Beneficiary Light SME support scheme-Awareness Raising Events

Beneficiary Light (B Light), special strategic project of the Interreg V-A Hungary-Croatia Co-operation Programme 2014-2020 has been organising a series of Awareness Raising Events in the border area. 

More details with the contacts you can find here on the web: www.b2match.eu/blight/pages/19283-calendar

List of the Awareness Raising Events on the B Light project:

Pécs, Papnövelde utca 5 (Assembly Hall of Baranya County) / 6 June 2017; 15:00
Kaposvár, Ond vezér u. 1 (Somogy-Flandria Incub. House) / 13 June 2017; 14:00
Čakovec, Bana Josipa Jelačića 22b (TIC Međimurje) / 14 June 2017 10:00
Barcs, Hősök tere 1 (BARCS és TÉRSÉGE VÁLL. EGYES.) / 14 June 2017 14:00 
Csurgó, Széchenyi tér 1 (Közösségi Ház)  /  15 June 2017 / 14:00 
Zalaegerszeg, Gasparich Márk utca 18/a / 2nd floor (Conference room - Infocentrum) / 20  June 2017 / 14:00
Koprivnica, Florijanski trg 4 (PORA- Razvojna agencija Podravine i Prigorja) / 28 June 2017 10:00
Virovitica, Ulica Poduzetnička zona II 18 (Poduzetnički inkubator Virovitica) / 21 July 12:00
Osijek, Županijska 4 (Mala vijećnica) / 28 July 10:00
Vinkovci, Glagoljaška 27 (Velika županijska vijećnica u Vinkovcima) / 24 August 10:00

OPENING CONFERENCE and MATCHMAKING EVENT with the Introduction to the B Light project for small and medium sized enterprises and meetings with potential project partners took place in Virovitica on 26 June 2017 at 11 a.m. at the Pannonian Competence Centre for Wood, Poduzetnička zona II 16, HR-33000 Virovitica, Croatia. 

Besides the 54 projects selected within the open Call (First Call for Proposals), two more are currently running in the Programme: De-mine HU-HR II, as the first Hungarian-Croatian strategic project, and the Beneficiary Light (B Light), as the second strategic project of the Programme. B Light started with implementation in February 2017 and is the first project aiming at providing direct support to SMEs, with a significant portion of total programme budget allocated to the planned activities. The grant scheme will see 11.7 mEUR being used for joint Hungarian-Croatian business developments.

The project is led by the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investments (HAMAG-BICRO) as the Lead Beneficiary, and managed together with four Croatian border counties' (Međimurska, Koprivničko-križevačka, Virovitičko-podravska and Osječko-baranjska) regional development agencies, as well as two Hungarian entrepreneur's centres from border counties Zala and Somogy and the Baranya County Development Agency as project beneficiaries. 
 
The project beneficiaries will support joint projects of Hungarian and Croatian SMEs from the border area through open calls for proposals, first of which is to be launched in June. More information you can find on the Programme website.