Description
The Enterprise Europe Network Team in DG GROW D2, are delighted to invite you to the 2nd EEN Townhall Talk meeting on the SME Relief Package.
These talks aim to provide you with more details on important policy developments and initiatives by the Commission by inviting colleagues with relevant expertise on the topics to make presentations and discuss these topics with you in more detail.
SMEs are central to Europe's economic and social fabric and to the EEN. The Communication of the SME Relief Package comes to boost the competitiveness and resilience of SMEs in very complicated times: the financial crisis, the pandemic and the unprovoked Russian aggression to Ukraine.
But it also comes in the midst of challenges that are very relevant to SMEs: a complex regulatory environment and complex administrative procedures and reporting requirements for SMEs, difficulties in access to investment and skills shortages in the workforce.
In this Townhall Talk of the EEN, we will see, in more detail, how the SME Relief Package can help SMEs and how this can be translated into actions for the EEN.
✍️ Please, register here by 20 September
Agenda
09:30 – 09:40 Introduction
Mariella Masselink, Head of Unit, European Commission, DG GROW.D.2 - Industrial Forum, Alliances, Clusters
09:40 – 10:15 Presentation and Updates on the SME Relief Package
European Commission, DG GROW.A.2 – SME Policy (speaker tbc)
10:15 – 10:30 Q&A
European Commission, DG GROW.A.2 – SME Policy (speaker tbc)
(Moderated by Alberto Valenzano, European Commission, DG GROW.D.2 – Industrial Forum, Alliances, Clusters)