The kick-off meeting of a new European project coordinated by Startup Europe Regions Network was held on June 26 in Brussels. Representatives of partner organisations gathered to discuss key issues regarding project management and implementation.
Start at Best aims to help startups, micro-firms and other SMEs across Europe innovate their workplace and develop fresh concepts that will address change in their office culture. The project will invite and fund startups, micro-firms and other SMEs in the development of new workplace solutions, promote and disseminate results at EU scale and attract more players to the innovation cycle.
The primary goals of the project are to make workplace innovation easy for SMEs and provide financial means which would allow them to experiment. With a total budget of €225,000, the project is aiming to support 30 individual companies or consortia of firms and providers by allocating direct funding through grants of €7,500.
Start at Best mainly aims to:
- Raise the visibility and awareness of SMEs and in particular micro-firms and small companies, on the relevance of workplace innovation for business competitivity
- Develop a repository of startup inspired cases of workplace innovation to help other SMEs form their ideas and concepts
- Promote, fund and support outreach projects for the development of workplace innovation in small companies
- Disseminate results at EU scale and promote the replication of successful initiatives across other industries and European countries
Stay tuned for more details about Start at Best activities!