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EEPA 2018 European deadline – National Coordinators submit top national projects
July
10
2018
The European level of the EEPA competition closed last week on 3 July 2018. National coordinators have been submitting their top national projects for consideration by a European jury for the EEPA 2018 shortlist, and a total of 56 entries were received.
This year the national winners will be evaluated by a jury with members from different sectors, disciplines and backgrounds. The 2018 members can be found here on the News Portal.
2018 saw a total of 303 national projects submitted across 32 participating countries. Portugal achieved the highest ever recorded national total for EEPA with a spectacular 82 applicants to their national competition.
After the reinstating of the green category, EEPA 2018 will see projects competing across six different categories for 2018:
- Promoting the entrepreneurial spirit
- Investing in entrepreneurial skills
- Improving the business environment
- Supporting the internationalisation of business
- Supporting the development of green markets and resource efficiency
- Responsible and inclusive entrepreneurship
Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit (14 entries) was once again the category with the most applications closely followed by Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills (10 entries).
This year’s EEPA jury will meet in Brussels on 26 September 2018 to deliberate which national projects will make it onto the 2018 European shortlist. Keep coming back to the Promoting Enterprise News Portal for both the announcement of the shortlist and an introduction to all of the shortlisted projects by competition category.
Good luck to all of the national winners! Don’t forget to keep checking here for the 2018 shortlist announcement…
About the EEPA selection process
The competition has two stages. Applicants must first compete at national level to be eligible to compete at European level. For the national competition, each country selects two entries to be nominated for the European competition.
A shortlist of nominees will be chosen by a European jury. All nominees from the national and European competitions will be invited to attend the final awards ceremony. The ceremony recognises the winners for their efforts and gives them the opportunity to present themselves in a pan-European environment.
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EEPA – national winners in Slovak Republic.
I am delighted to inform you about selection process of the Slovak national Round. The project European Enterprise Promotion Awards 2017 is organised for the eighth time in the Slovak Republic. The national co-ordinator of the project is the Slovak Business Agency (SBA).Four projects took part in the national round of the competition (Green Bicycle, Tenderio: Helping you win business abroad, Library of Things and Better Regulation Center.
The deadline for the submission of projects was set on June 22, 2018. The evaluation committee consisted of the members from Slovak Union of Crafts, The Entrepreneurs Association of Slovakia, Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic and Slovak Business Agency. Two projects were evaluated and nominated as the Slovak national nominees into the European round of the competition according to the decision of the Jury.
The Better Regulation Center / Category: Improving the business environment
The Better Regulation Center is a specialized analytical unit established within the Slovak Business Agency. Our analytical unit was created following the Initiative of the European Union on the promotion of Small and medium enterprise, also known as the Small Business Act, with the aim to accomplish the objectives stipulated by this Initiative. The Better Regulation Center comprises a team of specialists in the fields of legislation and regulatory impact assessment on the business sector (the so-called Business Impact Assessment), whose mission is the reduction of the disproportionate regulatory burden of businesses and an improvement in the business environment in Slovakia.
More info at the web site, also in English: http://lepsiezakony.sk/en/ also video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=UtCHmiIBx-U
Commercial bike sharing tailor made for smaller towns / Category: Supporting the development of green markets and resource efficiency
The Green bicycle project is a bike sharing system targeting smaller towns which are not interesting for the big bike sharing companies. It is having three main positive impacts: decreasing the traffic, reducing the emissions and nurturing healthy habit of cycling. Right now, we are fin e tuning the pilot project in Prievidza town and recently the 2nd season was successfully closed.
More information about the project you can find at: https://www.zelenybicykel.sk/en/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/greenbicycle/, also presentation – pitch deck about Green bike: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B11KSSxUgqhNeDR2T1FJYVlNN3lLMS0zRVNhYWp3UG83VzR3/view