STATISTICS

BAS programme activities in Bulgaria

BAS Programme has received excellent acclaim by local entrepreneurs, consulting companies, business support organisations and professional associations. The BAS office has established a practice of active collaboration with the above organisations and with ASME in order to complement each other's efforts for the development of local SMEs.

Following the example of the initial projects supported by BAS, more and more SME companies are becoming pro-active in finding solutions to their specific business problems.

Local consulting companies express significant satisfaction with the Programme, which has been recognised as instrumental in generating interest among potential clients and in increasing the amount of work commissioned by existing clients.

The BAS Programme has shown high activity in implementing the BAS Programme mission in Bulgaria.

At the end of December 2006, 567 applications have been assessed and 478 companies visited. BAS Programme Bulgaria has undertaken 244 projects utilizing 2,563,621 EUR . Of those, 209 subsidies been disbursed totaling 1,072,929 EUR . A database of consultants has been set up listing some 175 consulting companies, of which 158 have been retained under a BAS funded project.