{"id":997,"date":"2023-11-22T07:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2023-11-22T07:21:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T07:21:01","slug":"een-annual-conference-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/een-annual-conference-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"EEN Annual Conference 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-873\" src=\"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/01.curve_long-RGB_White_Positive-top-right-300x58.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1356\" height=\"262\" \/>The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) &#8211; the world\u2019s largest support network for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) &#8211;\u00a0 annual three-day conference in Bilbao, Spain.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conference took place under the theme \u2018The EEN at 15: Showing the Way Forward for SMEs\u2019. It focused on how the network\u2019s business support services could best meet the evolving needs of SMEs, while celebrating the <a href=\"https:\/\/een.ec.europa.eu\/news\/enterprise-europe-network-is-15\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The annual conference is the biggest event of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/een.ec.europa.eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)<\/a>, comprising over 3,000 experts from more than 450 organisations in over 40 countries. These include innovation and regional development agencies, chambers of commerce and industry, technology centres, and research institutes. This year\u2019s conference brought together 800 participants in Bilbao and many more connected online.<\/p>\n<p>The conference is organized alongside the\u00a0SME Assembly as a main component of the European SME Week\u00a0pan-European event to promote entrepreneurship and SMEs in Europe. Through a range of workshops and networking sessions, participants discussed how the Network can contribute to the European industrial transition, exchange best practices, build synergies, and reflect on improving the quality and visibility of EEN services. The conference provided important feedback for the continuous efforts of the EEN to help SMEs innovate, grow internationally, and foster cooperation and synergies across borders among network members.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of the Network and the Bulgarian consortium InnoForward RIC &#8220;Ambitious\u00a0 Gabrovo&#8221;\u00a0 had its representative attending the conference in Bilbao, Spain from 15 to 17 November.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-906 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/0-02-05-35d871a06f786ae31b1bc63f5b5f1fdfe120138e15a194fe9ec4abe011031081_d78b3538a65f1b77-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"402\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) &#8211; the world\u2019s largest support network for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) &#8211;\u00a0 annual three-day conference in Bilbao, Spain. The conference took place under the theme \u2018The EEN at 15: Showing the Way Forward for SMEs\u2019. It focused on how the network\u2019s business support services could best meet the evolving [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[31,32,33,34],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-een","category-events","tag-een","tag-eenannualconference","tag-events","tag-profect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ric-gabrovo.com\/bg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}