The European Enterprise Promotion Awards (EEPA)<\/strong> is a prestigious European competition that has been held since 2006. Participants include applicants from 30 EU member states and additional associated countries within the framework of the SME programme. This year, more than 300 projects competed, with 55 finalists selected across six categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n The awards ceremony took place on 11 November 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark<\/strong>, as part of the SME Assembly<\/strong>, organised by the European Commission<\/strong>. The winners were selected by an independent international jury of experts from various fields. In their evaluation, the jury considered innovation, economic impact, sustainability, influence on entrepreneurship, and the potential for replicability in other regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 2025 European Enterprise Promotion Awards<\/strong> were presented in six categories. Primorska Technology Park<\/strong>, with its POPRI programme<\/strong>, triumphed in the category Supporting the Internationalisation of Business<\/strong>, receiving high recognition for its comprehensively designed programme that delivers long-term impact and strong transferability \u2014 already proven by the successful implementation of the POPRI model in 10 European countries<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Director of Primorska Technology Park<\/strong>, Ms. Tanja Ko\u017euh, MSc<\/strong>, expressed her sincere gratitude and pride for the award:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI am truly honoured to receive this recognition and grateful that POPRI has been acknowledged as a programme contributing to a better future for Europe. I am very proud of the thousands of young people who have participated in POPRI, joined incubators and technology parks across 10 European countries, and are now successful entrepreneurs. My heartfelt thanks go to my colleagues and everyone who supports POPRI and believes in our mission \u2013 to help young people transform their way of thinking into an entrepreneurial mindset.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n For over 20 years<\/strong>, POPRI has been transforming the mindset of young people through entrepreneurial activities and a national and international entrepreneurship competition. POPRI is a key element of Slovenia\u2019s national entrepreneurial ecosystem, connecting young people, entrepreneurs, the business support environment, and educational institutions, thereby providing youth with their first contact with entrepreneurship<\/strong> and helping them develop business ideas during their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The POPRI programme activates the entrepreneurial potential of young people and contributes to the creation of new companies that represent an important part of the European economy<\/strong> and the generation of new jobs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Primorska Technology Park<\/strong> is the lead organisation of the POPRI programme. Co-organisers<\/strong> include the Ministry of the Economy, Technology and Sport<\/strong>, the Office of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenians Abroad<\/strong>, SPIRIT Slovenia, public agency<\/strong>, the Slovenian Enterprise Fund<\/strong>, and the Municipality of Nova Gorica<\/strong> and Municipality of \u0160empeter-Vrtojba<\/strong>. Copenhagen\/Vrtojba, 11 November 2025 \u2013 The POPRI programme of the Primorska Technology Park has achieved remarkable success at the prestigious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novice-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/popri.si\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eepa-nagrada-1024x1024.jpg\")
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Strategic partners<\/strong> of POPRI are RC Novo mesto \u2013 Podbreznik Business Incubator<\/strong>, SA\u0160A Incubator<\/strong>, and Technology Park Ljubljana<\/strong>.
The international part of the competition<\/strong> is supported by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia<\/strong>, the Ministry of Cohesion and Regional Development<\/strong>, the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region (EUSAIR)<\/strong>, and the network of international incubators and technology parks of the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"