The Malta Employers’ Association has won a special mention in the European Enterprise Promotion Awards, which coincide with the European Commission’s SME Assembly, this year held in Tallinn.

The association won the award for its Maltese Business Story Initiative, an online tool for start-ups, micros, SMEs and professionals in the business sector, to guide them through different issues they may encounter when running a business, and improve their management skills.

The tool is linked to 91 specially produced television programmes, each dealing with a specific issue. More than 300 business related experts contributed to these programmes creating around 2,300 minutes of visual entrepreneurial material. On average the programmes have 20,000 weekly viewers, a significant number considering the total Maltese population of 450,000.

The Promoting the Entrepreneurial Spirit prize was won by Enterprise Village from host country Estonia. It was then the turn of Investing in Entrepreneurial Skills, for which The Business Generator from Sweden was awarded the trophy.

Reempresa from Spain won the Improving the business environment, while Internationalisation 2015 – 2020 from Austria won the Supporting the Internationalisation of Business award.

The Responsible and Inclusive entrepreneurship category was won by Adie (Association for Economic Rights Initiatives) from France.

This year the Grand Jury Prize went to the Innofest project from The Netherlands, for their initiative that uses festivals as entrepreneurial testing environments.