8. ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICY MAKERS Policy impact Training has potential to create scale and impact beyond the training programme, through informing and shaping policies. Please indicate where the training programme may have had an impact on government policy. For results from our training programme were noted in a SME policy review as example, ‘The consistent with and contributory to a policy priority to increase by 10% the number of SMEs that are exporting within/to the EU.’ Also, make at least one recommendation as to how the experience from your training programme has or could improve policy. This will help with in closing the divide between ETF’s wider interest the training and policy makers. Policy partners Training providers selected as an ETF good practice will be invited to a practitioner-policymaker forum in March 2018. After consulting with policymakers (e.g. SME agencies, regional government, enterprise ministries), please provide details of the policy official who will accompany the training provider to the forum. Name: Title: Organisation: Address: Email: Telephone: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Please refer to the application guide for full details of the criteria against which your application will be judged.
8. ENGAGEMENT WITH POLICY MAKERS Policy impact Training has potential to create scale and impact beyond the training programme, through informing and shaping policies. Please indicate where the training programme may have had an impact on government policy. For example, ‘The results from our training programme were noted in a SME policy review as consistent with and contributory to a policy priority to increase by 10% the number of SMEs that are exporting within/to the EU.’ Also, make at least one recommendation as to how the experience from your training programme has or could improve policy. This will help with ETF’s wider interest in closing the divide between the training and policy makers. Policy partners Training providers selected as an ETF good practice will be invited to a practitioner-policymaker forum in March 2018. After consulting with policymakers (e.g. SME agencies, regional government, enterprise ministries), please provide details of the policy official who will accompany the training provider to the forum. Name: Title: Organisation: Address: Email: Telephone: ASSESSMENT CRITERIA Please refer to the application guide for full details of the criteria against which your application will be judged.