European Union support for small and medium enterprises

Diploma thesis interests in European Union support for small and medium enterprises. In the first part the diploma thesis defines the group of small and medium enterprises, it describes strong and weak points of small and medium enterprises and it probes the position of the European Union to small and medium enterprises. The second part describes in detail the four fields of the European Union support to small and medium enterprises: European Union funds, topical support, financial instruments to support small and medium enterprises and support of international performance of small and medium enterprises. The third practical part studies this system of support on three real companies which belongs to the category of small and medium enterprises. This part includes the concrete proposal to one of this companies how to get the grant