National Initiatives

Austria	Belgium	Bulgaria	Cyprus	Denmark	Estonia
Finland	France	Germany	Greece	Hungary	Iceland
Ireland	Italy	Latvia	Lithuania	Luxembourg	Malta
The Netherlands	Norway	Poland	Portugal	Romania	Slovenia
Slovakia	Spain	Sweden	United Kingdom

Austria

• Austrian e-Commerce trust mark [27 KB]
• eAMA - agricultural eServices for farmers and businesses [33 KB]
• ECAustria [24 KB]
• protec 2002+ [26 KB]

Belgium

• Agence Wallonne des Telecommunications [24 KB]
• eBusiness center of ICHEC Business School [28 KB]
• e-Business Policy for Textile and Clothing SMEs [32 KB]
• European Chambers of Commerce: active promotors of e-business for SMEs [26 KB]
• NORMAPME [31 KB]
• Trade Information Network (TIN) [23 KB]

Bulgaria

• Bulgaria Development Gateway (BgDG) [34 KB]
• E-business for SMEs [34 KB]
• Econ.bg - The Business Portal [35 KB]
• Information Society Promotion Office [31 KB]
• Programme for fostering the Information Society development [33 KB]
• SMEs E-business Support Center [23 KB]

Cyprus

• E-learning management system [29 KB]

Denmark

• E-business promotional activities for the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation [23 KB]
• E-business to SMEs [31 KB]
• e-fyn Strategy 2004-2008 - Promoting innovative IT take up in SMEs [26 KB]
• e-mark [23 KB]
• Promoting innovative IT take up in SMEs [27 KB]
• The Public Procurement Portal [24 KB]

Estonia

• Estonian Information Policy [33 KB]
• G2B information gateway Aktiva [24 KB]
• Mediation of EU public procurement to entrepreneurs [23 KB]

Finland

• Developing e-business practices in small and medium-sized enterprises [28 KB]
• eAskel (eStep) [26 KB]
• eBusiness project for SME in South-Karelian region [32 KB]
• e-Business project for SMEs in Seinajoki region [24 KB]
• eBusiness Service for SMEs [28 KB]
• EKeuruu [23 KB]
• KITARA - The Application of Information Technology in Mechanical, Civil and Automation Engineering [30 KB]
• Seinajoki Technology Centre supports business ideas, which have a good basis for commercial success [31 KB]
• Small crafts enterprises in e-business [23 KB]
• Verkkokaveri Information Service ("The Net Mate") [29 KB]
• VERSO - Vertical Software Solutions [34 KB]

France

• I - The national plans
  • ICT-SME 2010
  • Businessmen, choose digital economy [23 KB]
• II - National actors
  • ACFCI - Assembly of French Chambers of Commerce and Industry [23 KB]
  • Mission for digital economy [23 KB]
  • ADIT [22 KB]
• III - Sector initiatives of national importance
  • BoostAero and ePME [17 KB]
  • eBAT [22 KB]
  • ALFA [35 KB]
  • ACAMAS [22 KB]
• IV - Regional and local initiatives
  • RACINES network [18 KB]
  • AchatVille [33 KB]
  • Digiport [28 KB]

Germany

• B2B - The promotion of measures to introduce business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce for SMEs [28 KB]
• BAIKA - Bavarian Innovation and Cooperation Initiative for the Automotive Suppliers Industry [26 KB]
• b-online [28 KB]
• Ebigo.de [34 KB]
• E-business for SMEs [31 KB]
• Information Society Germany 2006 [25 KB]
• KLICK - Kompetenzzentrum elektronischer Geschaftsverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz [33 KB]
• PROZEUS - The promotion of e-business skills among SMEs through integrated processes and standards [34 KB]
• Train the trainer - Educating Independent e-business instructors for SMEs [28 KB]

Greece

• Digital Future (Psifiako Mellon) [35 KB]
• National Council of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises [47 KB]
• Observatory for Greek Information Society [33 KB]
• E-Business Research Center (ELTRUN) [31 KB]
• E-business Forum [53 KB]
• Go-online programme [33 KB]
• Operational programme for the Information Society (OPIS) [35 KB]
• Metecho - Participate [28 KB]

Hungary

• Development of Hungarian SME Financing Programmes [28 KB]
• Electronic commerce as a means for developing SMEs [24 KB]

Iceland

Ireland

• National eBusiness Strategy [26 KB]
• Enterprise Ireland's eBusiness Unit [34 KB]
• Enterprise Ireland - Supply Chain Management Initiative [29 KB]
• Plato [23 KB]

Italy

• Azienda Speciale Promoroma [39 KB]
• DDTA - Digitalisation of Districts in the Textile and Clothing sector [35 KB]
• eBusiness for SMEs [33 KB]
• EC Info Point [25 KB]
• eMarket Services Italia [23 KB]
• ENEA - TexSpin/TexWeave/Moda-ML [26 KB]
• i-CAST (Integration of ICT in the value chain of Textile and Clothing firms) [33 KB]
• II Italian Action Plan for ICT Innovation in Enterprises 2005 [24 KB]
• National e-Business Initiative [23 KB]
• Regional policy on ebusiness deployment [24 KB]

Latvia

Lithuania

• E-service competence centre [24 KB]
• Kaunas e-region development [31 KB]
• Promoting women entrepreneurship in Lithuania [24 KB]
• Strategy of small and medium-sized business development until the year 2015 [26 KB]
• Web project on EU common market issues for SMEs [46 KB]

Luxembourg

• Centre d'Innovation par les Technologies de l'Information [18 KB]
• Innovation public [29 KB]
• Portal "guichet unique pour entreprises" [23 KB]
• Business Plan Toolbox [28 KB]
• eLuxembourg [22 KB]

Malta

• National ICT Strategy (Kick-Start) [35 KB]
• Inland Revenue eServices [31 KB]
• Microenterprise Acceleration Programme [33 KB]
• MyWeb for Enterprises [31 KB]
• Euro-Label Trustmark Scheme [31 KB]
• E-business tax credits [24 KB]

The Netherlands

• NDiV - Netherlands Digital in Connection [13 KB]
• e-Invoicing B2G [12 KB]
• NOiV - Netherlands Open in Connection [16 KB]
• eSkills (Digivaardig & Digibewust) [23 KB]
• eRecognition [24 KB]

Norway

Poland

• Eulex database [45 KB]
• Euro Info Centre (EIC) project [48 KB]
• Euro-Label Polska [34 KB]

Portugal

• E-business in the Region of Santarem - Ribatejoempresas.com [32 KB]
• PME Digital Initiative [31 KB]
• The future of e-business among SMEs and the European Legislation on e-business [29 KB]

Romania

• AEL - An integrated solution for content management and computer assisted training [33 KB]
• E-business framework policy, raising awareness and ICT skills, promoting SMES support network, etc [23 KB]
• eROad [33 KB]

Slovakia

Slovenia

• eInvoicing eRegion - Slovenia Project Initiative [28 KB]
• Electronic tax operation - E-taxes [42 KB]
• E-VEM initiative [33 KB]
• e-SLOG (Electronic business in Slovene economy) [56 KB]
• SEAMLESS [34 KB]

Spain

• 2Bdigital: using e-marketplaces to internationalise SMEs [34 KB]
• Adaptation of retailer shops to their competitive environment, Galicia [33 KB]
• ANETCOM [30 KB]
• Avanza PYME: Promotes e-Business solutions for SCME and Avanza [28 KB]
• Formacion: Promotes professional training for employees on ICT [28 KB]
• Ce-Commerce Leveraging Centre of Galicia (Spain) [31 KB]
• Industry workshops [31 KB]
• Innovation and e-business [24 KB]
• PymesSi [23 KB]
• Research Team on "E-business: Electronic Commerce and teleworking" [23 KB]
• Technology Assessment to Enterprises [31 KB]

Sweden

• eMarket Services [26 KB]
• Portalen Handelsplats Wermland [36 KB]

United Kingdom

• Connecting Scotland: a strategic framework for e-business [31 KB]
• ConnectingSW [29 KB]
• De-mystifying e-business for SMEs [24 KB]
• East London Online [23 KB]
• East Midlands Network [34 KB]
• East of England online business advisors [26 KB]
• e-BaTT: e-Business Technology Transfer (HIE Online) [31 KB]
• eBusiness Forum Events and IT Savvy online resource [36 KB]
• eBusiness Specialist Advisor [33 KB]
• eCommerce Innovation Centre (eCIC), Cardiff University [31 KB]
• e-learn2work [36 KB]
• Electronic Payments Tool & Trade Online Project [36 KB]
• Essex eBusiness Club [23 KB]
• GEBWG-Global e-Business Working Group [34 KB]
• International Trade Online Learning Programme [31 KB]
• Invest Northern Ireland [31 KB]
• Islington Business Hub (IBH) and IST Project (USHER) [26 KB]
• London Business Support Network Knowledge Centres (LBSNKC) [26 KB]
• Opportunity Wales [34 KB]
• Research area: "Propensity for SME to engage in community-portal dynamic constellations". [32 KB]
• Search engine Optimisation project [29 KB]
• Specialist ICT provider and advisor [33 KB]
• The National Business-to-Business Centre [34 KB]
• The West Midlands e-Portal [31 KB]