Business and industry

The EU promotes competitiveness, innovation, key enabling technologies and corporate social responsibility, whilst protecting industrial property rights.

The EU wants to create a business friendly environment for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The EU wants to use space-related technology to tackle some of today's most pressing challenges. The main programmes are Galileo, EGNOS and Copernicus.

A new circular economy strategy will transform Europe into a more competitive resource-efficient economy, addressing a range of economic sectors.

The European Commission contributes funding and works on harmonising certification procedures for security technologies.

The Copernicus programme provides data on Earth's environment, and emergency and crisis situations, which is then transformed into added-value information.