The Center for Knowledge Management, as a partner of the Balkan-Med project: “Education for ideas, inventions and innovations for entrepreneurship– i3” participated at the second meeting of the partnership at CIMM premises in Limassol, Cyprus, on 1^st March 2018.

i3 Press Conference 12.01.2018 MRTV

A team from the InnoPlatform project participated at the International Conference “Alliance for Entrepreneurship and Development in Western Greece” 13-15 December, 2017 in Patras.  Prof. Dr. John Garofala, Dr. Andrijana Bogdanovska Gj,  Prof, Dr. Vladimir Dukovski, Branko Djurovic, and Dr. Ioannis Kostpolus met with representatives from Western Greece region during the firts day of the conference.

On December 12^th and 13^th 2017, the First Meeting of the InnoPlatform Project took place in the Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus" (CTI) Premises in Patras, Greece.

 INNOPLATFORM aims at improving the competitiveness of the Balkan Mediterranean region by advancing existing knowledge on business model innovations and developing a set of tools (InnoTools) and services (InnoScorecard and InnoRegion) for improving SMEs opportunities, capacities, and knowledge in introducing product and process innovations.

On September 28th, 2017 an initial meeting of the I3 project was held in Sofia, organised by the lead partner the Bulgarian Economic Forum.

Five Balkan countries, including Macedonia, will work on a platform aimed at boosting the competitiveness and innovation of business entities. Innotools for companies to implement their new business ideas.

The Balkan – Mediterranean area suffers from market fragmentation, high unemployment and limited labor force skills, actions are needed to foster the entrepreneurship potential by encouraging new business models, especially the ones promoting innovation and supporting internationalisation.

INNOPLATFORM (Innovations Platform and Tools for increasing the innovation capacity of SMEs in the Balkan Mediterranean Area), is a project selected for financing on the 1st call of The Balkan Mediterranean Program.

 On June 27th, 2017, Knowledge Center and the Association of Managers of Macedonia signed Memorandum for cooperation.

Dr. Andrijana Bogdanovska Gj. participated at the 2017 PEP Annual Conference and General Meeting which took place from June 8 to 14 in Nairobi, Kenya.

On May 25th, 2017, Center for Knowledge Management signed Memorandum for understanding with GENSBOX in Tianjin, China.

“Integrated Support Programs and the Growth of Micro and Small Entrepreneurs – The Case of Republic of Macedonia” is the project that Dr. Andrijana Bogdanovska Gj. will present at the 2017 PEP Annual Conference and General Meeting.

Center for Knowledge Management will participate in the preparation of sectoral analyzes within the IPA2 mechanism for CSOs.

On October 29th, 2016, CKM and the Municipality of Strumica organized the closing event of the project “Supporting businesses for young people” where 8 grants of 3000 euros each were awarded to the 8 best business plans. 

October 6th, 2016, Strumica, Macedonia 

The team of CKM organised the first set of the educational training, part of the project for “Supporting businesses for young people” financed by the Municipality of Strumica and the Foundation Open Society - Macedonia.