Venture Garden enters its second stage

The second cohort of VentureGarden has begun:

On Friday the 11th of July 2014 the registration period for the second round of the training program “VentureGarden”  finished and the program received 111 applications.  The applications were mainly from Thessaloniki and the broader region.

The first evaluation stage was in September 2014 where all 111 applicants were interviewed and 67 were selected to advance to the second stage.  

The second evaluation stage was held on Wednesday 17th, September 2014 where the 67 applicants were put into groups of 8 and then in round robin fashion were interviewed by the members of the evaluation team in order to determine individual and social skills and abilities.  The process lasted 3 hours and finally 29 individuals were selected.

The training part of the program was launched on 29th, September and lasted 5 weeks. The second stage of VentureGarden, the 12 months support and the mentoring stage, is about to begin with the mentoring of the first cohort still in progress.