ESNA is a non-profit association founded during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU council at the end of 2021, pursuant to the "EU Startup Nations Standard of Excellence" declaration of 19 March 2021, of which Luxembourg is a co-signatory. It specifically works to implement common standards, to support and encourage national policies relating to entrepreneurial ecosystems in partner countries, to identify and share best practices in order to encourage their deployment, and to set up a common European digital platform, notably through the collection of data from each partner country, which could in the medium term serve as a European one-stop shop for startups policy-makers.