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Soroca Business Incubator created 120 new jobs in the municipality in the first 2 years of foundation”

The impact of the IAS at regional level has led to the model being taken over by another municipality from the Nistar’s side. The Business Incubator in Ștefan Vodă was created in April 2012, modelled on the Soroca, and aims to develop the business community in Raion by supporting small and medium-sized business.

120 new jobs in the first two years after opening. During this period the incubator was host to 19 private companies, of which 6 in the field of production and 11 in the provision of services. Two companies have developed and are currently operating independently, covering themselves all expenses. Throughout the project, companies benefited from training, advice and assistance to develop their business.

Entrepreneurs in Ștefan Vodă, for the time being 13 selected companies, will have space for low-price offices and production, as well as training, assistance and consultancy. Thus, with the support provided by the Norwegian project Entranse to New Markets, a group of entrepreneur entrepreneurs in Ștefan Vodă, residents of the business incubator in the municipality, visited the Soroca Business Incubator (IAS).

Residents of Ștefan Vodă incubator have seen viuous as a viable business incubator and how they work together and help Soroca residents among themselves. The directors of IAS companies have stifled those in Ștefan Vodă how the business started, what difficulties they had from the start and how they learned to overcome them. Some Sorocians also shared the secrets of the production, from where they take the raw material cheaper or from where they bought the machine.
Valeriu Ciobanu has 20 years and is resident of the incubator of Ștefan Vodă. He graduated the first year of faculty in Chișinău. Study architecture. Recently it has opened a glass processing business.

Another resident, Leonid Ardeleanu, intends to open in Ștefan Vodă a specialised micro-edition firm that will prepare materials (brochures, books) along the pattern. Make the template, layout, drafting and other necessary procedures necessary on the occurrence of the first copy.

Ștefan Vode is a city with 5 times smaller population and a community less engaged in Soroca. Lucia Ușurelu, Vice-Director of the Entranse project, considers that such projects are needed in the raioans where the economy is less developed.

The Soroca Business Incubator was implemented by the Entranse project as an instrument for economic growth by supporting small and medium-sized enterprises. Entranse is a project implemented in Moldova by the Government of Norway, in collaboration with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Moldova and the Organisation for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises (ODIMM). The project’s mission is to support economic growth, contribute to the emergence of new jobs and thereby contribute to reducing poverty. To achieve these objectives, Entranse supports the small and medium-sized enterprise sector.