Success stories

Network helps Polish bakery owners secure funding for state-of-the-art equipment and a new drive-through window.

Keeping the bugs at bay poses a challenge for organic farms that shun pesticides. But help is on the way: a small Turkish plastics maker has developed an environmentally friendly bug trap, under an EU research project it learned about from the Enterprise Europe Network.

The Enterprise Europe Network helps two Greek sailing champions launch a media and marketing SME specialised in sailing, yachting and other water sports.

The Enterprise Europe Network helps a maker of dyes and pigments comply with new EU chemical safety rules.

Great things often come in small packages. Take SmartDrive-S3, the best-selling product of Westline, a family-owned electronics engineering firm based in the Paris region, near Versailles. The device can operate motors and other moving parts in machines that assemble all kinds of goods from confectionery to cars.

A German travel agency serving people with disabilities finds a suitable holiday destination in Greece with help from the Enterprise Europe Network.

Andrzej Miciuła is a professional percussionist who has turned his passion for music into a successful business selling percussion instruments and grand pianos to orchestras, theatres and music schools throughout Poland. Helped by the Enterprise Europe Network, he is now an official dealer for two top European brands and is busy expanding his business.

Since 2006, all new trucks and buses in the EU have had to carry digital tachographs, devices that record speed, distance and driver activity. That same year in Verona, Italy, former software architect and project manager Dr Claudio Carrano founded Infogestweb.

When a small business with a visionary idea needed a helping hand, Enterprise Europe Greece steered them onto the road to success.