Helping start-up entrepreneurs in the Northwest Region

The project proposal will meet the needs of preparing a larger number of prospective entrepreneurs to start their own business and thus to ensure creating sustainable jobs through self-employment. The overall objective of the project is to prepare unemployed and employed persons who want to start their own business. The main objective will be achieved through the following specific objectives: - to raise awareness and motivation of the target groups for inclusion in the envisaged project activities by organizing motivational campaigns in each of the five regional centers in the area of planning; - to increase the knowledge and competence of persons involved to start their own business through their participation in specialized training; - to provide access to expert advice in the form of individual and group consultations of specialists in different fields of business as well as providing information on sources of funding and mentoring for business development. - to improve quality of life and income from labor representatives from the target group who start their own business; - to reveal more sustainable and quality jobs through self-employment and development of real business into new market niches. Target groups include 520 persons / 80 of them will be unemployed participants aged up to 29 years incl., with secondary or higher education, 155 will be employed, and 285 - unemployed participants over 29 years / The main project activities are: to motivate and inform the representatives of the target groups for inclusion in the project, specialized training for entrepreneurship, as well as individual and group counseling for starting a business. As a result, we expect the project to train 520 representatives of the target groups and at least 25% of them to register companies and start their own business within 1 month after project completion.

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Overview

Status Closed (completion date)
Start date 14 May, 2018
End date 07 Jul, 2020
Contract date 11 Apr, 2018
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Financial information

Total cost 211,001.60
Grant 211,001.60
Self finance 0.00
Total paid 122,963.06
EU participation percent 85.0%

Location

North-West (BG31)