SMEs Support – GAUSS Institute

BECircular – Building a Cross-Border Circular Economy

GAUSS Institute was responsible for establishing and operating the Entrepreneurship & Creativity (E&C) Centre in the Pelagonia region, providing business mentoring services to young graduates and entrepreneurs in the circular economy and bioeconomy sectors. Our responsibilities included the development of a joint cross-border study on the state of the circular economy, preparation of a Regional Action Plan for circular economy development in North Macedonia, design and delivery of five training cycles with mentoring/coaching for approximately 50 participants, supervision of two newly employed business mentors, and coordination of the development of 11 business plans for start-up companies. We also contributed to the techno-economic analysis and impact assessment of the E&C Centre.

BalkanMed E-Business Pages (BalkanMed e-BP)

Digital Tools, Innovations, Projects, SMEs Support / gaussinstitute_scr0st

BalkanMed E-Business Pages (BalkanMed e-BP) — Interreg Balkan-Mediterranean 2014–2020 Transnational Cooperation Programme (Project Code: BMP1/1.1/2608/2017). Total project budget: €717,588.50. As Partner 4 in a five-country consortium (Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Albania), GAUSS Institute led the implementation of all project activities at national level, including the management and coordination of field researchers for SME data collection, organisation of a national business seminar, and contribution to the development of four cross-regional competitiveness tools (export analysis, good practices guide, cluster formation guidelines, and technology transfer guidelines). The project produced the BalkanMed e-BP Web Platform — a multilingual online marketplace connecting exporting SMEs, associations, and clusters across the Balkan-Mediterranean region — targeting a minimum of 1,000 registered SME profiles and 5,000 platform visits. The project demonstrated GAUSS Institute’s expertise in EU-funded project management, transnational research coordination, SME capacity building, and digital platform deployment within the Interreg framework.

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