Research activities

All project partners involved in the project have been carrying out an extensive desk research in the period of October 2008 until March 2009 (continuous updating), complemented by interviews with owners and directors of young enterprises in order to get an overview of the existing training and support structures for young enterprises in the various countries.

The research reports summarise the main findings and map the current training and support structures for young enterprises, give an overview of the training and support institutions providing good practice in this field and describe potential gaps and needs for further improvement of the existing offer in all the participating partner countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.

As the SME-TraiNet network activities are financially supported by the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture, the individual country reports are available for download in the download section of this website free of charge. The Executive Summary of the reports can be downloaded below.

 

European_Executive_Summary_of_Research_Reports.pdf