Services

Do you have a business idea?

Do you want to test yourself with self-employment?

Vivaio di Imprese is the laboratory, the gym where you can learn, have an experience, receive help and meet other would-be entrepreneurs.

Analysis of demand and information

The first contact with the Vivaio di Imprese takes place through individual interviews and listening to the needs and expectations related to the entrepreneurial idea. A help-desk offers information and guidance to the services of the Vivaio and the territory for business ideas and self-employment.

This is the first contact service with the Vivaio di Imprese:

  • To respond to the initial questions stemming from the idea of creating a business or starting to be self-employed;

  • to get to know the tools, opportunities and schemes offered by the Vivaio and the territory.

Get in touch with Vivaio di Imprese, come and visit this service:

  • To make an initial assessment of the objectives and needs related to the business or self-employment idea;

  • to get to know the guidance activities, training and advice offered by the Vivaio and evaluate the best opportunity;

  • to receive information on the services of the territory dedicated to the creation of a business or self-employment and freely consult the information and training material.

the service is carried out through individual interviews that you can arrange by making a telephone appointment on 055/3434284 (Monday 14.30-18.30, Tuesday 16.00-20.00) or on 055/6585121 (Wednesday 10.00-14.00; Friday 9.00-13.00);
by
e-mail info@vivaioimprese.it;
or visiting us directly at Vivaio di Imprese on the following days:

MONDAY - 14.30-18.30 - at Incubatore Firenze, via della Sala 141
TUESDAY - 16.00-20.00 - at Incubatore Firenze, via della Sala 141
WEDNESDAY - 10.00-14.00 - at Villa Bandini Q3, via del Paradiso 5
THURSDAY - 9.00-13.00 - at Chamber of Commerce of Florence, Volta dei Mercanti 1 (4th Floor)
THURSDAY - 10.00-12.00 – at Novolab , University of Florence, Polo delle Scienze Sociali di Novoli, Via Lelio Torelli, 2
FRIDAY - 9.00-13.00 - at Villa Bandini Q3, via del Paradiso 5

Guidance

Vivaio di Imprese proposes interviews and short schemes as initial guidance in order to foster the development of the idea of business and self-employment , to identify the need for support and encourage the accomplishment of a good entrepreneurial project

 

This is the service that focuses on your idea or project for a business or self-employment.

  • To encourage the development of the idea and the choice of becoming self-employed in order to foster the accomplishment of an entrepreneurial project;

  • To highlight the needs for support and identify the suitable tools;

  • to create a network for supporting the project.

This service is free and offers:

  • Custom-tailored interviews by appointment;

  • Short classroom schemes for small groups of people supported by experts.

Training and support
Vivaio di Imprese supports you throughout the definition of the business feasibility plans, by offering training schemes and custom-tailored advice free of charge

It is the service that helps you conceive and implement a Business or Job Plan;

  • to encourage the accomplishment of feasibility projects and create awareness of the criticalities;

  • to motivate and train in the work of planning and organising;

  • to develop suitable entrepreneurial skills;

  • to identify the consequent needs for support and guidance;

  • to reinforce the “working group” and increase the capacity to cope with the variables of “working as a self-employer"

  • to develop relational, managerial and project-making competences.

The service is free and offers:

  • Training schemes for small groups of people, opportunities for individual work focused on the Business or Job Plan as a process and as a tool;

  • Custom-tailored advice, during the classroom sessions and at the end of the training scheme.

Specialized start up services
VIvaio di Imprese supports the birth of new businesses with custom-tailored guidance and specialist advice meetings for starting up;

Advice, support and guidance for starting up a business.

Vivaio di Imprese guides you throughout the business start-up with custom-tailored advice and individual programmes to support all the steps of the start-up

The service is free and offers:

  • A help desk, for identifying and planning the meetings with consultants and specialists in the field;

  • A programme of individual guidance with meetings advising on specific objectives agreed upon beforehand.

 

Community
The community of businesses and professionals circulates skills, experiences and opportunities. Becoming part of the Community means benefiting from useful services for the consolidation of the started up activities, as well as creating and strengthening the contacts and collaborations with other entrepreneurial contexts of the territory.

The community of businesses and professionals circulates skills, experiences and opportunities.

  • For enterprises and self-employment;

  • To encourage, in particular, the growth and consolidation of the activities during the first few years of the new businesses;

  • To support and enhance a virtuous circle of exchanges between enterprises, with the aim of mutual learning and supplying services to one another.

The service is free and offers:

  • The constant spreading of information and opportunities for development (credit facilities, awards, field projects, training courses);

  • The possibility for exchange and sharing of experiences, knowledge and opportunities for collaboration, also through the activity of facilitation carried out by an expert in the business network ;

  • The implementation of actions and events for the promotion of enterprises;

  • The support and specialist advice to each single enterprise.


All the clients of Vivaio di Imprese can benefit from advice
in agreement with the Trade Associations taking part in the project.