START UP Clusters actively participated in National Agency for Regional Development “Support to Entrepreneurs Associations in 2010” project that has just ended.

On August 12, 2010, People’s University Nis and Nis Region Start Up Clusters Union signed MoU on business and technical cooperation, the aims of which are specific trainings for Union members as well as joint implementation of trainings for third parties.

One of the approved activities within “Capacity Building in RCE Nis – SERVICES” project is support to establishment of Network of Entrepreneurs Associations in Nisava District.

On August 6 2010, IV Business Cluster Club was held in Regent Club Nis. It has already become the traditional monthly meeting of businesspeople and representatives of institutions significant for Nisava District SME sector.

The faster pace of Regional Chamber of Commerce Nis toward necessary changes and qualitative approach to staff and structural reforms in accordance with demands of times and its members – all the business people and enterprises from Nisava, Toplica and Pirot Districts – is entering its new phase. “Capacity Building of Regional Chamber of Commerce Nis” project, to be implemented by the end of 2012 by LEDIB Programme, is continued by hiring the “LSL consulting” Agency for Business Consulting from Kragujevac and Ms. Nadezda Tosic, Psychologist, who, on behalf of the Agency, conducted a workshop with five standardized tests measuring abilities and personality characteristics and three questionnaires and individual interviews with RCC Nis employees from August 4 – 6.

One-hundred-and-forty members have registered with the Nis Region Start-Up Clusters Union since March 2010 (attached: Start-Up Union Members Database).

Within LEDIB Programme project for better visibility of Nisava district small and medium enterprises, gathered in five sectorial clusters, “Spajalica” TV show is going to be filmed in Kursumlija on August 8, 2010.

On Friday, August 6, 2010, from 11:00 till 13:00, the Fourth Business Cluster Club, monthly meeting of entrepreneurs, members and partners of Clusters and Start-Up Union, LEDIB Programme partners and representatives of institutions significant for Nisava District SME sector development will take place at Regent Club in Nis.

Through the twinning arrangement between Municipality of Razanj, Serbia and Municipality of Samsoe, Denmark LEDIB Programme has organized a study visit to Samsoe in the period of July 27^th – July 31^st 2010. The idea behind the study visit was to provide inspiration to Municipality of Razanj for starting up projects in the area of agriculture, food production, agro and eco tourism and green energy.

Danish Industrial Confederation, international partner of “Capacity Building in RCC Nis” project, invited a four-member delegation of RCC Nis and LEDIB Programme to participate in the yearly DI General Assembly in Copenhagen in September 2010.