Discover our projects
Startup Live
Startup Live is a channel about real startup building – no theory detached from life, no “success stories after the fact.” In the project, carried out in cooperation with InvestGDA and Startup Harbour, we live build a startup called TheChampions.app and show what, how and, most importantly, why, we make specific decisions.
Hey StartUP
The competition is aimed at technology startups from northern Poland that have a product, service or solution at least at the prototype (MVP) stage ready for commercialization. Enables startups to present their product and receive support for participation in the fifth edition of Sebastian Kulczyk’s InCredibles accelerator and mentoring program.
BSR Go-abroad
The BSR Go-abroad project is developing an action plan (blueprint) for micro-enterprises and SMEs to help them expand their business offerings and enter new markets in the Baltic Sea region so that they can grow and sustain themselves there.
Duration: BSR Go-abroad 11/2023 – 10/2026
Total budget: EUR 2,998,300
EU funding: EUR 2,088,600
Norwegian funding: EUR 193,775
Participating countries: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Poland, Sweden
DIGI-INCLUSION
The project “DIGI-INCLUSION – To reduce social exclusion by bridging the digital divide” is implemented under the URBACT IV Operational Program.
The DIGI-INCLUSION project aims to reduce social exclusion by bridging the digital divide. The DIGI-INCLUSION network consists of 9 partners from Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Romania, Latvia, Poland, France and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through various transnational exchanges, networked learning and local activities, partners will improve digital inclusion in the regions.
Total budget for the project EUR 850 000.00
The project will be implemented in the period 01.06.2023- 31.12.2025.
BePacMan – Better Paper Packaging Management
The BePacMan project focuses on extending the life cycle of paper packaging through a cross-sectoral and cross-border approach to reuse in the South Baltic region. To this end, the partner countries will develop sustainable concepts, solutions and business models, as well as structured support for SMEs.
Total Project Budget [EUR]: 1 452 835,00
ERDF funding [EUR]: 1 162 268,00
National funding [EUR]: 290 567,00
Starter Student HUB
A project for students consisting of lectures, workshops and an innovathon on the issue of starting their own business.
The aim of the Project is to awaken the entrepreneurial potential of students at Tri-City universities by providing them with business knowledge and substantive support from experienced business experts. The project is designed to foster student innovation, inspire entrepreneurship and outline career opportunities.
ESG in practice
Classes for Gdansk high schools on ESG (E – environmental, S – social responsibility, G – corporate governance).
Youth Innovation in Practice 2
A several-month project in which young people work on their business idea (innovation) and then present the results.
Youth Business Incubator
This is a project in which we invite young people from primary and secondary schools to participate in educational activities, free competency workshops, meetings with business representatives or participation in the PPDK’s paid summer program (“summer internship”).
Patron class
The aim of the Patron Class project is long-term cooperation with young people from a specific class, which allows for multidimensional development of students’ and pupils’ entrepreneurial competencies and skills, as well as the creation of a meeting space between high school students and experts working in business or in business environment institutions.
The project is implemented with the financial support of the Gdańsk Foundation for Economic Development, whose founder is investGDA.
BluAct II
BluAct is a network of 4 European port cities (Piraeus, Gdansk, Koper and Boulogne-sur-Mer) that aims to exchange good practices in entrepreneurship related to the blue economy.
Project: “URBACT III Transfer Networks Second Wave – BluAct 2nd Wave”, under the URBACT Operational Programme
III (URBACT III Operational Programme).
EU funding of EUR 425,151.20.
IN-Symbiosis
The project “Industrial Symbiosis efficiency for sustainable solutions in South Baltic area” implemented within the framework of the Interreg South Baltic Program.
The project implemented in the “seed money” phase is an initial stage aimed at deepening between partners the skills, knowledge and preparation of tools in the area of industrial symbiosis.
Total project value EUR 40,000.
The project implemented in the period 01.03.-30.06.2023.
Pomeranian Export Broker
A multi-year project aimed at supporting Pomeranian entrepreneurs in export activities, through specialized seminars, missions and economic events.
The project is implemented under the Regional Operational Program of the Pomeranian Voivodeship for 2014-2020, Priority Axis 2. Enterprises, Activity 2.3. Export activity, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund.
The value of the project is about PLN 84.08 million.
More than PLN 64 million is a grant from the European Union.
SB Bridge
Project “SB Bridge – building bridges for green-tech future”, implemented under the Interreg South Baltic program.
The SB Bridge project aims to reduce the gap between higher education and its graduates and the green and blue labor market, increasing the motivation of young people to study and work in the green and blue sector.
Partners: Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden, Poland
Total project value: EUR 1,223,072.50
ERDF funding: EUR 996,999.38
Project implemented in the period 25.07.2018 – 31.12.2021.