PIN-SME

About PIN-SME:

PIN-SME (The Pan European ICT & eBusiness Network for SMEs) is the first European association exclusively focused on representing the interests of the SME community in the ICT sector.

The Pan European ICT & eBusiness Network for SMEs aims at bringing ICT SMEs on the business and political scene, where so far large companies have dominated. Its founding members are national sectoral SME federations and ICT clusters from 8 EU countries, representing more than 50.000 enterprises that employ around 200.000 people across Europe.

PIN-SME members:

• BASSCOM - Bulgarian Association of Software Companies (BULGARIA),
• BestPractice-IT – Impulsgeber für den Mittelstand (GERMANY),
• CNA -Comunicazione e Terziario Avanzato, Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della Piccola e Media impresa (ITALY),
• ESTIC - Asociación Empresarial del Sector TIC (SPAIN),
• GPNI - Groupement Professionnel National de l’Informatique (FRANCE),
• it-forum midtjylland (DENMARK),
• UBIT Unternehmensberatung & IT (AUSTRIA),
• Ukita - United Kingdom IT Association (UNITED KINGDOM)

Signature of PIN-SME statute by founding members on 3th December 2007 in Brussels Standing, from left to right Sebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary General PIN-SME, Loucas Gourtsoyannis, Director of  NORMAPME, Hans-Werner Müller, Secretary General UEAPME, Dr. Jorgo Chatzimarkakis MEP, Françoise Le Bail, SME Envoy and Deputy Director General of DG Enterprise and Industry, Paul Rübig, Member of the European Parliament Sitting, from left to right Johann Steszgal, President PIN-SME, Founding Member Austria (UBIT), Georgi Sharkov, Founding Member Bulgaria (BASSCOM), Bruno Robine, Founding Member and Vice-President France (GPNI), Andreas R. Fischer, Founding Member and Vice-President Germany (BestPractice-IT), Fabio Massimo, Founding Member Italy (CNA Comunicazione e Terziario Avanzato), Joaquin Garrido, Founding Member and Vice-President Spain (ESTIC), Mike Sharpe, Founding Member and Vice-President UK (UKITA)”