This unique event puts SMEs in direct contact with key personnel and Ministers from three EU presidencies - past, present and future. The conference is the ideal platform for SMEs to influence the highest level of EU policymakers and air their views on what improvements can be made to the Framework Programme.

The conference will consist of three sessions:

1. I have an idea!
2. How to turn that idea into a reality? and
3. Meeting market and societal challenges.

Each of these sessions will be launched by a well-known visionary speaker whose role will be to elaborate on the traditional horizons dealing with research and innovation within European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, therefore helping the audience to put aside all pre-conceived ideas and thus hopefully leading the audience to start opening-up to current visions.

Each of these sessions should give plenty of opportunities to help European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises to describe as well as share their own experiences with the audience, under the guidance of two experienced moderators who would conduct the debates, draw a number of conclusions and perhaps offer new ways to reassess and/or reflect upon the debated topics.

Please click here to register.

Further information, including the detailed programme, is available on the conference website.

Date:
From: 17 November 2010
To: 18 November 2010