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European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) & Startup Europe

Target group
SMEs, Government
Type of funding
Equity financing, Procurement, Networking, No direct funding
Project type
Growth, Start, Networking
Area
SMEs
Info last updated 11 months ago

Summary

The European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) is a new entity that will support 26 EU Member States and Iceland who, having signed the EU Startup Nations Standard (EU SNS) declaration in March 2021

Budget

Official information source

https://esnalliance.eu/ 

Description

European Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) 

Contributing to bring Europe to the lead of global startup ecosystem

 

About

We are working on leading the European Union Agenda
for Entrepreneurship, connecting the dots between the Commission, Member States Governments with the National Entrepreneurship bodies of each European Union country

Accelerating the growth of European entrepreneurship by improving national policy frameworks of the ESNA Member countries on the common standards agreed upon in the Startup Nations Standards of excellence declaration
 

The purpose

Implement

An open and up-to-date digital platform with essential data and information on the EU entrepreneurship ecosystem, provided by the EU-27

Improve

National Policy Frameworks of Member States through monitoring of Startup Nations Standards adoption and best practice benchmarking, sharing and exchange

Promote

A proactive and open communication strategy on the European entrepreneurship agenda and policies, capable of establishing a strong brand statement and stronger relationships with ecosystems around the world

 

Startup Europe

Startup Europe strengthens networking opportunities for deep tech scaleups and ecosystem builders to accelerate the growth of the European startup scene.
 

    two young startup employees conversing

Startup Scaleup initiative

Startup Europe is an initiative of the European Commission to connect high tech startups, scaleups, investors, accelerators, corporate networks, universities and the media. It is supported by a portfolio of EU funded projects and policy actions such as the EU Startup Nation Standard, Innovation Radar and the Digital Innovation and Scale-up Initiative (DISC). It is fully aligned with the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) strategy of the European Commission. 

 

EU Startup Nation Standard

The EU Startup Nation Standard is a new initiative announced in the European Commission’s new SME Strategy.

European SMEs and startups face several challenges as they pursue ambitions of securing market opportunities and growing their revenues. Many EU countries are already following best practices to help startups address challenges such as venture creation, and attracting and retaining talent.

The European Commission in 2020 will establish EU Startup Nation Standard to multiply such practices across the EU to make Europe the most attractive startup and scaleup continent.

In particular, this will include the launch of a political initiative calling for commitments from EU countries to implement such practices at local, regional and national levels. The initiative will focus on making it easier to launch a startup and expand across borders. It will also streamline visa and residency applications for third country talent, make granting of employee stock options more attractive, promote venture-building and tech transfer from universities, and increase access to finance for scaling-up. 

 

Innovation Radar Platform

The Innovation Radar is the European Commission’s data-driven initiative to identify high potential innovations and innovators in EU-funded research and innovation projects. Its goal is to allow every citizen, public official, professional and business person to discover the outputs of EU innovation funding.

 

Digital innovation and scaleup initiative (DISC)

Digital startups in the central, eastern and south-eastern Europe (CESEE) region face an investment gap compared to innovators in other European regions. To address this gap in a geographically targeted way the digital innovation and scaleup initiative (DISC) was launched in 2019 by the European Commission in cooperation with several other international institutions. DISC pursues these aims by addressing the existing market gap, enhancing investments and strengthening technical assistance programs focused on digital innovations and the scale-up of digital startups in the CESEE region.

Read a short note on DISC (.pdf)

 
 
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