January 2007

A new HELP Start-up Center, opened in Bujanovac at the end of January, will provide HELP clients as well as all interested potential entrepreneurs, with professional business and legal advice for start-up or extension of their business activities. Besides, HSC activities will include:

- assessment of clients’ needs in regard to their business ideas, business and vocational training
- preparation of trainings according to the needs of each client in cooperation with local training centers
- encouraging the clients for further development of their business activities
- collecting information about micro credits and informing the clients about the existing credit lines
- networking and promoting the clients on the market

HSC will be coordinating and monitoring the realization of the work for community in the targeted municipalities and the implementation of small-scale municipal projects. Its advisory activities and organization of business and vocational trainings, HSC will conduct in cooperation with local branches of the National Employment Agency, Regional Agencies for SME Development and all local partners involved in SME sector.