Network

Progetti per l'Impresa heads up U.I. Economic Development within Bologna City Council, which promotes the redevelopment of certain areas of the city by supporting new business activities.

Progetti d'Impresa is a Province of Bologna service that has been dedicated to the creation of new companies since 1989.

The Ferrara Technopole is the place where businesses can meet researchers, acquire competencies and use current technology to innovate,

Together with its partners, the Grameen Italia Foundation designs highly inclusive microcredit programs and supports credit beneficiaries during

Bologna Business School is the business school of the University of Bologna, the oldest university in the West.

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.

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

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

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

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.

CONFIMI EMILIA is a trade association devoted to the representation, protection and provision of business services in the provinces of Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia.

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.

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 Centuria Agency for the Innovation of Romagna is part of the Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network and works to foster the contact and interaction between researchers, technicians and experts on topics of interest to companies in the area.  

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.

The project "Intraprendere a Modena — from idea to business" was initiated in 2001 with the aim of supporting the creation of new businesses in and around Modena