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1. CONCEPT NOTE AND OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK EUROPEAN UNION-DARKHAN INNOVATION &
ENTRPRENAURSHIP HUB
WHAT IS EUROPEAN UNION-DARKHAN INNOVATION & ENTRPRENAURSHIP HUB
The Darkhan-Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub (DIEH) will be an Independent Body of School of
Agroecology and Business, Mongolian University of Life Science, Darkhan City (SAB-MULS, Darkhan City) within
the Darkhan-Uul Provincial Administration to deliver the goals of innovation through intervention of education,
science, research, and diffusion of technology across province and in the regions of Mongolia. The Hub is
established under the Friendship Project, Co-funded by European Union, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub
will create alliance, coalitions, and partnerships to deliver long-term economic and prosperity goals of Province
of Darkhan- Uul beyond the lifetime of Friendship Project and partnerships.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE
To set-up, operationalise and deliver a long-term, permanent, institutional innovation and entrepreneurship
platform-European Union- Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship (EU-DIEH) Hub and or Darkhan-Innovation
and Entrepreneurship (DIEH) Hub to lead start-up and innovation ecosystem in Bagh, Soum and Aimag to create
a regional and territorial economic development and prosperity through registration of new innovation activities,
product and services, start-ups, SMEs and corporations delivering jobs, green growth and sustainable prosperity.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1.To plan, initiate and establish Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship (DIEH) Hub at School of Agroecology &
Business, Mongolian University of Life Science, Darkhan City to foster, nurture, with an objective to create a
culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Darkhan-Uul Province through the scheme and programme of
sensitization, ideation, incubation, acceleration, and seed funding schemes.
2.To deliver diversity in innovation and entrepreneurship activities and products in Darkhan-Uul Province to create
more vigorous and vibrant innovation ecosystem and culture through the combination of education, research,
innovation, information system and collaboration to accelerate and scale up business creation and registration
services to promote economic development through new start up, SMEs and corporations in Darkhan City and its
provinces.
3. To boost and enhance the innovation capacity of startup through delivery of capacity building, mentoring,
networking, advisory, investment, physical space, R & D lab support and integration to international market.
The Hub will also intend to build their own capacities on social, tech, business innovation and entrepreneurship
by setting up alliances and partnerships with international innovation ecosystem to access tools, educations,
research, R & D and financial resources to support and accelerate the deployment of innovation strategies in
Darkhan-Uul and Other provinces of Mongolia.
4. To provide organisational and entrepreneurial support services for individual and organisations to accelerate
the economic growth of Darkhan-Uul Province and regions of Mongolia with focus in the priorities of
strengthening urban governance, ensuring social inclusion, improving resilience and greening of cities and
regions, fostering prosperity and innovations.
5. To work in synergies with INTER-REGIONAL DARKHAN-EU FORUM (IDEF) and act as a Think Tank with
Consulting and Advisory Support Service for DARKHAN-EU PROJECT PREPARATION INVESTMENT FACILITATION
CELL for Cluster Collaboration, matchmaking and to promote MAKE IN DARKHAN and INVEST IN DARKHAN
programme.

2. 6. To be launching pad for creating Sustainable Innovation Communities (SICs) covering good governance, social
inclusion, resilience, greening of cities, prosperity & innovations with sector critical to sustainable cities and
socioeconomic transformational challenges.
To organise and deliver cluster of innovation support services and scheme, including, ideation, hackathon,
bootcamp, incubation, acceleration, challenges, awards, fund raising, investor forums and international exchange
programme and exposure visits among countries to access market and finance for internationalisations.
SCOPE OF DOCUMENT: OPERATIONAL FRAMEWORK
Phase 1- February, 2022- January, 2025
Phase 2- February, 2025 – December, 2030
HOW THE GOVERNANCE OF EUROPEAN UNION-DARKHAN INNOVATION & ENTRPRENAURSHIP HUB
WILL BE STRUCTRED:
For a Creative, innovative, and accountable governance structure SAB MULS will integrate the team with
different tiers. The Governing Board will be proposed and nominated which will provide strategic direction to
DIEH and lead the Sustainable Innovation Communities and DIEH Secretariat for the delivery of commitment
within FRIENDSHIP Project and for long -term Framework Strategy implementation up to 2030
The Headquarter of EU-DIEH will at School of Agroecology and Business, Mongolian University of Life Sciences,
University Street, 15th Bagh, Darkhan soum, Darkhan-Uul province, Mongolia.
TRANSITION PLAN FROM EU-DIEH TO EDIEC
The center is organized as part of the Nairamdal project and will be a project implementer throughout the project.
In terms of legal entities, it shall be an NGO at the School of Agro-Ecology and Business of the Mongolian
University of Life Sciences. The founders of EDIEC are the School of Agro-Ecology and Business of the Mongolian
University of Life Sciences and the “Friendship” project
Staffs for EU-DIEH
The center will be the primary unit implementing the “Friendship” project and will have seven staff members
during the project period in accordance with the main project contract. The job descriptions of the employees
shall be specified in the job description. A part-time consultant may be hired as a matter of urgency. The schedule
of part-time consultants will be regulated and be independent of project funding. The salaries of full-time
employees will be funded by the project during the project implementation period and financed by its operations
after the project completion. The advantage of the Friendship Project is expected that resource support will be
available for getting experience and consulting services from highly skilled professionals and entrepreneurs from
the European Union.

3. THE DIEH GOVERNANCE
The Board shall include representatives from the following organizations and businesses: The board consists of
7 members. The board aims to include representatives from the FRIENDSHIP project, government, private
sector, research organizations, professional associations, citizens, and universities.
• Representatives of business organizations-1
• Experienced consultant-1
• Public Administration -Development Policy Department -1
• Representatives of professional associations and businesses /CCT/-1
• Representatives of universities and colleges /CUC/-1
• Representatives of research organizations /IPAS/-1
• Citizens' Representative /Businessman or businesswoman/-1
It is planned that the RULE of NGO will regulate the rights and responsibilities of the board members
for EDIEC.
The EUROPEAN UNION-DARKHAN INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB, created within the framework of
FRIENDSHIP Project- Co-funded by European Union will ignite and catalyse Darkhan-Uul’s ability to innovate,
incubate, accelerate to create an ecosystem and culture for new and sustainable economic activities, businesses
and enterprises. The DEIH will be core of FRIENDSHIP Projects’ will be an Integral Part of IINTER-REGIONAL
DARKHAN-EU FORUM (IDEF) and will also work to implement the recommendations and plan based on Rapid
Assessment Report- Joint Area of Cooperation (RAR JAC). The Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub is
a flagship initiative of the FRIENDSHIP Project and will be institutionalised to create and Provincial Level (Darkhan-
Uul Province) ecosystem for nurturing innovation and Startups’ in the province that will drive sustainable
economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. The Provincial Government of Darkhan-
Uul through this initiative will aims to empower Startups to grow through innovation and design by announcing
and issuing suitable policy, incentives, and a facilitation cell. It is expected, within the FRIENDSHIP Project
Director -1
Office manager-1
Entreprenuership
coordinator-1
Business
development
officer-1
Project assistant-
1
Documentation
officer-1
Start-up
coordinator-1

4. implementation period, through collaborative engagement between EU Institutions and International expertise,
Darkhan-Uul Province will announce a more clear and detailed action Plan that will address all aspects of the
Startups’ ecosystem.
It is expected that the more enabling provincial and region-specific policies will accelerate local action on startup
ecosystem beyond FREINDSHIP Project and will intervene in governance, greening & resilience, social inclusion
and prosperity through innovation and smart urbanisation and industrial development.
The DIEH will be expanded to cover other provincial soum like: Orkhon, Darkhan, Sharyngol and Khongor and to
other regions and provinces of Mongolia in near and long-term. It is expected that DIEH will work for both Urban
and Rural Innovation to ensure access to equal economic opportunities and to protect the rural and nomadic
culture of Mongolia without undermining the aspirations of local communities.
The Action Plan is divided across the following areas: scouting and handholding support • seed funding and •
Industry- Government- Academia Partnership for economic development priorities.
WHAT IS THE MISSION, VISSION AND VALUES OF EU-DARKHAN INNOVATION & ENTREPRENAURSHIP HUB
VISION:
To demonstrate and strive for excellence by contributing in the development of sustainable, inclusive economy
by leading the innovation ecosystem delivering solutions, practices, industries and services to address the
environment, social and governance challenges of regional economic development.
MISSION:
 To enhance and institutionalize the culture of sustainable competitiveness of the Darkhan-Uul Province
Economy aligned with green growth principle and localization of Sustainable Development Goals.
 To provide a platform for multistakeholder engagement for accelerating innovation and
entrepreneurship through interregional cooperation among science, technology, education, research,
business, government, and citizens stakeholder.
WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION COMMUNITIES (SICs)
The DIEH will engage and set up multistakeholder partnerships representing science, technology, innovation,
business, and policy interface with particular emphasis on Government, private sector, research centre and
universities from Mongolia and International Partners. The SICs will be the catalyst for each SECTORAL
INNOVATION WORKSTREAMS
Each SICs will structured and planned and capacitated to deliver the product and services of entire innovation
chain. This shall include:
 Plan, structure and establish the Sustainable Innovation Communities, representing specific sectoral
priority of Darkhan-Uul Province and other regions and provinces of Mongolia, shall include, climate,
sustainable manufacturing, Sustainable construction and building material etc.
 Facilitating the ideation, incubation, acceleration, education and to catalyse the registration of new
companies in Darkhan-Uul Province.
 Creating pool of entrepreneurs capable to create product and services to meet the domestic demands
and to make the product competitive for international trade and import
The Sustainable Innovation Communities will carry out activities with Oversight from FRIENDSHIP Project
Secretariat, IDEF- DIEH Governance and Advisory Team. The Each SICs will be structured to deliver science,
research, education, innovation, entrepreneurship, training and education programmes and steps of innovation
service, ex: incubation, acceleration, bootcamp etc.

5. OPERATIONAL & STRUCTRAL LINK BETWEEN DIEH AND SICs
 The Sustainable Innovation Communities within the framework of DIEH, will work as Action Hub to
create, innovate, and boost the innovation in Darkhan-Uul Province with focus on specific thematic
priorities aligned with European Union Green Deal, Multiannual Indicative Programme of European
Union with Mongolia.
 The DIEH will set up the innovation, research & education & entrepreneurship strategies for launching
the innovation cluster and activities aligned with objectives of FRIENDSHIP project and development plan
of Darkhan-Uul Province. DEIH will formulate framework strategies and if needed, agreement to
operationalise cooperation and delivery of innovation, entrepreneurship, and job in Darkhan-Uul
Province.
THE STRATEGY OF DIEH
The DIEH will be governed by its regulation constituted by SAB MULS in consultation with Darkhan-Uul Province
Municipality. The SAB MULS and Darkhan-Uul Province Municipality will outline the mission, framework
strategy, priorities and operational plan will be launched by end 2024 and shall be implemented during the
period of 2020-2030 with a provision of reviews during 2026 and 2028 and 2030.
THE SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION COMMUNITIES (SICs) IN MONGOLIA
The Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub (DIEH) will be an independent body, to be set-up with the
cooperation programme of FRIENDSHIP Project which will strengthen the capacity to Darkhan-Uul Province to
create and accelerate innovation for economic development. It is expected DIEH will create force high velocity
innovation with multistakeholder partnerships.
Form: 1: Sustainable Innovation Communities Matrix and Thematic Priorities of DIEH
S. No. Sustainable Innovation Communities Selected Cross-Linked EU Priorities Based
on European Commission Priorities
between, 2019-2024
Special Innovation Schemes
1. Climate Innovation, include Mitigation, Adaptation
and Resilience
European Green Deal, Green Deal
Investment Plan and Just Transition
Mechanism
Association of Woman
Entrepreneurs of Mongolia
(AWEM)
2. Low Carbon Industry & Sustainable Manufacturing European Climate Law and Climate Pact,
2030 Climate Target Plan, EU strategies for
energy system integration and hydrogen
Association of Youth Entrepreneurs
of Mongolia (AYEM)
3. Sustanable Food System & Climate Smart Agri-food European Industrial Strategy a& Circular
Economy Action Plan
Association of Rural Innovation &
Industrialization in Mongolia
(ARIIM)
4. Clean Air Innovation & Action Farm to Fork
5. Civic Tech Start-Up and Innovations EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030
6. Sustainable & Low Carbon Construction Methane Strategy. Chemicals strategy for
sustainability
7. Forest, Conservation and Bioeconomy New EU strategy on adaptation to climate
change
8. Sustainable Raw Material Value Chain Organic Action Plan. Zero pollution Action
Plan

6. 9. Digital Innovation, Smart City & Sustainable Urban
Transition, including Transportation Innovations
Proposals to stop deforestation, innovate
sustainable waste management and make
soils healthy, New
transport proposals target greater
efficiency and more sustainable travel
10. Nature Based, Sustainable & Green Chemistry
Innovation
Repower EU: Joint European action for
more affordable, secure, and sustainable
energy, Commission proposals to remove,
recycle and sustainably store carbon,
Organic Action Plan, Zero Pollution Action
Plan
11. Sustainable Tourism & Value Chain Proposal of a new EU framework to
decarbonise gas markets, promote
hydrogen and reduce methane, Nature
Protection Package
12.
Recycling and Circular Economy Innovation Proposals to make sustainable products the
norm in the EU, boost circular business
models and empower consumers for the
green transition, Proposals to modernise
EU industrial emissions rules to steer large
industry in long-term green transition
List of Industrial Sectors, Products and Value Chain Will be Targeted by the DIEH for Start-Up Innovation Ecosystem
Agri-Food, Construction & Building Materials, Digital, Electronic & Electrical, Energy Intensive Industries, Renewable Energy, Health & Well Being,
Transportation & Mobility, Social Economic & Civil Security, Retail & Fast-Moving Consumer Good, Cosmetics Industry, Textile & Fashion
Nominated By: Signature:
Approved By: Signature:
Date:
Note: Each Sustainable Innovation Community will have unique legal, administration and operational plan to be designed and implemented for long-
term sustainability of initiative of listed Sustainable Innovation Communities’
COLLABORATION AND PARTNERSHIPS
The Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub will be a service provider and ecosystem builder for all
provincial Soums of Darkhan-Uul. The DIEH HQ will work with innovation stakeholders from science, business,
policy, research, education, and technology. The DIEH will work in coordination with Darkhan-Uul Province
Administration and will align its priorities to EU and Provincial Development Plan.
The Sustainable Innovation Communities will be planned and launched in strategic manner aligned with
FRIENDSHIP Project Priorities and other priorities of EU Institutions and other International Development
Organizations (IDOs). The DIEH will be responsible for working with ecosystem of innovation stakeholders. The
DIEH will guide and showcase the work of innovators, share best practice, and cultivate a culture of innovation
and accelerate the green industrial development and sustainable transition. The DIEH will organize Sustainable
Innovation Forum in Darkhan and Mongolia for scaling up the collaboration and partnerships
The DIEH will collaborate and Partner with following Institutions:
 National Government, Department & Initiatives
 Sub-National Government, including provinces, soums of Darkhan and Mongolia

7.  EU Institutions in European Union and In Mongolia
 Start-Up Innovation and Incubators, including the Universities and Institutes
 International Development Organisation in Mongolia
 Private Sector
 Intergovernmental Organization
 Civil Society Organization
The Opportunity to Join As Partner
The Sustainable Innovation Community of DIEH provides innovations support activities in Darkhan-Uul Province
and will expand into other provinces and regions of Mongolia and will provide innovation support activities for
research, education, training, innovation, business incubation and acceleration. The DIEH through its SICs
expected to create a huge network of partners, which will be accessible to customers and clients seeking to
ecosystem.
Scope of Partnerships
1. Join the Sustainable Innovation Communities (SICs)
The part can be elaborate later, this is not an immediate priority for finishing the targets of
FRIENDSHIP Projects. Each SICs will be elaborated on routine basis as the programme will
expand.
2. The SIC Offers the Opportunity for Many Stakeholders
Business
Businesses will have opportunity to engage with ecosystem to nurture the future entrepreneurs. Businesses will
have opportunity to engage with brilliant talent and innovators with capacity to navigate to emerging and new
market opportunities.
Entrepreneurs
Opportunity to connect with mentors and cohorts of innovation actors to atart a new venture and accelerate the
existing one to improve business plan, validation of concept and integration with international markets. Find
opportunities to access support, finance and new markets and customers.
Local Authorities
Leverage Europe's investment in innovation and shape Mongolia’s future towards more sustainable inclusive and
smart growth.
Researchers
Platform to launch the ideas into the sky, vitalize the idea with new energy, innovative thoughts and power of
capital to commercialize the idea from lab to industry to market to impact the life of people and society.
Students and Young Professionals
Will have opportunity to expand and unleash the innovation potential through access to education, training and
research facilities and having guided roadmap from mentors.
Universities

8. Universities will be the Lab for Innovation and they will collaborate with Universities in European Union and other
regions of the World Economy to create enabling environment for collaboration and nurturing innovation.
Diagrammatic Representation of Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub
In
FEW DEFINITIONS
Business incubators are institutions that support entrepreneurs in developing their businesses, especially in the
initial stages. These are organizations geared towards speeding up the growth and success of start-ups and early-
stage companies. Incubation is usually done by institutions that have experience in the business and technology
world. It is expected that EU-DIEH will employ all resources, capacity to make suitable transition to serve all needs
to make transition into world class business incubation and will continually learn and excel through international
cooperation and partnerships.
Incubation support includes providing technological facilities and advice, initial growth funds, network and
linkages, co-working spaces, lab facilities, mentoring, and advisory support. They are often a good path to capital
from angel investors, government organizations, economic-development coalitions, venture capitalists, and
other investors. It is expected that EU-DIEH will broke partnerships and collaborations for delivering the goals of
incubation, acceleration, and internationalization of startups’
Most of the incubators have potential capital to invest in growth startups or have links to potential funding
sources. They provide access to compliance services from professionals such as accountants, lawyers, Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR) not to mention the invaluable mentoring and networking support available at the
incubation center, through the staff and other entrepreneurs at the incubator. The SAB MULS at Darkhan City
through the FRIENDSHIP Project will enhance its capacity to deliver full scale service as innovation and business
incubation hub.
DIEH will act as a catalyst for both regional as well as national economic development. DIEH will have options for
registering and branding them with following options: Academic institutions; Non-profit development
corporations; For-profit development ventures; Venture capital firms, and combinations of the above, based on
their strategies and future role they set for themselves. DIEH can operate in the actual physical space meant to
foster networking between incubatee entrepreneurs and others in entrepreneurial space and also it may choose
to have a set-up to operate in virtual basis.
STARTUP IDEA AND
CONCEPT- LOOKING FOR
SUPPORT
INCUBATOR
SUSTAINABLE ENTERPRISE-
WITH SCALABLE BUSINESS
POTENTIAL
Research,
Education &
Training
Partnership
&
Collaborati
Business
Pitch and
Business
Plan
Prototype
Facilities
Mentoring
Infrastructure
FINANCING CAPITAL FOR INNOVATION
/ SEED FUNDING FINANCING FACILITY
INNOVATION CULTURE AND ACTIVITIES
I EDUCATION I AWARDS I EXCHANGE I
TRAINING

9. DIEH will act as both, Incubators and accelerators based on specific programme and support service they offer to
the startups. DIEH will be a business incubator and will be differ from research and technology parks in their
dedication towards supporting start-ups and early-stage companies. Research and technology parks tend to be
large-scale projects that house organizations ranging from government institutions, corporates, university labs
to very small companies. They seldom offer business assistance services, unlike business incubators.
Who will be the Beneficiaries?
 City of Darkhan, other cities, municipalities, regions of Darkhan-Uul and Mongolia
 Businesses, enterprises, startups’ and industrial ecosystem of Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia and EU
 Environmental and social development organisation in Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia and EU
 Universities, Research Institute and Academia of Darkhan-Uul, Mongolia and EU
 Local population of the cities/provinces, including women, marginalised population,
 Territorial level ger districts
 Marginalised citizens (women, youth, migrants, disabled and elders)
The DIEH Stakeholders
Startups
Large Industries & Corporation
Medium, Small and Microenterprises
Academia
Investors
Incubation Ecosystem Enablers
Mentors
Service Providers
THE DARKHAN-INNOVATION AN ENTREPRENAURSHIP ( DIEH) ECOSYSTEM

10. DIEH IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WITHIN THE PRIORTIES OF FRIENSDSHIP PROJECT
The DIEH will implement the commitment made through the agreement of FRIENDSHIP Project to deliver the
priorities aligned with Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub. Within the scope of signed agreement CSO-
LA/2021/428-390, the Secretariat of EU-DIEH and the team must deliver following tasks and shall report and
monitor the progress with performance indicators on weekly basis. The Secretariat will implement the
Monitoring & Evaluation Programme for effective monitoring of progress of delivery each DIEH Outputs against
the activities within the FRIENDSHIP Project.
EU-DIEH
INCUBATION
MENTORING
PARTNERSHIPS
SEED FUNDING
FINANCING
FACILITY
ACCELERATION
PROGRAMS
Startups’ and
Entrepreneurship
(Bootcamp,Sprint
s Sensitization,
Immersion,
Ideathon,
Hackathon etc)
ENTREPRENAURS
HIP & BUSINESS
VISITS
EU- Darkhan Innovation
& Entreprenaurship Hub
(1- Hub in Darkhan City )
Training Programme
(10- Training
Programmes - General
and Specilaised)
Seed Capital &
Technical Support
(10 Entreprenaurs)
EU-DIEH Award for Best
Entreprenaus
(1- Award )
Website & Marketing
Platform (1- Platform)
Business Visits to EU for
Entreprenaurs
(2- BusinessVisits to EU
10 Entreprenaurs)

11. Work Package and Output Monitoring and Evaluation Matrix For Darkhan Innovation & Entrepreneurship Hub
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks Deadline Responsibility Status
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks
3.1 EU-Darkhan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub (EU-DIEH) set up
EU-Darkhan Innovation
and Entrepreneurship Hub
(EU-DIEH) set up
- 1 EU-Darkhan
Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Hub (EU-
DIEH) set up
SAB-MULS will provide the space and ecosystem for
creating and setting up the Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Hub (EU-DIEH
EU-DIEH will be in charge of setting up the network
Ensuring completion of the roadmap,
Coordinate establishment of DCF
Rolling out of the capacity building, sensitisation
campaigns, training of entrepreneurs,
Administrator the seed capital/financing, awards,
Manage the website
Coordinate the exchange programmes,
Awards and initiate and monitor the pilot projects
EU-DIEH will establish an information platform for
multi stakeholder groups to obtain information /
advice on business opportunities in Darkhan province
actively seek out partnership with EU business for
investments on the priority areas of four specific
objectives: (1) Strengthening urban governance (2)
Social inclusiveness, (3) Resilience and greening of
cities, (4) Prosperity and innovation.
manage a database of Darkhan startup and MSME
enterprises that are looking to connect with their EU
counterparts for collaboration
EU-DIEH will serve as an information hub and use all
information and campaign material developed.
It will manage a database of Darkhan startup and
MSME enterprises that are looking to connect with
their EU counterparts for collaboration. Further,
investment opportunities for these startups and
MSMEs will be actively sought by the EU-DIEH. It will
offer information to all stakeholders via a telephone
/online help line. Wide publicity through print and
other digital platforms will be made to subscribe into
the database
EU-DIEH will be funded by the project during the
project duration, but it will become independent after
the project duration and generate its own revenue to
sustain itself.

12. 3.2 Support and training of potential social and tech entrepreneurs
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks Deadline Responsibility Status
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks
Support and training
of potential social
and tech
entrepreneurs
- 10 training
programmes of
potential 100 social
and tech
entrepreneurs
(general and
- specialised)
- Needs
assessment/training
module,
- mentorships
- online webinars
- 3 EU case study visits
project will train over 100 social and tech
entrepreneurs in Darkhan City Province
30% of the entrepreneurs will be women.
The training will focus on 1) Maybe entrepreneurs, 2)
Wanna-be entrepreneurs, 3) Early start
entrepreneurs, 4) Up-start entrepreneurs and 5) Re-
start entrepreneurs
peer learning, sharing knowledge and know-how,
and mentoring. Participants will be able to generate
ideas, prepare business plans and take their
businesses to the next level
Business coaches and mentors both from EU and
Mongolia will be invited to give guidance and advice
on specific start-up challenges
The training programme will provide a platform for
networking, allowing entrepreneurs to discuss
common start-up challenges, share business ideas,
find potential partners and investors.
The training programme will encourage ‘Learning-by-
doing’ with practical experience and based on real-
life cases.
The project will procure institutional subscriptions to
key online courses.
In terms of duration, the training programs will be for
a 3 months’ time period and will be broken up into
different modules over different stages of the
startups as mentioned before.
An assessment of the training needs and startup
needs will be
assessed before a training programme tailored to the
needs of the startups. Needs assessment and training
modules will be prepared based on their respective
stage
Case study visits will be organised to a couple of EU
start up centres for exceptional social and tech
entrepreneurs
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks Deadline Responsibility Status
Work Package Output Sub- Tasks
3.3 EU-DIEH Financing and seed capital and technical support (Further details of the mandatory conditions set
for giving financial support to third parties are provided in the appendix of Description of the Action
- 10 entrepreneurs
provided seed
The project will provide seed capital and technical
support to promising MSME, social and tech
entrepreneurs whose start up ideas or whose early-

13. EU-DIEH Financing
and seed capital and
technical support
capital and technical
support
stage startups have potential to move to the next stage
of growth.
The project will be selected from 100 social and tech
entrepreneurs who have
attended the training programme. Out of which 10
candidates will be selected for supporting their work to
enable them to move to the next stage of growth.
An EU-Darkhan technical committee will be formed
where the candidates will pitch their ideas. Based on
the committee’s decisions, the candidates will be
selected for funding and further technical support.
They will be
monitored over the lifecycle
90 candidates who participated in the training, active
efforts
will be made to seek funding and other networking
opportunities within Mongolia and in the EU