Enterprise Europe Network node NRW SMP2

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NRW.Europa is an Enterprise Europe Network node with two consortium partners, ZENIT (coordinator, regional innovation agency) and NRW.BANK (regional state bank), three associated partners, NRW.Global Business (regional trade and investment agency), IHK NRW e. V. (with its foreign trade centre – AWZ), and LGH e. V. (crafts chamber umbrella organisation in NRW), as well as an extensive Stakeholder Network with 130+ multipliers from cluster, regional and sectoral initiatives and regional economic development agencies. It covers the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NUTS1 DEA). The consortium offers SMEs first and second level Network services. “NRW.Europa delivers, in the framework of a hub-and-spoke model, a portfolio of integrated, value-added, client-centric advisory and partnering services along the entire client journey for its SME clients in North Rhine-Westphalia. The objective is to enhance –their competitiveness and capacity to grow in new markets, new technologies and to strengthen their resilience to disruption and reducing their dependencies along supply and value chains. Means are information and partner mediation and subsequent capacity-building measures in the areas of internationalisation, technology transfer, innovation management, digitalisation- and sustainability-related support and access to finance”.