[Vesna Marinkovic Vojvodic]

About the City Development Agency – CIDEA
City Development Agency of Banja Luka (hereafter the CIDEA, CIDEA is abbreviated name of the Agency) was founded by Decision of Assembly of the city of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and it has the status of the juristic person: administrative, nonprofit organization. The CIDEA is the link between the city administration and other stakeholders participating in the local development.
We are the leading institution for the development of the area of capacity development and creating favorable climate for the development of the economy. The CIDEA has its mission to provide support to existing and potential small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs to encourage their development and contribute to the growth of gross domestic product and create new jobs.
The main aims of the CIDEA activities are the following: coordinated planning and implementation of development projects, developed sector of entrepreneurship and growth of SMEs, educated and competitive workforce and developed information system for monitoring the development and influence the results of implemented projects.
The main activities that the CIDEA has been performing are focused on identification and implementation of development projects that are facilitating and accelerating local economic development, development of entrepreneurship and have positive impact on employment rate in the city as well as development of the other projects assigned by the city. Particular attention is given to the projects identified in the Development Strategy of Banja Luka City. In the previous years, the CIDEA also drafted studies and planning documents number of strategic documents related to rural development and SME development strategy. This shows the CIDEA’s strong commitment to the projects that follow approved strategic documents.
We do have developed strong partnership relations with the number of international organizations, foreign public institutions, and agencies. We are working on development and implementation of joint projects with clearly defined benefit for our clients at local level but also with very precise defined impact on global level.
Finally, since established, the Agency has been working on its capacity building. Particular attention is given to the development of sector for international cooperation. Recently, very qualified staff with several years of relevant experience gained working with the EU funded projects has been employed.

[Andrea Smolić]

I am writing on behalf of the Institution for the Development of Competence, Innovation and Specialisation of Zadar county INOVAcija. Our strategic goals are following:
– Enchancing research-development and business infrastructure;
– Creation of a network of economic operators based on knowledge and high technologies;
– Strengthen Zadar County and turn it into an attractive development-oriented economic area.

Over the years, we worked on various projects of a similar nature, delivering successful outcomes. We thrive in collaborative environments and we are open to new ideas and innovative approaches. We have a strong network with a different kind of economic entities.

Feel free to contact us to share project and activities information on: andrea.smolic@inovacija-zadar.hr

Looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Andrea Smolić

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