurial potential. It is funded under the INTERREG Programme Greece - Bulgaria 2014-2020.

"The UNWE is a partner of the project which is led by Alexander Innovative Zone in Thessaloniki, Greece, and it is implemented jointly with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It is the largest public university in the country", said Prof. Dr. Nadia Mironova, Director of the UNWE Regional Center for Distance Learning in Haskovo which coordinates all the activities of the business venture.

Regional Centre for Distance Learning - Haskovo

She added that since the last summer there is a contract with the Ministry of Regional Development which is the principal of the INTERREG agreement for Bulgaria. "The Head of the project is Prof. Dr. Nikolay Shterev who is also the Head of the UNWE Industrial Business Department. By the Bulgarian party participant in the project is also the National Company of Industrial Zones /NCIZ/", said Prof. Mironova.

She explained that the activities under the project are exclusively carried out on the territory of the Center for Distance Learning in Haskovo and in Kardzhaly. It is planned to be build offices to promote entrepreneurship on the territory of the industrial zone in Kardzhali which is part of the NCIZ.

"The biggest challenge facing the UNWE and the project is aimed at promoting entrepreneurship. The task of the UNWE is to support it not only in the cross-border area. Our specific objective is to promote the academic and student entrepreneurship in Haskovo", said Prof. Dr. Nikolay Shterev, Head of the UNWE Industrial Business Department and Head of CO WORKING project. "The project duration is a year and a half and it should be finalized in May next year", clarified Prof. Shterev. According to him, the main deliverables required from the entire project team and the UNWE project team is to establish an office for promoting student entrepreneurship at the UNWE Regional Center for Distance Learning in Haskovo.

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