Optimistic Report in Difficult Times

This strange but memorable pandemic year is coming to an end. Like any organization that has set clear goals and priorities, the Knowledge, Innovation and Strategies Management Club (KISMC) reports to its members with another successful year.
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At the National Valorization Conference that took place in Sofiа on 18.12.2020, KISMC was awarded a certificate of quality for the successful implementation of the project Boost Aid for Social Entrepreneurship through Training (BASET). Such awards were given to only 40 projects out of 1500 projects in total from different categories, and this project is the only one to receive the award in the field Adult Education.

Since the very end of 2019 and in 2020, we've launched seven new projects under the Erasmus+ programme, remaining loyal to one of the most successful human resources development under EU programmes. Namely, these projects are:

1. Smart technologies by design thinking (SMART)
2. Transition to Industry 4.0 (TransIT)
3. Upskilling Lab 4.0 (4.0UP)
4. Impact Incubator for Nurturing Sustainability (i2 SustainIT)
5. Creative thinking for parents (Creative Parents)
6. Apprenticeship for the Development of Design Thinking (ADDET)
7. Collective Innovation to Fight Climate Change (Fight Climate Change)

In such a way for the last few years since its establishment, KISMC has joined as a partner or leading organization 15 projects in total under the Erasmus+ Programme, 6 of which are finalized successfully and 9 are undergoing.

​By joining these projects, we remain fully committed to the topics that we consider very important for the development of our country, namely knowledge, innovation and entrepreneurship and, of course, the impact of new technologies and methods in these areas.

Being also an active member of the Cluster Sofia Knowledge City, our organization KISMC supports with a part of its HR capacity three quite interesting and important projects that the cluster is realizing currently as a member of international partnerships, namely:

• Media Motor Europe (MME) - Horizon 2020
• European Technology for Sustainability (eT4S) - COSME-GA
• Smart Skills for Smarter Cities (Skills4Cities) - Erasmus+

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As a result, KISMC expanded its international presence in cooperation with over 20 new organizations from Europe, enriched its knowledge and experience in the field of knowledge management and innovation in SMEs, and developed and disseminated new useful methodologies, tools and good practices in these areas for the benefit of the Bulgarian business and the non-governmental sector.