Project description
Enhancing Europe’s start-up ecosystem
The Europe Startup Nations Alliance (ESNA) was established in 2022 to enhance Europe’s start-up ecosystem and support signatory countries with the EU start-up nations standard (SNS). Based in Portugal, it now has 22 member countries and continues to expand. ESNA launched the SNS Scoreboard to track SNS adoption, releasing its first annual report in 2023, and has developed supporting services, like sharing best practices, for more informed decision making by its members. The EU-funded ESNA II project aims to establish a legal framework that better aligns with its true European role. It also seeks to consolidate its activities, particularly in implementing and monitoring SNS standards and facilitating knowledge sharing, and finally to deploy new services, such as a policy lab, to co-create better policies with its members.
Objective
ESNA has been created in 2022 with the vision of “becoming a leading Entity for the EU agenda for entrepreneurship and contribute to bring Europe to the lead of global startup ecosystem” and the mission to “support the signatory countries and provide concrete support to policy makers in implementing the best policy practices outlined in the EU Startup Nations Standard”.
Two years on, and the organisation is clearly on the path to achieve both its vision and mission. A formal entity has been created in Portugal to allow the start of activities, as a first-of-a-kind body which has grown in resources, skills and specially in adhesion of member states, counting today 19 countries as a strong and very representative majority of the signatory countries of the SNS, and with continued negotiations for the inclusion of further members. In terms of activities, ESNA has initiated its pivotal role of monitoring of SNS adoption, with the launch of the SNS Scoreboard, first as a Baseline in 2022 and then as a first annual report in 2023, and the start of a new policy lab to support countries accelerating SNS implementation through best practice benchmarking, sharing and exchange.
These ESNA initial activities have been pivotal in helping EU member states moving beyond the aspirations of the political declaration and into concrete implementation and benefiting from a strong participation of ESNA's signatory members, as demonstrated by the 91% response rate to the SNS Scoreboard 2023 inquiry. But in spite of ESNA’s significant advancements in terms of Member State adhesion and activities, there is still a need for an evolution in terms of a legal framework which is better aligned with its truly European role, as well as consolidating the breadth of its activities, namely in the area of the SNS standards implementation monitoring and knowledge sharing, which are the core objectives being pursued through the current application.
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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1200-221 Lisbon
Portugal
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