Name:

Virtual Pre-Incubation Accelerator

Acronym:

ViPiA

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Objectives:

Objectives

The aim of ViPiA was to createa training package; addressing "would-be" entrepreneurs in order toassist them in developing their venture concepts to a level that waspresentable/ attractive to potential angel investors, incubators and othersupport institutions.

The Virtual Pre-incubationAccelerator (ViPiA) project aims:

· To encourageentrepreneurship and innovation through the provision of business training, avirtual learning network and the mentoring of start-up founders, in order toenhance new business creation at the pre-seed and seed stages and new businesssustainability in the EU.

· To create betteropportunities for easy and low cost access to continued professional trainingand advisory services for specific target groups including students, unemployedor under-employed graduates, academic or professional researchers, inventorsand women.

·To encourageentrepreneurship within scientific and technical university courses/programmes.This would help to enhance awareness within the research community of theopportunities that exist to commercialise new scientific developments.

Activities:

Activities

Detection of training needsand identification of knowledge and experience of the partners that may be usedas a base to elaborate the pedagogical material.

Development, testing andapplication of an easy-to-learn virtual environment for continued professionaldevelopment of entrepreneurs and managers of innovative and high-techSMEs.