Balkans and South East Europe

Country Projects Date Funding Agency Role, Project Budget

Kosovo

“SME Support through the Ministry of Trade and Industry”
The specific objectives of this project are: a) To strengthen the capacities of the main Beneficiary (Ministry of Trade and Industry); b) To establish a sound public-private sector dialogue; c) To improve the competitiveness of Kosovo SMEs

FROM
10/2009
TO 09/2012

EU- EuropeAid
Instrument of Pre- Accession (IPA)

Partner,
3.000.000 €

Serbia

“NOWESES – New Opportunities for Women Entrepreneurs in SouthEast Serbia”
The goal of the project is to increase the competitiveness of enterprises run by women and to facilitate the creation of new start-up in view of generating employment for women living in the south-eastern Serbia.

FROM 2011
TO 2012

EC Regional
Socio-Economic Development Programme II (RSEDP2)

Partner, 199.364,3 €

Serbia

“Project Preparation Facility Serbia”
Specific Objective is to increase the quality of project implementation under the IPA programmes.

FROM 01/2010
TO 01/2012

EU- EuropeAid
Instrument
of Pre-Accession (IPA)

Partner,
5.000.000 €

Croatia

“Project of cooperation and economic integration between Lombardy Region and Croatia”
Objective is to provide technical assistance to the Chambers of Commerce, local economic and development Agencies and local businesses on Project Cycle Management, and internationalization.

FROM
08/2010
TO 02/2011

Lombardy Region, ICE
(Zagreb Office)

Partner,
20.000 €

Bulgaria

“Creating project pipeline for Structural Funds applications – Project Generation Facility – Elaboration of ERDF project proposals”
The specific objectives of this contract are targeted at ensuring efficient expenditure of Structural Funds (ERDF) resources in Competitiveness and Regional Development Operational Programmes.

FROM 12/2007
TO 12/2008

EU-EuropeAid
PHARE

Partner,
5.000.000 €

FYRoM

Macedonia

“Human Resource Development Fund for enterprises”
The objective of the project was to improve the prospects of FYR of Macedonia enterprises and economy to become competitive in EU markets and progressively meet accession criteria

 FROM
11/2005

TO 30/11/2006

EU- EuropeAid- European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR) Partner,

1.235.000 €

Slovenia “PRIME –
Strengthening
the
SME Competitiveness
in
the Primorska Region through Networking and Cooperation”

The
Programme was aimed to
design and implement
of on-the-job training programme for a team of local experts.

FROM 05/2003
TO 05/2005

EU- EuropeAid
PHARE –
Cross Border Programme

Leader,

700.000 €

Armenia and
EU countries 		ENTERPRISE INCUBATOR
PROJECT
– “Secondment
Project
Training Program for
Armenian IT
Company
Owners/Top
Level Managers”

Within
this framework GoA,
together with the World
Bank (WB), had developed the Enterprise Incubator Foundation Project.

FROM
2004
TO 2005 		World Bank Leader,

70.000 $

Serbia “TEODORA. A new
initiative
for supporting female entrepreneurship Eurochambres -PARTNERS Programme”

This
partnership programme is
aimed at implementing
new services dedicated to
supporting female entrepreneurship. 		FROM
2004
TO 2005 		EU- EuropeAid
CARDS

Programme- Eurochambres

Leader,

71.500 €

Belarus,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, FYROM,Moldoa,
Hungary,
Poland, Slovenia Ukraine 		Central
European
Initiative – Training
of Trainers
Programme”

The Project
is aimed to
reinforce the existing
or create new
capabilities in entrepreneurial
training for Chambers of Commerce
and Industry, with a specific focus
on services to
support the creation
(business planning advice) and development
of SMEs.

FROM
2000

TO 2000

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Law 212/92

Partner ,

120.000 €

FYROM “Entrepreneurship
development in FYROM”

The specific objectives of
the project were to
provide the staff
of the Workers
University with the skills
to analyze the
training needs of SMEs, and to prepare, design and deliver targeted courses in the field of SMEs 		FROM
1999

TO 1999

European Training Foundation ETF Partner
Bosnia Herzegovina “Workshop
in
Industrial
design and promotion”

The
aim was to provide
assistance to
BIH companies in their
marketing efforts and increase selling on the domestic and international markets.

FROM
1999

TO 1999

EU- EuropeAid
EU PHARE

Programme- Eurochambres

Partner, 199.364,36 €
Albania “Strengthening of the Albanian’s Chamber of Commerce Organisation”
Provision
of training to Albanian
Chambers of Commerce and
Industry staff
in Albania (Tirana) and
afterwards a
study tours for 15
Albanian Chambers employees in Austria (Vienna)
and Italy (Milan). 		FROM
1996

TO 1997

EU- EuropeAid

EU-PHARE
Eurochambres

Partner