Local micro and small entrepreneurslack financial, marketing and innovationmanagement skills and qualified employeesto expand their businesses.Therefore the project aims to utilize thecross-border cooperation to facilitate socioeconomicdevelopment of Latvian and Lithuanian border areas by providing trainingand networking activities for micro and smallbusinesses.The project contributes to the successfuldevelopment of local small/microcompanies by providing them training infinancial, marketing and product innovationmanagement, encouraging to seekinnovative business ideas together with thehelp of university students, developing themarketing plans for innovative productsas well as facilitating the establishmentof business contacts with cross-borderentrepreneurs for the realization of commonbusiness ideas.