Projects
In this section you will find a list of UEAPME’s current and past projects.
Current projects
STARTENT- Fostering Business-University Partnerships for Entrepreneurship Education in Europe
The STARTENT project aims to contribute to develop the entrepreneurial culture of young people, and to improve entrepreneurship education in Europe. The success key of the project is the collaboration between representatives from the academia and from the business sector, which will share and combine their perspective and experience on how to make entrepreneurship education more effective in Europe. With a comprehensive set of actions, the STARTENT project addresses young people in general, would-be entrepreneurs, new entrepreneurs and academic and non-academic entrepreneurship educators. The project is co-funded by the European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry under the call “Entrepreneurial culture of young people and entrepreneurship education”.
“RFID-ROI-SME” project
The main goal of RFID-ROI-SME is to boost the adoption of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology by wide SME communities, while at the same time creating business opportunities for innovative RFID solution providers within the EU. The aim is to demonstrate tangible benefits of RFID technology across many different sectors and business cases. These benefits will then be disseminated to wider SME communities in the form of case studies, best practices and blueprints. To this end, the project will integrate, deploy organize and coordinate 8 RFID pilots in 6 European countries (including 1 international pilot) covering different sectors.
SME Master Plus project
The project SME (Skilled-Mobile-European) MASTER Plus aims at implementing the European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET) in the formal training programmes of a Master Craftsperson in order to foster transparency and mobility in vocational education and training. The project covers four occupational fields, namely bakery, floristry, hairdressing and woodworking and will provide a learning outcome oriented description or so called “ECVET toolbox” of the master craftsperson qualification in five EU member states. The project partners are notably from Germany, France, Slovenia, Norway and Austria. The project has a duration of three years and runs until the end of 2011.
Visit the project website or contact Helen Hoffmann
Project FLABEL (Food Labelling to Advance Better Education for Life) on nutritional labelling
This project is coordinated by EUFIC (European Council on Food Information). The aim of the project is to determine how food labels can help in understanding the role played by different foodstuffs in determining our health and well-being, as well as to give advice on a balanced diet. The project, which will last for 3 years, started in September 2008.
Visit the FLABEL project website
PHARE Business Support Programme III of the European Union - UEAPME SME FIT II
The objective of the Business Support Programme III – SME FIT II of UEAPME is to disseminate the acquis communautaire to the four beneficial countries Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Turkey. The Programme is financed by the DG Enlargement of the European Commission. UEAPME and its 30 partners also aim at strengthening our member SME associations in these four countries.
ASPIRE - Advanced Sensors and lightweight Programmable middleware for Innovative Rfid Enterprise applications
As of January 2008 UEAPME is a partner in ASPIRE, an EU founded research project that aims at making RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices) a less expensive and more accessible technology for SMEs.
The project will develop new software solutions for RFID that will be distributed to SMEs under open source and royalty free conditions. This will considerably lower the total cost of ownership of RFID for SMEs as they will no longer have to bear the costs for acquiring licences of software proprietary systems for RFID.
ASPIRE will develop its software adapted to typical SME-scenarios in the following sectors:
- Food
- Apparel
- Metallurgy and Machines
- Health
A detailed description of the project can be found here. Should you have any question on ASPIRE do not hesitate to contact Ms Mariette Wennmacher.
Visit the ASPIRE project website
Responsible Entrepreneurship in SMEs
The project, granted by the European Commission’s DG Enterprise, will develop tools and activities in order to support intermediary business organisations to help improve the competitiveness of their member SMEs through actions of responsible entrepreneurship. In particular there will be a handbook adopted in 10 languages, a VET curriculum and more than 40 local seminars with SMEs. Three train-the trainer sessions will improve the partners’ capacities on Responsible Entrepreneurship; the final conference will summarise the project process and its results.
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