Following the meeting of the UNICA President Stavros A. Zenios with the Head of Unit of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission, Mr Marko Curavić, on February the 11th 2010, please find hereby some useful information regarding the initiatives and programmes of the EC :
* Web page of the programme "Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs":
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/e...
* As regards female entrepreneurship, the contact person is Anna Danti (e-mail : Anna.Danti@ec.europa.eu)
Link to the web page on Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/w...
* Web page where you will find all information about the EC's Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General activities for entrepreneurship education:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/e...
In this field, please note the following practice about involving real entrepreneurs in classroom teaching at the University of Valencia ; here a link to the presentation of this initiative:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/e...
* Also, the related issue of responsible entrepreneurship as a means to make a career as an entrepreneur more attractive for young people : below, the web page including a video that is distributed to schools:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sustainable-business/index_en.ht...
* Web page of the SME Week:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/entrepreneurship/sme-week/
* For innovation policies, the contact person is Peter Droell (e-mail : peter.droell@ec.europa.eu), and the relevant web page:
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/innovation/index_en.htm
* Finally, for more general searches on the web on issues related to SMEs and entrepreneurship, please find below the addresses of the "European Portal for SMES" and of the pages on the promotion of entrepreneurship :
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sme/index_en.htm
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/i...
For further information, visit : http://entrepreneurship.unica-network.eu/news