CVs of experts: feedback from the ERAI technical workshop
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Alice Baumelle
June 14th 2011
When answering to a call for tender in the service area, half of the points are dedicated to the CVs of the proposed experts, sometimes even more!
On June 14th, 10 companies from Rhône-Alpes were trained with ERAI to this key issue.
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The Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani has nominated Mr Daniel Calleja Crespo as new SME Envoy to open up channels of communication between the Commission and SMEs, and their representative organisations and monitor the implementation of the "Small Business Act" for Europe within the Commission. French SME [...]
Policy-making at any level of government is most effective when those affected by the policies are consulted in advance. SMEs have traditionally found it difficult to get their views across to policy-makers. First, both individually and collectively, SMEs do not have the resources which large firms dedicate to influencing policy-making, or lobbying. Second, it is very difficult for a large number of SMEs to decide on and put forward a common viewpoint on a proposal, so [...]
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The European Enterprise Awards have been organised by DG Enterprise since 2006 to identify and reward excellence among public authorities in promoting entrepreneurship and small business at national, regional and local level. This year, European Commission received 399 applications from 29 countries, within [...]
The exchange of good practice and experience triggered by the European Enterprise Awards has fulfilled its primary objectives, which are:
•To identify and recognise successful activities and initiatives undertaken to promote enterprise and entrepreneurship
•To showcase and share examples of best entrepreneurship policies and practices
•To create a higher awareness of the role entrepreneurs play in society
•To encourage and inspire potential [...]
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CPE Club: European and international public tenders
Last May 19th, ERAI and the CCI of Lyon were speakers to a meeting organized by the Club of Exporteurs CPE on European and international public tenders. The 26 participants had a presentation about the business opportunities linked to international public buyers and about good practicies to work on these markets [...]
Alice Baumelle, International public procurement Project Manager at ERAI, introduced the process of projects and tenders funded by development aid (World Bank, African Development Aid, French Development Agency...)
These markets have a lot of advantages for companies:
- information on projects before tenders
- english is the mainly used language
- secure financing of projects
ERAI also briefly talked about UN procurement. [...]
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Eco-innovation program - 2011 setting up call for proposals
The 2011 call for proposals f the European Eco-Innovation Programme (CIP) has been published on the website of the European Commission website (environment direction)
This program aims to fund pilot projects of the first commercial applications about new products, services, processes and management methods. The priority fields for this 2011 call for proposals are recycling materials, sustainable building materials sector, drinking water and food (new packaging methods, and method of water treatment), the reducing water use in industry, and sustainable procurement and green.
This program is primarily aimed at SMEs, trade [...]
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