Areas: Local Economic Development, SME Development and Business Maturity, creative economy, financing, cross-sectorial collaboration.

Implementation period: April — June 2023

Client: Kamianets-Podilskyi City Council, with the financial support of the #M4EG Mayors for Economic Growth program

As part of the project, "Promoting economic growth in the Kamianets-Podilskyi community" the community will create an organization that will support business development in the Kamianets-Podilskyi community: "Agency for local economic development of the Kamianets-Podilskyi community" (AMER). It will work as a communal institution.

AMER organization will be managing renovated building in the center of the Old City: 2 floors with a total area of ​​1,800 square meters, which will be equipped with an Entrepreneurship Support Center, a conference hall, training facilities, office rooms, meeting rooms, a maker space, a co-working space, a lecture hall, a coffee shop library, offices of entrepreneurs in the creative industry, art space, v art gallery, tourist information and resource center, souvenir shops and local manufacture.

PPV Knowledge Networks Involvement:

• Developing the business model of the Kamianets-Podilsk economic development agency,
• Creating agency launch road map,
• Wrting strategic documents for industry directions.