BizMentors

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

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Description (EN):

BizMentors aims to develop, scale and expand an innovative low cost structured business mentoring initiative developed in Galway (west of Ireland) across a diverse range of settings with its partners in the NPA Region, making expertise accessible, inclusive and sustainable to enterprises in dispersed communities. BizMentors, by providing and sharing expertise about low cost, structured business mentoring will equip individuals & businesses with the supports, skills, networks & confidence to take advantage of the unique natural capital and innovation capacity that remains untapped in the NPA. BizMentors is an interactive, accessible, inclusive platform for all businesses, and compliments and supplements existing mentoring support offerings. This project will utilise a user-centric quadruple helix approach to overcome common challenges experienced by start-ups and SMEs in the NPA region. Through innovations and shared learning, this project will enhance, extend and validate the existing model across partner regions and sectors. Through research and engaging with end users, piloting of a business mentoring programme will take place, focusing on a specific business sector (processing/refinement of natural resources) in the partner countries. The mentoring model developed will suit each region participating in the project, and ensure it’s transferability to other business sectors, and other countries (not just in the NPA region). To support this, a transnational best practice business model handbook and online interactive platform will be developed that can be used to address challenges in different countries. BizMentors will provide a new solution as it will provide free mentoring and support to start-ups and existing SMEs who have difficulty accessing expertise. BizMentors will inform decision makers seeking to implement effective, low cost and sustainable mentoring solutions through mainstream programmes across the NPA and beyond.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Improved support systems tailored for start-ups and existing SMEs in remote and sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03a) promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Western Development Commission

Department: Regional Development

Address: Ballaghaderreen Dillon House, F45 WY26 Roscommon, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.wdc.ie

Total budget: EUR 7 919.00

ERDF budget: EUR 5 147.35

Savonia-ammattikorkeakoulu

Name: Savonia-ammattikorkeakoulu

Department: Faculty of Business, Tourism and Hospitality

Address: PO Box 6, 70211 KUOPIO, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.savonia.fi

Total budget: EUR 8 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 5 200.00

Norðurslóðanet Íslands

Name: Norðurslóðanet Íslands

Address: Borgir, Nordurslod 4 - 3. floor, 600 Akureyri, Iceland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.arcticiceland.is

Total budget: EUR 6 764.10

Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Name: Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

Department: Funding and Investment

Address: Townhall Street 1, BT74 4BG Enniskillen, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fermanaghomagh.com

Total budget: EUR 4 800.00

ERDF budget: EUR 3 120.00

SCCUL Enterprises CLG

Name: SCCUL Enterprises CLG

Address: Walter Macken Road 1, H91 RH32 Galway, Ireland

Legal status: private

Website: http://scculenterprises.ie

Total budget: EUR 17 033.34

ERDF budget: EUR 8 516.67

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Savonia University of Applied Sciences

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Fermanagh and Omagh District Council

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SCCUL Enterprises CLG

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Western Development Commission

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Summary

Project name (EN): BizMentors

Project acronym: BizMentors_Preparation

Project start date: 2017-12-01

Project end date: 2018-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 44 516.44

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 21 984.02

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 58.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 21 984.02.

Third-country contribution: Iceland: EUR 4 396.66 (ERDF equivalent only)

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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