Synergy Enterprise Platform Programme
Applications are now being invited for the next Synergy Enterprise Platform Programme, which starts in May.
The Synergy Enterprise Platform Programme has been developed to help knowledge and technology based start up enterprises to get the training that young businesses need. The programme is delivered by the Institute of Technology in Tallaght in the Synergy Centre on their campus.
The centre allows for office space and business supports for early-stage enterprises. The aim of Synergy Centre is to secure the area’s future economically through job creation, innovation and export potential by letting industry interact with academia.
The next Enterprise Platform Programme starts in May 2011 and is taught full-time over ten months. It is targeted at those in the early stages of setting up a technology-based or knowledge intensive business and offers a practical support programme. A wide range of training and advice is giving on critical start-up topics like business plans, financial planning, HR, innovation, legal issues, sales and preparing for outsider investment. The full-time Programme is taught by experience entrepreneurs and small business owners through these tailored modules.
Enterprise Ireland also offers a CORD grant which people attending this course may be eligible for. For more information on this grant, please visit
http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/en/Funding-Supports/Company/HPSU-Funding/CORD-Grant.html.
Closing date for entry to the Synergy Enterprise Platform Programme is Monday, April 25th 2011. However, applicants should be available to start the course from Monday, May 16th.
Please visit www.synergycentre.ie for more information about the programme.