Enterprise Europe Network operates in Greece

(ATHENS NEWS AGENCY-MACEDONIAN PRESS AGENCY) The European Commission at an event in Brussels on Thursday inaugurated the start of operation of the Enterprise Europe Network, the new network of integrated support of businesses throughout Europe. Present at the event was Commission Vice President Gunter Verheugen who is responsible for Enterprise and Industry.The Greek Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas, member of the European network, is the largest network of integrated business support which covers all the Greek region.The Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas offers services of international business cooperation, briefing on European policies, services on innovation and the transfer of technical know-how, as well as services for the encouragement of participation by small and medium-sized businesses in the European programmes on research and technology.The project is being implemented by a consortium of 16 organisations, comprised of industrial associations, research and technological foundations, trade and industrial chambers and agencies in the innovation sector and the mass media.