Innovation Hub is a non profit organization started as a project, initiated and implemented by the Minister of State for Innovation and Public Administration and financed by the Italian-Albanian Debt for Development Swap Program IADSA. Objective of the project: To promote and support the social inclusion and sustainable employment programmes for young people by enhancing their active involvement in ICT entrepreneurship, creative, innovative and competitive actions through capacity building, partnership development and growth of entrepreneurial activity, start-ups and SMEs. The project aims to create a new generation of entrepreneurs, strengthening the possibilities of cooperation through the establishment of networks and providing support at all stages of development and preparation of the business idea. In the framework of this project is made availabe a 800 m² space, in the heart of the capital, to all young people who have a business idea and want to develop it. This center offers not only working spaces and tools, but also professional support for developing and compleating successful new business ideas in the field of Information Technology. This project aims to strengthen and support youth entrepreneurship through intensified coordination efforts between civil society organizations, private bodies and public institutions.
The main role of Innovation Hub Tirana is to help companies or individuals to create and develop ideas and project initiatives. The aim is to promote socio-economic development and competitiveness through innovation. Innovation Hub Tirana is a centre of innovation and knowledge creation, combining local knowledge with global scales. The environment has an area of 800 m2. Tech shop The Tech Shop will permit people of all skill levels to use industrial tools and equipment to build their own projects, offering safety and basic usage training on all the tools and equipment and on various other topics. It will provide its members with the necessary tools: woodworking, electronics, CNC machines, 3D printers, 3D scanners, welding stations, etc, so that they can construct prototypes and products. Fabrication Lab (Fab-Lab) The Fabrication Lab, also called Fab-Lab, is an open access space and community resource where anybody can invent and make just about anything. The Fab-Lab is a small-scale workshop offering digital fabrication. It’s an open access and community resource where anybody can invent and make just about anything. It is an evolving array of flexible computer controlled machines that allow you to invent, make and share. It will offer a creative space for budding product designers and entrepreneurs to test out their ideas and bring them to life. At the Fab-Lab you will find tools and sectors such as: wood shop, textiles department, 3D and CNC technology. The laboratory would have a Paper or Vinyl Cutter for cutting vinyl, paint mask, reflective vinyl, twill, heat transfers and more, making designing and cutting an easy task to create original designs to be used for a variety of graphics applications such as signs, banners, print and cut decals, apparel decoration, and other two-dimensional projects. Junior Innovator Club The Junior Innovator Club is an entrepreneurship initiative which purpose is to stimulate an entrepreneurial mindset and life skills among youths. The initiative includes workshop, open discussions and other intensive activities to ensure students take the most away from the experience.
Innovation Hub Tirana offers advisory services and promotes your initiative. A group of experts specialized in various fields (start-up, marketing, legal matters, ICT etc.), will be at your disposal in order to better guide you in your journey, leading towards the realization of your project. Innovation Hub Tirana offers free informative seminars or prior consultation, professional services, allowing you to develop your creativity in the field of ICT. In this regard you will not waste time searching technological equipment, or instructions but you can come over to pick and use the facilities offered by our center. Training Innovation Hub Tirana through one of its activities offers: Training sessions for those who are interested or desire to raise their knowledge regarding innovation, start-ups and technology transfer. Training subjects: ~ Innovative Program ~ Albanian Cluster Program ~ Incubation Program Living Lab Living Lab is an environment where can be tested real experiences where users can create innovation. In the framework of the Living will be organised 4 main activities: Co-Creation; Exploration; Experimentation and Evaluation. The presence of foreign experts is one of the added values of the service we offer. This activity makes possible to expand your knowledge and teaches you to think globally. Accelerator Accelerator is designed to promote rapid growth of companies and businesses. It’s a perfect mentoring service, access to technology, office space and an opportunity to join a community, organized in a short time. The expertise required is guaranteed by international experts who convey and explain the benefits, methods and operations of accelerator programs and networking with prominent international organizations. Integrated with the above activities, 5 seminars and workshops will be organised.
Lobbing, Collaboration, Idea Development, Investments, Technology etc
Innovation Hub Tirana serves as an accelerant that helps the transition from the perception of the idea to the creation of the product / service, offering cooperation, special facilities for ide development , networking, support and when needed investors. Innovation Hub Tirana is a curator of the physical and virtual work and the social spaces are designed to help materialize your vision for a better world – offering a unique mixture of infrastructure, contacts, inspiration and learning for people who want to move their ideas toward the future and aiming to make a change.