7^th INSME Annual Meeting

 
23-26 May 2011

Helsinki (Finland)

"Competitiveness, Culture and Cross-Border Co-operation:  Assisting SMEs to Grow, Innovate and
Reach International Markets"

Venue: Old Stock House

 View the location of the 2011 INSME Annual Meeting.  

 Download the information flyer (pdf) of the event

 For participation and further details, please visit the website at: www.annualmeeting2011.insme.org or contact the INSME Secretariat at: insme2011@insme.it  

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INSME participation at the WTA events

With a view to strengthen mutual collaboration with the World Technopolis Association - WTA,    the INSME Vice President, Dr. Raimund  Broechler, participated at the 7^th WTA General Assembly and International Conference on "Science City's  Sustainable Development in the Era of Global Climate Change". This event, which had the participation of over 500 people from 36 WTA Members in 27 countries, was held on September 1-4, 2010, in Hsinchu City, Chinese Taipei. 

  For further information on WTA, please visit: http//www.wtanet.org

 European Enterprise Awards 2011

Aim: identify and recognise the most successful promoters of enterprise and entrepreneurship around Europe, showcase best entrepreneurship policies and practices, raise awareness of the added value of entrepreneurship, and encourage and inspire potential entrepreneurs.

Participants: National, regional or local authorities or public-private partnerships from all EU Member States including Norway, Serbia and Turkey 

Closing date for entries to the national selection is set by each country.To find out more about the competition and national deadlines, please, contact your national SPOC.

 Learn more here.

Industrial competitiveness for a sustainable future

Call for Tender No: ENTR/29/PP/2010/FC, Lots 1-3

Aim: To ensure that the European Commission will get at short notice relevant information, consultancy, technical assistance and research services in the following three lots:
1. Competitiveness, environment, climate change, energy and transport
2. Sustainable product policy, ecodesign and beyond
3. Competitiveness, eco-innovation and value chain sustainability
 
Submission deadline: 20^th September2010

 Find out more here.

Both CORNET and EraSME have launched calls for Trans-national Collective Research Project Proposals aimed to strengthen the innovation capacity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. Both initiatives, the 10th Joint CORNET Call and the 8th EraSME Call, will be open until 30th September, 2010 and will help SMEs to acquire technological know-how, to increase their research efforts, to extend their networks and bridging the gap between research and innovation.

Read more at:
 http://www.era-sme.net/public/ and http://www.cornet-era.net/introduction_10th_call.htm

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3rd ISPIM Innovation Symposium

Conference Title

The International Network for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (INSME) is a non for profit Association that promotes transnational cooperation and public-private partnership for  innovation in SMEs, involving  main stakeholders dealing with competitiveness issues: governmental bodies, international organisations, business support intermediaries and their associations/networks at subnational, national, regional and international level. The Network comprises at present 79 members based in 32 countries in 5 continents.