Thursday 30 November 2023 | 18:30 – 20:00
FREE
One of the key challenges for the development of innovative business ideas is access to finance. In many cases, start-ups do not go ahead with their idea because they are unable to access finance. Often, however, their inability to access finance is due to the limited information available to young entrepreneurs on the procedures and criteria applied by funding bodies to select the projects they will finance.
The JOIST open presentation is addressed to:
During the presentation, banking representatives and in Access to Finance experts will guide the participants on the procedures and criteria applied for the provision of funding to startups. In this way, those interested will understand the functioning of the funding bodies and will be able to assess better the possibility of financing their business idea.
The event takes place in the framework of the “U-SOLVE: Urban Sustainable Development Solutions Valuing Entrepreneurship” project funded by the European Union under the ENI CBC MED programme.
18:00 – 18:30 | Arrival and Registration |
18:30 – 18:35 | Short introduction by the Project Manager of the project “Urban sustainable development SOLutions Valuing Entreprenership-U-SOLVE”, Thomas Halatsis |
18:35 – 19:05 | “Financing Startups by Banking Institutions”, Gatos Dimitrios, General Manager – Executive Member of the Cooperative Bank of Thessaly & Tsikrikas Filippos, Credit Director of the Cooperative Bank of Thessaly Description: step-by-step the process and criteria for financing start-ups by banking institutions. |
19:05 – 19:35 | “Financing Startups by Private Investors”, Lambros Kourtis, Partner Velocity Description: step-by-step the process and criteria for financing startups by private investors – interaction with startups. |
19:35 – 20:00 | Discussion & Networking |