About us

How can we help?

We offer sparring in all phases of the business development of your company. This applies to new entrepreneurs as well as established and well-run companies. Among other things, we can assist in the development of business plans, budgeting and company form.

Counseling

The Business Council can neither provide grants nor provide loans for the start-up of your business, but we can advise you and tell you what other options you have. In collaboration, we can refer to Innovation Greenland’s support opportunities, which you can access directly from them or through us.

Click here to read more about the financing options.

Product development

We are specialists in product development and can help turning your good idea into a salable product. This applies to both the development of services as well as physical products.

Collaboration

Qeqertalik Business Council participates in several national and international cluster collaborations, including with the Trade Council and DTTT.

In addition, we work closely with GE’s local branches, with the aim of creating a common path for the development of Qeqertalik.

Courses and workshops

We offer courses and workshops that may be relevant to entrepreneurs, whether it is business plans, budgeting or applications, and not least competence-building courses for existing businesses.

We can put together a special course that suits exactly the topic you or your organization needs to be qualified in. (Payment may occur depending on the customer and the form of the course / workshop)

Qeqertalik Business Council A / S was established by the municipality and is the link for business, tourism and innovation in the Municipality of Qeqertalik.

Vision

We are a catalyst for an active business community, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and thriving tourism.

Mission

We advise entrepreneurs, provide financial opportunities and promote a sustainable business life – We work to make the region the obvious and easy choice for tourism through the Explore the Golden Bay of Greenland brand.

Strategic Focus

Our focus 2024-2027

Proactive start-up advice

We are the unit in the region that specializes in high-level consultancy and we inspire more people to try their hand at entrepreneurship. We focus on the entrepreneurs from our region and on the next generation of entrepreneurs. At a minimum, our initiatives include:

Standardized and described advice
Ongoing upskilling of the employees
Continuous evaluation of our services
Ongoing development of the business council’s toolbox
Inspiring the next generation
Work for a smoother start-up process

Specialized in financing options

We know how and from where companies and start-ups are financed and help to raise funds for the company, project or idea. We connect the entrepreneur with the right lender, the right fund or the right partnership and advise on how to get the entrepreneur ready for financing. At a minimum, our initiatives include:

Preparation of business plan
Project budgeting
Identification of opportunities for financing
Framework agreements
Finding funding for a flagship project
Described procedures
Documentation and measurement

The tourist's obvious choice

We develop our destinations so that it is easy for the entrepreneur to start a business and it becomes a good experience for the tourist to visit our region.

We know it requires everything from concrete practical initiatives, to increasing accessibility and to developing and finding partnerships throughout the value chain. Our initiatives include, among other things:

Destination development
Storytelling
Availability
Entrepreneurship
Self-guidance
Alternative accommodation options
Niche tourism and nature park
Partnerships
Security
Markings
Sales channels

Sustainability

Sustainability permeates everything we do. We advise on sustainability and establish concrete initiatives to build competence in the business world. We have a particular focus on a sustainable industry, sustainable tourism, clean cities and clean nature. At a minimum, our initiatives include:

Knowledge building
Keeping up to date with the demands and expectations of the outside world
Advice on sustainability
Clean city, clean nature
Sustainability as a way of thinking

Our Own Sustainability

Along with Destination Diskobay, Qeqertalik Business Council continuously works with sustainability, just as we actively integrate a number of the UN’s World Goals into our activities. We see it as an important societal task that our activities can help ensure sustainable development in our region. It is something that we regularly talk about internally, just as we look at the possibilities for sustainable activities with our partners from the tourism and business community – and we act on it when we can see new potential in relation to fulfilling our role in society.

Our own strategy and our action plans align with the following world goals.

Goal no. 4: Quality education

At the business council, we host courses in marketing, entrepreneurship etc. to ensure skill development for the region’s citizens and businesses.
The Business Council has interns and aims for permanent agreements with relevant educational institutions in Greenland and abroad, to ensure the development and training of the next generation – and also to get the latest knowledge in business and tourism anchored in our own organisation.
We participate in collaboration with local companies in a primary school project in Aasiaat, where the goal is to inspire children and young people to take an education in our field.
At the business council, we invest in training and courses for our employees.

Goal no. 8: Decent work and economic growth

We offer courses in competence development. The courses are in entrepreneurship etc.
We are working to seasonally expand tourism activities in the region, e.g. through the facilitation of concrete city strategies and marketing plans in collaboration with the region’s players.
Along with the municipality and business community, we meet quarterly to create a better common framework for growth and opportunities.
We provide input to the municipality’s work with tourism concessions in the region.

Goal no. 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Preparation and improvement of the infrastructure in the region’s cities through developing signs for attractions etc.
Development and updating of city and hiking maps in the region. This also includes development of maps of the fjord systems. Together, it ensures the safety of tourists and sustainable travel in our region.
Collaboration with Avannaata Municipality on the micro- and macro-infrastructure development towards the new Atlantic airport in Ilulissat.
Digitization of tourism products, including QR code signs, digital product catalog from the region and competence development within digital marketing
Seeking new collaborations through the PDAC fair with mining industry actors.

Goal no. 11: Sustainable cities and communities

As part of our action plans, we collaborate with the Qeqertalik municipality on waste management, including the involvement of citizens and businesses – among other things through facilitating the annual city clean-up day “Saligaatsoq”.
Advicing business operators regarding the sustainable expansion of products and physical materials. Competence development of own employees within CSR.
We cooperate with the local associations, just as we participate in several associations ourselves.

Goal no. 13: Climate action

Advicing tourism actors to strive for certifications within sustainability, e.g. The Green Key, as well as general advice on reducing CO2 emissions.
Collaboration with the cruise industry organization AECO on sustainable development within cruise tourism in Disko Bay through community specific guidelines.
Increasing focus on information and advice within climate impacts and the difference the local community can make. We also work with story telling with nature and environmental topics as the main focus.

Goal no. 17: Partnerships for the goals

Cooperation agreements across regions and countries within business and tourism development with actors across industries, municipalities, DMOs etc.
Establishing collaboration with several educational and research institutions on knowledge gathering and competence development.
Increased focus on consulting within export and development.