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First Meeting of Bulgarian National Steering Group under the New Entrant netWork - NEWBIE

The first meeting of the National Steering Group in Bulgaria under the

"New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture" - NEWBIE Project

took place this month in Sofia. The Bulgarian National Steering Group consists of 8 very experienced representatives of researchers and educators who work for Agricultural Academy and University of National and World Economy, farmers associations chairpersons – National Association of Young Farmers (NAYF) and Bulgarian National Horticultural Union, who are new entrants, advisors from National Agricultural Advisory Service and BGRegioni, NGOs - Society for Territorial and Environmental Prosperity , NBDN (association of business incubators and centres).

BI-GD is partnering in a new Horizon 2020 project for creating a network of newcomers in agriculture

The project New Entrant netWork: Business models for Innovation, entrepreneurship and resilience in European agriculture, acronym NEWBIE, in which Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev is a project partner, aims to address the significant challenge of enabling new entrants to successfully establish sustainable farm businesses in Europe.

The NEWBIE network will facilitate the development and dissemination of new business models, including new entry models, to the full range of new entrants - from successors to complete newcomers to the agricultural sector.

BI-GD supports the entrepreneurship for mothers in a new project - FEMME

Ð¡Ð½Ð¸Ð¼ÐºÐ° Ð½Ð° Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev. BI-GD is partnering a new Erasmus+ project called FEMME - Fostering the Exchange of practices to Empower Mumpreneurship in Europe.

Mumpreneurship is a concept that incorporates Maternity and Entrepreneurship, meaning that involves women who, after becoming mothers decide to create their own business. In Europe that movement is mostly being developed by informal groups of women who feel the need to join into communities with peers to exchange ideias, share knowledge and expand their business.

The partners in the project met in Portugal to explore the pathways to support the entrepreneurship for mothers in Europe.

Season's Greetings from Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev

Creative Fair

Creative Fair under the Creative Entrepreneurship Network Project will take place from 11th to 13th of September in Baldevo (near Gotse Delchev). The experts will support the 40 participating creative youths and representatives of active community centers. At the Fair will be presented and continued the work of the 6 creative ateliers: 2 ateliers for video and clip making - Bulgarian and Macedonian, 2 arts and design and jewelry, costume making and music atelier.

The event is organized by Business Incubator - Gotse Delchev, in partnership of Foundation for development of Small and Medium Enterprises - Strumica.

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