Promoting entrepreneurship by supporting promising innovative ideas through pre-incubating mechanisms

Acronym	CO-WORKING
Project Number – MIS	5070814
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	A.I.Z. S.A - Alexander Innovation Zone S.A.
Beneficiaries	NATIONAL COMPANY INDUSTRIAL ZONES PLC SPECIAL ACCOUNT FOR RESEARCH FUNDS - ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI UNIVERSITY OF NATIONAL AND WORLD ECONOMY
Start Date	Apr 13, 2021
End Date	Jul 12, 2023
Budget	547.091,84 €
ERDF Contribution	465.028,06 €
National Contribution	82.063,78 €
Website	https://coworking-grbg.com/

CO-WORKING project envisages a set of innovative actions by creating two pre-incubating supporting mechanisms which aim to accelerate early-stage teams to validate the potential of an innovative business idea under real conditions before taking business risk in order to overcome the so-called “death valley”. The project involves among others, training, mentoring, coaching activities as well as boot camps, pitching and demo-day events. The mission of the pre-incubators will be to catalyze an innovation ecosystem in the c-b area, which will bring the local partners together, hence startup founders, industry, academia, investors, and other incubators, aiming to facilitate knowledge and take promising ideas to the next stage, by initiating an holistic approach. On this basis, the project addresses a holistic pre-incubation program in the c-b area. The pre – incubator’s ecosystem will be organized on the base of CO-WORKING SPACE as well as on the creation of a mobile advisory unit. It will be interconnected with the Universities’ Career Offices and with any other constitution related to innovation and social entrepreneurship.