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The Municipality built a strong URBACT Local Group, comprising members from Universities, the River Authority, NGO’s, public bodies and port-based businesses.

Burgas were keen to try and use the competition to try to find an innovative idea for a product/service and support entrepreneurs to turn that into a viable business idea.

Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according to a set of criteria published prior to the launch

Necessity has been the mother of invention for a number of European cities, who, faced with Covid-19 restrictions, have had to adopt a range of innovative approaches to delivering online

Business Plan competitions are just one way of generating new business ideas within a city and supporting the entrepreneurs to start-up in business. For port cities, or cities with a strong heritage

Galati used processes and methodologies advocated by URBACT to establish a Local Group to steer their work on creating an effective start-up community and used a process of participatory design, to

Faced with the challenge of needing to organise a Blue Growth Entrepreneurship Programme, the city of Salerno, in Italy, cleverly opted to piggyback off the back of an existing entrepreneurship

Two European cities that are part of a network that aims to stimulate Blue Growth Entrepreneurship (growth linked to the Marine & Maritime Economy) have secured commercial sponsorship to offer prizes

A group of citizens resident in the urbanisation around Praceta João Beltrão, in mid-2020, started a movement to show their discontent with the construction works that the municipality of Braga was