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Category 4 recognises innovative policies and initiatives at national, regional or local level that make Europe an attractive place to start and a business, find out more here.
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Recognizing efforts aimed at facilitating the digital transformation of businesses, which empower them to create, promote, and adopt digital technologies, products, and services. Without delay, let's introduce the EEPA 2023 shortlisted in Category 3!
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EEPA Category 2: Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills recognises initiatives that improve entrepreneurial and managerial skills. Let’s meet the projects shortlisted in this category in 2023.
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The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) 2023 has unveiled its shortlisted projects across the competition’s six categories, find out more about Category 1.
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The winners of this year’s competition will be announced at the EEPA Awards Ceremony, to be held at the annual SME Assembly in in Bilbao in November but in the meantime let's find out the shortlisted projects.
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Calling all visionary young entrepreneurs! Join the Youth Start-Up Competition 2023 now, with an extra week to ignite your entrepreneurial journey!
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The last Category in in this year’s European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) is "Responsible and Inclusive Entrepreneurship". This category recognises initiatives that promote corporate social responsibility among small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship among disadvantaged groups
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Welcome to the September edition of the SME Week newsletter!
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We have already had a look at the national winners in Category 1, Category 2 and Category 3 of this year’s European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA). Today it is the turn of the national winners in EEPA Category 4!
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Supporting the Sustainable Transition, the Category 5 of the EEPA national winners recognises initiatives that support the sustainable transition of companies and target environmental aspects such as the circular economy, climate neutrality, clean energy, resource efficiency and biodiversity.