SERN - Startup Europe Regions Network

SERN has been set up as a not-for-profit organization (AISBL) in Brussels with a strong commitment to supporting startups and its activities, in particular by focussing on the mapping and promotion of support activities at the 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 goal of SERN is not that of replacing or duplicating other networks that may build on similar players or have (partially) overlapping objectives, but 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.