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Twenty four startups have received further support for rapid development within the second phase of the Raising Starts 2.0 program: Ambrozer, Attention Getter, Arch, BIBO, By Tech, Capsule Game Studio, Collabwriting, Farma Inova, Farmbot, Džigzi, LetzPlay, MatchIT, Meeliana, Natural Factory, ProShot, Safe Waste, SAVEMA, Smartsy, Sport Up, Stambeni savetnik, The Social Formula, VAH, WizArt, Zlatni start.

Each team will be assigned an expert and business mentor depending on specific needs of the startup, with whom they will work on set goals and further development through individual sessions during the next 6 months. They can also expect additional specialized training programs in the fields of business building and startup development, peer-to-peer networking with other startup founders, investors, and experts from the community, and the teams get up to 15.000 CHF for the rapid development of their innovations. 

At the second call for participation in the first phase of the Raising Starts program, 45 teams who have mastered the basic knowledge for innovative business development, market validations of problems, and the field of intellectual property protection, have been selected. At the end of Phase 1, teams and companies have presented their ideas on the Demo Day before the Selection Committee, which has decided on which 24 startups have shown the greatest potential for commercializing their idea and conquering the global market, which will then continue participating in the program within Phase 2.

Raising Starts is the first pre-seed program in Serbia, which simultaneously provides professional and financial assistance to startup teams and companies in the earliest development phases for the rapid development of innovative products and services on the path from an innovative idea to the readiness for investments and entering the global market. The program is being realized by the Science-Technology Park Belgrade with the support of the Government of Switzerland in partnership with the Science and Technology Park Niš and the Science-Technology Park and Startup Center Čačak within the “Technopark Serbia 2 – Boosting Exports through Technoparks” project.

For the first step when founding a startup, one primarily needs an original idea; this was confirmed by Lior Romanowsky, the founder of the Israeli technology company “Spartans Technologies.”

At today’s workshop, he shared his experience in leading big digital products and digital transformation processes with the attendees, but he also stated the key issues when developing a new business venture and what one should particularly focus on when entering the market so that the startup does not fail.

Miloš Grozdanović, the Science and Technology Park director’s assistant, participated in the Culture Center “Banski Dvor” in Banja Luka at the panel “Business Infrastructure – Technology Park” within the 11. Danube Business Forum, organized by the City of Banja Luka and the City Development Agency.

The forum promotes the Danube strategy, and goals are, among other things, directed towards connecting people, ideas and markets, and their needs, as well as building infrastructure and developing energy systems, and creating optimal conditions for strengthening institutional and human capacities and encouraging them to act more rationally and efficiently, promote sustainable development, competition, safety, energy efficiency, environmental protection, social policy, and public and private partnership.

At the second workshop in the “Valorization of Knowledge EU” series conducted by the EU Info Point Niš in partnership with the Science and Technology Park Niš – “Knowledge as the key for business development”, we learned that intellectual property is the core of companies in the 21^st century, the driving force of innovations, the competitiveness and growth of business, as well as an asset for validation and attracting investors for startup companies.

Through the discussion and examples given by Dr. Nedeljko Milosavljević and Dr. Milan Banić, we found out that patents, brands, industrial design, and copyright can serve as a “shield” and/or “sword” and, as such, be the key to business development.

At this workshop, as well as further workshops in this series, EU experts for business and innovations and experts for knowledge transfer will offer their expertise and support by means of a webinar for the connection of research and its application, representing examples of intermediaries connecting knowledge producers and knowledge users, especially small and medium-sized companies.

The Science and Technology Park Niš held the opening ceremony for the Public Call for employers – a platform for workplace training within the “Education to Employment (E2E)” project. The details of the Public Call were presented, as well as the benefits companies expect by participating in this program, after which there was a discussion about experiences in cooperation on the program were discussed in a panel discussion with representatives from partner companies STAX Technologies, DMV, Photon Optronics, and Inmold. 

The main purpose of the Call for employers is to provide technical and financial support to employers from the private sector who need competent workforce, through creating different possibilities for learning by working through the Platform for workplace training for current or future employment seekers, with primary focus on young people under 30 years old, but not excluding other potential participants, especially from vulnerable groups. The E2E program promotes dignified work and will support employers offering proper employment conditions.

The “Education to Employment” project is being conducted by the Government of Switzerland and the Government of the Republic of Serbia, and was conceived to create prerequisites for employing the youth in Serbia more quickly.