«Startup Marathon» Project Launched in Belarus

On March 1, 2022, the project «Startup Marathon» started in Belarus. The project is aimed at developing and supporting the start-up movement and small innovative entrepreneurship of the country and is being implemented by Belagroprombank with the support of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus, the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian Innovation Fund and the business community.

Owners of a startup idea, developers of innovative technologies and existing startups can take part in the «Startup Marathon» in the following areas:

• AgroTech;
• Creative;
• Fintech;
• TechNet.

The competition program will last until November 2022 and will be held in three stages:

• educational stage (development of a business idea, preparation of a business project model, development of a business plan);
• acceleration stage (working out the elements of a business model to achieve the financial sustainability of the project, preparing a presentation of the project);
• republican DemoDay (presentation of a startup).

Holding the «Start-Marathon» will contribute to improving economic literacy, promoting and developing entrepreneurial activity, as well as to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9 and other SDGs.

More detailed information about the project «Startup Marathon» can be found at the link: https://www.belta.by/pressconference/view/ot-idei-do-uspeshnogo-startapa-o-zapuske-respublikanskoj-konkursnoj-programmy-belagroprombanka-startap-marafon-1430.