ERENET (Entrepreneurship Research and Education NETwork of Central European Universities) is an open-ended

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network aiming at carrying out research on

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and developing entrepreneurial

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and teaching materials among the Central- and

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an high-schools and academic universities. The network is based on a partnership relation among its members. ERENET

History

ERENET was established in 2005 at the initiative of Péter Szirmai (1947-2013), among others, following the suggestion of the Expert Meeting on "Good Governance for SMEs" organized in April 2004 by the

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE or UNECE) is an intergovernmental organization or a specialized body of the United Nations. The UNECE is one of five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Econom ...

. The network is moderated by Antal Szabó. Currently, ERENET has 190 academic members from 43 countries.

Aims of ERENET and its main fields of activities

In order to realise its objectives, the network has undertaken the following actions: * Creation of an international network of higher education on teaching and investigating entrepreneurship * Providing exchange of information, making each other acquainted with their curriculum and research * Elaboration and implementation of common research projects * Collect best practices on entrepreneurial education, elaborate new syllabus and curriculum on entrepreneurship * Provide policy advice in the field of national entrepreneurship and SME policies, especially in such regions as Central and Eastern Europe, Black Sea Economic Cooperation, and South-Eastern Europe * Organising conferences, workshops, seminars in the field of entrepreneurship and SME-development issues, e.g. for the

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in cooperation with

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, in cooperation with European Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), etc. * Promotion of exchange of their professors, researchers, and possibly students * Develop an Internet-based quarterly publication called ''ERENET Profile'' which is collected in the

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as a reliable information source on enterprise development in Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

Legal status

According to international practice, ERENET is an international unregistered non-profit

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. Members participate in specific projects, support each other's events, and contribute with their scientific research results and publications to common intellectual capital. The coordination of the international network is undertaken by the Hungarian membership organisation. The managing agent (called Permanent Secretariat) is the Small Business Development Centre at the

Corvinus University of Budapest Corvinus University of Budapest () is a private university, private research university in Budapest, Hungary. The university currently has an enrolment of approximately 9,600 students, with a primary focus on business administration, economics, ...

. The network is moderated and the activities are organized by the Scientific Director of the ERENET. In 2009, the Institut Ekonomskih Nauka (Institute for Economic Sciences, Belgrade)http://www.ien.bg.ac.rs Website of Institut Ekonomskih Nauka became the ERENET South-Eastern Secretariat. The Plenary Organization is the Annual Meeting. ERENET has an executive board which consists of the members of the International Board of the periodical ''ERENET Profile''. There is no membership fee in the network. The free of charge membership significantly contributed that members from the CIS and SEE countries could join ERENET.

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ERENET in Hungarian
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History

Aims of ERENET and its main fields of activities

Legal status

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