UNWE Presented the Results of the First Stage of CO-WORKING Project on Youth Entrepreneurship Development in Haskovo

Tuesday, 31 January 2023 17:20

The results of the first stage of CO-WORKING project were presented during an Information Day at the UNWE Regional Centre for Distance Education /RCDL/ in Haskovo. The project Promoting Entrepreneurship by Supporting Promising Innovative Ideas Through Pre-Incubating Mechanisms /CO-WORKING/ has an objective to encourage not only the UNWE students but also the entrepreneurs from the municipality of Haskovo to increase their business potential and develop entrepreneurial initiatives in the cross-border areas of Bulgaria and Greece.

UNWE implements the project in a partnership with the Economics Faculty of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Alexandria Innovation Zone JSC in Thessaloniki and the National Company Industrial Zones JSC. It is funded under the INTERREG Greece - Bulgaria Programme 2014-2020.

Prof. Dr. Nikolay Shterev, Head of the Industrial Business Department of and Head of the project the UNWE, presented the results of the first stage of the project and emphasized that in 2022 four master classes in Financial Accounting, Innovation and Start-up Business, Commercial Law and Product Innovation had been held.

Prof. Dr. Nikolay Shterev and Prof. Dr. Nadia Mironova, Director of RCDL-Haskovo

In the period 16-27 January 2023 five training camps were also held by practitioners in start-up entrepreneurship development, lecturers at the UNWE. During the first module the future entrepreneurs learnt about the methodology for creating start-ups or developing a new service or product from existing businesses. The second module was related to the creation of the innovative business model. The third training camp dealt with the topic of validation of conceptual designs and the fourth and fifth modules of the training camps were devoted to the development of the idea itself, preparation of a business plan and assessment of the quality of the business idea.  

The second stage of the project training starts on 13 February and will deepen the work on the entrepreneurial cooperation and the use of financing opportunities for innovative ideas. "We hope that the motto of the project "It all starts with the idea!" will continue to work for you, the future entrepreneurs, even after the project is over", emphasized Prof. Dr. Nikolay Shterev and pointed out that the profiles created in the innovation project system are 10, the registered start-up business plans are 5 and during the training camps one of the teams had identified a start-up model and a creative idea for a personal health chip that has the potential to be implemented.

The Director of RCDL-Haskovo Prof. Dr. Nadia Mironova awarded certificates to 78 future entrepreneurs who completed the trainings during the first stage of CO-WORKING project.

"It is indeed a great privilege both for our students and in general for the young people in Haskovo that the UNWE provides knowledge and more opportunities for development of youths from the region. Let`s greet those who will take part in the second cycle of the training. It means that this project makes sense and that it will contribute to the development of the cross-border areas", said Prof. Dr. Nadia Mironova.

 

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