The Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) has launched a training project for 25 people who would provide assistance to small and mid-sized companies in Serbia in the process of application for EU projects, which would improve the companies’ competitiveness through access to European funds.
PKS launched the ACCESS project together with GIZ organisation and companies will be able to use this mode of PKS assistance as of 2016.
GIZ official Jirgen Kappenmann said that GIZ would back the ACCESS project of support to the development of competitiveness of small and mid-size companies in keeping with Serbia’s EU accession.
PKS and the Serbian economy participated by seven percent in the IPA international funds in the period from 2007 to 2013. Serbian companies are still not sufficiently represented in European projects and the goal of the PKS project is to boost the companies’ capacities and knowledge in order to improve this, PKS official Marija Askovic Matic said.
PKS aims to train as many employees as possible in order to increase the absorption of EU funds in Serbia through the chamber system, which will directly impact an increase of competitiveness of local companies, Askovic Matic said.
Source; SerbGov
