In the frame of the European Day of the Entrepreneur JIC-BAS co-organized the panel session “Academy-Industry Partnership – Challenges in front of the Entrepreneurs”, which discussed EU political instruments for development of public-private partnerships (PPP).

The panel session also included a presentation of a survey carried out under the ISEE-Mob project on academy-industry collaboration problems, challenges as well as good and bad practices as well as a national report on the inter-sectoral mobility. Karina Angelieva, Director of JIC-BAS gave presentation on “Barriers for Industry-Academia Collaboration in Bulgaria” and “EU Instruments and Policies for Creating Industry-Academia Partnerships”. In addition, Enterprise Europe Network, the largest European information-consulting network supporting SMEs and academia, was presented.