Empowering businesses Seeking Growth

Acronym	SeeG
Project Number – MIS	5070714
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	Commercial and Industrial Chamber of Rodopi
Beneficiaries	Economic Development Agency Bansko Local Economic Development Agency -Razlog RESEARCH ACCOUNT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA
Start Date	Apr 26, 2021
End Date	Apr 25, 2023
Budget	560.707,02 €
ERDF Contribution	476.600,97 €
National Contribution	84.106,05 €
Website	https://seeg.rodopicci.gr/

SeeG aims to create and promote an ecosystem that supports entrepreneurs and startups. It tailors services to their needs, encourages positive media coverage, and fosters connections among them. Dynamic business conditions, however, require interventions in several areas: the regulatory framework, market size, access to labour, finance, and a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. This initiative, noting the inability to intervene at the first two areas (legislation and market), focuses on the latter two. It aims to enhance or enable: Access to and use of ICT tools, a positive attitude towards collaboration and networking, knowledge exchange, capability development, awareness-raising, and a pro-entrepreneurship attitude in society and individuals.
Partners agreed to an initiative to tackle a common barrier. Their target group often faces limited access to support services. This is due to either their geographic coverage or the services' restrictions. They also admit this discourages business creation overall. The planned activities address two main factors. One is the decision-making for new businesses. The other is the success and viability of enterprises. In the first case, the activities aim to improve know-how. They focus on generating a business idea, accessing financing tools, and networking. They also aim to develop skills in areas like risk management. In the second case, the activities target entrepreneurial aspects. They include skilled resources, quality, and innovation tools. They also cover marketing and promotion in the business strategy.
With this in mind the set of activities foreseen, addresses two main types of factors, those determining the decision making for new businesses and those determining the success and viability of enterprises. In the first case, the activities are relevant to enhancement of knowhow, the procedure of generating a business idea, the ability to access financing tools, the networking opportunities especially the accessibility to supporting services and finally the development of skills related to issues such as risk management etc., in the second case, activities are oriented to entrepreneurial aspects such as skilled resources, quality and innovation tools and techniques’ introduction into current procedures, marketing and promotion place in the business’ strategy etc. The services offered are flexible and tailored to current needs and individuals. The project follows three main pillars: careful adaptation, a market-driven approach, and effective capacity development.