ESSPO
Efficient support services portfolios for SMEs
Smart
SME competitiveness
2014-2020
Project summary
ESSPO context
So far considerable budgets have been invested across EU for SMEs support measures, however their impact on the economy of EU territories could be improved. Therefore, the aim of ESSPO project is to address the issue of efficiency of SME support policies and develop comprehensive support portfolios designed as policy mixes, which would identify and establish synergies between different services and smartly target relevant segments of SME population. ESSPO goal The project takes a long-term approach to contribute to the creation of effective and efficient SME support service portfolios, which are capable to impact the regional economies via increasing SME’s competitiveness, especially focusing on their growth on national and international markets as well as on their improved engagement in innovation processes.
So far considerable budgets have been invested across EU for SMEs support measures, however their impact on the economy of EU territories could be improved. Therefore, the aim of ESSPO project is to address the issue of efficiency of SME support policies and develop comprehensive support portfolios designed as policy mixes, which would identify and establish synergies between different services and smartly target relevant segments of SME population. ESSPO goal The project takes a long-term approach to contribute to the creation of effective and efficient SME support service portfolios, which are capable to impact the regional economies via increasing SME’s competitiveness, especially focusing on their growth on national and international markets as well as on their improved engagement in innovation processes.
What did this project achieve?
ESSPO partners design and deliver mechanisms to improve SME policy instruments in 8 different territories on national, regional, sub-regional and local level.
Tools which are used to implement ESSPO processes involve interregional learning process engaging the stakeholders and project consortium, peer reviews and mapping exercises, finishing with regional action plan of the policy improvement in each territory which is designed in continuous dialogue among partners and relevant stakeholders and accompanied with good practices.
A few numbers
1,967,182 €
01 Apr 2016-31 Mar 2021
11 partners