Entrepreneurial learning


Business support to start-ups

CSCS offers business consulting services to clients in both private and public sectors. We provide client-side advisory and support services, with an eye to internationalisation, innovation, networking, business management and organisational development.

CSCS offers strategic internationalisation services, operating as an international business accelerator and supporting innovation. CSCS is specialized in European internationalisation and offers strategic expertise in the following areas:

  • development of new businesses;

  • support to networking and to new intercompany business;

  • partner search and scouting for cooperation, distribution channels, partners, alliances and collaborative agreements;

  • market, policy and regulatory research.


Incubatore.net

The incubator is the result of a collaboration among CSCS, an intermediary organization of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme, the schools and the social partners of the territory. 

For aspirant entrepreneurs CSCS offers a coaching service containing, among others, the following elements:

  • brainstorming about the business idea

  • learning how to start a business

  • discussing techniques to grow your business

  • business plan creation and improvement

  • increasing productivity and efficiency

  • discussing financing and fund-raising

  • helping you build strong presentations

  • marketing strategies

  • co-working spaces

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

Further to call for proposals launched each year since 2008 by the European Commission, CSCS has always been appointed as a Leader Organisation of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme.

The programme allows cross-border exchanges offering new or aspiring entrepreneurs the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs running SMEs in other Participating Countries. The exchange of experience takes place during a stay with the experienced entrepreneur, which helps the new entrepreneur acquire the skills needed to run a small firm. The stay is partially funded by the European Commission and CSCS manages all practical aspects: assessment of profiles, finding a match, preparing an activity plan and a project offering benefits to both parties, implementing the exchange, paying the young entrepreneurs, monitoring and evaluating the relationship.


CSCS officially recognised as the most active performer among plus 500 organisations

In 2019, during the event held for the EYE 10th anniversary, CSCS has been pointed as the most active among over 500 organizations located in Europe. The recognition was due to strong engagement in the Erasmus for young entrepreneurs programme and the high number of matches established by CSCS between 2009 and 2019.
Mr Giacomo Mattinò, Head of Unit DG for Internal market, industry, entrepreneurship and SMSs of the European Commission, showing the leaders board

Support for NEs:

  • information about the programme and pre-application interview

  • help for the application (including support for the business plan creation)

  • assessment of the profile

  • help in finding a suitable host entrepreneur

  • building of the relationship and help in detecting the best activity programme able to set up a win-win cooperation among the two entrepreneurs involved

  • online training

  • help with the administrative aspects (contract signature, check of registers of presences, etc.)

  • monitoring of the exchange

  • final evaluation of the exchange 


Support for HEs:

  • information about the programme and pre-application interview

  • help for the application

  • assessment of the profile

  • help in finding a suitable new entrepreneur

  • building of the relationship and help in detecting the best activity programme able to set up a win-win cooperation among the two entrepreneurs involved

  • help with the administrative aspects (contract signature, compliance with all rules and regulations foreseen by the law etc.)

  • monitoring of the exchange

  • final evaluation of the exchange


Since 2009 the Entrepreneurs’ Mobility consortium led by CSCS facilitated over 1.100 successful business exchanges. CSCS alone facilitated over 200 successful exchanges. Out of these, 114 exchanges involved young entrepreneurs and 112 exchanges involved host entrepreneurs.



After the stay abroad of the young Italian entrepreneurs, CSCS built a series of after care services in order to help beneficiaries of the EYE Programme to remain focused on their business idea and allow them to exploit all the skills acquired and the entrepreneurial potential they’ve accumulated during the experience just done:

  • information about potential sources of financing

  • last adjustments to the business plan, if needed

  • business development action plan

  • contact with startup communities: cross-pollination of ideas can make your business stronger. Incubation programmes, hubs, clusters can help you so much

Other services for young businesses

    While many economic development efforts focus on very early stages, businesses often need help during their 2nd year of activity. The “economic gardening approach” provides technical assistance to companies with 1 to 10 employees during the last semester of the first year and all through the second year of activity with the aim to help companies grow larger and create more jobs. 

    This can include:

    • marketing strategies

    • networking

    • technology scouting

    • increasing productivity and efficiency

    • cooperation agreements / intercompany business, networks of companies

    • further mentoring by an experienced entrepreneur , etc.