association with low-capacity systems

low-capacity system

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Emphasises the importance of providing high-quality early childhood education and of its timely modernisation; emphasises the crucial role of an individual-centred approach in education and training systems which benefits the development of creativity and critical thinking while focusing on students’ personal interests, needs and abilities.

modernising the Prospectus Directive to make it less costly for businesses to raise funds publicly, review regulatory barriers to small firms listing on equity and debt markets; developing Europe’s capacity to link capital-hungry firms with potential investors, including through the possible development of a Europe-wide information system that helps interaction of finance-seeking SMEs and finance providers to find each other throughlinking up national systems, and working with European banking federations and business organisations t ...[+++]o structure the feedback given by banks declining SME credit applications; promoting advisory capacity in all Member States to assist SMEs that could benefit from alternative sources of finance; developing a strategy for providing assistance, where requested by Member States with smaller capital markets, to boost local capital markets’ capacity, for example by helping a Member State to grow a local venture capital market; working closely with the first SME Growth Markets – a new market sub-category created under MiFID II which would apply from January 2017 and which aims to facilitate access to capital for SMEs - to ensure that the regulatory environment for these incubator markets delivers the expected results;

Skills, education and professional training 33.Regrets that the SBA does not pay enough attention to social and labour market issues that affect entrepreneurship and SMEs' capacities to fulfil their employment potential and recruit labour force with the appropriate skills; 34.Recognises that growth and innovation are largely driven by entrepreneurial SMEs; emphasises that more attention should be devoted to fostering the development of an entrepreneurial mindset at all levels of education and training, employing innovative methods such as real mini-companies in secondary education; emphasises the importance of supporting the developme ...[+++]nt of the managerial and digital skills that small businesses require to be successful in the current market environment; 35.Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop and promote initiatives supporting better identification and forecasting of SMEs' skill needs, in particular to enable them to operate in a more sustainable way, and to develop strategies for entrepreneurship education and professional training based on best practice from Member States; 36.Calls on the Commission to put the ´ Erasmus programmes for young entrepreneurs´ programme on a permanent footing with a sufficient budget, based on the very encouraging results of the preparatory action even though it is still running on a limited scale; Resource efficiency 37.Welcomes the recognition by the Commission that SMEs have a key role to play in the transition to a resource-efficient economy; believes that meeting resource-efficiency objectives requires a value-chain approach; therefore, calls on the Commission for the establishment of sectoral SMEs coordinated projects and activities aiming at identifying potential resource-efficient innovations within the value and supply chains; 38.Welcomes the Commission proposal to adopt an Eco-innovation Action Plan; calls for ambitious measures supporting SMEs in introducing eco-innovative solutions at all stage ...