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The EEPA 2017 Compendium
January
11
2018
The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) 2017 edition was exciting to witness and be a part of, and congratulations to all of the category winners. Before Promoting Enterprise begins to share the upcoming EEPA 2017 winner testimonials, refresh your EEPA memories by reading through the 2017 compendium, available here.
The EEPA compendium
Every year, the EEPA compendium is produced to celebrate the achievements of the shortlisted projects on European level. The compendium provides an insight into the Awards process including: what is means to become an EEPA winner, the Jury, the judging process and how the EEPA are promoted.
As well as an insight into the process, the compendium is a chance for each of the five category winners, and respective runners up, to be showcased and put in the spotlight. It also provides additional and more extensive coverage of the Grand Jury Prize winner, in accordance with the accolade that this award represents.
In addition to all EEPA results and information, the compendium also contains a foreword from the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, in which she details her commitment to European SMEs and her opinions on the latest EEPA edition. This is followed by a section on the status of SMEs in Europe, including an introduction to the Small Business Act for Europe and the role of the national SME Envoys.
To find out more about the EEPA, visit the EEPA website, and look through the previous compendiums from 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012.
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The 2015 SME Assembly Programme
November
18
2015
The 2015 SME Assembly begins today (18-20 November, Luxembourg) and the full conference programme is now available (please see below). Hosted in partnership with the Luxembourg Presidency, the Assembly, which is the main European SME Week event, will feature speakers from the Government of Luxembourg and the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions, academia and the private sector. Key speakers include: HRH, the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Pierre Delsaux, Deputy General of DG Growth, European Commission, Amy Millman (President of Springboard Enterprises), and Corinne Vigreux (Co-founder of Tom Tom).
The Assembly will be opened formally on Thursday 19 November by Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU SME Envoy and Member of the European Commission for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs and Francine Closener, State Secretary, Ministry of Economy of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
This year for the first time, there will be an Open Space session where participants will have the opportunity to agree together new ways of implementing and promoting the principles of the Small Business Act. All delegates to propose and debate ideas for moving SME policy forward.
The SME Assembly will also feature the European Enterprise Promotion Awards ceremony where the 19 nominees will compete for their chance to win either in one of six categories or the Grand Jury Prize. You can find out more about the 2014 winners here.
The Ideas From Europe Finals will take place on Friday 20 November, where the nine most inspiring ideas from entrepreneurs with the potential to change the world will be chosen from across Europe’s 28 Member States. Following the selection at the SME Assembly and the online vote, the top ten ideas will then go through to a final judging session at The Hall of Knights on 31 March 2016 in The Hague.
