On 14 and 15 October 2017 in Kumanovo within the project “Bulgarian-Macedonian cross-border cooperation for capacity building of competitiveness and innovation” a coordination meeting was held a two-day Train of trainers.
The Train of trainers was led by the renowned university professors from Republic of Macedonia and Republic of Bulgaria, engaged as experts in the project, by MASA and BAN, include the following scientific and applicable areas:
- Innovations and Innovative Ideas
- Challenges and Opportunities to Competitiveness and Innovation of SMEs
- Product Lifecycle Management
- New Product Development
- Introduction to preparation of a project application for EU funds – Logical Framework Matrix (1)
- Logical Framework Matrix (2)
- Sources of funding in Macedonia
- Importance for negotiating in the last phase
- Productivity and efficiency in firms;
- Importance of quality;
- Lean Management thinking;
- Lean Production methods and tools.
Within the two-day training, 12 trainers were trained to guide the future trainings of local firms and institutions to support competitiveness and innovation from the Northeast region in Macedonia and the Kyustendil district in Bulgaria.
In Kyustendil will be held trainings for:
Training of local enterprises (November 3 and 4, 2017)
Lean management management
- Life cycle of the product
- Product design
Innovation and innovative ideas (creativity)
Digital Marketing
Sources of funding + project management + LFM
- Rural development
- Macedonian Bank for Development Promotion
- Fund for Innovation and Technological Development
Training for competitiveness and innovation support institutions (9 and 10 November 2017)
Developing the competitiveness and innovation capacity of the institutions
Innovation and innovative ideas (creativity)
Digital Marketing
Sources of funding; project management
The same trainings will be held in Kumanovo on November 17 and 18 for local enterprises, while on 23 and 24 November 2017 for competitiveness and innovation support institutions.ие на проекти.