BA School of Business and Finance together with consortium partners from Italy, United Kingdom, Slovakia, France, Spain and Portugal has launched a cooperation project StartUp – Start, run and grow your business. The project lasts 2 years and aims to enhance entrepreneurship, develop the international outlook and the competitiveness of European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and foster start-up entrepreneurs and newly established micro and small enterprises by creating transnational networks and thus exchange of experience and good practice. The main aim of this project is to facilitate exchange of experiences, learning and networking for new EU entrepreneurs through periods spent at SMEs of experienced entrepreneurs in another country, empowering SMEs from all European countries to become more competitive and to support the growth of their companies internationally. The project targets all the business sectors focusing in particular on the sectors already addressed by the consortium that are: Social Economic sector; Research and Development; ICT and Hi-Tech; Training and Consulting; Renewable Energies. 70 new entrepreneurs and 62 host entrepreneurs in total will be involved in successful relationships intra and inter consortia.

DG of reference: DG GROWTH, COSME – Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs.

Contacts:

Aija Rantiņa

Senior Project Manager

BA School of Business and Finance

K.Valdemara Street 161, Riga, LV-1013

E-mail: Aija.Rantina@ba.lv

Phone: +371 67709281