About the project “Transnational partnership for employment and growth through pre-incubation and impact investments (PRINCIPAL)"

This web site is developed under project No. BG05M9OP001-4.001-0094 “Transnational partnership for employment and growth through pre-incubation and impact investments (PRINCIPAL)”, financed by operational programme “Human Resources Development” 2014-2020, co-financed by the European Union through the European Social Fund within grant scheme“Transnational and Danube partnerships for employment and growth”.

Project beneficiary: Euroconsultants Bulgaria S.A. AD

Project partner: Incubation for Growth (i4G) – the first private high-tech business incubator in Thessaloniki (Greece)

Total project value: EUR 95,251.86, of which 90,489.27 from the EU and EUR 4,762.59 from the state budget

Implementation period: from 15 October 2017 till 31 December 2018

Overall project objective: to improve the transnational cooperation between project partners from Bulgaria and Greece through the transfer and implementation of social innovations, best practices and partner approaches for identifying solutions to common problems, as well as for building of specific partnership skills in the following areas:
•    Labour market
•    Social inclusion and quality of jobs
•    Building administrative capacity in the abovementioned spheres

Specific project objectives:
•    Identification of 3 working innovative practices from Greece, supporting self-employment, entrepreneurship and the creation of innovative SMEs
•    Transfer of at least 2 innovative practices among the representatives of the project target groups in Bulgaria

Target groups:
•    Group 1: Persons willing to start their own business
•    Group 2: Self-employed persons
•    Group 3: Micro-enterprises started from physical persons as part of the target group

Project activities:
•    Activity 1. Organisation and project management
•    Activity 2. Information and publicity
•    Activity 3. Increasing the capacity of partners and stakeholders for the development, introduction, monitoring and evaluation of good practices and innovative approaches
•    Activity 4. Adaptation and validation of social innovations
•    Activity 5. Dissemination of results
•    Activity 6. Evaluation of achieved results from the point of view of the applicability of the project’s innovative elements