"CAUSE BULGARIA” Association
Priority Axis | Enterpreneurship and Innovation |
Specific Objective | Territories of Knowledge |
Country | Bulgaria |
Organization/ Entity | "CAUSE BULGARIA” Association |
First Name | Krasimir |
Last Name | Nikolov |
Address | 16 Abrit Str., Dobrich, Bulgaria |
atwbproject@mail.bg | |
Contact Phone | 00359 882370010, 00359 898556833 |
Project idea title | Agritrainings without borders |
Specific problem to be addressed | Dobrich District is area with highly developed agriculture, long traditions and modern innovative practices and technologies in various sectors of agriculture. There are similar agricultural regions in Greece, Cyprus, FYROM and Albania. This know-how is not available to the wide range of SMEs and people who could develop their own farms. So our project aims to develop and test a model how the knowledge to reach the stakeholders and to boost the entrepreneurialship and SMEs competitiveness. |
Main project activities planned | 1. Establishment of Agriculture Business Incubators with 3 components in each project partner’s region – physical (office and experimental field), mobile (services on the spot with purchased under the project van) and virtual (web platform) 2. Establishment of Balkan Mediterranean network of Agriculture Business Incubators] 3. Elaboration of curricula’s, practical manuals and pilot trainings in agriculture sector, training of mentors 4. Study visits in modern farms for exchange of experience |
Expected outputs and results | 1. Established Agriculture Business Incubators with 3 components in each project partner’s region; 2. Established of Balkan Mediterranean network of Agriculture Business Incubators] as innovative Entrepreneurial learning cooperation scheme; 3. 1000 participants in joint local employment initiatives and joint training; 4. Assistance given to entrepreneurs, starts-ups and existing companies for development in agriculture sector. |
State you area of expertise/ interest | We are looking for project partners in Greece, Cyprus, Albania and FYROM in agriculture regions. They can be exciting incubators and to be developed under the project or the partner can establish new one. We are foreseeing purchasing of equipment for incubator for every project partner. We would like together to establish Balkan Mediterranean network of Agriculture Business Incubators. |