Past events

The EU-funded project on ‘Community Development through Social Entrepreneurship’ (CODE-SE) is holding its final conference in Yerevan on 4 December. Since the end of 2015, this EU4Business project has worked to support sustainable community development and enhance the capacities of civil society organisations (CSOs) in generating income through running social entrepreneurship projects for the...
The Eastern Partnership Summit will be held in the Europa building in Brussels, the seat of the Council of the EU.
EU leaders will meet with their counterparts in the six Eastern Partnership countries at the 5th EaP Summit in Brussels on 24 November 2017. The summit is being held to plan future cooperation between the EU and EaP countries and discuss progress made since the 4th EaP Summit held in Riga in May 2015. It will discuss how to strengthen cooperation in the four priority areas agreed in Riga:...
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The 4th Eastern Partnership (EaP) Business Forum is to be held in Tallinn on 26 and 27 October 2017 to promote cross-border economic relations, transparency and new business opportunities and cooperation between EU and EaP countries, with a particular focus on SMEs. The focus of this year’s forum – entitled “Digital Economy: Innovative Platform for Transparent Borderless Business” – is...
The OECD Eurasia Week is being held at the Rixos Almaty Hotel (pictured above) from 23 to 25 October 2017 and will count on the participation of the Eastern Partnership countries involved in the EU4Business programme.
SME competitiveness, internationalisation and access to finance for small and medium-sized companies will be high on the agenda of the OECD’s Eurasia Week in Kazakhstan in October 2017. Eurasia Week is an opportunity for Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries involved in the EU4Business programme to strengthen their relations with one another, with countries from Central Asia and with OECD member...
The EU4Business SMEDA project (Support to SME Development in Armenia) is holding an Info Day in Yerevan on 20 October for SMEs interested in applying to take part in the Hannover Messe 2018 trade fair next April . SMEDA will be inviting four Armenian companies, who have innovative solutions in Precision Engineering and the Internet of Things (IoT) to participate in the Hannover fair and in a...
Fighting corruption through e-Governance in Ukraine.
It is in the clear interest of the EU and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) partner countries to cooperate closely in digital matters. This way, 75 million consumers in EaP countries will also benefit from the EU’s Digital Single Market , creating which is one of the European Commission’s priorities for the coming years. On 5 October 2017 , the Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union...
Up to 15 Armenian precision engineering companies will be able to take part in a top digital technology exhibition being held in Yerevan from 29 September to 1 October 2017 – thanks to EU4Business. The companies, who will participate in the annual DigiTec Expo , are being supported under the SMEDA (Support to SME Development in Armenia) project, co-funded by the EU and the German Federal Ministry...
European in Armenia Expo
The Europe in Armenia Expo brings together businesses from Armenia, the EU and other regional countries for three days of networking, business matching and knowledge sharing. The Europe in Armenia Expo , the first of its kind in Armenia, targets the tourism, IT, agricultural, textile and machinery sectors. As an exhibition and business matching event, it aims to help EU and Armenian small and...
Up to 15 Armenian hi-tech and innovative startups will be selected for Academy training in Berlin in September - to help them work on developing their businesses and attracting investment. Armenia Startup Academy Berlin (ASAB) is being organised by BerlinerStrategen , a startup consultancy in the German capital, under the SMEDA (Support to SME Development in Armenia) project, part of the...
The 4 th industrial revolution represents an attractive opportunity for Armenia to become a tech hub for global markets, according to a new report on the country’s competitiveness by Armenian management consultants EV Consulting . The firm is presenting its National Competitiveness Repot of Armenia 2017, co-funded by the EU4Business Support to SME Development in Armenia (SMEDA) project, at a...