Network

The Reggio Emilia Chamber of Commerce provides information to new businesses on preferential funding and the requirements therein for startups. From October 2012, the door has been open to new and aspiring entrepreneurs.

INCREDIBOL! — l’INnovazione CREativa DI BOLogna — is a project that supports the development of cultural and creative businesses in Emilia-Romagna. Established in 2010, it is coordinated by the City of Bologna and supported by the Emilia-Romagna region.

The APRE Emilia-Romagna Help Desk is aimed at public or private regional bodies — enterprises, research organisations, individual researchers — interested in participating in European research and innovation programs.

AREA S3 spaces were created to bring young graduates closer to the labour market and to strengthen the regional production system in the thriving and emerging sectors identified in the Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3).

FIRST — Financing for Innovation, Research and Technological Development — is a service designed by ASTER in 1999 with the objective of providing information, insights and guidance on the opportunities and incentives offered by preferential funding.

STARTUPiacenza is the information, reception, orientation, animation and territorial promotion help desk that nurtures startups and the newly self-employed, with a focus on innovative and creative activities in Piacenza.

Lapam is a federation of associations, the only one of its kind in the province of Modena that represents the entire business world: crafts, trade, small to medium enterprises, agriculture. It represents some 10,000 companies, with 600 employees in 50 locations throughout the region.

Sportello Imprese (Business Help Desk) is a portal for the network of help desks and the most important companies in the region.

Lo Sportello Autoimprenditoria is a Piacenza service that provides free information and consultation to anyone intending to set out on their own.

SIMPLER is a consortium that counts Aster as a member and operates within the Enterprise Europe Network, providing services for innovation and the internationalisation of SMEs.

Legacoop promuove la nascita e lo sviluppo di nuove cooperative mettendo a disposizione servizi specializzati, una rete territoriale di sportelli di promozione cooperativa e sostegno allo startup, il sito dedicato www.farecooperativa.it, che propone un percorso di approfondimento sulla cooperazione e tutte le informazioni utili alla creazione di nuove cooperative.

Part of the Chambers of Commerce regional network, Genesi offers tools for guidance in the creation of new business.

Genesi is the Parma Chamber of Commerce help desk for those who intend to start out their own.

GENESI NEW BUSINESS HELP DESK is a Bologna Chamber of Commerce service created to support those who want to start out on their own but have no clear idea on how to get going.

Genesi is the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce help desk for those who intend to start out their own.

Founded in 1979, IRECOOP Emilia-Romagna is a cooperative society that develops human resources and the promotion of a cooperative culture.

The Modena Chamber of Commerce startup information help desk provides initial guidelines on the bureaucratic processes, in particular the administrative procedures, for setting up a business and choosing the right legal status

CNA The National Confederation of Crafts and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is a free association of businesses and entrepreneurs that are politically, culturally and economically independent.

CNA Emilia Romagna represents the region's small to medium enterprises and the self-employed. It offers its associates representation, information, support and services, communicating directly on their behalf with all of the various social, economic and political institutions in the region.

The initiatives it promotes are mainly concerned with training and it places students at the heart of everything it does, aiming to educate them, support them and get them personally involved with innovation and entrepreneurship.

L'associazione StartYouUp (SYU) nasce per offrire un concreto supporto agli studenti e ai laureati che desiderano avvicinarsi al mondo dell’imprenditorialità, in quanto ideatori di un progetto innovativo o mossi dalla volontà di mettere in gioco le proprie competenze. Organizza insieme all’Alma Mater Studiorum lo StartUp Day dell’Università di Bologna.