CISCO Entrepreneur Institute
 In December, YES Incubator in a cooperation with the Municipality of Gazi Baba started the joint project for delivering Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute business and soft skills trainings for young and unemployed people from the municipality of Gazi Baba. The project is funded by USAID project, Macedonian Local Government Activity (MLGA project). As part of this project 60 young, unemployed people, in 4 groups will be introduced to media-rich online content, including online learning and video materials that will enable them expanding their business knowledge and soft skills and stimulating entrepreneurial spirit among them.
After ending the courses all the trainees is expected to prepare a business plans. The best three business plans (from all 4 groups) will be awarded with financial awards 3000 $.
Here is brief testimonial from one of the participants that already has own business:
 “Personally for me and our company (it is partnership) the most useful were the modules business plan and financial management. One manager and owner of a business must have basic knowledge of these things in order to be able to predict and forecast future trends. I would recommend this trainings to all the people. In our group there are participants that benefit from the course in terms of how to start and structure their business but also the modules are beneficial for those older people that need to follow trends in order to proceed further in the business. Great thankfulness for USAID that funded this project and support young entrepreneurs”.
All young, unemployed people can apply for the courses at: info@yesincubator.org.mk.
Global Entrepreneurship Week
 During the period from 17th until 23rd of November, the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2008 was organized for the first time worldwide in more than 75 countries around the globe including Macedonia. Strengthening Entrepreneurship Competitiveness and Innovation Project and Youth Entrepreneurship Service Foundation were hosts of this event in Macedonia.
 During this week more than 70 events in 10 cities in Macedonia were organized by more than 30 partnering organizations including business start up centers, educational institutions, governmental agencies, municipalities, students’ organizations etc.
This was the biggest entrepreneurship event ever held in Macedonia which was supported by both, the Norwegian and British Embassies in Macedonia as well as eight sponsoring organizations as well as eleven media sponsors.
 All organized events had the same goal, stimulating entrepreneurial spirit among the young people in Macedonia. In terms of number of events organized per number of citizens, Macedonia was the fifth nation that organized most events in terms of population.
Due to its uniqueness, the event attracted great media attention.
New tenants in the Incubator
Two new companies entered YES Incubator in December. The first company is ICT Creative that works as ICT service provider and for the first time in Macedonia will start alternative way of indoor and outdoor advertising by offering interactive ads where the client is part of the advertisement.
The other company is established by young men Risto Gramatikov that will sell PBX based on open source software Asterisk that are much more cheaper from the well branded manufacturers and which are widely used in US and in EU countries. Also, the company will sell video surveillance and home automation systems.
Learn about YES tenant companies
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Vission
The YES project shall become a good practice model for entreprenurship and new firm creation in the region as an approach to developing promising new business idea among well-educated yout. Through its activities, YES will stimulate entrepreneurship and new firm creation among well-educated youth in Macedonia in order to:
- boost the development of the SME sector and
- bridge the gap between existing offers from educational institutions and the needs of the business community |
Goal
The goal of YES Foundation is attracting young ICT people, training and coaching them in business skills, connecting them with the right business partners so that they can compete on the global market and make the ICT a leading industry in Macedonia. |
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Mission statement
The Youth Entrepreneurial Service (YES) seeks to strenghten the local innovation system in Macedonia by stimulating to practical entrepreneurship among the youth by offering complementary activities that will ease the start-up of new ventures. |
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Supported by the Government of Norway, in close cooperation with the Government of Macedonia.
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