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Presenting the "Strengthening Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit of Secondary Schools’ Students by Using Highly Innovative Learning System", InnoSchool project

On 31.10.2018 in Blagoevgrad there was held the first public event in Bulgaria under the "Strengthening Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit of Secondary Schools’ Students by Using Highly Innovative Learning System", InnoSchool project. It was organized by the project partner Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev, Entrepreneurship Promotion Centre with the active support of the second Bulgarian partner - Regional Department of Education – Blagoevgrad and gathered more than 40 participants - teachers, school principals, representatives of public institutions, NGOs, media, stakeholders from different places of South-Western Bulgaria.

At the event there were presented the objectives, innovative components and main activities of the project, the expected results and impact in the secondary schools.

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Project Background:

Entrepreneurship

Self-employment, job-creation, business development, entrepreneurship environment development and RIS3 projects

Youth

Youth activities, skills acquisition and human resources development, youth exchange, innovations

Tourism

Tourism development at regional, cross-border, and EU level

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

Main activities

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