A community of people with business ideas to share experiences, challenges, solutions and promote their relationship with surrounding entities.
KABIA is a new initiative promoted by the Basque Government, it has been presented through HAZI to support entrepreneurs who develop their activity or wish to start new business projects in rural and coastal areas of Euskadi, as well as those who are related to the food and wood value chain.
This new space offers a physical and digital meeting point to facilitate contact between people who share interests, challenges and experiences, agents in the sector and entities in the ecosystem that support entrepreneurial projects.
80% of the people who have requested HAZI support to undertake a new business project do so individually. Starting a new business is, therefore, an almost always lonely path in which you have to face numerous uncertainties and doubts, because you do not know where to start or you do not have sufficient training.
This is one of the reasons why the Entrepreneurship Thursdays program started in 2015, face-to-face meetings that encourage contact between entrepreneurial people to share experiences, detect opportunities or mature their projects with innovative ideas. It was precisely in this forum where the need arose to advance the promotion of entrepreneurial culture and the connection between people with initiatives.
The solution to this need is KABIA, an initiative that incorporates all of the above, a virtual space that collects all the material generated in the face-to-face meetings and that will serve as a forum so that the entire entrepreneurial community can be organized and connected continuously and have access to training courses, examples of inspiring experiences, network of contacts, expert advice…
To explain the nature of KABIA, a representation of the people who make it up has prepared a gastronomic dish during the presentation as a presentation of the benefits of community entrepreneurship, in which the ingredients for the optimal result are well-connected entrepreneurial people.
In addition to different agents and representatives of entrepreneurship support entities, the event was attended by Jone Fernández Landa, director of Rural and Coastal Development and European Policies of the Basque Government, who gave a very positive assessment of the launch of KABIA: “These types of initiatives respond to the need to generate reference spaces for cooperation, conversation, the exchange of ideas, learning and innovation aimed, ultimately, at improving the competitiveness and progress of our companies.”
The director added that “the main problems that an entrepreneur faces have to do with the lack of structure to address certain issues. For this reason, meeting points like KABIA are important, created from the personal desire to interact with others and the purpose of actively contributing to improving and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
