On 30-31 May, training providers, policymakers and European Training Foundation experts celebrated good practices in training for SME internationalization, culminating in the ETF’s 2018 good practice awards ceremony in Chieri (Turin). Focused on identifying excellence in training to support SMEs to internationalise, seven training programmes were selected from a long list following an open call and a series of intensive peer reviews by SME training experts. Presenting the awards, ETF Director Cesare Onestini congratulated the training providers for competing in the good practice call.
The awards’ ceremony followed a lively exchange between policymakers, training providers and business support organisations and European Enterprise Network, as to how the policy world stands to benefit from access to good practice. Policymakers, included national coordinators for the Small Business Act from Egypt, Georgia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey and Moldova, included experts from the European Commission, the European External Action Service, the EU SME Agency and OECD.
ETF supports the European Commission with assessments of the Small Business Act in the EU’s pre-accession region, Eastern Partnership and Southern Neighbourhood regions.
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