Looking back on 2019: the beginning of optimism for SMEs

Small businesses with international ambitions remain cautiously optimistic about their near-term growth. While optimism levels for turnover, market share and job creation over the coming year slightly fell compared to 2018, they remained broadly consistent with figures for the past two years. The Enterprise Europe Network used survey data from businesses using the Network’s services. […]

Meet the winners of the EU-GIVE /BeShared pitching competition

Bookswap, Usitoo and Pensumo won the pitching competition organized by EU-GIVE and BeShared for their final event. On 27th November, the EU-GIVE and BeShared projects organized their final event in Brussels.  The final event consisted of a public pitching competition in front of a panel of investors notably social impact investors. Objectives of the event […]

EU-GIVE and BeShared: joint learning about the collaborative economy

The EU-GIVE and BeShared projects are coming to an end on 30th November 2019 and they are organizing a joint final event on 27th November 2019 in Brussels. This is the occasion to think about the learnings from the projects. 2 pilot projects In 2017, following an initiative from the European Parliament, the European Commission […]

Lessons learnt from the Platform Learning Journey to Berlin

On 16-17th May, the Brussels platforms Usitoo, Cobea Coop, Coop It Easy, FitMyNest and Wibee went to Berlin as part of the “Platform Learning Journey”.