Support for cooperation and development

Acronym	SCD
Project Number – MIS	5073428
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	MECHI CHAL-ROZHEN
Beneficiaries	SPECIAL ACCOUNT FOR RESEARCH FUNDS OF DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE Rodopi Chamber of Professionals and Handicrafts
Start Date	Apr 26, 2021
End Date	Apr 25, 2023
Budget	623.697,19 €
ERDF Contribution	530.142,61 €
National Contribution	93.554,58 €
Website	https://scd6276.eu/

The overall goal of the project is to provide information in many aspects that meet the main challenges that entrepreneurs in the area face, to strengthen the factors influencing entrepreneurial success, to stimulate business survival, and to promote entrepreneurial culture, including the creation of new businesses and the start-up of new companies (start-ups). Information will be presented that will be useful to any type of business, but will focus on priority sectors: Agro-food industry, Waste management for recycling or energy, Renewable energy and energy saving, Sustainable tourism, Health, Materials - Technology, Textile industry.In this project we will strive to overcome the following challenges: Difficulties in obtaining business finance, Limited access of entrepreneurs to business know-how and to general information and contacts. We will overcome the lack of support services for developing competitive products-services and access / know-how regarding cost saving technologies and inadequate human development and skills.
The main result of this project is the creation of an online platform to be a major source of information for entrepreneurs in the regions, it will also connect companies and help start a sustainable new business by new entrepreneurs.