Enterprise Europe Network (ЕЕN)
The Enterprise Europe Network helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale. It is the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions.
We maintain a vast data base and powerful communication tools to contact with any point of the network close to the place of interest for your business. Over 600 organizations work together for years in order to provide a full range of business services accessible for you after a brief call or communication exchange.
is to assist the small and medium enterprises to take maximal advantage of the opportunities for business and innovative development on the EU single market and beyond.
You are looking for international partners, but you do not know where to start from? You want to upgrade your activity, but you lack access to new ideas? You need funding, but you also need guidance across the various European and national programmes?
to help your company take advantage of the EU single market as the big players do.
We can help you find international partners for business, new technologies and funding by the EU.
We can advise you on a variety of issues such as intellectual property protection, European legislation, EU standards, etc.
the search of international business and project partners in over 60 countries
entrepreneurs to access world markets by organizing brokerage events and business forums
opportunities for european funding of scientific, research and business projects
expert advice to businesses, research and branch organizations while applying for funding under the Horizon Europe programme
the innovations’ market realization
to innovate or achieve international growth
280 000 SMEs to realize
785 000 business contacts
on the Network’s brokerage events
20 000 SMEs with advises how to step on the market with their innovations
information and training to
over 2 million SMEs in the field of international expansion
of 475 000 SMEs, which received personalized consulting support
Visit the central information portal of the Network to see who our foreign partners are: https://een.ec.europa.eu/
but they are also available to all the other companies, universities and research centers.
EEN starts in 2008 as an initiative of the Directorate-General “Enterprise and Industry” of the European Commission. The member organizations include commercial and industrial chambers, technological centers, research institutes, development agencies and non-government organizations. Most of them contact the local businesses for a long time. They know the strengths and necessities of their clients and are familiar with the EU. As EEN members these organizations have access to massive data bases for new technologies and business contacts with the help of which they can assist for the finding of different partners in all countries within the Network.
EEN is co-financed via the framework programmes of the EU for competitiveness of the small and medium enterprises and for research (Single Market Programme – COSME).
The Network unites 12 organizations in the country, situated in Burgas, Varna, Gabrovo, Plovdiv, Ruse, Sofia and Stara Zagora.
Its national coordinator is ARC Consulting.