Startup Europe Regions Network (SERN)

One of the goals of the Startup Europe (SE) Initiative of the European Commission is to “reinforce the links between people, business and associations who build and scale up the startup ecosystem”. Under this objective and with a clear focus on aggregating and leveraging regional support for startups, this network has been created in Brussels, at an event held at the Committee of Regions: the “Startup Europe Regions Network (SERN)”. SERN has been set up as a non-for-profit organisation with a strong commitment to support startups and its activities, in particular by focusing on the mapping and promotion of support activities at regional level across Europe and by mobilizing regional resources to address relevant barriers to startups’ growth, such as harmonization of regulations, access to talent and to major research infrastructures. The main goal of SERN is that of occupying an empty space and contributing to fill a gap clearly felt by EU startups in terms of startup gap funding, while also addressing gauging of the measures taken by the regions to foster startups’ growth, providing an annual overview and highlighting the best practices and cases studies. The list of European and international projects in which Startup Europe is involved can be found at the following LINK.