Kick off meeting of project of cross-border Slovak – Hungarian cooperation EYES

The kick off meeting of project of cross-border Slovak –Hungarian cooperation EYES took
place on 12 February 2018 in the premises of the Budapest Enterprise Agency (BVK). BVK is
the lead partner od this project cooperating with the Institute of Management of the Slovak
University of Technology (IM STU) in Bratislava and Hungarian Agency for Export Support
(MNKH) in Budapest. The event had a solely working character but its opening when the
BVK Director Ms. Piroska Szalai gave a warm welcome to the representatives of partner
organisations director of the IM STU Mr. Marian Zajko and director of the MNKH Mr. Dénes
Víg as well as other project solvers and said that our joint capacities are the guarantee of
the succesfull attainment of the project goals. Project provides for this purpose budget
amounting to 233,182.75 €.

After presentations of partner institutions the proceedings focused on deadlines, project
partner budgets and project promotion principles and main project activities such as
organisation of Slovak-Hungarian educational events for the Slovak and Hungarian startups,
startup business plan contest and development of an e-learning platform with education
topics in the key entrepreneurial competencies and skills in English.

After the project meeting was held the „joint staffing“, where all partners presented their
results achieved in the international activities relevant fot the starting EYES project as well
as planned intentions of the future main project events, such as Startup Night in 2018
and Startup Expo in 2019.