Directorate General Enterprise is organising seven conferences on “Strengthening European small and medium sized enterprises in the defence sector” in different Member States between October 2009 and March 2010.

Conferences will take place in Stockholm, Madrid, Budapest, Athens, and Warsaw (between January and March 2010) with participation from industry and particularly SMEs, from Ministries of Defence, Ministries of Economics, European and national industrial associations and from EDA. The final conference in Brussels end of March 2010 will summarise the results and conclusions on the measures to be undertaken.

The “Small and medium sized enterprises in the defence sector” Workshop in Madridwill take place the 27th and 28th of March 2010.