KEPA (Business & Cultural Development Centre)

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Overview

Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

Lobbying Costs

None declared

Financial year: Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

6.5 Fte (10)

Lobbyists with EP accreditation

0

High-level Commission meetings

0

Lobbying Costs over the years

  • Info

    KEPA (Business & Cultural Development Centre)   (KEPA)

    EU Transparency Register

    493452716170-95 First registered on 23 Feb 2015

    Goals / Remit

    Business and Cultural Development Centre (KEPA) is a nonprofit, private legal entity, based in Thessaloniki. It was founded in 1991 by the Federation of Industries of Northern Greece (FING) and Greek International Business Association (SEVE), for the implementation and management of Community and National programs or parts thereof for the benefit of private entrepreneurship. KEPA is run by a six-member Administrative Committee, with 3 members from each founding partner (FING, SEVE).
    Since 1993, the KEPA has been active as an Intermediate Body for the Implementation and Management of Programs of Pan - Hellenic and Inter-Regional scope, either autonomously or by participating in appropriate syndication schemes (eg EFEPE, ANEM, KEPA-ANEM).
    In particular, since 2001, the KEPA has been actively involved in the management of KEPA-ANEM, which has been responsible for the management of the programs of OP Competitiveness (3rd CSF III), EPAN II (NSRF 2007-2013) and EPAnEK (2014-2020), f (...)

    Main EU files targeted

    -ESIF, European Structural and Investment Funds
    -Use of financial instruments under ESIF, fi-compass
    -EaSI, Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship axis
    -SBA (Small Business Act) review
    -SBI (Social Business Initiative)
    -Investment Plan, European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), project pipeline
    -Design for Innovation, co-creation

    EU Programmes:
    -COSME
    -Erasmus+
    -Horizon2020
    -Interreg

    Address

    Head Office
    6th klm. Harilaou-Thermi, Leida Maria Block, Hermes Building
    Thermi, Thessaloniki 57001
    GREECE
    EU Office
    CHALKIDIKIS 63
    THESSALONIKI 542 48
    GREECE

    Website

    http://www.e-kepa.gr

  • People

    Total lobbyists declared

    10

    Employment timeLobbyists
    100%5
    50%1
    25%4

    Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)

    6.5

    Lobbyists with EP accreditation

    All Lobbyists with EP accreditation over time

    0 accreditations were / are live (in bold) for the selected state of 29 Sep 2023

    Name Start date End Date
    Ms Angeliki Barakli 08 Nov 2016 05 Nov 2017
    Ms Isabel Salgueiro 16 Mar 2016 15 Mar 2017
    Ms Isabel Salgueiro 06 Mar 2015 03 Mar 2016

    Complementary Information

    None declared

    Person in charge of EU relations

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

    Person with legal responsibility

    Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR

  • Categories

    Category

    Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

  • Networking

    Affiliation

    KEPA is an active member of the following European networks:

    BEDA (Bureau of European Design Associations)
    http://www.beda.org/

    MFC (Microfinance Center)
    http://www.mfc.org.pl/

    SERN (Startup Europe Regions Network)
    http://startupregions.eu/

    Member organisations

    None declared

  • Financial Data

    Interests represented

    Does not represent commercial interests

    Closed financial year

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022

    Lobbying costs for closed financial year

    Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.

    Total organisational budget in closed year

    359,247€

    Major funding types in closed year

    Other, EU funding

    Major contributions in closed year

    TypeNameAmount
    Contribution KEPA-ANEM AMKE 129,206€
    Contribution WORTH (EASME) 38,412€
    Contribution HDC 10,416€

    Major contributions in current year

    TypeNameAmount
    Grant INTERREG GREECE - BULGARIA (REMICRO LOCAL) 84,872€
    Grant INTERREG BALKAN MED (SKILLS4MSEs) 2,000€
    Grant INNOSUPS 21,750€
    Grant RESPONSABILITY (ERASMUS) 14,608€
    Grant INTERREG EURORE (REGIONARTS) 1,067€
    Grant INTERREG EUROPE (INNOVAFI) 57,601€
    Grant INTERREG EUROPE (D4I) 18,363€
    Grant INTERREG ADRION (CCI4TOURISM) 45,004€

    Other financial info

    EU funded projects are Skills4MSEs (https://skills4mses.eu/), REMICRO LOCAL (www.remicrolocal.eu), INNOVAFI (https://www.interregeurope.eu/innova-fi/), REGIONARTS (https://www.interregeurope.eu/regionarts/), D4I (https://www.interregeurope.eu/design4innovation/) and CCI4Tourism (https://kepa.e-Kepa.gr/ευρωπαϊκά-έργα/cci4tourism/).

    For more details about Innosups project, you may look on https://kepa.e-kepa.gr/ευρωπαϊκά-έργα/

  • EU Structures

    Groups (European Commission)

    none

    Groups (European Parliament)

    EP Intergroup on Social Economy
    EP Intergroup on SMEs
    EP Intergroup on Cultural and Creative Industries

    Other activities

    KEPA is also an active member of the following European networks:

    ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network)
    http://www.errin.eu/

    BEDA (Bureau of European Design Associations)
    http://www.beda.org/

    MFC (Microfinance Center)
    http://www.mfc.org.pl/

    SERN (Startup Europe Regions Network)
    http://startupregions.eu/

  • Meetings

    Meetings

    None declared

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