The Alexandria Business Association (ABA) held on Sunday, 22 January 2023 a ceremony to award 8 grants to green entrepreneurs who won the EU-funded ENI CBC MED Green Innovation Project in the Mediterranean “GIMED” competition, being implemented by the ABA in Egypt through its Small and Micro Enterprise project.
The program provided specialized training to 80 early-stage entrepreneurs with green ideas or start-ups who were selected with a competitive approach. The ABA provided more than 400 hours of group training and 240 hours of individual training funded by the GIMED project.
The main objective of the training was:
– to build the capacity to develop business plans for green transformation,
– to develop mechanisms for implementing and analyzing finances and innovation to become market-friendly,
– to help in the development and promotion of the marketing plans