SEEDbridge рroject
Project title: Social Entrepreneurs Exchange Development – Building Resilient and Innovative Digital and Green Enterprises
Project acronym: SEEDbridge
Project ID: 101197344
Project duration: 01 February 2025 – 31 January 2028
Program: Single Market Programme (SMP)
Project objective: SEEDbridge will draw on the lessons learned from previous EYE cycles with the SEED projects, passing on the know-how and expertise acquired to 2 newcoming organizations (Norway, Turkiye). SEEDbridge aims to act as a bridge between 4 experienced and 2 newcoming IOs, in an effort to spread the program and its values across Europe, contributing to the competitiveness and sustainability of European enterprises across the 6 partner countries: Greece, Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Türkiye, and Norway.
Specific objectives of SEEDbridge are:
- To ensure that social, green and digital/tech and female entrepreneurs have opportunities to connect, along with entrepreneurs from other sectors and valorize their skills, opening the path for the cross-fertilization of innovative ideas, aligned with the EU Green Deal and the 17 Global Sustainable Goals;
- To ensure that women entrepreneurs have opportunities to take part in EYE and connect with the other target groups;
- To provide on-the-job training for NEs in order to support the development of their business ideas and help them overcome typical start-up challenges related to business crisis management, financing, strategy, market access and business support;
- To create links between entrepreneurs from underrepresented countries and entrepreneurs from countries with a strong presence in the programme in order to maximize the impact of EYE across borders in a more balanced way. Also, to support displaced Ukrainian entrepreneurs in particular and facilitate their mobilities.
- To promote social entrepreneurship – through the target groups of SEEDbridge (social, green, tech/digital entrepreneurs, female) contributing to the EU’s triple transition strategy fostering growth, more jobs, and social inclusion making Europe competitive;
- To apply high-quality standards to the recruitment and the relationship-building process to ensure that the programme will be available to the right beneficiaries.
Project coordinator:
- Academy of Entrepreneurship Astiki Etaireia (Greece)
Project partners:
- Camara Oficial De Comercio Industria Y Navegacion De Cantabria (Spain)
- Cesie Ente Del Terzo Settore (Italy)
- Chernihiv Regional Chamber Of Commerce And Industry (Ukraine)
- Norwegian Business Angel Network (Norway)
- Ari Teknokent Proje Gelistirme Planlama Anonim Sirketi (Turkey)
Associated partners:
- Chernihiv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine)
- NEA Georgia NEA Genia Astiki Mi Kerdoskopiki Etairia (Greece)
- Crowdpolicy Psifiakes Symmetoxikesypiresies IKE (Greece)
- Idryma Technologias KAI Erevnas (Greece)
- Euclid Network (Netherlands)
- WIN Network Norway AS (Norway)
- Land Impresa Sociale SRL (Italy)
- Istanbul Blockchain Women Association (Turkey)
- Soluciones Agricolas Ecoinnovadoras (Spain)
- Gardikioti Christiana (Greece)
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