Stories from Elbasan
Analysis / Startups in Albania: An expanding ecosystem with challenges and potential
By Eni Muça Over the past two decades, the startup landscape in Albania has evolved from an unfamiliar concept into a continuously growing ecosystem. With a steady flow of new ideas, institutional support, and increasing youth engagement, the country is gradually approaching the model of…
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL GREEN BUSINESS COMPETITION 2024
GREEN BUSINESS COMPETITION AND ITS VALUE PROPOSITION Green Business Competition aims to stimulate and encourage innovation for green business ideas at the local level and explores the role of philanthropy in engaging local communities to generate green business ideas that utilize local resources and revitalize disappearing…
Emigration is erasing this city in Albania
Albania is facing a rapid decline in births, especially in the years following the pandemic, but in the northern regions, the phenomenon is intensifying even more.While births at the national level fell by 10% in 2023 compared to 2022, in the Kukës County, the decline…
InnFest Day Two: “Connect Albania to Itself”
In addition to connecting with the world, we also need to connect better with each other. Online commerce and the internet itself today provide us with an extraordinary opportunity to achieve this. Throughout this day, the best e-commerce companies will be present in the hall…
STEM, the program of the digital generation, announces the winners of the second phase of the project.
The program for the new digital generation in Albania, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), whose application started last year after the signing of the memorandum of cooperation between the Vodafone Albania Foundation and the Ministry of Education and Sports, has completed the second phase of…
Here are the winning startups of €10,000 prizes at JuniorUp!
For the first time, Junior Achievement of Albania brings a competition that exceeds the expectations of previous startup competitions, a unique format with even greater rewards for the winners. JuniorUp held the finale of a long mentoring process on Thursday, September 15, 2022.Blerina Guga, Chief…
How old is Tirana?
How old is Tirana? One hundred, four hundred, or thousands of years old? This year the city celebrated a century as the capital of Albania, but today’s Tirana is not only the capital of one country; it’s the metropolis of the Albanian-sphere in the Balkans,…
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Tirana, now the European Youth Capital officially selected for 2022, is preparing to host the 3rd Demo-Day of its European Accelerator in Albania, Uplift Western Balkans.Our 4-months long acceleration journey comes to its final day on 17 January 2022.Starting at 17:30 until 20:00, our 10…
The director of Metropolitan Incubator identifies problems in Albanian incubators and offers solutions
Pleurat Rexhepi is the director of the Metropolitan Incubator in Tirana, he studied in the United Kingdom for over 10 years, then continued his doctoral studies at Kings College London, through a scholarship from the Fund of Excellence. He has been an internal lecturer for…