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We believe Azerbaijan’s socio-economic development is closely linked with entrepreneurship and its future development!

"KOB Fest" exhibition-sale fair in Masally Business Council under the AQEM will be chaired by KOBİA in 2025-2026 A presentation of the unified digital platform concept for Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) will be held A meeting held between Azerbaijani and Ukrainian entrepreneurs The next meeting of the "Corporate governance, investments, and corporate social responsibility" working group “KOB FEST” exhibition-sale fair is underway in Masalli Assisting SMBs in improving their business knowledge and skills using cutting-edge technique Competition sessions set to raise the financial awareness of SMBs are held Meeting of the Working Group on Corporate Governance, Investments, and Corporate Social Responsibility to be held Panel discussions on the role of SMBs in the green economy

More than 800 business entities and potential entrepreneurs have attended the business trainings 16.04.24

In Q1 of 2024, 75 trainings have been held, more than 200 consultation services have been provided, and more than 150 business plans have been built for entrepreneurs and startups.

In January-March of current year, 75 trainings have been organized by the Small and Middle Business Development Agency (KOBİA) for the purposes of increasing business knowledge of SMB entities and improving their level of awareness on entrepreneurship. Given the training needs of SMBs, the trainings mainly have covered sales, marketing, accounting, staff management, branding, application of business innovations, preparation of business plan, project management and other themes.

In this period 13 entrepreneurs and managers have attended the refresher training in Germany as part of "Business engagement Programme with Germany" of which KOBİA is a coordinator in order to master international practice. 45 entrepreneurs and startups have benefited from online training videos over the video training platform of the Agency free of charge.

In general, in Q1 of 2024, more than 800 business entities and potential entrepreneurs have taken part in trainings held with the organization by the Agency.

In this period 208 entities have been provided with consultation service for business establishment and growth. KOBİA has provided support to SMB entities for building 152 business plans.