This new partnership aims to transfer the operating formats of the WIR! funding project, which is focused on empowering the handicraft sector as a driver of innovation in the Meißen Elbe region, into long-term structures. Prof. Dr. Utz Dornberger, as a board member of the WIR! project and director of the SEPT Competence Center, was elected vice-chairman of the association's board.
SMILE is in charge of the business start-up workshop, which promotes the creation of innovative businesses in the handicraft sector and offers awareness-raising and qualification formats for young talents in the region.