1. Mr. Filippo MAZZARIOL Project Manager European Commission Enterprise and Industry GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Project Overview

2. GREEN supports the Enterprise Europe Network to provide 1st level environmental services to SMEs from the food industry and manufacturing of building materials sectors. GREEN proposes a network of local systems to coordinate ESPs in order to give SMEs access to free and low cost environmental services, thanks also to the support of local administrations, SMEs associations and relevant value chain stakeholders. The effectiveness of the local actions will be ensured by signing local cooperation agreements. GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Summary

3. The strategic objectives of the GREEN project are: To contribute to the improvement of environmental performances of SMEs in Europe To support the Enterprise Europe Network in tackling environmental issues in the following specific economic sectors: food industry manufacturing of building materials GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Objectives

4. 1.Unioncamere del Veneto - Italy 2.Arad Chamber of Commerce and Industry- Romania 3.Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Greece 4.Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry 5.Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia 6.Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Bulgaria 7.Chamber of Economy of Montenegro 8.Technology Research Centre Osijek - Croatia 9.MIR Foundation - Macedonia 10.Mihailo Pupin Institute - Serbia 11.Mersin Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Turkey GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Partners

5. GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Work flow WP 1 – Preparatory Study WP 4 - Environmental Service Provisioning WP 2 - Service Methodology and Local Cooperation Agreements WP 5 - Communication, Dissemination and Networking WP 0 – Project Management WP 3 TRAINING

6. -GREEN Kick-off meeting in Venice, Italy on 10-11 June 2010 -Fact-sheet -Survey  in progress -Project leaflet -Press releases -Methodology -Beta version of GREEN website www.green-eu-net GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network What has been done so far

7. -Survey  finalisation -Reports on agro-food and building materials -More press releases -Methodology  finalisation -Final version of GREEN website www.green- eu-net  VAC+ESP database -Dissemination and communication plan -1st International workshop, 3-day training session and 2nd project meeting in VENICE GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Next steps

8. GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Time planning

9. Objectives to obtain a state-of-the art picture of the current Environmental measures supporting SMEs in the food industry and construction material sector to compare strengths and needs in the project areas to evaluate current situation in the project areas and provide inputs to local/regional/national/EU policy makers to have a first approach to both offer and demand of environmental services in the project areas GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network WP1 – preparatory study

10. Objectives To create the basis for local cooperation with public authorities, SMEs and Environmental Service Providers: 1 - strategy to establish partnerships 2 - methodology for providing services To consolidate relationships with local Environmental Service Providers GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network WP2 – Service methodology and local cooperation agreements

11. Objectives to enable EEN staff from partner regions to provide 1st level environmental services (2 training sessions: Italy and Slovenia) to share and enable EEN staff to implement the service methodology at local level to enable local ESPs to cooperate with EEN at local level to get EEN staff from regions outside GREEN project countries involved in 1st level service training sessions GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network WP3 - training

12. Objectives To implement an environmental service strategy in the GREEN project regions To increase profitability of local SMEs To improve environmental performances of local SMEs To expand local production to greener products GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network WP4 – Environmental Services provisioning

13. Objectives To communicate and disseminate the knowledge generated by the project and all relevant knowledge available at EU level To create a communication platform at EU level for both SMEs and EEN members To exploit the results of the project after its lifecycle GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network WP5 – Communication, dissemination and networking

14. GReening business through the Enterprise Europe Network Dr. Filippo MAZZARIOL Project Manager Unioncamere del Veneto – Eurosportello Tel. +39-041-0999411 Email: filippo.mazzariol@eurosportelloveneto.it Via delle Industrie 19/D – Lybra Building – VEGA Park I-30175 Venezia Marghera, Italy Thanks for your attention!