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• Discovering YEC 2021 Finalist Victoria Krah January 13, 2022
  “Over the past 1.5 years, the resilience of Europe’s SMEs has been challenged like neverbefore in recent European history.” This is how the essay that brought Victoria Krah among the finalists in the SME Youth Essay Competition starts. Today we are finding out more about what motivated Victoria Krah to enter the SME Youth Essay […]
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• EEPA 2021 Testimonial – COMPETENZentrum für Selbständige January 6, 2022
  We are back with another European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) winner testimonial! Last time we brought you the story of the first category ‘Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit’ – Culinary Action! by Basque Culinary Centre from Spain. Today we are bringing the story of Grand Jury Prize winner COMPETENZentrum für Selbständige by Initiative Selbständiger Immigrantinnen e. V. was […]
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• EEPA 2021 Testimonial – Culinary Action! December 15, 2021
  Here on Promoting Enterprise, we are excited to bring you the first of our European Enterprise Promotion Award winner testimonials! Throughout this series we will be interviewing the EEPA Class of 2021 to find out more about these outstanding projects, what they do, what winning the awards means to them, their journey to the finals […]
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• SME Newsletter: Relive the SME Assembly Experience! December 9, 2021
  Welcome to this new edition of the SME Week Newsletter! What an exciting month! The SME Assembly on 15-17 November was a great success, and we would like to extend our warm thank you to our hosts from the Slovenian Presidency in Portorož, Slovenia. We hope you all enjoyed and benefitted from the event. If […]
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• Bulgarian Kristina Dimova wins SME Week Youth Essay Competition 2021 November 29, 2021
  Kristina Dimova, 22 year-old from Bulgaria, was proclaimed a winner of this year’s SME Week Youth Essay Competition during the SME Assembly 2021. “Change is inevitable. That’s why businesses must adapt or perish. The way they could adapt is by being as human as possible. The main thesis of my essay is that humanity is […]
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• SME Assembly – Day 3 November 18, 2021
  The third and final day of the SME Assembly 2021 kicked off with a series of panel discussions and the Youth Essay competition, which 22-year-old Bulgarian Kristina Dimova won. The morning panel discussions covered environmental, social and governance issues; transfer of business; European scale-up firms; and SME support under the new Multi-annual Financial Framework.A highlight […]
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• European Enterprise Promotion Awards Class of 2021 November 17, 2021
  Over the past months, you have followed us as we showcased the best projects in the six European Enterprise Promotion Awards categories here on the Promoting Enterprise portal. The EEPA story of these projects reached its climax on the second day of the SME Assembly on November 16, when the winners in the six categories […]
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• SME Assembly 2021 – Day 2 November 17, 2021
  The second day of the SME Assembly 2021 opened with the European Commissioner for Internal Market Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), Thierry Breton. In his speech, the Commissioner talked about the collective responsibility to ensure that SMEs embark on the road to recovery as swiftly as possibly.  This was followed by Slovenia’s Minister of Economic Development […]
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• European Small and Mid-Cap Awards – 2021 winners November 17, 2021
  At the SME Assembly 2021, the European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) again joined forces with the European Small and Mid-Cap Awards to highlight cutting-edge projects that are helping to generate entrepreneurship, jobs and growth. This year’s awards ceremony was bigger and better than ever. Read on for details about this year’s winners. The European Small […]
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• EEPA 2021 – Meet the Special Mentions November 16, 2021
  Every year at the EEPA finals at the SME Assembly expert jury selects a number of projects for Special Mention. While these projects may not have made it to the finals, they nevertheless stood out to the jury due to their excellent work. This year during the European Enterprise Promotion and Small and Mid-Caps Awards Ceremony […]
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