Free mentoring available to enterprises this year as well – Call open until June 1

The Development Agency of Serbia has opened a public call for a standardized mentoring service, meant for micro, small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurs, as well as cooperatives, which will remain open until June 1, 2018.

The process of mentoring is carried out in line with the methodology of the Development Agency of Serbia, developed through years of cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and pertaining to professional monitoring of business development, as well as providing an all-encompassing and timely support to clients.

As announced by the Development Agency of Serbia, interested enterprises will be provided with free services of professionals – mentors, for 25 to 50 hours per user. The entrepreneur and the mentor will study the current operations, causes of current problems or obstacles to further development and the most important potentials for growth together and prepare a development plan based on the state determined.

So far, around 2,000 users have said that mentoring services have helped them in their business, and over 50 accredited mentors are available at the moment.

The public call is being carried out in line with the Ministry of Economy’s 2018 program “Standardized Service Set”, which is realized through accredited regional development agencies. The necessary documentation and application forms are available on the website of the Development Agency of Serbia, as well as on the web pages of accredited regional development agencies and the agencies’ printed materials.

The deadline for the provision of the standardized mentoring service is December 31, 2018.

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