European Enterprise Promotion Awards 2013: How to participate

National, regional or local authorities or public-private partnerships from all EU Member States including Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey are invited to participate.

Eligible entities can be national organisations, towns, cities, regions and communities as well as public-private partnerships between public authorities and entrepreneurs, educational programmes and business organisations.

Cross-border initiatives will be accepted as long as they are nominated jointly by all countries involved.

The competition has two stages; applicants must first compete at the national level and will then be eligible to compete at the European level. For the national competition, each country will select two entries to be nominated for the European competition by June 2013.

A shortlist of nominees will be chosen by the European jury. All nominees from the national and European competitions will be invited to attend the awards ceremony, which recognises the winners for their efforts and gives them the opportunity to present themselves in a pan-European environment.

Closing date for entries to the national selection is set by each country.

Nominees will be selected based on the following criteria: