Promotion of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Rural Area of Kavala, Drama, Smolyan and Blagoevgrad

Acronym	PEIRA
Project Number – MIS	5073388
Priority axis	1 - A Competitive and Innovative Cross-Border Area
Investment priorities	3a - Promoting entrepreneurship, in particular by facilitating the economic exploitation of new ideas and fostering the creation of new firms, including through business incubators
Intervention fields	066. Advanced support services for SMEs and groups of SMEs (including management, marketing and design services)
Call	6th CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS
Lead Beneficiary	KAVALA DEVELOPMENT S.A. - DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES S.A.
Beneficiaries	DRAMA DEVELOPMENT S.A. - DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES S.A. LOCAL ACTION GROUP – GOTSE DELCHEV - GARMEN - HADZHIDIMOVO Regional Center for vocational education training to CCI – Blagoevgrad
Start Date	Apr 13, 2021
End Date	Oct 30, 2023
Budget	625.358,06 €
ERDF Contribution	531.554,35 €
National Contribution	93.803,71 €

The main objective of the project is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in the rural areas of Kavala, Drama, Smolyan, and Blagoevgrad by motivating, training, and providing the necessary tools to rural entrepreneurs. This will be achieved through the establishment of four Rural Business Support Units (RBSUs), which will capitalise on the PBs’ experience and other assets to enhance rural areas’ new and existing entrepreneurship. The idea is to provide consulting, training, workshops, an innovation lab, an online consulting tool, etc., as an integrated support, utilising experienced consultants’ know-how to supply them with practical and easy-to-use knowledge (original approach that covers real business needs to support micro-entrepreneurship).