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A new call for the Raising Starts pre-seed accelerator program in Serbia, which provides startups in the earliest development stages for innovative products and services with expert and financial help for accelerated development, has been opened.

Through intensive lectures and workshops, the startups on the program acquire the necessary directions, knowledge, and skills for developing their innovative business and to access the market, mentors with international experience who went through the global startup path, a grant of up to 20,000 CHF (no equity), and support from the community of successful founders, mentors, and investors.

As such, the program is an ideal first step for startups that have only just ventured into the development of innovative products and services – a springboard towards the market, readiness for further investments, and global growth.

In order to find out everything about the current Public Call, join us on December 7 at STP Niš on the Raising Starts meetup!

You will get answers for all questions and dilemmas, and find out:

• Who can apply?
• What awaits you in the program?
• What has the financial support been dedicated for?

The startups from southern Serbia ВАХ and Beehold will share their experience in participating in the program and how work with mentors and knowledge they gained through the program helped them in developing the MVP, accessing the market, making new connections, and defining the business model.

To attend the event, apply HERE.

The program is being conducted by the Science Technology Park Belgrade, in partnership with the Science and Technology Park Niš and the Science Technology Park Čačak, with the support of the Government of Switzerland.

On Friday, November 18, on the STP Niš YouTube channel, a new Startup Breakfast awaits you, where we will talk about the topic “Education 2 Employment – Presentation of the Paid Work Practice Program and the Upskilling/Reskilling Program.”

The “Education 2 Employment” (Е2Е) project provides technical and financial support to employers from the private sector who need a competent workforce. It is intended for companies who are missing qualified workers, and it will ensure that they acquire the employees through a work practice program lasting 1 to 4 months.

By participating in the project, the selected companies can receive:

• Help in finding and training new workers for the purpose of increasing productivity;
• Professional support in the process of recruiting and pre-selection of suitable trainees from the group of candidates that meet the Public Call requirements;
• Training for the instructors in the company (mentors);
• Professional support in developing programs for training/work practice;
• Reimbursement of a part of the program’s expenses, such as: administrative expenses, theory training, earnings/wages of the users, insurance, protective clothing, footwear and equipment, mentor hiring, materials for practical training, etc.;
• Additional time for training and/or adapting the workplace for training people with disabilities.

On behalf of the “Education 2 Employment” (Е2Е) project, the speakers at the breakfast will be Aca Ilić, Project Coordinator, and Marijana Antanasov, WBL Coordinator. The “Education 2 Employment” (Е2Е) project is an eight-year partnership project of two Governments – Swiss and Serbian, designed to create prerequisites for employing the youth in Serbia faster.

The Serbian Association of Managers (SAM) will visit the Science and Technology Park Niš on Thursday, November 17 2022. A panel on the topic of entrepreneurship will be organized during the visit, beginning at 12:30, where members of the SAM B. of D. and businesspeople from Niš will participate.

The goal of this event is to get introduced and connected with businesspeople and the IT community, as well as the SAM community.

If you are interested in attending the event, we ask you to apply HERE by November 16 2022 at 12:00 at the latest.

The fourth international scientific and professional conference ICUP2022 (International Conference on Urban Planning) will be held on November 9 and 10 2022 in the STP Niš Conference Hall, organized by the Urban Planning Cluster as the main organizer and the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, the Chamber of Engineers, and the Science and Technology Park as co-organizers.

The topic of this year’s conference is Urban Landscape and Addressing Global Challenges.

The three main thematic fields of this year’s conference include, but are not limited to:

• Connecting the City – From Connected to Smart,
• Heritage Inspired Planning and Design.
• Cities of the Future – Urbanization Patterns, Architecture, and Design.

The aim of the conference is to gather and bring together experts, researchers, and students from all areas of planning.

We invite you to attend this unique event where internationally recognized academics from Europe, Asia, and the USA will gather in one place.

On Friday, October 28 at 12:00, you can attend the second lecture organized through the partnership between The Faculty of Arts in Niš and the Science and Technology Park Niš within the “Knowledge and Skills for the Digital Age” Project.

The lecturers’ focus will be directed towards two topics – “Theories and Practices of Digital Media” through which we will be guided by Ana Martinoli, a professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.

Within this lecture, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with modern changes of the media environment and new forms of media production that arose under the influence of digitalization, to hear more on the critical analysis of modern media trends, and also get acquainted with new forms of media, production, and media content distribution.

In the final phase, we will talk about the “Cultural Events Management.” The lecture on this topic will be held by assistant professor Nina Mihaljinac, also from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. Through the lecture about cultural events management, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with theater, cultural, and media systems, as well as the skills from the fields of management and production in these areas. This way, you will gain a wide spectrum of useful information: from the conceptual, creative, and critical thinking, project management, culture and media institution management, understanding key terms of modern cultural policy, through audience development, PR, marketing, copywriting, financial business, copyright, to culture and aesthetics theory, psychology, and history of drama, music, and film.

The event is intended for all creative people, marketers, event managers, as well as people in charge of public relations.

Because the number of seats is limited, we ask you to apply via this form.

This project is being implemented by the Faculty of Arts of the University of Niš, supported by the Republic of Serbia Ministry of Culture and Information, and is being realized in cooperation with the Science and Technology Park Niš.