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• EEPA 2020 Testimonial – Portugal Bike Value January 14, 2021
  We are back with another European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) winner testimonial! Last time we brought you the story of our ‘Improving the Business Environment’ winner BIND 4.0 from the Basque Country. Check it out, if you haven’t read it yet. This time we take a bike ride to Portugal to meet with Portugal Bike […]
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• Voices of the future – Youth Essay Competition Winner Sabine Kerssens January 12, 2021
  The SME Week Youth Essay Competition opened for the fifth time in 2020 to ask the youth of Europe for their opinions and solutions to the following: What do SMEs need to become sustainable and resilient, in the context of COVID-19 and other global challenges? How can EU policy best aid entrepreneurs? On Promoting Enterprise, […]
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• EEPA 2020 Testimonial – BIND 4.0 – Basque Industry 4.0 Accelerator Program January 7, 2021
  We are back with another European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) winner testimonial! Last time we brought you the story of our ‘Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills’ winner – Merkuur Mobile Workshops from Estonia. If you haven’t read it yet, make sure you do! This week we are in the Basque Country to meet our ‘Improving the […]
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• Voices of the future – Youth Essay Competition Finalist Georgina Whiteman January 5, 2021
  The fifth edition of the SME Week Youth Essay Competition, held in 2020, challenged applicants to present their answers and arguments for the following question: What do SMEs need to become sustainable and resilient, in the context of COVID-19 and other global challenges? How can EU policy best aid entrepreneurs? Today on Promoting Enterprise we […]
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• Looking back at 2020 December 31, 2020
  It is the end of 2020 and what a year we have had here on Promoting Enterprise. This year has been challenging and forced us all to find creative solutions and work through uncertainties. COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact, and before anything we would like to thank all of our community for continuing to […]
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• EEPA 2020 Testimonial – Mobile Workshops December 17, 2020
  We are back with another European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) winner testimonial! Last week we brought you the story of our ‘Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit’ winner – Promoting Entrepreneurship from Denmark. Make sure to read their story if you haven’t yet! This week we travel to Estonia to learn about our ‘Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills’ […]
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• Voices of the future – Youth Essay Competition Finalist Pablo Pastor Vidal December 15, 2020
  In 2020 the fifth edition of the annual SME Week Youth Essay Competition was launched and asked Europe’s youth the following question: What do SMEs need to become sustainable and resilient, in the context of COVID-19 and other global challenges? How can EU policy best aid entrepreneurs? Today on Promoting Enterprise we have the pleasure […]
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• EEPA 2020 Testimonial – Open Entrepreneurship December 10, 2020
  Here on Promoting Enterprise we are thrilled to bring you the first of our European Enterprise Promotion Award winner testimonials! Throughout this series we will be interviewing the EEPA Class of 2020 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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• Stories of Success – Entrepreneurs in times of COVID December 8, 2020
  At this year’s SME Assembly 2020 we met eight entrepreneurs who have been navigating the COVID-19 pandemic in their respective sectors and areas of expertise. In the Stories of Success session, they shared how they used their creativity to set up solutions for needs, pivoted their business and ultimately kept things going through the pandemic. […]
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• SME Week Newsletter 2020: Issue #6 December 1, 2020
  SME Assembly 2020 – Time to catch-up This month was very exciting with the very first virtual online SME Assembly taking place on 16-17 November. Co-hosted with the German Presidency, the Assembly was opened by German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Peter Altmaier and European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who prepared everyone for […]
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