Abstract
The European Commission has published in 2020 the SMEs Strategy for a Sustainable and Digital Europe that aims to increase the number of SMEs engaged in sustainable business practices, as well as the SMEs number that use digital technologies. Important opportunities for SMEs can be provided by digitization, to improve the production processes efficiency and the ability to innovate products and business models, by using advanced disruptive technologies. Good management is needed for a successful SME, education and entrepreneurship training have the role of consolidating business knowledge and skills. Educational activities and skills upgrading are essential for all SMEs managers and employees. Romania is on the last place in EU, regarding SMEs number and it ranks 11th place out of 28, in terms of connectivity. Regarding the digital maturity of Romanian SMEs, the White Papers on Romanian SMEs presents their main working elements: computer, e-mail applications, internet, intranet, social networks, the company's own website, online sales / purchases transactions. The objectives of the Bachelor's degree specialization of Economic Engineering in Mechanical field and Industrial Entrepreneurship Master are students training and education, in order to be able to sustain digitization and sustainable technologies. The university curriculum and the educational disciplines offered by the Economic Engineering in Mechanical field specialization and Industrial Entrepreneurship Master is connected to the society requirements and must follow the economic trend, by educating, training and getting good specialists. Keywords: SMEs development, education, entrepreneurship
Highlights
The SMEs key role is to create added value for each economic sector and it is marked by the 25 million SMEs of Europe, which represent the "spinal column of the European Union economy", providing jobs for approximately 100 million people and contributing for more than half of Europe's gross domestic product (GDP)
Good management is needed for a successful SME, education and entrepreneurship training have the role of consolidating business knowledge and skills
Opportunities to improve the Romanian SMEs production processes efficiency and their innovation capacity are based on managers strategic thinking education, on their good digitalization training towards eco-sustainable business models
Summary
The strategy aims to increase the number of SMEs engaged in sustainable business practices, as well as the SMEs number that use digital technologies. He stated that: "14.28% have increased their activity in the last two years (that represents 1 of 7 SMEs) and a third part (35.48%) operates at the same parameters. The 4 years Bachelor's degree education in Economic Engineering in the Mechanical Field offer for students to achieve digital skills, being able to develop projects ; their data are collected, analyzed and statistically processed by using specialized software, in respect of digital ethics and personal data protection (Fig. 1).
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