 It's a great honor for us to be here and actually to be shared one of the good practices born in pre-accession countries to be shared to be the EU 28. So thank you very much for that and usually my surprise and ender is Roy Gatero trying to go again back. I was prepared to speak after the bank but now before the bank so please Peter support what I'm sharing. I'm coming from the single world of education. And you know we people in education how we see actually our mind is almost very enthusiastic and we see like babies born and there is a simple way up. But then we are living nowadays in the very complex world and actually it's not simple anymore. It's not just way up but there is a lot of obstacles and what we faced up is actually that our citizens in the pre-accession region are not able to face with all these things and just to quote Thomas Jefferson said every generation need a new revolution. What you find out is actually it's also shared with the economists that the revolution of the current generation is entrepreneurial and what we saw in the region is very applicable for us that what we need. We need to learn how to apply more brain power, how to think in more creative ways and actually how to raise the productivity and social problems that we can compete in the global economy. And the title which Peter has transition stocks in the transition I'm 48. And you know this fashionable word of transition started when I was in the primary school. And I am in transition all my life so I'm young actually you know. So why Cecil is born? Cecil is the first institutional development born through the very important EU document called Small Business Act for Europe. And you can see it's born out of EU 28. It's born in pre-accession and it's actually started on the request of the eight countries for structured cooperation in 2008. Then Croatia offered to support to coordinate all the activities and institutional setting is actually born in 2009. And our mission is that in line with the principle one and principle eight and you know that Small Business Act has ten principles so two out of ten are dedicated to human capital development. If we also put that in line with the entrepreneurship action plan, EU 2020 entrepreneurship action plan the first priority is to develop the entrepreneurial iterate society and actually as Commissioner Barossa said and president of the commission said it's time to act according to thinking entrepreneurial. So this is our motto think to act entrepreneurial. So who are the co-founders? The co-founders of the center are creation ministry of entrepreneurship. So Republic of Croatia represented by the relevant ministry and we are very proud that in Croatia we have even the ministry for dedicated to SME development and creation chamber of economy. Why these two partners? Because actually we were thinking that from the beginning from the step one government and businesses need to go you know in the same step in the same ethos and to cooperate. Then the CISEL board is actually international one composed of the representatives of the eight countries. Each country from the CISEL member states so is Albania, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Oslo Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey together with Croatia actually they have each country has two representatives. One is coming from the SME relevant ministry and it's a national SBA coordinator. What is the pre-accession country is the SBA coordinator the relevant person in EU member state is EU SME envoy. So and the second person is coming from the minister of education. It was very nice discussion oh but we have two representative per country so what if we don't agree you know in the governance process so we are practicing open method of coordination guys please discuss at home education economy sit together discuss and then vote for the decision and we can say it's working since 2009 if someone say it's not possible yes it is it's working financial support of course you can have wonderful ideas but if there is no the financial envelope for supporting the actions actually it's just the enthusiasm nothing else so financial support is coming from the European Commission through the envelope called you know we are living in the world of acronyms so EPA-MB stands for instrument for pre-accession for multi-beneficiary purposes or to simplify it's EU envelope for regional cooperation of pre-accession countries. You are familiar that the support EU envelopes for pre-accession countries are going in two not different but two complementary waves one is the national envelope for each country which is called EPA and the second envelope is for the regional cooperation the purpose of the regional cooperation envelope is that through modalities of regional cooperation we are helping developments on the national level and the additional support is coming from the creation national budget and allow me to use again this opportunity to thank European Commission for our support so delegation thank you very much and also creation ministry but we're also proud to share with you that since last year we have requests from the member states to financially contribute to our budget so it's the first example that the countries on their own initiative want to contribute in the budget without political push so it's not born through the stability-backed actions it is the decision of the countries to contribute in the budget so minus all and I already shared with you some kind of the developments under the EU envelopes what is also interesting to be shared with you that the president of the Boris creation minister of entrepreneurship and also all these developments are shared within the EU SME and we network which is coordinated by director coming from DJ Enterprise mr. Kaleha and it's already shared that this kind of initiatives would be also relevant for the EU 28 Cecil is at the moment recognized as a center of excellence if entrepreneurial learning by European Commission in several big documents so it's guide for educators for you 28 related to entrepreneurship education then we are subject to implementation of AC 2020 strategy which is a new strategy macro regional strategy for pre-accession countries then we are one of direct actions within the new strategy and also we are stated as one of the actions under the new macro regional strategy which is just to be adopted during the Greek presidency it's Adriatic Ionian macro regional strategy but also in parallel we are supported through another acronym or financial envelope which is Western Balkans investment framework which is dedicated to support of infrastructural solution and we're happy to share with you that Cecil was awarded with this support among railways and hospitals and jails and roads which is the fashion in the region I know when I'm mentioning jails but this is where the support is coming and we are the solid social regional infrastructural project project so we are currently also implementing the activities under the Western Balkans investment framework and with great happiness I can share with you that there is the idea and already the money is ensured for building and construction the future home of Cecil in Zagreb with the preconditions and also willingness to serve as a future European center of expertise for entrepreneurial learning and we are already awarded as a break one of the best practices in the limitation of small business act for Europe okay just to share with you the ethos of small business act for Europe all these very important principles and of course we're talking about the rules of think small first so it's cutting the red tape and access to finance because this is now nowadays this is the burning issue or actually how to operate under the single market because it's not so easy when you are moving from from pre-accession status when you are operating within the sector agreements third agreements and then you are moving to operate under the single market it's very serious issue so two out of ten are dealing with human capital and this is our areas of operation and this is where the Cecil actions are focused on so you know the drawing is always the nicest way to explain the things so one of the preconditions for Cecil operations are that old parties need to be involved so we are practicing open method of coordination in every of our actions the keyword the magic you know that they're behind the every success story there is always a magic not common sense so it's a magic what are the magic words partnership and partnership and partnership partnership on international level partnership on national level between the different parts of the of the ministries or governments and also sectors so education on one side economy on the other side and then partnership on the local level why on the local level because if we go deeper in the ethos of SMEs there is a nice stories SMEs go globally then you have the story about the firm who succeed from the micro company to make a business with United States or globally yes it's a nice one but it's a rare example and it's always the subject of Hollywood movie but in reality the SMEs are giving the atmosphere and they're operating in the ethos of local environment of local communities and if they're growing and go internationally usually they're making a business with the neighbors within the region so our focus is actually the key message is how today developed entrepreneurial society not just with the primary goal just to increase the number of startups but also to increase the number of opportunity-driven startups which is having the element of increasing and fostering the competitiveness of our economies and also the second line of effect or the impact which we would like to be this kind of actions to achieve is that through entrepreneurial way of thinking we increase the general level of efficiency of all economies and this is what the ethos is behind and if we are serious then the focus need to be on entrepreneurial student no matter if it is a five six five years old or as I am 48 years old or entrepreneurial teacher and entrepreneurial school why we have these three elements because usually we are witnessing in all of our pre-accession countries a lot of money was spent for training of teachers but if you don't take the unit of change in educational system which is a educational institution it's a waste of money the second thing is triple helix model so if we are serious with the boosting competitiveness of our economies and to support innovation so it is not possible without a cooperation between universities business world and the government it sounds very easy but it's not and this is one of our areas of operations so the cooperation is crucial I would also like to share with you that actually the eight ministries from the region in 2012 they sit together on the table they signed the charter for entrepreneurial learning and this is the first such example even for you 28 and actually the ministers from the region they like the sentence this sentence very much when the right people sit around the table problems or issues become opportunities to be more diplomatic not problems talk about problems so this is the basis of our operation at the moment we are also recognized in all these documents as I already shared with you and we are very happy to share with you that since one and a half month ago we are recognized also by the commission to be the official institution to monitoring the implementation of the small business act in pre-accession region why this is important because small business act implementation is the subject also of progress report of each country and progress report is also giving the direction of national EU envelopes for national developments also we since 2009 we got three awards and we are happy and proud on them to be champions you know if we cannot want the Olympic Games but still we can be champions here and recognition by European Parliament among all the EU projects to be the most successful let's we say and also recognition by the knowledge economy network which is the global what is the methodology which kind of methodology we are applying in our work Cecil is not just working with independent institutions counting for experts everything need to go in line with the whole structures everything need to go in line with the small business act for Europe process so actually the key person for us is a nationalized big coordinator and we are operating in the ethos of evidence-based policymaking because at the end of the day this is where the countries express need for because they said we are lacking the evidence basis or evidences for the long-term policymaking so in the first phase we are working all together eight countries representatives in the development of instruments and actually development of the most applicable shoes for each country because you know that there is no one shoes fit all if I cannot wear the high heels I cannot it's hurting me so we are trying to discuss all of us and we need to be aware and eight countries are have differences Montenegro 670,000 citizens on one side and then you have a Turkey more than 70 million people and there is no the same solution what is applicable for the country of the bigger size can kill Montenegro in implementation because they will not have enough people to support infrastructure solution so when the instrument is developed in education there is no festoon scenario because if you go on the festoon scenario in education you're causing the earthquake and actually everything need to go in line with the strategic piloting reflecting on that correcting and then be ready for full implementation so yeah all together eight countries we are piloting the instrument developed and then if it the primary learning is defined as a key competence if it is a key competence then it more it must work universally no matter of the size of the country on the language of the religion and culture if it is universal value it's need to work and now I'm sharing with you it working it working and we have results after that the instrument is ready for full implementation what that means concretely that means the instrument is handed back to the national governments and it's ready for the further development or the broader scale so it's already agreed with the European Commission what is born through the CISL activities can be further supported through the national envelopes and we already have examples from Macedonia developing the national strategy and implementing that in the regular system in Serbia they are just developing that in Bosnia and Herzegovina we are all aware of the geocomplexity of the functioning in Bosnia Herzegovina entrepreneurial learning is the project supported by the European Commission currently going on for the second generation in Montenegro they just applied in the Parliament international strategy for entrepreneurial learning in Albania they signed a strategic partnership and who left and Kosovo they are moving very fast it's a consensus of and Turkey in Turkey we have a great support and example where the national agencies for SMEs it's Cosgap is actually starting for the first time it's great to follow that example to work with the schools so and you need to know the fact that Cosgap is the national agency who is in charge for national SME strategy implementation so it's a great achievement a great experience which we have from all these countries and actually so the basic definition for our countries is even more concrete than it is for you 28 in eight system member states they are talking about need for entrepreneurial literacy and this is the premier literacy is including the basic understanding of economic concepts financial literacy and also how to think and act internationally what are our strategic pillars of actions so is that one and two is that three is that five and six TNI women entrepreneurs so all these acronyms and numbers to simplify primary education secondary tertiary education and how strategically to develop the instruments to support current entrepreneurs for currently operating why all these lines because currently operating SMEs they have a big problem they cannot wait for educational system to respond in ten years they need to work operate compete now what they have time to wait they have time for six months to wait for some kind of reallocation in the national budget and actions then for training so with DNA we're targeting the immediate need how we can how you can make the corrective actions within the national development to support SMEs currently DNA is actually the training needs analysis which is driven by demand side not from the supply side planning but then from the demand side and here we are working with the most representative business associations for each country how actually can follow on the needs of SMEs and then in the structural dialogue with the relevant ministry they can make the reallocation and correction of the budget so how to increase the efficiency of the public money is the five six higher education is midterm so how you can support the midterm actions in improving the environment the entrepreneurial environment and here we are working in line with European Commission guidelines related to the entrepreneurship in non-business studies and is step one and two is step three are actually important for long term actions for the society how in the long term you are creating the friendly environment for entrepreneurs and actually the friendly attitude based on the competencies women entrepreneurs is a project supported by the Swedish Development Envelope and here we have nine countries cooperating together so Moldova join us I would like to share with you this is for the first time that within the Small Business Act two geographical regions are cooperating together pre-accession in Eastern partnership countries and this is the experience which now European Commission is building further on that and actually the whole process is going in that direction just to share with you for us the women entrepreneurs is pure economic issue just some facts if you talk about women entrepreneurs that the ratio of women entrepreneurs participating in the common economies of our countries are between 8% in one country to the 30% so we are all going together in the same direction actually to reach the goal stated for EU member states which is around more 40% of representatives and actually the simple sentence of CISO Moldova Perandi is that actually the entrepreneurs of tomorrow are in our schools today so if we are not focused nowadays on actions how we can actually think about the pink future so these are the instruments developed they are broadly used recognized by the Commission this one is stated already in the Commission as a recommendation for year 28 it's also translated in Russian and there are some kind of negotiations to be also translated in Arabic for metacountries and you are very welcome to use that because it's public available it's produced from the public money so it's for the public use also these are our instruments not just to do the time on that and we have results from the first implementation of the training needs analysis for eight countries as well as for the women entrepreneurs with the sampling around 2500 SMEs in eight countries but you can find it on our website so in numbers is get one and two sixty four strategic pilot institutions known to the national governments and dominated by them and actually these institutions have a title of entrepreneurial school of South East Europe they are all cooperating together and they all also peer visiting each other then is get three is get three secondary schools 32 institutions in eight countries again same principle known to the government nominated by them used as a center of excellence is on the national level is get five six 32 higher educational institutions in eight countries cooperating together and sharing the experience for TNA eight the most representative business associations so per each country at the moment we have seven strategic institutions who are cooperating with different ministries in respect of develop the development programs for on the national level or in total 136 institutions in eight countries and strategically cooperating more than 500 experts in the field and for us again I am going back to the shoes of educational expert for us the unit of change is not solid teacher not so a student but it's a system so the unit of change is cool as it is when we talk about SMEs when we talk about SMEs the unit of observation in a world of SMEs is a company no matter if it is a micro is small or medium but the unit of observation is a company and how they are performing in the global market so for us is entrepreneurial school and all of these three elements need to go together but you can see one element here parents and we would like to share with you experience from the eight countries you know again magic for transition also we experience the co-collapse of our industries in some regions and we have in each country we have totally I will not use the word the vasting regions but we have a regions with a very big problem in development of economies and high unemployment rate and what we are facing with that actually in these regions in all of eight countries the schools become very attractive factor for the parents population and you need to be aware the parents population of each two students are people between 35 and 45 years old and actually this is the vulnerable part of population and we find out that there is a great role schools cooperating together with the regional development agencies and SME agencies that they can increase this kind of entrepreneurial activity in this population and I would like to conclude with a very simple sentence the entrepreneurs of tomorrow are in our schools today and thank you very much again for inviting us and I'm open for your critical