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9th International Cooperation Forum

The Forum is organized by Development Agency of the Republic of Srpska and Development Agency of Serbia with a support of several partners from the Region and EU.

This year’s event will be packed with experts who will share their insights and knowledge on innovation, digital transformation, sustainability and other challenges that SMEs are facing and solutions how to overcome that.

The event is a great opportunity to explore new project, find partners and collaborate with others in your field or industry. Participants can meet potential partners, collaborators, or even competitors and share ideas and insights.

Participation is free of charge and registration is open until November 13th, 2024.

The most important aspect of this Forum are B2B Matchmaking Meetings, which will be held on 15th November at the premises of Cultural Centre Bijeljina, organized for companies, clusters and institutions within the  Enterprise Europe Network. We expect that international B2B meetings  will bring together in person more than 200 companies from Bosnia and  Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary,  Austria, Italy, Germany, China and other EEN countries.

B2B Matchmaking Meetings are open for all companies from the following sectors:

  • ICT
  • Metal processing industry
  • Timber and building industry
  • Textile
  • The automotive industry
  • Agriculture
  • Energy efficiency
  • Plastics and plastic products
  • Tourism

Why participate?

  • As purchaser – find qualified Western Balkans and European suppliers during effective one-to-one meetings
  • As market/sales manager – find new Western Balkans and European customers
  • As a product developer – find partners to discuss new technology and innovative solutions

How can you benefit from this event?

  • Publish and showcase your products, projects, services or business needs to event participants
  • Initiate and arrange promising pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings at the event
  • Generate fresh leads and meet new contacts in a time and cost-efficient way
  • Stay one step ahead of your competitors by being seen and visibly present at the event

For further information, please contact at een@rars-msp.org or +387 51 247 516.

Registration form: Home | 9th International Cooperation Forum (talkb2b.net)

Call for proposals – Social economy enterprises: capacity building and business opportunities for social circular enterprises (SMP-COSME-2024-SEE)

This call for proposals aims to deliver on several elements of the transition pathway and the Social Economy Action Plan linked to the need to improve the professionalisation and organisational capacity of SMEs in the social economy as well as social economy ‘enabling organisations’ across several areas:

  • Organisational and management capacity,
  • (Place-based) innovation capacity,
  • Sectoral research and development of market knowledge,
  • Creation or strengthening (local) value chains,
  • Product and service development,
  • Assessment of social economy business model potential in (local) markets,
  • Start-up and incubation for social entrepreneurs,
  • Strengthening skills (e.g. management, employees, volunteers, target groups),
  • Networking and linking to mainstream sector organisations

Legal entities (public and private) can apply for this call.

The budget of the Call is 8 million Euros.

The online information session will be held on October 17, 2024. You can find more information about the information session and registration for it at the following internet address: https://eismea.ec.europa.eu/events/online-info-session-call-social-economy-enterprises-capacity-building-and-business-opportunities-2024-10-17_en

Detailed information about the call is available on the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/SMP-COSME-2024-SEE-01?order=DESC&pageNumber=1&pageSize=50&sortBy=startDate&isExactMatch=true&status=31094502&programmePeriod=2021%20-%202027&frameworkProgramme=43252476

The deadline for submitting project proposals is 10 December 2024, 17:00 CET

Invitation to the VII Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference in the Republic of Srpska

The Chamber of Commerce of the Republika Srpska organizes the VII Conference of Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Republika Srpska, which will be held on October 3, 2024 at the “Termag” hotel in Jahorina, under the title “Through change to success”.

This year, the event will bring together inspiring speakers and experts from all over the world who will share their experience and discuss how changes in business strategies, environment and personal development can contribute to achieving success.

We hope you will take the opportunity to participate in an event that will provide you with insight into strategies for change management, but also always a significant opportunity to network with colleagues and experts from different fields.

Participation in this year’s Conference is free with registration through the link https://preduzetnistvozenars.ba/.

The contact persons in the RS Chamber of Commerce are: Jelena Rodić (jelenat@komorars.ba, 051 493 123) and Sonja Milinčić (sonjam@komorars.ba, 051 493 138).

USAID WHAM project – New public call for grants

 The USAID WHAM project invites all interested and qualified organizations to submit their project proposals to support training centers that train SMEs in the metal, wood, textile/footwear or ICT sectors oriented towards expanding production capacity, reaching new markets and opening new jobs.

 

The call is focused on training the workforce.

 

The deadline for submission of applications is December 11, 2020 until 6 p.m. local time.

 

For more information and complete application documentation, visit https://www.whambih.org

 

If you have any questions about the application process and procedure, please send an e-mail to whamgrants@iesc.org.

PUBLIC CALL FOR ALLOCATION OF FUNDS TO ECONOMIC ENTITIES FOR SUPPORT OF INVESTMENT PROJECTS IN BUSINESS CONDITIONS CAUSED BY THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC

The RS Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship has announced a public call for the allocation of funds to economic entities to support investment projects in business conditions caused by the corona virus pandemic.

 

The total amount of funds, which are allocated to companies and entrepreneurs, according to the public call, amounts to BAM 2.000.000,00 and the funds are allocated through two programs, as follows:

 

– program for business entities that in 2019 achieved business revenues of up to BAM 3.000.000, employ from five to 50 workers and who participate in a project whose financial value is at least BAM 50.000,

 

– program for economic entities that in 2019 generated business revenues of more than BAM 3.000.000, employ more than 50 workers and who participate in a project whose financial value is at least BAM 100.000,00.

 

An economic entity can apply only for one of these two programs, and the total available funds are determined and allocated in equal amounts per program.

 

The public call remains open for 15 days from the day of publication, and all forms for filling out can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Economy and Entrepreneurship, via the link: https://vladars.net/sr-SP-Cyrl/Vlada/Ministarstva/mpp/jpn/Pages/javni-poziv.aspx

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