{"id":25578,"date":"2020-10-26T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=25578"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T08:16:24","slug":"business-weeks-new-initiative-sofia-investment-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/business-weeks-new-initiative-sofia-investment-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Weeks &#8211; the new initiative of Sofia Investment Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-25517 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01.png 1043w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-600x343.png 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-256x146.png 256w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-50x29.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Business-Weekly-01-131x75.png 131w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/>Funding opportunities for startups and better communication with institutions &#8211; these were the two main conclusions reached during the first edition of the \u201cBusiness Weeks\u201d initiative. The Sofia Investment Agency team is starting a series of hybrid meetings in the state of a pandemic to outline the main work topics and challenges for the companies operating in the territory of the Sofia Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new Investment Analysis Department team, led by Maria Hristova, was presented at the first meeting with representatives from the Chambers of Commerce. The main topic of the discussion was the impact of Covid-19 on the business. The lack of communication is a significant problem in our work with institutions, Mila Kamenova from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swechambulgaria.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swedish Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SweCham) said. A similar standpoint was expressed by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gtai.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany Trade and Invest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8211; Sofia, represented by Sonya Hristova, and by Dobra Slavkova from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advantageaustria.org\/bg\/Oesterreich-in-Bulgarien.bg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Advantage Austria<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia Investment Agency presented a package of services through which the agency&#8217;s team can help potential investors and startup companies. These are providing up-to-date business analyzes, contacts, partners, and assistance in resolving administrative issues. Presented were also measures to stimulate women entrepreneurs and various funding opportunities for entrepreneurs.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding opportunities for startups and better communication with institutions &#8211; these were the two main conclusions reached during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25518,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}