Winners of contest The Best Business Plan nominated in Moldova

Chisinau, 12 June /MOLDPRES/ - More graduates of vocational schools from Moldova have participated in a new issue of a contest, The Best Business Plan. This year, the Grand Prize was awarded to a young woman from the Chisinau-based Centre of Excellence in Vine Growing and Wine Making, which is set to launch the Children’s World Radio station.     

Those 16 finalists are graduates of vocational schools, colleges and centres of excellence, who won the stages of the contest held in Moldova’s regions. Subsequently, they assembled in Chisinau, at the final stage of the contest, in order to share the experience of elaboration of a business plan, in various sectors, including the agriculture, providing services, public nourishment.   

The business plans were assessed by a specialty commission, made up of business people, specialists of the Education, Culture and Research Ministry, Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Ministry (MADRM), as well as representatives of business associations.    

A state secretary at MADRM, Veaceslav Cernat, congratulated the participants in the contest, encouraging them to implement the business ideas. “By these written projects, you have proved that you have entrepreneurial potential. You have opportunity to apply for grants programmes for financing business and subsidies for business in the agro-industrial field. This contest can be a good beginning for a success business,” Cernat stressed.    

At the 2019 issue of the contest, the Grand Prize was offered to Ecaterina Ceban from the Centre of Excellence in Vine Growing and Wine Making of Chisinau for the project on a launch of the Children’s World Radio station. Victoria Petcova was ranked first for a project titled, Workshop of sewing Romanian embroidered peasant’s shirt and stylized shirt. Valeria Vataman was on the second position for  presenting a business plan titled, Production of jam in assortment, and Daniela Boret ranked third for an original idea of producing personalized crackers.    

The contest was organized by the Agriculture, Regional Development and Environment Ministry, in partnership with the Education, Culture and Research Ministry and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Education and Business Assistance (CEDA), with the financial support of the Liechtenstein Development Service (LED).  

According to the organizers, the sixth issue of the contest, The Best Business Plan, was carried out within the project, Training activity in the entrepreneurship and employment field. The project’s goal was to promote the entrepreneurial spirit among pupils from vocational institutions, through the appreciation of the best business plans, worked out by pupils within the discipline, The Bases of Entrepreneurship.