ESIF – Single Market Programme

Synergies between centrally managed

and shared managed programs

Bratislava, 7 November 2018

Janos Schmied

GROW.H.2 – Enterprise Europe Network and Internationalization of SMEs

COSME € 2,3 billion 2014-2020

1 ACCESS TO FINANCELOAN GUARANTEE FACILITY

EQUITY FACILITY FOR GROWTH

FUNDS OF FUNDS

4 ACCESS TO MARKETSENTERPRISE EUROPE NETWORK

2 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTSME POLICY, START-UP,

BETTER REGULATION

3 ENTREPRENEURSHIPERASMUS FOR YOUNG

ENTREPRENEURS

Min 60%

~11%

~21,5%~2,5%

COSME TODAY

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• Debt instrument for SMEs’ growth

Loan Guarantee Facility (COSME): 330.000 SMEs mobilising around €20 billion in guaranteed loans

• Equity instrument for SMEs’ growth

Equity Facility for Growth (COSME) – focus: growth-stage

Venture Capital: up to nearly €4 billion for equity finance

http://access2eufinance.ec.europa.eu

1. ACCESS TO FINANCE

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• Smart regulation & SME policy

• Development of markets/sectors

Examples:

Better regulation platform

SME envoys’ network

Clusters go international, Cluster collaboration platform

Blueprint for sectoral skills

2. BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

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• developing entrepreneurial skills and attitudes

• mentoring schemes

• promoting social entrepreneurship

Example:

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs

www.erasmus-entrepreneurs.eu

3. ENTREPRENEURSHIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad4UZz6WUuY

10 years 2008-2018

2,012,624

SMEs benefitted from

our information

services and training

sessions

415,169

SMEs got advice from our

experts

to help them innovate

and grow internationally

231,869

SMEs participated in our

brokerage events where

they held

700,282 business meetings

9,468

SMEs benefitted from our

tailored

innovation support

packages

2,669,1

30SMEs benefitted

from key

Network services

Evolving services

2008Partnership and

advisory

services

2014Introduced tailored

innovation support

across the Network

2017Piloting targeted

scale-up services

EEN service range

Advice on Single MarketEU legislation, standards, overcoming obstacles Advice on Access to finance

EU funding, other finance, readiness assessment

Advice on new markets in Europe & beyond Innovation services, including

innovation management capacity buildingKey Account Management for SME-Instrument beneficiaries

Business & technology partnerships

Start-up & scale-up advisorsSME Feedback

FROM COSME TO SMP

KEY PRINCIPLES

• Continuity

• Flexibility

• EU added value

• Improved delivery

• Synergies

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SMP - STRUCTURE AND OBJECTIVES

11European Statistics (covering all EU policies)

Food Chain

Consumers & End-Users

Standardisation

COSME

Improving the Internal Market

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVESGENERAL

OBJECTIVES

Improve the functioning

of the Internal Market

High quality Statistics

BUDGET

EUR 4 088 000 000

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1 000 000 000

188 000 000

1 680 000 000

552 000 000

668 580 000

Competitiveness of enterprises

Consumer protection and product safety

Food chain

European Statistics

Internal Market, Standardisation and participation in financial sector policy making

SMP – COSME COMPONENT • Reinforcement of existing successful actions such as

Enterprise Europe Network

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs (name to be changed)

Cluster initiatives

• Continuation of positively evaluated activities such as

IPR SME Helpdesk

SME Performance Review

SME Envoys

• Budget will be available to test new ideas and pilotschemes

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Synergies – ESIF-COSME

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• ESIF measures implementing the Small Business Act

• ESIF Financial Instruments and InvestEU

• ESIF and EEN

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• Political commitment

• Coordination of EEN consortium

• Using EEN as a strategic tool

• Baden-Württemberg

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (I)

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• Successive service provisions (first ESIF, then EEN)

• ESIF: preparations of Seal of Excellence SMEs from SME-Instrument Phase 1 for Phase-2 applications (Hungary)

• EEN: Key Account Management services when application is successful

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (II)

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• Successive service provisions (first EEN, then ESIF)

• EEN: Access to finance consultation for Seal of Excellence holders

• ESIF: possible funding of Seal of Excellence holder’s project idea

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (III)

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• EEN services built into ERDF projects

• EEN: providing cross-border partnering services and tools

• Win-win complementarities

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (V)

Regional open innovation platform -Lombardy

• collaborative platform

• launched in 2015

• over 9000 participants from industry, research, government and civil society

• automatic partner search facility with EEN

ENTERPRISEGOVERNMENT

RESEARCHSOCIETY

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (V)

Cross-border business transfer

• Interreg Alpine Space project

• Business partner search with EEN

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (VI)

https://www.business-transfer.eu/

B2B events at Annual Events of Macro-regional strategieswith EEN partners’ involvement

Synergies – ESIF-EEN - Best practices (VII)

Further use of EEN

• Peer-to-peer learning

• Peer-to-peer benchmarking

• Flanders

GR-EEN meetings: Northern France-Lorraine, Luxemburg, Germany-Rheinland-Pfalz & Saarland, Switzerland-Basel and surroundings –twice per year

MORE INFORMATION

https://een.ec.europa.eu/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/publications/single-market-programme-legal-texts-and-factsheets_en

https://ec.europa.eu/growth/smes/cosme_en