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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.

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,

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,

Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev organized a partner meeting under the NEWBIE project, H2020 Program on 22-24 May in Sofia. What results are achieved so far and what would be done were actively discussed by the partners. Access to labor in agriculture and access to markets, capital and land are challenges not only for Bulgarian new entrants but for the EU as a whole. The winners from the National contests of NEWBIE innovative new entrants in farming applied different innovative approaches, however all of them love what they do. Everyone looked forward to visiting 4 Bulgarian farms in the Samokov area: the cow farm run by 3 cousins ​​Barzanovi, former successful skiers, Green to Go Farm – greenhouses for leaf vegetables, the organic raspberries of Alexander Nanov and the mountain strawberries of Didi Blagoeva.

The representatives of Regional livestock association, farmers, new entrants, municipalities, district agricultural offices and team of the Business incubator-Gotse Delchev participated in the discussion circle of #NEWBIE project in Kyustendil, Bulgaria on April 2019. Access to land was the focus of it, in particularly access to municipal land in mountainous area. Problems and challenges discussed: farmers could rent less than 1 ha municipal land only for 1 year by a simple procedure, for up to 10 ha they must participate in an open call, where small mountain farms cannot compete with large ones. When new entrants and small farmers rent public high land they put a lot of efforts to remove variety of bushes, even threes and stones during their one-year contract and at the end of the year somebody else takes the land ready because could afford to rent more than 10 ha and suggests higher price.

  1. Presenting the "Strengthening Social Innovation and Entrepreneurial Spirit of Secondary Schools’ Students by Using Highly Innovative Learning System", InnoSchool project
  2. Good Practice of Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev at the Conference "Boosting Growth and Cohesion in EU Border Regions"
  3. Entrepreneurship and business planning training has begun
  4. First Meeting of Bulgarian National Steering Group under the New Entrant netWork - NEWBIE

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