young copmanies and green companies

This Good Practices includes two different projects launched by the Entrepreneurship and Succession Strategy of Brandenburg and funded by the European Structural Funds. Since 2004 young companies assists over 700 business creations. The project creates career perspective for young people and avoids the outflow of young people in other regions. Project results are showing that young people starting their business in Eastern Brandenburg are less interested to move to other regions. The good conditions and the strong network they built have a positive influence for the business development.
The incubation programme based on the following principles: awareness-raising activities; profiling and orientation phase; training and qualification; implementation and start up. With several locations in East Brandenburg young companies is the main contact point for young people starting their own business. Each location provides initial consultancy, co-working spaces, seminars and workshops and individual coaching.
green companies supports green entrepreneurs in North-East-Brandenburg aiming on the sustainable sector, mostly direct marketers. This are green products (e.g. organic food); green materials (e.g. energy biomass); green energy (e.g. ecological building materials). Special characteristic is the support of entrepreneurs to improve their business concept even beyond business foundation through workshops, coaching, presention at trade fairs, evaluation and assessment of services