Promoting Enterprise blog

This year Bilbao will host the SME Assembly 2023, that promises to be an electrifying event set to power Europe's SMEs and start-ups toward a sustainable and innovative future.

Every year at the SME Assembly, a leading figure in entrepreneurship delivers our Schumpeter ‘Innovation in Enterprise’ lecture. This year, it will be Professor Saras Sarasvathy who will take the stage at the prestigious event.

Responsible and Inclusive Entrepreneurship recognises initiatives that promote corporate social responsibility among small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship among disadvantaged groups. Learn more about the shortlisted projects,

The winners of this year’s competition will be announced at the EEPA Awards Ceremony but in the meantime we take a look at the projects that made it onto the shortlist in EEPA Category 5 – Supporting the Sustainable Transition.

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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.

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!

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.

The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA) 2023 has unveiled its shortlisted projects across the competition’s six categories, find out more about Category 1.