The fourth RISE journey has begun!

On the 4th of November in the Public Room, ARNO held the first meet-up and training with this year`s RISE teams. From 31 applications, the expert jury selected 8 teams from Skopje, Bitola, and Ohrid that will be part of the ideation phase of the program: Combo, Biohide, Creative Mind, Travel Tales, Trash Pinger, Celilicious, Vision for the Better Future and Legal Eye. 

At the event, the teams presented their ideas, and members and got to know each other. They were introduced to the concept of social entrepreneurship and heard a lot of success stories of social and green businesses of the RISE program, the Green Ideas Competition, and other ARNO programs. 

In the next period, with ARNO, mentors, and experts, the teams will continue to work on the development of their ideas. In the next four months, a series of trainings, many hours of mentoring and consultations, and regional networking events will follow. 

Take a look at the gallery below and learn more about RISE Journey 4 teams. 

The RISE project is co-funded by the French Development Agency (AFD), the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), and the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union. The RISE project is led by a consortium composed of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO), GROUPE SOS Pulse, South East European Youth Network (SEEYN), and the Franco-German Youth Office (OFAJ), and implemented by six local incubators: ARNO (N. Macedonia), Balkan Green Foundation (Kosovo), Nesto vise (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Smart Kolektiv (Serbia), IEC Tehnopolis (Montenegro) and Yunus Social Business (Albania).