Are you thinking about setting up your own business or are you already a successful entrepreneur? If so, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs could be for you!

Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is a new European exchange programme aimed at helping new entrepreneurs to acquire relevant skills for managing an SME by spending time working in another EU country with an experienced entrepreneur.

This EU programme

  • Offers new entrepreneurs the opportunity to learn from an experienced entrepreneur who is running a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) in another EU country;
  • Enables the exchange of experience between new and experienced entrepreneurs;
  • Facilitates access to new markets and the search for potential business partners;
  • Enhances networking between business people and SMEs;
  • Allows experienced entrepreneurs to develop new commercial relations and find out more about opportunities in another EU country.

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Who can participate?

  • New entrepreneurs are entrepreneurs who are firmly planning to set up their own business or have already started their own business within the last three years.
  • Experienced entrepreneurs should own or manage an SME in the EU.

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The overall objective of the preparatory action is to enhance the entrepreneurship, internationalisation and competitiveness of potential start-up entrepreneurs and newly established micro and small enterprises in the EU. Final date for submission: 28 June 2010 http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/ itemlongdetail.cfm?item_id=4258
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