Upgrading the SBA indicator package for the EU pre-accession region
Experts in entrepreneurial learning, women’s entrepreneurship and SME skills from all seven EU pre-accession countries met in Turin to knock out a new set of indicators to be used in the next assessment of Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) .
Experts worked through a battery of indicators employed in previous assessment drives and came forward with a more user-friendly questionnaire which will address lifelong entrepreneurial learning, women’s entrepreneurship and skills for small businesses.
‘While we were keen to see continuity and coherence between the two assessment tools,’ says the ETF’s Anthony Gribben, ‘it is also important that the new tool reflect more recent developments in EU policy like key competences for vocational education and training and SMEs environmental responsibility.’
Next steps in the SBA revision process include road-testing the new SBA questionnaire and finally integrating the human capital questionnaire within a wider SBA monitoring tool involving the European Commission, OECD and EBRD.
The next SBA assessment in the EU’s pre-accession region kicks off in September 2017.
The ETF supports the European Commission and its partner countries from three regions (pre-accession region, Eastern Partnership region and Southern Neighbourhood) in tracking developments in human capital as part of the wider monitoring of progress of the countries in meeting the demands of the Small Business Act for Europe.
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