Industry and Entrepreneurship
Promote SMEs and boost entrepreneurship
Promote SMEs and boost entrepreneurship
This topic was among the priorities of the Vice-President’s mandate. Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) run by dynamic entrepreneurs are the job generators of Europe. If we want to stimulate growth in Europe, we must look first to our SMEs. Several actions have been taken to achieve this goal: SMEs week 2010, "Small Business Act" for Europe (SBA), adoption of the late payments directive and improved access to finance.
| 24.02.2010 | Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs to boost creation of small enterprises |
| 06.05.2010 | SME Finance Forum Commission to take on bottlenecks to financing of SMEs |
| 06.05.2010 | Latest trends in SMEs' access to finance and EU financial instruments |
| 21.05.2010 | Reduced Chemicals fees for SMEs |
| 25.05.2010 | European SME Week 2010 - Promoting and supporting entrepreneurship |
| 25.05.2010 | Becoming your own boss? You tube generation tells you how |
| 31.05.2010 | Winners of European Enterprise Awards successful at creating small businesses in times of crisis |
| 04.06.2010 | 45% of Europeans would like to be their own boss if … |
| 11.06.2010 | Small Businesses: Better policy support for EU’s job engine |
| 06.07.2010 | Internationally active SMEs yield better results |
| 28.09.2010 | SME Finance Forum: Ensuring access to credit and to finance to small businesses |
| 13.10.2010 | Enterprise Europe Networks opens SME gateways to China and South Korea |
| 28.10.2010 | Commission welcomes European Parliament approval for new rules against late payment |
| 08.11.2010 | Commission opens gateway to China for European small and medium size enterprises |
| 18.11.2010 | European SME Summit: How Green Makes Money |
| 08.12.2010 | Women Entrepreneurs encouraged to take the plunge |
What's Next
| 23.02.2011 | Communication on SBA midterm review |
| March | SME Finance Forum: High Level Meeting |
| 24-26.05.2011 | Winners of European Enterprise Awards announced at SBA good practice conference for SME stakeholders co-organised with the Hungarian EU Presidency |
| Summer | Commission proposal for Erasmus for entrepreneurs programme |
| 26.09.2011 | Annual Conference of the Enterprise Europe Network in collaboration with the Polish EU presidency |
| Autumn | SME performance review |
| 03-09.10.2011 | European SME Week 2011 |
| November | Launch of the European women entrepreneurs network |
| Winter | Proposal to reinforce support to EU SMEs in markets outside the EU |
