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• EEPA 2020 Shortlist – Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit September 24, 2020
  The time has come to meet each project on the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) 2020 shortlist! Over the next few weeks we will be introducing you to each project that has been carefully evaluated and selected by our EEPA 2020 jury. Today we are meeting the projects competing in Category 1: Promoting the Entrepreneurial […]
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• EEPA 2020 – Meet the Special Mentions September 22, 2020
  Last week on Promoting Enterprise we announced the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) shortlist, which features all of the projects that the jury have selected to compete in the EEPA finals at the SME Assembly. The jury also selected projects that they wished to award a Special Mention, which is given to a project that […]
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• EEPA 2020 – Meet the European shortlist September 17, 2020
  This year 185 National EEPA entries were submitted for consideration from 27 participating countries. The EEPA National Coordinators then selected 49 of these projects for the EEPA 2020 Jury to evaluate and compose the European shortlist. The EEPA 2020 Jury met on Wednesday 9th September to discuss and make their final selections for this year’s […]
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• YEC 2020 – How to write a winning entry September 15, 2020
  There is still time to submit your essay to this year’s SME Week Youth Essay Competition. Still a bit stuck? Need some advice? Look no further! Here on the News Portal we have brought together valuable advice from past winners to help you write the best entry you can. So have a read, think about […]
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• Meet the EEPA 2020 Jury – Sabine Hepperle, Ben Butters & Bastian Coes September 8, 2020
  The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) jury is made up of members representing the European Commission, business associations, academia, the current European presidencies and the last Grand Jury Prize winner. The EEPA jury has the difficult task of selecting which national winners will make it onto the European shortlist, as well as the projects that […]
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• COVID Stories – E-health solutions and mask manufacturing September 3, 2020
  Here on the Promoting Enterprise News Portal we want to bring you stories from the pandemic, in particular the information that you, our Promoting Enterprise community, can benefit most from. Previously we have brought you stories and examples like that of Catherine Lorent, a Belgian seamstress who started with acts of solidarity and then innovated […]
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• Meet the EEPA 2020 Jury – Anke Wiegand & Professor Thomas Cooney September 1, 2020
  Being on the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) jury is an exciting yet difficult task. For 2020 we have already met two of our jurors, Kristin Schreiber and Thomas Wobben, but who else will be joining them this year to select the best project for the European shortlist? Time to meet two more returning members […]
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• EEPA 2020 National Winners – Responsible and Inclusive Entrepreneurship August 27, 2020
  The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) reward projects from across participating countries that work to promote entrepreneurship and small business at a national, regional and local level through a variety of initiatives. The EEPA have now moved to the European level of the competition and the national winners from each participating country have been selected […]
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• YEC 2020 – Top tips with 2019 winner Radu Dumitrescu August 25, 2020
  We are back with the winner of the 2019 Youth Essay Competition, Radu Dumitrescu. Here on the News Portal we recently asked Radu how he was doing and what he had been up to since winning. Today we are asking him to tell us what any potential applicant needs to know…what makes a good essay […]
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• EEPA 2020 National Winners – Supporting the Development of Green Markets and Resource Efficiency August 20, 2020
  The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) reward projects from across participating countries that work to promote entrepreneurship and small business at a national, regional and local level through a variety of initiatives. The EEPA have now moved to the European level of the competition and the national winners from each participating country have been selected […]
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