The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) is an overarching framework for the EU policy on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It aims at improving the approach to entrepreneurship in Europe, simplify the regulatory and policy environment for SMEs, and remove the remaining barriers to their development.
The main priorities of the SBA are:
To support and feed the above key enabling factors, the SBA have established 10 principles:
While focusing mainly on three topics as SBA Governance, Access to finance and Women Entrepreneurship, EBESM has clear interlinks with other SBA principles. The project activities in fact envelop also other themes including among others Green Economy, Innovation, Education and Training for Entrepreneurship, Efficient bankruptcy procedures and second chance for entrepreneurs, Internationalisation of SMEs.