Second Marketplace in Stara Zagora, 6 November 2012

09.11.2012

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Marketplace for projects and ideas was organised for a second time in Stara Zagora. The marketplace took place in the Youth Hall Stara Zagora on 6 November 2012. As well as the first successful marketplace in the beginning of the year representatives of the local business and civil organisations got together to look for opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation.

The aim of the marketplace is to encourage and enable effective cooperation by reflecting the interests and the needs of the two sectors.

The Stara Zagora marketplace was organised by Tulip Foundation in cooperation with Stara Zagora Public Fund and the Stara Zagora Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the support of Stara Zagora Municipality, Youth Hall Stara Zagora and the Trust for Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe. Civil organisations from the town and the region took place in this second marketplace and they have prepared interesting suggestions for cooperation with the local business as they were offering and looking for goods, materials, services, volunteer work etc.

As usual the marketplace was organised on a voluntary basis with the active participation of people and organisations form different sectors – local authorities, profit and non-for-profit organisations, media, volunteers. Zornitza Diklieva and Dobroslav Dimitrov were notaries for a second time. The artist Dimitar Jivkov was leading the event for a second year. Dimo Dimov from Samaritans Association and Daniela Dimitrova from Stara Zagora Public Fund were the brokers. Photographers at the event were the young people from the Professional High school Lubor Bayer. Winery Svoboda donated the wine for a chaired glass of wine for all participants at the end of the meeting. The local Philharmonic Orchestra provided the traditional gong for the marketplace. The young people - volunteers at the Youth Municipal Council took care for the decoration of the hall and the comfort of the guests.

The marketplace event ended with 47 signed agreements totaling to more than 54000 BGN leva. From the business side Studio Verde /6 deals/, Roidev /5 deals/ and Smolevi /5 deals/ were congratulated with biggest number of realized agreements. Samaritans Association /9 deals/ and Sport Club Gymnastics /7 deals/ signed most agreements among the civil organisations.

Article in Darik-news-Stara Zagora (in Bulgarian language).
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