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                    ENTREPRENEURSHIP INKUBATOR "RAGAN"

 

The project Construction and equipping of the Entrepreneurial Incubator Ragan was approved from the European Structural and Investment Funds in the financial period 2014. the European Regional Development Fund. The signatories of the Agreement number KK.03.1.2.01.0061 are:  Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts as Intermediate Body level 1 ( PT1 ), Central Finance and Contracting Agency for EU programmes and projects , as Intermediate Body level 2 ( PT 2 ) and City of Novalja as beneficiary of grants from the Funds.

Partners on the project are: The City of Novalja as a project holder and the Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. as a partner. Collaborators on the project are: doc. dr. sc. Marija Boban – University of Split Faculty of Law, Saša Cvetojević- Director and founder of Insako, City of Pag.

Purpose of the project is to provide a favourable business environment for the establishment and development of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, through the construction and equipping of an entrepreneurial incubator

The objectives of the project are:

• the construction of the ‘Ragan’ business incubator,
• equipping the Ragan Entrepreneurial Incubator with modern equipment, which will make it easier for SMEs to access high-quality business incubator services and improve their entrepreneurial skills; and
• knowledge transfer through the establishment of new education programmes.

Project activities:

1. Project management
2. Preparation and conduct of the procurement procedure
3. Construction of the Entrepreneurial Incubator Ragan
4. Basic equipment and equipment with specialised technological equipment
5. Preparation of the programme and personnel base for the establishment of the Business Incubator "Ragan"
6. Promotion and visibility

 

Expected results of the project:

• ‘Ragan’ business incubator built, with a total net usable area of 872.6 m^2, 16 incubation units for future incubator occupants (10 existing SMEs, operating for more than 3 years and 6 newly established SMEs);
• purchased basic and specialised equipment for the application of additive technology ( 3D printer in plastics and CNC machine for processing aluminium, wood and other materials),
• the programme and personnel prerequisites for the start of the operational business of the Entrepreneurial Incubator ‘Ragan’ are ensured immediately after the completion of the project,
• acquainted the general public and the target groups of the project with the objectives and results of the project

The project Construction of the Entrepreneurial Incubator Ragan enables the development and establishment of small and medium-sized enterprises. With the use of business and production space and consulting, information and education services for entrepreneurs, the Business Incubator "Ragan", thanks to a combination of set goals, provides access to advanced technologies to improve their business, which contributes to increasing competitiveness, the number of start-ups and the survival rate of SMEs. Entrepreneurial incubator Ragan will be the only incubator of this type in Lika-Senj and Zadar County.

 

Total value of the project is HRK 7,822,137.29, the grant amount is HRK 7,089,255.21.

Funding programme:  European Regional Development Fund.

Project implementation period: The project starts on 1 October 2017 and ends on 1 October 2019.

Contact person for information and visibility:

Krisrina Vidušin - City of Novalja

Tel: +385 53 663 407

Email: legal.poslovi@novalja.hr

 

 

The third partnership meeting of the project team for the EU project Reconstruction and conversion of the existing Hall 14 into a Technological and Educational Entrepreneurial Incubator Torpedo Production Park was held on 28 December 2017 in the premises of the City of Rijeka. The main item on the agenda of the meeting was the presentation of the Implementation Project for Hall 14, in accordance with the conducted public procurement procedure and the invitation to submit tenders for the development of the implementation project Reconstruction and conversion of the existing Hall 14 into a Technological and Educational Entrepreneurial Incubator Production Park Torpedo. The company MF Arhitekti d.o.o. from Rijeka was chosen as the service provider. Thus, Mr Marko Franković presented the detailed implementation project in question to the members of the project team according to the documentation provided, which consists of the Book of Implementation Projects for the Architectural Project, the construction project relating to the construction and design of plumbing and sewerage, electrical and thermotechnical installations and the cost statement of works. Also, the documentation for the public procurement and the call for works for the reconstruction and conversion of Hale 14 and supervision for the works planned to be published in early 2018 after the CFCA has reviewed it. Other items on the agenda concerned comments for the first progress report on the project and future activities.

On 1 January 2018, the implementation of the project Power (Ports as Entrepreneurial Realm) from the Interreg Adrion transnational cooperation programme began.

Lead partner of the project is the National Research Council Construction Technologies Institute (Italy) and other partners are CNA (Italy), Rijeka Development Agency Porin d.o.o. (Croatia), CERTH (Greece), CCI THESPROT IA (Greece), FEP (Serbia), CDI (Albania), Municipality of Durres (Albania) and CETEOR doo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). An associate partner from Croatia is the City of Rijeka.

Objective of the project PoWER supports the transformation of ports into innovative hubs that are tasked with exploiting their entrepreneurial potential as efficiently as possible. Within the project, a total of 6 case studies (six ports) will be processed, through an original approach that includes an analysis of the potential for EE and RES, improvement of IT solutions, etc.

Project outputs are:

• Unique PoWER methodology to accelerate collaboration between companies and research institutions
• Establishment of the Innovation Hubs Network (IHN)
• IHN strategy for the evolution of ports into innovative habs that will be supported by the ICT platform

The project is being implemented in the period 01/01/2018 – 31/12/2019.