The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Amen Bank have signed the first InnovFin agreement in Tunisia to provide EUR 60 million to innovative Tunisian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and small mid-caps.The InnovFin agreement will help Amen Bank to provide financing to innovative companies via new partnerships with universities, science and technology parks and business […]
During an EEN Retail Sector Group meeting which took place in Malta between 11-12th October 2017, 5 retail Maltese companies with an advanced entrepreneurial capacity to franchise their business, were provided with a unique opportunity to pitch their franchising proposal to a line-up of network partnering experts from various European countries. The applicant companies were required to […]
Twenty six Maltese business representatives from nineteen Malta based companies participated in a successful two-day trade mission organized by the Malta Chamber of Commerce Enterprise and Industry together with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tunis.The trade mission coincided with the State visit of H.E. President of Malta Marie Louise Coleiro Preca Tunisia, which […]
As Thailand is one of the leaders in South-East Asia region in terms of renewable energy solutions, especially connected to solar power, but also to biomass and hydropower, its market attracts cleantech companies from over the world. Given Thai government’s ambitious plan of achieving a 25% energy consumption from renewable energy sources by 2021[1], and […]
In 2016, MBB aligned its work as a local EEN contact point with the scope of providing additional advisory services and guidance to start ups and businesses in various sectors to help them better understand means and ways of tapping EU Funding streams.MBB supported local SMEs by informing them on how, through EEN, they now have […]
The MBB forms part of the Tourism Sector Group. The MBB’s strategy is to further cooperate with the Tourism Sector Group so as to be able to pro-actively help follow-up and inform tourism businesses of new developments at EU level, exchange good practice with relevant stakeholders and connect local SMEs within the sector to new […]
The Maltese industry seems also to be fully exploiting the benefits from the Single Market as the percentage of SMEs with intra-EU imports and exports is also lower than the EU average. With regards to opportunities related to Horizon 2020, Malta still scores low in percentages related to collaborating with others and participating in EU […]
There are three types of enterprises – those that operate within a community with no particular aspirations to grow, those that consolidate their position in their national territory, and the most ambitious of the lot that aim to internationalise and penetrate new markets.Many associate going international with big multinational corporations. Little do they know that […]
The ultimate objective of the action is to support the creation, business development and scaling-up of companies in the fashion and the tourism sectors through incubators and accelerators integrating creativity, art and design skills from CCIs (Cultural and Creative Industries) with cutting-edge technology, science and other relevant expertise.The action aims to support the creation of […]
