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European Enterprise Promotion Awards 2014: Winners announced
October
02
2014
The seven winners of the eighth annual European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) were announced in Naples at the SME Assembly, which is the cornerstone of European SME Week.
The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to Encouraging Business Start-ups by Mothers with Young Children, a Hungarian project that seeks to help mothers develop the skills and mind-set to launch and run successful businesses. It offers online resources and training programmes. The project also holds the Entrepreneurial Women’s Roundtable to help mothers navigate the world of business and build relationships with one another.
Winners in the six official categories included organisations from Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, Italy, Germany and Portugal. These and many other initiatives encompassed areas as diverse as technology, sustainability and textile and proposed innovative solutions to a range of issues from pollution to lack of corporate social responsibility.
Below is the breakdown of winners and runners-up in each of the six competing categories.
Category 1: Promoting Entrepreneurial Spirit
Winner:
Lithuania – Mobile Apps Laboratories
Responsible organisation: App Camp, JSC
Runners up:
Austria – AplusB build!
Responsible organisation: build! Gründerzentrum Kärn GmbH
Netherlands – 20-80 Learning
Responsible organisation: Willem van Oranje College
Category 2: Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills
Winner:
Bulgaria – Brandiko
Responsible organisation: Ministry of Economy & Energy
Runners up:
Germany – Brennerei Next Generation Lab
Responsible organisation: Wirtschaftsförderung Bremen GmbH
Serbia – Western Balkans Business Challenge
Responsible organisation: Junior Achievement Serbia
Category 3: Improving the Business Environment
Winner:
Spain – Start-up in 3
Responsible organisation: Ministry of Finance and Public Administration (MINHAP)
Runners up:
Italy – Grow and Compete with Business Network Contracts
Responsible organisation: Unioncamere Emilia-Romagna
United Kingdom – The Sharp Project
Responsible organisation: The Sharp Project
Category 4: Supporting the Internationalisation of Business
Winner:
Italy – Mirabilia: European Network of UNESCO Sites
Responsible organisation: Matera Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture
Runners up:
Netherlands – Get in the Ring
Responsible organisation: Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship
France –The Living Heritage Company Label
Responsible organisation: Directorate for Competitiveness, Industry and Services
Category 5 – Supporting the Development of Green Markets and Resource Efficiency
Winner:
Portugal – AMS – Thinking Ahead
Responsible organisation: Agency for Investment and Foreign Trade of Portugal, Public Enterprise (“AICEP”) in partnership with AMS-BR STAR PAPER, S.A. (“AMS”).
Runners up:
Malta – EU LIFE+ Investing in Water
Responsible organisation: Malta Business Bureau
Turkey – Developing a Widely Applicable, Low-Cost Model for Clean Production in the Textile Finishing Industry
Responsible organisation: Uludağ Textile Exporters Association (UTEA)
Category 6 – Responsible and Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Winner:
Germany –Wiesbaden Engaged
Responsible organisation: Municipality of the City of Wiesbaden – Agency for Social Work
Runners up:
Poland – Consortium of the design “Construction and equipment of the Intramunicipal Vocational Rehabilitation Centre”
Responsible organisation: Polish Association for Persons with Mental Handicap, Szczecin Branch
France – The Entrepreneurs Team
Responsible organisation: National Association of Designer Groups (ANGC)
Special mentions:
United Kingdom – Primary to Professional
Responsible organisation: Gower College Swansea
Austria – Sources of Strength
Responsible organisation: Industrie- und Wirtschaftsentwicklung Murtal GmbH
Portugal – DO IT – Ideas of Portuguese Origin
Responsible organisation: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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