Sat, Nov 21 2009
As part of the second round of the project Establishing New Competitive Companies - Project 100, Economy Ministry has announced it would hold information meetings in the period November 6 - 9 2007, a ministry press statement said on November 2.
Meetings will be held in the towns of Teteven, Troyan, Harmanli, Haskovo, Lovech and Montana.
In these meetings the conditions for applying for Project 100 will be announced, as well as eligible activities, the schedule for the project and questions from candidates will be answered.
Application period was November 12 - 23, while decisions would be announced on November 30, Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) said.
Candidates would be trained and have to take a test from December 3 to 14. Business plans would be developed from December 17 2007 to January 25 2008. The plans would then be judged in January - February 2008, BTA said.
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