TOURISM
DESIGN
E-HEALTH
BLUE GROWTH
SOCIAL INNOVATION
We focus in 5 sectors of common interest
Greece & Italy share common challenges and needs for innovative solutions!
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Tourism
Tourism is a strategic sector for Greece and Apulia Region. The total contribution of Travel & Tourism to GDP in Greece was the 17% of GDP in 2014
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Design
The sector of design as part of the creative industries has a great potential for the Cross-Border Area. Design in terms of graphic design, web-digital design, fashion design,
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E-health
eHealth is the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) for health. E-health is expected to undergo an exponential growth in the next years creating jobs new services
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Blue-Growth
Blue growth is a pillar for both economies of Italy & Greece. YESS Project aims to tackle innovative maritime and marine businesses by promoting sustainable economic development employment
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Social Innovation
Social innovations are new strategies concepts ideas and organizations that aim to meet social needs with the goal of extending and strengthening civil society. Social innovation includes the
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We want to promote cross-border partnership for startups!
YESS (Young Entrepreneurs Startup School) Project aims at creating the first Cross-Border (CB) incubator between Greece & Italy. Our aim is the promotion of the entrepreneurial spirit and the incubation of new companies and the economic development of the regions. We are seeking for innovative start-ups mainly in the fields of tourism, design, blue growth and e-health. The incubator will provide most of its services both through physical and virtual environment
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Eligible Regions
Puglia, Western Greece, Ionian Islands, Epirus
Our Main Services
Get involved with YESS Incubation and receive a series of services offered for free!
Matchmaking
Your startup will have the unique opportunity to meet key experts, mentors, funds, youth talents and exporters in Greece, Italy and other countries to discuss about potential synergies.
Funding
Gain the opportunity to advance your pitching skills to present your idea in front of Italian & Greek investors.
Mentoring
Our mentors have been entrepreneurs themselves and as such, have been able to challenge and help you further define your vision, strategy and roadmap.
Free Training
The YESS Platform will provide hours of training in key issues like pitching, digital marketing, business development and other. There are going to be organized webinars & bootcamps!
More Product Development
The on-demand incubation services can offer tangible resources to mature your idea without spending your time. Thus, the startup founders are allowed to focus on product development.
Reduce Costs
Early-stage entrepreneurs tend to be on a tight schedule. The virtual incubator can save critical time from your already busy schedule and reduce the transportation costs.
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Who we are
We are an international consortium of partners from Italy & Greece representing academia, business & society. View the team!
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Responsible Partners
Where we target
The YESS incubation targets to inspire the youth with the entrepreneurship spirit and create, mature and scale their ideas.
We want to help startups at pre-seed & pre-incubation level to validate their ideas!
We help established startups to scale and to expand in Italy & Greece, reducing their risk of failure!
We want to inspire young peple with entrepreneurship spirit to mature their ideas and establish their startup!
For this purpose we will target in three different categories of beneficiaries:
a) U-21 Youth where with summer schools and business game competitions we will try to inspire them to initiate a startup
b) Startups at pre-seed level that want to validate their idea to the market in order to receive feedback and create a marketable product. We will help them with mentoring and extensive training to mature their idea so that it can be presented in front of investors.
c) Seed Level startups. Startups at this stage that want to scale, can benefit with key networking in both Italy & Greece and from the YESS Innovation Funding Network where can seek for investors for next stages from both countries.
GET INVOLVED!
Do you want to create a startup that will scale and raise funds? We want to listen your idea!
