The national roadshow of the acceleration program «Taste UP» will pass through Portimão and challenges entrepreneurs to present their business ideas in the area of Gastronomic Tourism and to participate in the Project Selection Workshop.
This workshop will take place in Portimão, on the 20th of September, and registration is now open to all interested parties.
Promoted by the Creative Territories, Turismo de Portugal and APTACE- Portuguese Association of Culinary and Economic Tourism, Taste UP is the first acceleration program designed to support, through training and mentoring, entrepreneurial projects in the area of Gastronomic Tourism.
During the month of September, Taste UP will tour the country and promote eight project selection workshops, in order to publicize the program and select one finalist per workshop, who will have direct access to the acceleration program, with food and accommodation included (Bootcamps in Alvaiázere, 11th and 12th October, and in Coruche, 8th and 9th November) and face-to-face and virtual mentoring sessions.
The final event will take place on December 12th in Loures, where the big winner will be determined. The Program provides 5000 euros in monetary prizes (4000 euros for the winner and 500 euros for the second and third place), plus the prizes provided by the network of partners.
Taste UP is aimed at «entrepreneurs who want to recover a knowledge or flavor with tradition, starting an entrepreneurial and innovative project in the area of typical cuisine and gastronomy or who already have a business, technological or not, that aims to support the development of tourism gastronomy, as well as for those who want to modernize old family businesses and/or seek to generate new businesses based on the recovery of traditions in the area of cuisine and typical gastronomy».
The Municipality of Portimão, as a partner of the Taste UP program and as part of its commitment to boosting and promoting activities to support entrepreneurship, will place the Algarve on the Roadshow Taste UP map and host a Selection Workshop, during the morning of the day 20th of September, at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes.
Interested parties can now register by filling out the form available on the link http://bit.ly/2Portimao or through Taste UP Facebook page.
For more information contact [email protected] or telephone (+351) 936 794 295.
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