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News archive - [Event Announcement] 1st Danube Financing Dialogue: " Financing projects of Small and Medium Enterprises in the Danube Region"

At the 1st  Danube Financing Dialogue in Vienna, international experts will gather to discuss vital issues concerning the financing of SME projects in the Region. Furthermore the event will serve as a matchmaking opportunity for regional SMEs and Financial Institutions. SME representatives will have the unique opportunity to identify suitable financing sources for investment projects and present their projects to participating representatives of Financial Institutions. In turn, Financial Institutions will have the opportunity to identify new fields of business.

The event takes place at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) in Vienna on March 22-23, 2012.

The EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) is a macro-regional strategy covering all countries along the Danube from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. The Strategy is a joint initiative of the European Commission and the Danube Region countries. Its main objective is to address common challenges and coordinate existing policies and programmes to reinforce integration in the Region.
The EUSDR has defined 11 so-called Priority Areas. Austria, represented by the City of Vienna, and Slovenia have been put in charge of coordinating Priority Area 10 (EUSDR PA 10) - “Institutional capacity and cooperation.” An important element of the EUSDR PA 10 is the creation of a Danube Investment Framework to assist project owners in the Region in developing project proposals, and facilitate coordination between different funding sources.


The meeting starts on March 22 at 13.00 and ends
Key note speeches deal with the role of SMEs and Financial Institutions within the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and include representatives from European Commission, European Investment Fund, European Investment Bank and European Central Bank. A panel discussion centers on the challenges and opportunities of financing SME investment projects in the Danube Region. On the second day, matchmaking is being organised.

Invitation letter and agenda can be found in the attachments.

Participation will be by application only.

Participants will include:

  • SMEs with eligible investment projects. Conditions: relevance to the priorities of the EUSDR and one or more policy fields (transport, energy, culture, environment, technologies, education or security) and a financing volume of 1 to 25 million EUR.
  • Financial Institutions offering grants, guarantees, loans etc.
  • EUSDR representatives

 
The event takes place at the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) in Vienna:
Otto-Wagner-Platz 3
A - 1090 Vienna

Please register by 24  February 2012
http://groupspaces.com/CapacityandCooperation/item/223882/register
 

For further questions:

Metis GmbH
Marlene Hahn
+43 699 10 89 31 40
financing-dialogue@metis-vienna.eu
 


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From: 22 March 2012
To: 23 March 2012

Entry created by Elke Dall on March 12, 2012
Modified on May 12, 2012