The third LTTA training under the "Social Entrepreneurship in the Fight against Youth Social Exclusion" - S. E. NEET project, funded by the Erasmus+ program, was held in Cyprus from 25 to 29 of October. It was attended by young people, led by representatives of the project partners from Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Lithuania, and Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev from Bulgaria. The hosts from Cyprus C.D.A.College, Nicosia provided all the necessary conditions to have a fruitful work, observing strict anti-epidemic measures.
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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.
Second InnoSchool Advisory Group meeting was in held in March 2020 in Bulgaria. It was organized by Business Incubator – Gotse Delchev with the support of Regional Department of Education – Blagoevgrad with the aim to present and gather feedback on the ILS elements – serious game, teacher’s handbook, training materials for teachers, impact questionnaire for teachers, ILS competition. The unusual situation necessitated the application of distant communication with the members.
Teachers, students, social and business representatives were very satisfied by the serious game application. They find the serious game interface for students easy for learning, interesting and motivating. The teacher’s interface is accepted as convenient and assuring smooth administration/evaluation of the training.
Read more: Second InnoSchool Advisory Group - positive feedback
Business Incubator – Gotse Delchev organized the first Innoschool Advisory group meeting in Bulgaria on 11th of June, hosted by Regional Department of Education – Blagoevgrad. Representatives of educational institutions, organizations supporting social entrepreneurship and business, students and teachers from secondary schools formed the Bulgarian Advisory Group. Members of the AG are the students Ivan Duchov from High School of Natural science and Mathematics – Gotse Delchev, Svetoslav Novoselski, Plamen Michev and Kiril Lazarov from the High School of Natural Science and Mathematics in Blagoevgrad,
Read more: Results from the first InnoSchool Advisory Group meeting in Bulgaria
Blagoy Andonov from Limo Buls Ltd. is the first Bulgarian NEWBIE winner of the year. Blagoy cultivates more than 120 ha arable land in a remote border region and produces forage for the farms in the area. He has overcome one of the biggest problems in Bulgaria - a very fragmented land and many owners to deal with. Thanks to his passion to agriculture, persistence and personal contacts with people from villages he has made 200 contracts with more than 1000 heirs to rent their land,
- BI-GD hosted the 3rd NEWBIE project partner meeting in Sofia
- NEWBIE Discussion Circle in Kyustendil
- Presenting the "Strengthening Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit of Secondary Schools’ Students by Using Highly Innovative Learning System", InnoSchool project
- Good Practice of Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev at the Conference "Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU Border Regions"