PPC is a business support program designed for entrepreneurs to ease their growth and integration into a market economy. Coaching for the creation and recovery of economic activity. Hosting 45 entrepreneurs, including 14 in the field of agriculture, landscape and natural heritage with organic farming through test activity in agriculture field (fruit growing, vegetables, flavors & scents …) matching perfectly EcoChestnuts EU project.
The Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) is a higher education public institution founded in 1983 with a defined mission in creating, transmitting and diffusing technical-scientific and professional knowledge. IPB is presently composed by five schools, 400 teachers and more than 7000 students. Its activities embraces a wide area of knowledge and technology, namely, arts, communication and multimedia, business sciences and law, education and teachers training, agriculture sciences and natural resources, health, tourism, sports, technologies and engineering. IPB belongs to the European Network for Universities of Applied Sciences.
The Mediterranean Centre of Environment-Greece is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 in Greece to promote sustainable local development based on preservation and enhancement of natural and cultural heritage. The MCE acts in 3 mains domains: non-formal innovative training on environmental issues; sustainable and alternative tourism; and transnational cooperation for natural & cultural heritage enhancement.
The Regional Natural Park of Corsica was founded in 1972. It represents a labelled perimeter that extends over 51% of the island of Corsica. Its management body, the PNRC’s joint union, is monitoring the respect of the Charter established between all the adherents of the Parc. The Charter defines guidelines concerning development, natural and cultural conservation and public awareness within the Park.
The University of Vigo was born in 1990 and since then it has been constantly growing and consolidating. The University of Vigo is a leading university, with excellence as a goal, which is growing as an international reference in innovation and research. Its priority aims are to achieve the highest levels of teaching and research quality, as well as to encourage the search for new knowledge and its transfer to the society, artistic creation and scientific and technological development.
DAKOM is a Bulgarian private organization in the field of consultation of companies in different areas. DAKOM actively works in EU cooperation and one of the main priorities is to put forward and implement project initiatives on local, national and EU level aiming at to foster innovative approaches in all sectors through partners networking, sharing experience and engagement of stakeholders.
The agricultural cooperative of Meloivia was created in October 2016 in order to produce, package, standardize and promote commonly the main local productions of the region of Meloivia, on the slope of the Olympus-Kissavo mountains (region of Thessaly, Greece): chestnut, cherry and apple. The Cooperative has 50 founding members in the area. In 2019, the cultivated areas were 65 hectares of chestnuts, 20 hectares of cherries and 30 hectares of apples.
