Who is on the EEPA 2017 shortlist? Time to find out!

September

2017

We have kept you waiting long enough, today is the day that we can finally reveal which outstanding projects have made it onto the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) 2017 shortlist!

Before we do, we would like to highly commend the hard work of all the 2017 national winners, who have all presented a very high standard of work this year, and made the 2017 EEPA Jury’s decision very difficult. In 2017 305 National EEPA entries were received from 32 participating countries and a total of 56 projects were selected for judging by the awards jury. From these projects 15 were then narrowed down to the:

Promoting the entrepreneurial spirit
Estonia	Enterprise Village	MTÜ Ettevõtlusküla
Finland	Pikkuyrittäjät – Mini company program for primary school	Nuori Yrittäjyys ry (JA Finland)
France	Start’Up Lycée	VISIONARI
Investing in entrepreneurial skills
Estonia	Tech Sisters & Digigirls	MTÜ Kogukond Tech Sisters
Latvia	University of Latvia Student Business Incubator	Latvijas Universitāte
Sweden	Business Generator	Inova
Improving the business environment
Austria	Innovation to Company	Vienna Chamber of Commerce
Italy	Progetto Manifattura & Polo Meccatronica	Trentino Sviluppo SpA
Netherlands	Innofest	Stichting Innofest
Spain	Reempresa	FUNDACIÓN CECOT INNOVACIÓN
Supporting the internationalisation of business
Austria	Program Internationalization 2015 – 2020	ecoplus International GmbH
Portugal	MADEIRA VINTNERS	Cooperativa Agrícola do Funchal, CRL em parceria com Direção Regional de Agricultura da Região Autónoma da Madeira
UK	Business West International Trade Centre	Business West
Responsible and inclusive entrepreneurship
France	Adie Microfranchise Solidaire (AMS)	Adie (Association pour le Droit à l’Initiative Economique)
Portugal	MUNDAR: Change your world – young entrepreneurship contest	ACM IP, Gestor do Programa Escolhas in partnership with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Congratulations to all of the shortlisted projects! Promoting Enterprise will be presenting each of the shortlisted projects in greater detail in the coming weeks so be sure to come back to find out more. So who will win an EEPA 2017 award? We will find out at the SME Assembly 2017 in Tallinn this November…

Want to know more? See how many times your country has submitted #EEPA entries during last years:

Also read about the EEPA 2017 national winners, the 2017 EEPA Jury and the EEPA 2016 winners, all right here on Promoting Enterprise.

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