Office for promoting entrepreneurship
Beneficiary The Municipality of Ełk (Poland)
Partner
Oziersk Town Administration (Russia)
Total budget 204946.18 €
Programme Contribution 184451.56 €
Duration 24 months
Priority 2 - Pursuing social, economic and spatial development
Measure 2.3. Increasing competitiveness of SMEs and development of the labour market
Project ref. number LPR1/010/095
The main objective of the project is to promote social, economic and spatial development establishing and promoting cross-border cooperation between small and medium-sized businesses, business organizations and local governments supporting the entrepreneurship.
Main estimated results of the project are as follows:
- Facility for cross-border cooperation in the form of business support services fully operates in Elk (Poland) and developed in Oziersk (Russia).
- Joint promotion and marketing activities are carried out contributing to the availability of the access to up-to-date and reliable information necessary for establishing of a business, to the stimulation of joint trade and investment through the implementation of marketing actions, to the gathering and sharing of information on the labour market situation in partner regions.
- Knowledge of 30 unemployed participating in trainings on entrepreneurship, fundraising, increased.
- Cooperation between 20 entrepreneurs from Oziersk and 20 from Elk is established.
- Awareness of the social network marketing and innovations in technology is increased.
- Motivation and active job search among the unemployed involved in the project are increased – 10 unemployed have started their own business.
- Number of professional consultations for businesses and individuals willing to launch own business is 864.
- Counselling with total number of 1152 hours provided within the framework of the project.
