Education for ideas, inventions and innovations for entrepreneurship

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Balkan-Mediterranean

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

The Balkan – Mediterranean area suffers from market fragmentation, high unemployment and limited labor force skills, actions are needed to foster the entrepreneurship potential by encouraging new business models, especially the ones promoting innovation and supporting internationalisation. The project intends to tackle the identified weaknesses by introducing a model of entrepreneurial learning & knowledge transfer targeted at young people and bringing their needs with the market demand in order to sustain development and growth. The overall objective of the project us to promote territorial development, cooperation and support the competitiveness of the Balkan-Mediteranean area by developing, establishing and promoting entrepreneurial learning and knowledge transfer model (Ideas, Inventions, Innovation – i3) for educating students and entrepreneurs. The expected results from the project include: • Established cooperation and coordination between partners and stakeholders in the project – training and education institutions and business; • Established i3 entrepreneurship model – Ideas, Inventions, Innovations with strategy for implementation and core modular curruculum; • Strengthening economic and business relations between communities, stimulate economic development, job creation and competitiveness of SMEs; • Promoting sustainable development at national and trans-national level by increasing balanced, efficient and sustainable use of resources and tackling the most immediate problems in a cost-effective manner. The i3 model to be developed as a result of the project is an innovative tool & recognizable brand to promote creative, innovative & targeted entrepreneurial learning among graduating students & young entrepreneurs.The project can be implemented only as a transnational initative since the flexible nature of the model ensures, first its testing on a larger transnational level and consequently - introducing it to on a larger scale to focus efforts on resolving common regional and country or local problems - in this case by stimulating innovative entrepreneurship among youths. The added value of the i3 model compared to other entrepreneurship training schemes is the flexibility with focus on specific strategic areas which require innovative approach. It will stimulate creative and entrepreneurial thinking and thus, utilize all business opportunities in the corresponding field.

Website: https://www.i-3.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The expected results from the project include: • Established cooperation and coordination between partners and stakeholders in the project – training and education institutions and business; • Established, tested and applied i3 entrepreneurship model – Ideas, Inventions, Innovations with strategy for implementation and core modular curruculum; • Strengthening economic and business relations between communities, stimulate economic development, job creation and competitiveness of SMEs; • Promoting sustainable development at national and trans-national level by increasing balanced, efficient and sustainable use of resources and tackling the most immediate problems in a cost-effective manner. The above project results will contrubute to the programme result indicator "number of entrepreneurial learning cooperation schemes" exactly by establishing a model/scheme for cooperation, partnership and learning in entrepreneurship for youth in perspective sectors/themes. All project outputs and results will be available to the wide audience free of charge in the course of the project and afterwards.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The outputs from WP1 - Project management and coordination will be the regular project reports as required by the programme and contract provisions, project correspondence. The outputs from the activities contained in WP2- Information and publicity include. - 2 Press-conferences - opening and closing in each partner country (total of 10). - publications in the media, radio broadcasts, TV interviews - min. 5 per country (total 25). - project advertising leaflet - 3000 copies. - Booklet for the i3 model - 1500 copies. - i3 Website and mobile applications for the major mobile OS (iOS, Widnows, Android), incl. pilot testing. The website and application will be with open access to everybody. - 5 analyses carried out in all partner countries. - 5 training curricula for the 5 entrepreneurship innovation themes. The outputs from WP4 - Implementation activities include: - a methodology for selection of trainees. The selection procedure will be non exclusive and open to everybody. - 250 trainees selected (10 from each country for 5 thematic workshops). - 5 workshops in each partner country on each theme for the training of a total of 250 youths and pilot testing of i3 model. The outputs from WP5 - Expansion activities - 2-day i3 fair and conference in Bulgaria - Life, Tech, Digit, Eco, Energy, incl. pilot application of i3 model. All outputs will be availabale free of charge to everybody. The project outputs contribute to 2 programme output indicators with a total of 250 youths participating in joint education and training schemes for supporting of youth employment and local employment initiatives and joint training.

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship Knowledge and technology transfer

Specific Objective: Territories of knowledge: entrepreneurial learning and knowledge transfer for more competitive SMEs

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Български икономически форум

Address: 86, Vitosha Blvd., 1463 Sofia, 1463 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.biforum.org/

Total budget: EUR 172 547.30

ERDF budget: EUR 146 665.21

IPA2 budget: EUR 25 882.10

Qendra Shqiptare për Zhvillimin e Qëndrueshëm

Name: Qendra Shqiptare për Zhvillimin e Qëndrueshëm

Address: Bulevardi Zogu 1, Albania Business Center, No.16Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 105 225.40

ERDF budget: EUR 89 441.59

IPA2 budget: EUR 15 783.81

Διεθνές Ινστιτούτο Διοίκησης Κύπρου

Name: Διεθνές Ινστιτούτο Διοίκησης Κύπρου

Address: 21 Akademias Avenue, P.O. Box 20378, 2151 Aglandjia, Nicosia, 2151 Nicosia, Cyprus

Legal status: private

Website: https://www.ciim.ac.cy/

Total budget: EUR 178 205.00

ERDF budget: EUR 151 474.25

IPA2 budget: EUR 26 730.75

ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟΥ ΕΙΔΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΟΝΔΥΛΙΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ

Name: ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ ΠΕΛΟΠΟΝΝΗΣΟΥ ΕΙΔΙΚΟΣ ΛΟΓΑΡΙΑΣΜΟΣ ΚΟΝΔΥΛΙΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗΣ ΕΡΕΥΝΑΣ

Address: Megalou Alexandrou 1, GR 26334, Patras, 26334 Patra, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.uop.gr/

Total budget: EUR 176 570.00

ERDF budget: EUR 150 084.50

IPA2 budget: EUR 26 485.50

Сдружение "Комитет Италия-България 2013"

Name: Сдружение "Комитет Италия-България 2013"

Address: 91 Alexander Malinov Blvd., Office 102, 1715 Sofia, 1715 Sofia, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.italybulgaria.eu

Total budget: EUR 167 909.50

ERDF budget: EUR 142 723.08

IPA2 budget: EUR 25 186.43

Здружение на граѓани Центар за Управување со Знаење

Name: Здружение на граѓани Центар за Управување со Знаење

Address: 11 Oktomvri 25, 1000 Skopje, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.knowledge-center.org/index.php/en/

Total budget: EUR 104 378.30

ERDF budget: EUR 88 721.56

IPA2 budget: EUR 15 656.75

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Albania Center for Sustainable Development

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Cyprus International Institute of Management

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Special Account for Research Funds - University of Peloponnese

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Association "Committee Italy-Bulgaria 2013"

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Bulgaria Economic Forum

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Center for Knowledge Management

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Summary

Project name (EN): Education for ideas, inventions and innovations for entrepreneurship

Project acronym: i3

Project start date: 2017-08-01

Project end date: 2020-01-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 904 835.50

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 769 110.18

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 590 947.03.
IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 178 163.15.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Balkan-Mediterranean

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

2022-12-09

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

44 / 44 (100%)

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

282 / 282 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-balkanmed.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20.

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