{"id":2716,"date":"2020-09-21T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:21:25","slug":"balkan-forum-in-thessaloniki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/2020\/09\/21\/balkan-forum-in-thessaloniki\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkan Forum in Thessaloniki"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"section-head-in\">About Balkan Forum<\/h3>\n<p>Promoting the necessary actions for the introduction and successful use of business innovation is a key prerequisite for the economic development and promotion of healthy entrepreneurship both in Greece and in the rest of the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With this in mind, in the context of strengthening Transnational Cooperation, the Ministry of Interior (Sector Macedonia \u2013 Thrace), in co-operation with the Managing Authority of European Territorial Cooperation Programmes (Interreg), took the initiative of organizing the 2nd Balkan Forum with key objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluating the existing business and technology inventory as well as identifying specific needs and shortcomings.<\/li>\n<li>Bridging the gap between research and market.<\/li>\n<li>Exploring the possibilities of developing business and technological networking and synergies in order to make the best use of the existing potential at the Balkan level.<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"en-US\">Incorporating innovative proposals, either technological (process innovation, product or service innovation) or non-technological (eg management innovation, sales innovation) through the presentation of good practices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The transition and consolidation of a greener economy, since environmental protection is an essential condition for sustainable development.<\/li>\n<li>The promotion of sustainable development programmes, partnerships and networks in the Balkans during the programmatic period 2021 \u2013 2027 of the EU funds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"JUSTIFY\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The Forum consists of representatives of agencies from the Balkan countries (Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Albania, Republic of North Macedonia).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The event is going to take place on 25 &amp; 26 of September 2020 and you can watch the live streaming broadcast\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/balkanforumthess.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Balkan Forum Promoting the necessary actions for the introduction and successful use of business innovation is a key prerequisite for the economic development and promotion of healthy entrepreneurship both in Greece and in the rest of the Balkans. With  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2721\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2717\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smile-interreg.eu\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}