Project creates a community where all entrepreneurs and persons who want to start their own businesses can come and work together.

Pieksämäki entrepreneurial community is a project that creates a community where all entrepreneurs and persons who want to start their own businesses in Pieksämäki region can come and work together. We offer business facilities: You can rent a table or room just for a day or for a longer period. You can also participate in events, lessons, workshops and individual consulting.

The topics during the training and advisory services are to help entrepreneurs to develop their skills in running their businesses. We work together with the entrepreneurship society and the public sector in Pieksämäki area.

The goal is to establish a policy where the entrepreneurs in Pieksämäki region are working together and they are successful in their business activities. The community also offers help and advice to new entrepreneurs and students who are considering entrepreneurship as a career choice.

More information

Teija Skyttä
Project Manager
+358 50 5688897
teija.skytta@xamk.fi

Marika Kiiveri
Project Coordinator
+358 40 1943287
marika.kiiveri@xamk.fi

(on maternity leave)

Facts

Pieksämäen yrittäjäyhteisö, HUB76100

1 January 2017 – 31 December 2018

Project partners

Lead partner: Kaakkois-Suomen ammattikorkeakoulu

Focus areas: Digital economy

Budget

Total budget: € 218 377

Financiers and main source of funding: Etelä-Savon ELY-keskus Euroopan aluekehitysrahastosta