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Award for the second NEWBIE winner
The third NEWBIE contest in Bulgaria is not completed yet and Bulgarian new entrants have few days to apply.
The members of the Steering Group and the NEWBIE team were spreading the information widely and waiting for applications of inspiring newbies and believe again it will not be easy to choose the winner. As a journalist of Bulgarian Farmer newsletter said all the 3 finalists of the second contest deserved the first place.
The second NEWBIE winner Mitko Kukundzhiev and his family are very proud of the award and used the award for marketing training.
Mitko Kukundjiev from the village of Yagodina has a small mountain farm at 1200 m above the sea level in the Rhodope Mountain for grazing livestock.
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Award for the second NEWBIE winner
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About Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev
About BI-GD
Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev, Entrepreneurship Promotion Centre (BI-GD) is a not-for-profit organization in public benefit, working towards encouraging local economic & human resources development. BI-GD provides aid to start-up's SME's from Gotse Delchev and the cross-border region through high-quality business services: information, consultation, training and support for micro-financing.
Background
- Business Incubation for start-up's and job-creation since 1999
- Management of micro-financing leasing scheme from 2001 to 2010
- Business consultancy
- Vocational training and entrepreneurship training
- Project development and implementation
- Partnership and networking
Priorities
- local economic development and job-creation
- social entrepreneurship
- tourism and traditional handicrafts
- textile and apparel industry
- innovations and smart economy
- youth activities
- partnership development
Projects
BI-GD's main approach for achieving the strategic objectives is project financing. That is why the organization focus most of it's resources and efforts in identifying needs, targeting, development and implementation of projects.
BI-GD has successfully implemented projects under the European Union Erasmus+, Leonardo da Vinchi Programmes, OPAC, PHARE CBC Greece - Bulgaria, IPA Bulgaria - Macedonia, INTERREG IVC.
Training
BI-GD has a Vocational Training Centre and delivers vocational training for new qualification or the improvement of existing ones due to its accreditation of the NA for VET and the National Employment Agency to provide vocational trainings & key competences e.g: entrepreneurship, marketing & management, economics etc.
Since 2009 BI-GD delivers e-training.
Over 2700 people have passed training in BI-GD through the years.
Services
BI-GD services for improving competitiveness:
> information and contacts
> trainings for SMEs& their employees and unemployed people with potential
> consultancy and advising – enterprise managements, modernization, project development and management
> micro-financing and fundraising for companies and organizations
> web development and marketing promotion
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