Corporate Acceleration for existing ventures

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Albania

Date of latest update: 2024-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

The CB region is challenged with a) population decrease due to the brain drain phenomenon where highly educated people immigrate to other countries, mainly in central Europe, seeking better career opportunities, and b) high unemployment rates. ACCEL is designed to critically and practically respond to the need of reducing unemployment rates and at the same time make business in the CB area more resilient and competitive boosting economic activity. The project main outputs are: -A mainstreaming guide with project results/outputs/links to accessible online business support resources -A Project website with information about the scope/progress/deliverables/results of the project -A Diagnosis Tool assessing business ideas/team/product innovation -An international mentors network .-An Advisory Board offering professional and executive business advice -A virtual corporate accelerator "V.Xelerate, a three month intensive, unique and empowering training and mentoring programme to support business innovation and new product development -An Action Plan describing methods for strategy adaptation and policy development for harmonising business support schemes with real business needs. ACCEL project is innovative in its nature providing the opportunity to business in the CB area to grow, hence boost economic activity. Furthermore, ACCEL provides the opportunity for business in the CB area to participate to project activities virtually, benefiting the whole CB area. The project will result in 50 companies being accelerated and hence receive non financial support and 70 business being incubated. At least 50 people are expected to find employment after project end in the cross-border area due to the direct linkage offered for the co-development of innovation projects between business and highly skilled graduates. The envisaged results of the project are directly linked with the programme result indicator of increasing the number of highly educated people in employment. The project directly improves the capacity of regional actors to support the development/growth of bussiness and the CB business survival providind modernised business services. The projects added value is the "democratisation of entrepreneurship offering access to training, coaching and mentoring services virtually to anyone in the program eligible area that is beyond the beneficiaries areas.

Website: https://2014-2020.greece-albania.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

The project will result in at least 50 companies being accelerated, and 70 companies being incubated in the cross border region. At least 50 people are expected to find employment in businesses in the cross-border area due to the direct linkage offered by co-development of innovation projects between business and highly skilled graduates. The envisaged results of the project are directly linked with the programme result indicator of business receiving non financial support hence shaping a business environement that can facilitate growth and create job opportunities. The project will also result in a professional network of mentors that are successful entrepreneurs being able to initiate and facilitate potential synergies and cooperations between business. Finally, the stakeholders involved will develop added value to the services they offer to their target groups aligning market needs with capabilities and supporting innovative entrepreneurship and thus an employment supporting mechanism that bring tangible results.

Expected Outputs (EN):

Project main outputs include: -A mainstreaming Guide with project results/outputs/links to accessible online resources developed by the project -A virtual corporate accelerator "V-XElerate", a 3 month intensive, unique and empowering entrepreneurship training and mentoring programme. V-Xelerate curriculum aims to ignite the prototyping and business modeling of feasible and marketable solutions in tourism i.e agrofood, ICT development, health-wellness business, operating in the CB region while simultaneously building multi-national teams capable of effectively work on a virtual environment. Business will have the chance to grow and thus create new employment opportunities. -A virtual incubator "VCUB", free and open-to-the-public that envisages to "democratise entrepreneurship. Business located far from urban areas can have access to training/mentoring/coaching while being matched with Innovation Assistants (well educated graduates) for carrying out innovation projects. Any business in the CB area can apply and have access to resources/an international Mentors Network/an Advisory Board made up of highly experienced entrepreneurs and professionals. -A Policy Action Plan with policy recommendations on how to a)promote innovation and entrepreneurship in practice creating employment opportunities and b)better prepare graduates to deal with real tasks in real business. This will foster stakeholder networking initiatives towards joining efforts in the CB area for creating new jobs -Business internal training seminar on how to encourage/support/manage innovation projects & search for the right people with capacities to carry them out successfully.This creates the business conditions to attract well educated graduates work and live in the cross-border region. -A Good Practice Guide with lessons learnt on how to run corporate accelerators successfully. This will promote mobility and co-operation of scientists in sectors of local economy, which are feasible and profitable.

Thematic information

Labour market and employment SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Improve cross-border capacity to support entrepreneurship, business survival and competitiveness

Thematic Priority:

(g) Enhancing competitiveness, the business environment and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, trade and investment through, inter alia, promotion and support to entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, and development of local cross-border markets and internationalisation

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA - RESEARCH COMMITTEE

Address: Parko Ag. Dimitriou, 50131 Kozani, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://uowm.gr/

Total budget: EUR 153 181.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 130 203.85

Tourism Organisation of Western Macedonia

Name: Tourism Organisation of Western Macedonia

Address: Dioikitirio, 52100 Kastoria, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.visitwestmacedonia.gr

Total budget: EUR 118 037.02

IPA2 budget: EUR 100 331.47

Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gjirokaster

Name: Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gjirokaster

Address: Rruga Nacionale 55Gjirokaster, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ccigjirokaster.al

Total budget: EUR 87 617.41

IPA2 budget: EUR 74 474.80

Center for Development and Democratization of Institutions

Name: Center for Development and Democratization of Institutions

Address: Myslym Shyri: Pall: 8/1 kati 4,Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.qzhdi-alb.org

Total budget: EUR 102 859.10

IPA2 budget: EUR 87 430.24

Albanian Network for European Integration

Name: Albanian Network for European Integration

Address: Rr.Bilal Golemi, Pall Universal, Kat VI, Nr 28,Tirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 62 518.10

IPA2 budget: EUR 53 140.39

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Summary

Project name (EN): Corporate Acceleration for existing ventures

Project acronym: ACCEL

Project start date: 2018-03-23

Project end date: 2020-12-22

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 524 212.63

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 445 580.74

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 445 580.74.

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Reports

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Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://greece-albania.eu/projects/corporate-acceleration-for-existing-ventures

Publication date: 2021-10-07

Document date: 2018-11-08

Languages: el

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2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Albania

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2020-07-22

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65 / 65 (100%)

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293 / 293 (100%)

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