Month: October 2024

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)

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