Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna

Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna Place where You can gain support on subjects connected with entrepreneurship It’s a platform that provides possibility of exchanging information between entrepreneurs and public institutions

Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna funding- general features Overall project value: 2,4 mln EUR EU Co-funding: 2 mln EUR Co-funding source: European Regional Development Fund

In Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna we offer: The possibility of renting conference rooms for public institutions and companies Lectures, trainings and workshops regarding setting up own companies and entrepreneurship.

In Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna we offer: Regular trainings prepared by Patent Office, Social Insurance System Office, Mazovian Unit of EU Programmes Implementation, Polish Agency for Enterprise Development

Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna Incubator Centre of Entrepreneurhsip Smolna comprises, first of all, Incubator for entrepreneurs in start-up phase (up to 3 years old). In terms of that, entrepreneurs who come here can: –Hire desk/room for preferential prices –Use conference rooms for their own purposes –Use the whole other infrastructure that the building provides –Use Smolna’s webpage to promote themselves

Centre of Entrepreneurship Smolna holds: One-stop shop Labour Agency Europe Direct point – Information about actual EU Programmes and projects

Labour Agency provides employers, employees as well as unemployed people with information about: Possibility of acquiring funds for setting up companies Partial refundation of incomes Refundation of both equipment costs as well as equipping workplace costs Probations for unemployed, which are financed by Labour Agency of the City of Warsaw Labour mediations

In one-stop shop one can: Acquire information about the possibility of receiving EU grants on both setting up and running a business Get to know procedures regarding setting up a company … as well as set up new company Gain information about any entrepreneurial issues taking place in the City of Warsaw

Projects in realization

Centre of Entrepreneurship role Creation of bilateral agreement between institutions interested in entrepreneurship Fostering the creation of coherent entrepreneurial policy Activities targeted at creative and entrepreneurial people Supporting entrepreneurs who develop their enterprises Activisation and integration of SMEs environment