
Webinar recording: How to bring skills to companies?
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our last workplace training mini webinar on how to bring skills to companies.
SMEs are the backbone of our economy, accounting for 99% of businesses and up to two-thirds of all private sector jobs in the EU. This is why the competitiveness of SMEs is at the forefront of Interreg Europe, feeding into the broader Europe 2020 strategy for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth.
Some 1.2 million enterprises are created in the EU every year, yet only half of those survive the first five years. So the challenge for regions is to improve policies that can boost entrepreneurship and support SMEs - in all stages of their life cycle - by helping them to grow and innovate and breaking down the barriers that prevent business growth.
Through our SME Competitiveness theme, Interreg Europe fosters exchange of experience, capacity building and networking aimed at helping SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets.
The field is complex and requires much learning in terms of internationalisation, access to markets, financing, growth capacity, networking and clustering, innovation capacity, business transfer, entrepreneurship development and capacity building. It also entails the incorporation of new forms of SME development, such as design, eco-conception and corporate social responsibility.
Solutions do exist. INTERREG IVC has shown, for example, that a solution found in one region can be shared, transferred and adapted for the benefit of other regions. In this context, our SME Competitiveness Policy Learning Platform offers regional and local actors the means to accelerate the design and implementation of their policies, making them as effective and efficient as possible.
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our last workplace training mini webinar on how to bring skills to companies.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility is to give the SME Strategy new impetus through investments in environment, and digital initiatives.
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our second workplace training mini webinar which took place on 19 March!
Throughout policy briefs, webinars and articles the Policy Learning Platform treats the subject of skills development and its importance for policymakers.
Watch the recording and access the presentations of our first 30-minute workplace training webinar which took place on 12 March!
Discover how the expansion of marketplaces for reuse and recycling of Electrical and Electronic Equipment helps to reduce waste and the overall digital divide!
Join the Policy Learning Platform for a trilogy of 30-minute webinars on workplace training and how regions and SMEs benefit from it
Can Interreg Europe’s peer review support interactive teaching methods at university? Experiences from a successful pilot at Zuyd University in Maastricht.
Watch the recording of the webinar on cross-sectoral inter-cluster cooperation that took place on 19 January.
Take a look at how the SCALE UP project is boosting regional entrepreneurship in the Lazio region.
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2021
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Interreg Europe is the follow-up programme for INTERREG IVC. Between 2007 and 2014 INTERREG IVC set the cogwheels of interregional cooperation in motion and gathered a lot of knowledge throughout the 204 financed projects. Get inspiration for your project proposal from the INTERREG IVC policy recommendations!
A timely inventory of up-to-date evidence and experience to help regional authorities introduce or develop their regional policies in the field of entrepreneurship.
A timely inventory of up-to-date evidence and experience to help regional authorities introduce or develop their regional policies on innovation capacity of SMEs.