Funds, new policies and engagement opportunities: a weekly summary of the most relevant news for small businesses – from EU official sources.

Sami Kämppi and Antti Kaukinen combine their creative and technological skills to build stunning interactive installations, or Smart Spaces. As co-founders of OiOi, their work has featured across their native Finland and as far afield as Hong Kong.

Are you a Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) working in the fashion industry, a manufacturing company or a fashion designer? It's time for business opportunities! Join the Enterprise Europe Network international matchmaking event Torino Fashion Match 2018 (28 June – 1 July 2018) in Turin, Italy.

Funds, new policies and engagement opportunities: a weekly summary of the most relevant news for small businesses – from EU official sources.

Dirk Strothmann is a creative engineer who cares for the environment. His invention – a contactless dynamo – make your bike rides smother, smarter and greener!

Funds, new policies and engagement opportunities: a weekly summary of the most relevant news for small businesses – from EU official sources.

How can businesses use the data from the European Union's Earth Observation Programme, Copernicus? The Enterprise Europe Network is organising a conference and matchmaking event to explore these opportunities. "Earth Observation & Copernicus Technologies and Solutions for User Applications" will take place on 19 April, 2018 in Bochum, Germany.

Funds, new policies and engagement opportunities: a weekly summary of the most relevant news for small businesses – from EU official sources.

Gerard Fernandéz Curell is the CEO of ENGIDI, a Spanish company at the intersection of wearable technology and the Internet of Things. ENGIDI fits connected chips into safety helmets, providing real-time monitoring data about workers health and wellbeing on industrial sites.

A professor of innovation at the University of Navarra (Spain) and founding partner of an innovation consultancy, María Beunza Mijimolle is passionate about empowering people. She realised that it is difficult for young people, especially women, to embark in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) careers and for SMEs to embrace innovation without successful examples. Strong of her experience as a certified coach for Horizon 2020 SME Instrument beneficiaries and working closely with the Enterprise Europe Network, she decided to lead change. On International Women's Day, she presents her project Innovactoras (Actors of Innovation).