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About 8,000 SMEs and people who want to start a business were provided with training and consulting services 14.07.22

In the first half of 2022, the Small and Medium Business Development Agency (KOBİA) provided training, consulting and other services to about 8 thousand micro, small and medium business entities, as well as people who want to start a business, in order to increase their knowledge and skills.

With the participation of more than 6,000 entrepreneurs, people who want to start a business, and startups more than 400 free business trainings were organized by SME development centers (KOBİM) operating in 21 cities and districts of the country. Trainings covered business planning and development, "green economy", corporate law, marketing and sales, finance, taxes, insurance, human resources management, export, legislation in the field of entrepreneurship, professional communication skills and other areas.

In the mentioned period, about 1,000 entrepreneurs were provided by KOBİMs with consulting services in the areas such as coordination with state and private institutions, access to financial resources and other directions for the realization of business ideas.

In the first half of 2022, KOBİMs supported entrepreneurs and those who want to start a business in the preparation of business plans for about 170 projects that will cover Baku city and regions. KOBİMs supported the creation of more than 180 new SMEs.

The number of SMEs, those who want to start entrepreneurship and startups who used the video training platform created by KOBİA to increase their knowledge and awareness in the field of business online, and to meet their training needs, was about 800. It should be noted that SMEs and people who want to start a business can benefit from 180 training videos in the areas of starting a business, corporate law, project management, finance, sales, marketing, tourism and organizing the export process free of charge by registering in the video training platform section of the www.kobim.az website.

During this period, 22 entrepreneurs and managers successfully passed the interview and participated in the international training course in Germany within the framework of the "German-Azerbaijani joint program for improving the qualifications of managers in the business community of Azerbaijan", which was coordinated by KOBİA and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ). In total, more than 500 entrepreneurs and managers benefited from the program in 2009-2022.