The project is co-funded by the European Union, Instrument for Pre -Accession Assistance.
Capitalization Plan TOWARDS A SMART ADRIATIC IONIAN MACROREGION Intermediary Organization
Capitalization Plan Policy Maker
INDEX Plato Serbia Project ...... 6 The Improved Competitiveness and Innovation Project (ICIP – Serbia) ...... 7 Support to Enterprise Competitiveness and Export Promotion (SECEP) ...... 8 Gate2Start ...... 9 MICRO-EXPLO-RE-R. Mi-Cluster Support for better exploitation of research results ...... 10 Strengthening and development of cooperation between countries on the Eastern Adriatic coast – Adria 3 Project ...... 10 EUMETAL 2 Increasing competitiveness of SMEs and enhancement of cross border links in metal industry ..... 12 PSD USAID, Private sector development project in South and South-West Srebia ...... 13 SLOHRA ZONET-Promotion of integration of business zones, incubators and technology parks into an innovative entrepreneurial network in the cross-border region of Slovenia-Croatia ...... 14 KOCOR- Tool-making industry as the pillar of technological development of Inner-Karst region ...... 15 SLOHRA GLOBALNET ...... 16 IMP³rove (IMProvement of Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact for Small and Medium sized Enterprises) ...... 17 Techno Seed ...... 18 FVG-R2B - Ricerca per la Competitività dell’Impresa (research for the competitiveness of enterprises) ...... 19 CNCB-Cluster and Network Cooperation for Business Success in Central Europe ...... 20 Al invest ...... 22 SMILING- Smart Home Living: innovative technologies for the sensor and automation dedicated to domotics...... 23 Pass – Private assisted house ...... 24 Encouraging the development and sustainability of Croatian wood processing industry 2006.-2010. (Initiative) ...... 26 Public call for the allocation of subsidies to businesses in the year 2014...... 27 Impresa in Azione (Enterprise in Action) ...... 27 EUROMED INVEST Support to Business and Investment Partnerships in the Southern Mediterranean ...... 29 „RISEE“ Italy - South East Europe Network ...... 30 MICRO-EXPLO-RE-R. Mi-Cluster Support for better exploitation of research resultsEMMINVEST ...... 31 MOBIP-Mobile Services Innovation Platform...... 32 PROFIS ...... 33 SME Guarantee Scheme ...... 34 PROFIS – Promotion on Financing Innovation in South East Europe ...... 35 Analysis of bureaucratic costs for business ventures ...... 36 Grants for young entrepreneurs to 250,000 kuna - Competition ...... 37 Project start-up entrepreneurs in year 2012. - Competition ...... 38 Encouraging the development of co-operative business 2008.-2012. (Measure) ...... 39 Fostering entrepreneurship in tourism 2008.-2012. (Measure) ...... 40 CONTEST: Tourism Competitiveness 2014 ...... 41 “EMDC” Euro-Mediterranean Development Center for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises ...... 42 START-UP LETA (Annual Competition for Start-up companies) ...... 43 Support to the farmers of Shushica Commune to reach easily the trade ...... 44 Start & Go ...... 45 2 INNOVATION INITIATIVES a) TUTORING AND INNOVATION SERVICE b) ‘NUOVE IDEE PER NUOVE IMPRESE’ PRIZE (new ideas for new enterprises) http://www.nuoveideenuoveimprese.org/ c) CONTRIBUTION BY CALL TO FACILITATE RELATIONS ENTERPRISES-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTERS ...... 46 NEXT - Collaborative platform to support research and technology transfer ...... 47 Mechanism for Fostering Innovation in South East Europe (FINNO) ...... 48 MicroJobData – Support of Microelectronics Cluster with the creation of a candidate and job database ...... 49 WELLFOOD-Promoting food innovation for wellness in the Adriatic ...... 50 GIFT 2.0 – Greece Italy Facilities for Transport 2.0 ...... 51 TPNM - Tourism Promotion to New Markets ...... 52 EIICM – European Information and Innovation Centre Montenegro ...... 53 BIVEE ...... 54 Cluster PoliSee ...... 55 Capacities ...... 56 Environmental and RES-Technologies in the Balkan area...... 57 “WENS” European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors ...... 58 Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast Europe - (FORSEE) ...... 59 BI-NET : Regional Business Incubators’ Network “Black Sea BI-Net” ...... 60 Adriatic food and tourism: Innovating smes/ Adria Footouring ...... 61 SLOHRA ZONET-Promotion of integration of business zones, incubators and technology parks into an innovative entrepreneurial network in the cross-border region of Slovenia-Croatia ...... 62 MEDOSSIC-Mediterranean organization structure and strengthening of innovation capacities for sustainable development ...... 63 MLADIEKOIN ...... 64 iCON - Competitiveness of SMEs through Innovation anδ Collaborative Entrepreneurship ...... 65 ADRIAFOOTURING-ADRIATIC FOOD AND TOURISM: INNOVATING SMEs ...... 66 T-LAB - tourism laboratory ...... 67 BOOST-IT (Set-up of a Collaborative Permanent Network for Boosting the Participation of Incubated SMEs in Innovation Processes under FP6 activities) ...... 68 A.N.I.S. "Reinforcing synergies between public policies in support of e-business for SMEs" (Action PP/4.1.2.) ...... 69 REBOUND - Researchers on the Boundary ...... 70 IPATECH. Miniaturization technology: synergies of research and innovation to enhance the economic development of the Adriatic...... 71 ADRIA-HUB - Bridge technical differences and social suspicions contributing to transform the Adriatic area in a stable hub for a sustainable technological development ...... 72 Ip4Smes ...... 74 RE-SEED ...... 75 In-FVG New ideas for the regional development ...... 77 Cluster Club ...... 78 Energy Villab ...... 79 Emilia Romagna Start Up ...... 80 Creative Growth ...... 81 ENTRE:DI Entrepreneurial diversity - Fostering Entrepreneurship ...... 82 RST – Rede de serviços tecnologicos ...... 83 Startup – Lab ...... 83 Educational course: "Paper as a creative work tool" BACKGROUND FOR THE PROFESSIONAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE PAPER INDUSTRY ...... 85 POREEN Partnering opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable energies and environmental industries ...... 86 CHETCH China and Europe taking care of healthcare solutions ...... 87 Increasing Knowledge Transfer In the MEDiterranean area ...... 88 AdriHealthMob – Adriatic Model of Sustainable Mobility in the Health & Care Sector ...... 89 Strategy for Entrepreneurial Learning 2010.-2014...... 91 Compliance with EU standards, innovation, new technologies and marketing 2008.-2012. (Measure) ...... 92 Intellectual Property Protection 2008.-2012. (Measure) ...... 93 Second European Social Innovation Competition ...... 94 Design for innovation ...... 95 Assistance to competitiveness and compatibility with the EU of Serbian SMEs ...... 96 PACE The Partners for Acquis Compliance and Energy Efficiency ...... 98 FAB LAB ATHENS ...... 100 RI.QUA, Training the standards of quality and safety in force in the EU and the modern techniques of cooking ...... 101 LEGEND-Low enthalpy geothermal energy demonstration ...... 102 M2RES - FROM MARGINAL AREAS TO STRATEGIC SITES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION! Recovery of marginal areas through sustainable development programmes aiming at restoring the value of jeopardized land through platforms for the production of renewable energy ...... 103 JADE - Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independent of Elderly ...... 104 INNOVAge - Improving the effectiveness of regional development policies in ecoInnovation for smart hOme and indipendent liVing to increase the quality of Aging people - ...... 105 Matreco – New materials for eco-sustainable transports ...... 106 WoodRub - Utılısatıon of recovered wood and rubber for alternatıve composıte products ...... 107 GREEN@HOSPITAL ...... 108 RAMSES ...... 109 RenewIt ...... 110 GRACE ...... 111 DOGGIES ...... 112 MIRIFISENS ...... 113 INTERAID ...... 114 HTA - School of Health Technology Assessment ...... 115 GLICOL- Verify the co-solvent properties of diethylene glycol ...... 116 Advanced systems of production for geo thermal Science ...... 117 “GEOTERMOTEC – Acquisition of new geological knoledge and thermotecnical be applied to geotherma heat pumps” ...... 118 Experimental plant Scientific Campus “Enrico Mattei” ...... 119 INNOVATIVE PROBE FOR WIDESPREAD USE OF GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE ...... 120
Plato Serbia Project
Project Brief Description:
The aim of a Plato mentorshipproject in Serbia is the transfer from Plato knowhow (Plato as a living network) from Voka- Chamber of Commerce East- Flanders to the CCI in Serbia. The creation of a sustainable Plato mentorshipproject-network can be the answer to the local needs of SMEs in Serbia and fits into to Serbian government politics towards SME-initiatives. The Plato mentorshipproject is focused on professional coaching of SME- owners by managers from medium-sized or major companies.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2009
End: 2011
Contacts:
Voka - Kamer van Koophandel Oost- Vlaanderen , Lammerstraat 18, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Aspects to be further investigated:
The Plato mentorshipproject is focused on professional coaching of SME-owners by managers from medium-sized or major companies. Target groups of the project: SMEs which are the users of coaching, Intermediate Bodies like Chambers of Commerce which have the responsibility to open the window of Knowledge to their members and the Policy Makers which have the responsibility to identify the impact of this project in the local economies and at the point of good results they are going to integrate it in their business policy. The Improved Competitiveness and Innovation Project (ICIP – Serbia)
Project Brief Description:
The aim of the project ICIP Serbia is to contribute to the development of the SME sector and to improve the competitiveness of new and the existing SMEs through improving the quality, scope and availability of services for supporting
business operations and supporting business environment and institutional capacities that will encourage development of innovation and competitiveness of SMEs. The project also envisages to build up capacities of stakeholders in innovation and to strengthen links between education, research and business. The components of the Project are: Business Support Services. The main purpose of the implementation of this component is to Capacitiescreate a new standardized service model for supporting business in Serbia and to improve the infrastructure for supporting business operations, in order to increase the number of new small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs and support their existence and competitiveness. It is carried Running Period: out through two major activities: Standardization of the Business Support Start: 2010 Services; Quality Standards for Business Support Services Innovation Support Services The objective of this component is to support competitiveness and End: 2012 innovation through building capacity of government institutions as much as of specialized organizations for supporting innovation in business. It is conducted through the following activities: Strengthening the capacities of public Contacts: institutions for supporting innovation and competitiveness; Capacity building of the Business and Innovation Support Organization; Accreditation of the [email protected] process in order to ensure quality of services, according to the best international practice; Improving the capacity of the NARD in the process of supporting the network portal; Promotion and importance of competitiveness through innovations; Innovation scanning in order to increase the innovation within a company and reduce the deficiency in providing support;
Aspects to be further investigated
The project envisages to build up capacities of stakeholders in innovation and to strengthen links between education, research and business. The main output of this project is the creation of competitive business support services for SMEs in Serbia. Target groups of this project are the Intermediate Bodies which have developed business support services, the Policy Makers which take into consideration the results of these structures for their policies and the SMEs which will benefit from quality business support services. Support to Enterprise Competitiveness and Export Promotion (SECEP)
Project Brief Description:
Support to Enterprise Competitiveness and Export Promotion (SECEP) project seeks to improve the competitiveness of Serbian small and medium sized enterprises (SME) through three related but different components: Cluster development (including cluster mapping and analysis) Supply chain development Internationalization – promoting Serbian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and developing their ability to export. The process of cluster development will be realized with six Serbian clusters among which quantitative and qualitative mapping will be conducted. Initially, each of the six clusters will be required to develop a Cluster Action Plan (commonly referred to as cluster road mapping). The Cluster Road Map will
identify objectives of each cluster, along with the Action Plan development which should lead to achievement of these objectives. The SECEP Project will then start working with each of the selected clusters and will assist them in the Action Plan implementation. It is expected that the activities will vary from cluster to cluster, depending on industrial sector, needs of the cluster, as well as its members (such as technology transfer, innovation, export assistance) along with assistance in cluster coordination and management requirements. The second component of the SECEP Project is the Supplier Development CapacitiesProgramme that seeks to improve the performance of Serbian companies (SMEs) by improving product quality and business environment so that the companies would become more efficient and better prepared suppliers of multi-national companies operating in Serbia. It is intended that at least 15 multi-national companies take part in this program. The program will enhance innovation, technology transfer and Running Period: improved quality certification among Serbian SMEs. The primary goal of this part of the SECEP Project is to achieve new supply chain contracts for Serbian companies with multi-national companies operating in Start: 2009 Serbia and the region of South East Europe, thereby seeking to boost direct and indirect Serbian exports. Reduction of imports, increased employment and higher value of exported goods – are the key goals that End: 2012 connect the SECEP Project and Serbian economy development strategy. For the participation in the Supplier Development Programme 80 SMEs were selected from automotive, metal, electrical, IT and the packaging sector, and according to the methodology of the European Foundation For Quality Management (EFQM), evaluation of the entire business operation was organized for them. After the implementation of the Action Plan for improvement, which was proposed by the SECEP Project consultants, 50 most successful Contacts: enterprises were chosen to receive intensive support for their further business improvement. By the end of 2011, the experts for those areas in which the need for additional improvement was identified will be Tel.: 09 266 14 40, working with them. The SECEP Project organizes business exhibitions ‘Meet the buyer’ (May/October 2010 and 2011) at which precisely these companies are given a chance to present themselves as potential Fax: 09 266 14 41 suppliers of big companies to potential buyers of their products and services. During 2011, the SECEP Project will provide support for the initiative of the exporters interested in establishing the association of exporters, and it will also organize training for the interested export-oriented enterprises. The SECEP Project also includes the implementation of a programme of internationalization for the six prioritized clusters. Through the internationalization component, the project seeks to improve the ability of Serbian clusters not only to export, by means of activities such as market analysis and partner search, but also to build a network outside of Serbia with clusters in other countries (like exchange of experience and joint market activities), along with strengthening links with member countries of CEFTA.
Aspects to be further investigated
The Cluster Road Map will identify objectives of each cluster, along with the Action Plan development which should lead to achievement of these objectives. The SECEP Project will then start working with each of the selected clusters and will assist them in the Action Plan implementation. The project intends to enhance the competitiveness and networking of the SMEs in Serbia, to increase the capacity of the Intermediate Bodies towards the supply of better services to the enterprises and to push the Policy makers towards corrective actions upon their policies for the business sector. Gate2Start
Project Brief Description:
The project concept is that researchers should take into account market and
business issues (and not only technical issues) from the time of birth of an applied research idea. Throughout the project, a set of tools was developed which help researchers to test their research hypothesis in view of the market forecast, and to identify innovation potential at a very early stage. The project succeeded in raising awareness of more than 290 researchers, in 10 regional and 4 pan-European workshops. Personal coaching was provided to more than 100 researchers. The project was disseminated to more than 1.000 participants of 32 events organised by third parties. 7 Networking Discussion CapacitiesGroups were organised, giving the opportunity to researchers to get in contact with entrepreneurs, market and business experts and investors. The tools and methodology developed were validated by researchers and experts, and policy recommendations were formulated. Running Period:
Start: 2005
End: 2008
Contacts:
ATLANTIS RESEARCH ORGANIZATION 9th km Thermi – Thessaloniki 57001, Greece tel.: 2310 531000, Fax: 2310 552265
Aspects to be further investigated
Throughout the project, a set of tools was developed which help researchers to test their research hypothesis in view of the market forecast, and to identify innovation potential at a very early stage. The project intends to support researchers through coaching towards the identification of the market potential of their research idea. Also improve the knowledge capacity of the policy makers upon this procedure. MICRO-EXPLO-RE-R. Mi-Cluster Support for better exploitation of research results
Project Brief Description:
The project aims to support the Corallia Cluster of Microelectronics and
Nanotechnology to improve the successful commercialization of research activities. The support will be provided in many stages: to the formulation of the research idea right from the conceptual stage: to the continuous monitoring and improvement of the research project so that the results are more attractive to potential investors. To attract different funds in order to commercialize the research results. For this purpose several events were designed to give an opportunity to members of the cluster to come in contact with potential partners, venture capital and experts from across Europe to Capacitiesexpand their network, share knowledge and establish long-term business partnerships in Europe. Also there were held seminars regarding: Preparation of Business Plan and summary briefing. Strategy for development of investment readiness. Preparation for admission to stock exchange Running Period:
Start: 2009
End: 2012
Contacts:
ATLANTIS Consulting S.A. (Aggelos Manglis - amanglis@atlantisr esearch.gr)
Aspects to be further investigated
The support will be provided in many stages: to the formulation of the research idea right from the conceptual stage: to the continuous monitoring and improvement of the research project so that the results are more attractive to potential investors. Target groups of this project are the Researchers with concrete research results which are ready for their introduction in the market, innovative SMEs which participate in research activities, investors who are interesting in innovative products and services and policy makers who are going to improve their knowledge capacity on this sector. Strengthening and development of cooperation between countries on the Eastern Adriatic coast – Adria 3 Project
Project Brief Description:
The main objective of the project is the transfer of experiences and good practices to the stakeholders in the three recipient countries. The intervention axis are: AXIS I: Preservation of biodiversity between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Istria; AXIS II: Internationalization - development of economics relations between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro: strengthening and development of economic cooperation between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro SMEs. AXIS III : Social Cooperative: the activities aim to include vulnerable people in the Albanian labor market - transfer of best practices in Albania. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2000
End: 2002
Aspects to be further investigated:
Preservation of biodiversity between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Istria; AXIS II: Internationalization - development of economics relations between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro: strengthening and development of economic cooperation between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro SMEs. AXIS III : Social Cooperative: the activities aim to include vulnerable people in the Albanian labor market - transfer of best practices in Albania. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the three recipient countries through the improvement of their competiveness because of networking and exchange of experiences and best practices, the intermediate bodies which support the SMEs and policy makers in the mentioned countries through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. EUMETAL 2 Increasing competitiveness of SMEs and enhancement of cross border links in metal industry
Project Brief Description:
Overall objective is development of SMEs in the metal manufacturing sector in border area in order to improve their competitiveness. Specific objective is supporting 20 metal manufacturing enterprises in preparing for entering the foreign markets. Results: Transfer and promotion of knowledge and experience gained during the first phase of EUMETAL project in Bosnia&Herzegovina. Improvement of the SMEs employees knowledge and skills in cross-border area. Selected SMEs in cross-border area are met the formal requirements for exporting to EU market. Selected SMES are promoted at regional and international level
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2014
Aspects to be further investigated:
Improvement of the SMEs employees knowledge and skills in cross-border area. Selected SMEs in cross- border area are met the formal requirements for exporting to EU market. Selected SMES are promoted at regional and international level. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the metal manufacturing sector through the improvement of their competiveness, the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. PSD USAID, Private sector development project in South and South-West Srebia
Project Brief Description:
PSD is a new and innovative initiative for USAID Serbia that aims to build on the successes and legacies of previous USAID initiatives while transitioning the responsibilities for regional development and project management to local entities in line with the USAID Forward agenda. PSD represents the first Government-to-Government (G2G) assistance project supported by USAID Serbia, is one of the first and most complex G2G programs in southeastern Europe, and is anticipated to be a leading global example of experience and success for the USAID Forward agenda. The aim of project: Improving the Capacitiesdevelopment of small and medium sized companies and entrepreneurship and increasing the sales and export and creating new jobs in the following
sectors: 1) Agribusiness; 2) Light industry; 3) Textile industry in 12 municipalities of South and Southwestern Serbia. Project will provide financial Running Period: and nonfinancial assistance to development of: existing SMEs; association and clusters; youth and women entrepreneurship through overall support to Start: 2013 start- up business; enhance and strengthen links between SMEEs in selected End: 2015 areas and organizations which provide support to business in the national and regional level, through constant communication between selected subjects and National Agency for Regional Development. RDA Zlatibor is partner on Contacts: this project. National Regional Development Agency (NARD), Address: Terazije 23/VII, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia, E- mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The aim of the project which is a pilot one of the USAID Serbia with G2G structure is the development of small and medium sized companies and entrepreneurship towards the increase of sales and export and creation of new jobs in the following sectors: 1) Agribusiness; 2) Light industry; 3) Textile industry in 12 municipalities of South and Southwestern Serbia. Project will provide financial and nonfinancial assistance to development of: existing SMEs; association and clusters; youth and women entrepreneurship through overall support to start- up business; enhance and strengthen links between SMEs in selected areas and organizations which provide support to business in the national and regional level. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the above sectors through the improvement of their competiveness, the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. SLOHRA ZONET-Promotion of integration of business zones, incubators and technology parks into an innovative entrepreneurial network in the cross- border region of Slovenia-Croatia
Project Brief Description:
Searching and developing better, innovative products is possible only in the case of greater cooperation, networking and entering foreign markets. Small business in the region close to the border has in past decade developed disconnectedly, depending on momentary capabilities. Planning and
establishment of zones was primarily dependent on local circumstances and without consideration of the broader economic space. Project partners and zones (business-craft zones, technology parks, incubators, etc.) recognized the need and demonstrated intention for new cooperation and search of mutual synergic effects. The network of Slovene-Croatian regional development Running Period: Capacitiesagencies (RDA) – SLOHRA, established in the ongoing Interreg Slo-Hu-Cro project, is the main advantage of this project’s realization, because it eases Start: 2004 the establishment of contacts and advances the quality of cooperation in individual regions. Opportunities which will be followed are primarily related End: 2006 to establishment of the joint economic space and better services which for
small and middle-sized enterprises (SME) Main objectives of the project: to Contacts: improve the access and spreading of information about cross-border entrepreneurial area, to increase cooperation of entrepreneurial zones to ISTRIAN establish the structure for partnership network development, to improve DEVELOPMENT awareness of small and medium-sized enterprises of cross-border business AGENCY, LTD., Mletačka 12/iv, opportunities and to promote a joint economic space. Target groups of the 52100 Pula, Croatia, project are business zones, incubators, technology parks, support Boris Miletić (project entrepreneurial institutions (SEI), regional development agencies, companies manager), contact person Tea Gobo: operating in these zones and other operating companies which are interested +385 52 38 19 00 in entering into the zone, unemployed, students, potential entrepreneurs, [email protected] general public, via public access to acquired joint data and local communities.
Aspects to be further investigated:
Project will provide financial and nonfinancial assistance to development of: existing SMEs; association and clusters; youth and women entrepreneurship through overall support to start- up business; enhance and strengthen links between SMEs in selected areas and organizations which provide support to business in the national and regional level. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the above sectors through the improvement of their competiveness, the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. KOCOR- Tool-making industry as the pillar of technological development of Inner-Karst region
Project Brief Description:
Project was aimed at enhancing collaboration between tool-making companies in order to enhance their innovation competences. The project’s activities included knowledge-sharing within partnership, clustering with similar other Slovenian and international initiatives,
training, competence development etc.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2013
Contacts:
Kovinoplastika Lož, Ltd., Majda Šraj Mihelčič
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project’s activities included knowledge-sharing within partnership, clustering with similar other Slovenian and international initiatives, training, competence development etc. Target groups of the project are intermediate bodies which support tool-making companies to improve their knowledge capacity, tool-making SMEs to improve their innovative competences and policy makers through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. SLOHRA GLOBALNET
Project Brief Description:
SLOHRA GLOBALNET project has been designed to foster the development of beginner entrepreneurs, i.e. to improve their competitiveness in order to survive on the market and to encourage export. One of the goals of the
project was to add new activities to the existing incentive measures which would respect individual development resources of the beginner entrepreneurs and which would consider them, as participants in economic development, equal to the entrepreneurs who have already entered the phase of growth and development. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2012
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aims to prepare new SMEs to enter the market through coaching and mentoring and secondly intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers to improve their knowledge capacity towards the improvement their policy interventions for the benefit of business and society. IMP³rove (IMProvement of Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact for Small and Medium sized Enterprises)
Project Brief Description:
With IMP³rove, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have the valuable chance to benchmark their own Innovation Management performance against other companies from the same industry sector, country, size and age. Benchmarking offers a sound basis for effective support by an Innovation
Management support provider. It leads to solid and sustainable company development.IMP³rove stands for IMProving Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact. This mission is brought to life in the four main areas of IMP³rove: The IMP³rove Assessments of competitiveness and sustainable growth by Innovation Management The IMP³rove – European CapacitiesInnovation Management Academy The IMP³rove research results The Running Period: IMP³rove Partner services Innovation Management Consultants have access to the large Innovation Management benchmarking database and to the Start: 2008 proven Innovation Management consulting approach creating high impact for End: 2011 and their clients. They gain experience and formal training based on IMP³rove’s
holistic approach to Innovation Management. IMP³rove for financial actors Start: 2011 leads to more transparency for investment decisions and advisory services for End: 2013 SMEs. In addition to the classic due diligence, there is a growing need for analysis and advice on the part of Innovation Management. Financial actors have the possibility to access the IMP³rove network and assign certified Contacts: IMP³rove Consultants for assessing the Innovation Management performance of SMEs or assessing their portfolio of potential SMEs they want to invest in. A.T. Kearney GmbH Policy Makers have a common European approach at hand to identify the (capo fila), right SMEs for their innovation support programs. Utilizing the IMP³rove Germania partner network increases the effectiveness of publicly funded programs. With a national or regional IMP³rove Award Policy Makers can foster the competitiveness of SMEs and achieve high impact of their programs.
Aspects to be further investigated:
It leads to solid and sustainable company development. IMP³rove stands for IMProving Innovation Management Performance with sustainable IMPact. The project facilitates the improvement of innovation management performance of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovative actions, the SMEs and Startups which target the innovation efficiency, the investors and Techno Seed
Project Brief Description: Techno Seed is a project with the aim of selecting innovative ideas based on ICT and Telecommunication for the setting up of new enterprises. Techno
Seed addresses to researchers, graduates, students, university employees, secondary school teachers, companies or company executives and employees wishing to develop an innovative project by setting up a new legal entity. Techno Seed provides 3 main phases: training: it is vital that the potential entrepreneur is trained in management and financial control techniques. For
this reason Techno Seed provides short courses where above providing the Capacitiesbasic tools for management, the main aim is to familiarize future company founders with the essential concepts and tools required when managing a company. This first stage ends with the initial evaluation and assessment of the business idea described in a preliminary Business Plan. business planning: Running Period: following acceptance of this initial BP by the Science & Technology Committee, a former incubation phase takes place where a step-by-step Start: 2005 assistance is provided to potential entrepreneurs through two so called virtual Laboratories: Technology development Laboratory; Strategic and Planning End: 2009 Laboratory. Each Laboratory, managed by an expertise tutor, supports the development of the initial BP into a final BP, in particular through detailed and focused technology analysis, market research, marketing and Sales Strategies, Contacts: financial planning, Operational analysis, sources of funding. This phase ends Friuli Innovazione with an evaluation of the final BP by the Science & Technology Committee. start up and incubation: the aim of this activity is to support start-up businesses during the crucial early stages. Following acceptance of the final BP by the Science & Technology Committee and once the new enterprise has been set up, a seed capital financial support of 20.000,00€ is assigned to the start-up as well as the possibility to access to office space together with professional and expert business advice within the Science and Technology Park of Udine.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project facilitates the improvement of innovation capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovative actions in ICT and Telecommunications, promotes the creation of new Startups through mentoring and coaching and support the researchers and general the society to tackle new ideas for the promotion of entrepreneurship. FVG-R2B - Ricerca per la Competitività dell’Impresa (research for the competitiveness of enterprises)
Project Brief Description:
With this Project Friuli Innovazione aims to establish systematic cooperation between research and companies in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, able to produce tangible results for companies, both in terms of increasing competitiveness as well as start up of new companies. The focus is on four sectors: extended-ICT (ICT and other where ICT component is significant), Metal processing and Advanced materials, Biotech (Genomic) and Environment (including Energy). This aim is declined in two pillars:
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011 End: 2012 and
Start: 2012 End: 2013
Contacts:
Friuli Innovazione
Aspects to be further investigated:
The focus is on four sectors: extended-ICT (ICT and other where ICT component is significant), Metal processing and Advanced materials, Biotech (Genomic) and Environment (including Energy). This aim is declined in two pillars: The project facilitates the improvement of innovation capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovative actions in ICT, promotes the creation of new Startups through mentoring and coaching and support the researchers to tackle the market needs. CNCB-Cluster and Network Cooperation for Business Success in Central Europe
Project Brief Description:
The starting point of the CNCB project was that even in the different regions and countries there was various offers for cluster management trainings, a
standardized transferable module was still missing
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2013
Contacts:
Clusterland Upper Austria Ltd. Contact person: Wolfang Kurz, wolfgang.kurz@clus terland.at
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support clusters in Central Europe and to increase the competiveness of SMEs through networking with standardized management. Internationalization of SMEs in the wood-furniture sector of the Marche Region to the States in the Amazonia Region of Brazil through the establishment of a technological center and other forms of strategic partnership
Project Brief Description:
The objective of this technical assistance contract was to internationalise the SMEs in wood-furniture sector of Italy and Brazil through the establishment of a technological centre and forming strategic partnership between Marche and Amazonia Regions and also assist Amazonia Region SMEs to improve their capacities in the wood sector. The activities developed are mentioned here below: Support to local institutions in order to formulate and to implement strategy and programs for competitiveness of the SMEs in wood furniture sector in Amazonia Region Establishment of Brazilian Research Centre and organise extensive technical training programs for the Technology Center, CapacitiesSMEs in the wood sector and also local authorities. Establishment of a network between of economic and institutional stakeholders that creates a collaborative environment able to support SME’s growth at international level. Development of effective mechanisms for cooperation between sources Running Period: of technological know-how and SMEs The project had the strategic objective Start: 2006 of enhancing the value chain of the production of wood in the Amazon region, particularly in the states of Parà and Amazonas. The assistance was delivered End: 2012 within a framework of environmental sustainability, extending the value chain to the phases of transformation both in semi-finished products on a global scale target market, and in furniture products, with priority target market Brazil and, more generally, South America.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the wood sector in Italy and Brazil and to enhance the competiveness of the SMEs in wood sector. Al invest
Project Brief Description: Al-Invest is an economic co-operation programme that aims to support the internationalisation of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America
with particular regard to Brazil, in collaboration with their European partners in order to contribute to reinforce social cohesion in the region and to enhance their competitiveness with the perspective of internationalisation.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2013
Contacts:
Cosmob Spa Beneficiary/Client: CNI – Confederaçao Nacional da Indùstria – Brazil
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in Latin America and to enhance the competiveness of the SMEs in this region. SMILING- Smart Home Living: innovative technologies for the sensor and automation dedicated to domotics.
Project Brief Description:
SMILING, approved and funded by the Ministry of Economic Development, has as its objective the exploitation of the results of public research and the strengthening of synergies and collaboration among the different actors involved (companies, associations, universities and technology transfer centers). The general goal of the project is to implement a laboratory for the technology transfer, with a specific focus on advanced technologies for the home living, with the final aim to develop innovative products and deliver new services for the improvement of the quality of living. Project activities: -act as demonstrator of the innovative technologies proposes by the research Capacitiescentres. -stimulate and support, both on a technical level and an organisational-managerial level, the creation of new enterprises with a high technological content. -to be of use to new businesses to carry out experimental trials and to act as a point of reference and technological Running Period: comparison. Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
Polytechnic University of Marche
Aspects to be further investigated:
The general goal of the project is to implement a laboratory for the technology transfer, with a specific focus on advanced technologies for the home living, with the final aim to develop innovative products and deliver new services for the improvement of the quality of living. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to enhance the collaboration of the research sector with SMEs for the technology transfer of advanced technologies for the home living. Pass – Private assisted house Project Brief Description:
Intends to contribute towards the diffusion of a new concept of Smart Home that proposes the homeowner as the centre of the
development technological solutions.
Capacities Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2015
Contacts: Coordination: rehabilitation Institute “S.Stefano” and University of Camerino Consortium: 11 regional companies (Aditech, Team Italia, Filippetti, GPL Costruzioni Generali, Nautes, Sailmaker International, Siam, Sigma, Smart Space Solutions, H&H Group, Domingo Salotti), supported by tecnica and scientific centers for the technological transfer Cosmob and Meccano with the collaboration of Marche and INRCA. Scientific and technical advice: COSMOB
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector in the construction sector and to enhance the collaboration of the research sector with SMEs for the technology transfer of advanced technologies for the home living. MTMI – Master in tecnologie e management dell’innovazione
Project Brief Description:
The course is addressed to young industrialists and managerial with a technical, economical and managerial profile of which ever corporale area. Objectives: To learn the best management practises and the most advanced practises To develop new awareness To acquire tools of progressive analyses To efficiently converse with possible financiers
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2009
End:
Contacts:
ISTAO
Aspects to be further investigated:
To learn the best management practices and the most advanced practices To develop new awareness To acquire tools of progressive analyses To efficiently converse with possible financiers The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support human resources development in innovative training models and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through the human resources development. Encouraging the development and sustainability of Croatian wood processing industry 2006.-2010. (Initiative)
Project Brief Description:
In July 2006. the Government has adopted a five-year 'Operational Programme Development industrial wood processing' . The number of employees in the sector would be increased from the current 11,000 to 15,000. Building productive capacity of existing cooperatives and small and medium enterprises, support the launch of new cooperative and the capacity building for cooperative development and support services to small and medium-sized businesses.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2006
End: 2010
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative of the Government in Croatia with the five-year 'Operational Programme Development industrial wood processing' intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs in industrial wood processing through the introduction of restructuring tools for small and medium sized companies in the sector, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in wood sector through their restructuring process and to attract private financing for SMEs for their restructuring process in the initiative region. Public call for the allocation of subsidies to businesses in the year 2014.
Project Brief Description:
In order to develop small businesses, Sibenik-Knin County has created incentives for the following purposes: Marketing activities: exhibitions in the 2014th year, advertising material, market research, etc., Professional training and development: training for traditional crafts activities, vocational training staff in new technologie. Costs of establishing or cover part of the costs of registration and starting a new business.The program users can be crafts, a limited liability company to 250 employees production and service cooperatives, which are registered and operating in the territory of Sibenik- CapacitiesKnin's County and have no debt to the State. Increase the competitiveness of entrepreneurs
Running Period:
Start: 2014
End: 2015
Contacts:
Šibenik-Knin county, mr. sc. Marlena Floigl rg Pavla Šubića I. br. 2 Phone:022 / 460- 737., FAX:022 / 460- 758, e-mail: gospodarstvo@skz. hr
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative of the Sibenik-Knin County to incentive the SMEs of the region for Marketing activities, advertising material, market research, Professional training and development and vocational training staff in new technologies intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction of restructuring tools for small and medium sized companies in the sector, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through their restructuring process and to attract private financing for the restructuring process of SMEs in the initiative region Impresa in Azione (Enterprise in Action) Project Brief Description:
Impresa in azione is a didactic programme based on the mini entreprise methodology of students in order to acquire entrepreneurship skills.
The mini entreprises work (not as simulation) in a protected environment and is composed by students who plan and punt into action a business idea (ora product or a service). They also perform fund raising activities (up to 1000 euro). To spread entreprenurship culture among young and students
Capacities
Running Period:
Start:
End:
Contacts:
Junior Achievement and Friuli Innovazione in FVG Region, Anna Linda Leandri o Luca Antonioli Via Rossini 6/8 - 20122 Milano Tel. 02 230039100 Email: annalinda.leandri@jaitalia. org ; [email protected] www.impresainazione .it, www.jaitalia.org
Aspects to be further investigated:
The mini entreprises work (not as simulation) in a protected environment and is composed by students who plan and punt into action a business idea (product or a service). They also perform fund raising activities (up to 1000 euro). The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs with methods to spread the business culture in the society and to foster the creation of new SMEs through the promotion of business culture in schools . EUROMED INVEST Support to Business and Investment Partnerships in the Southern Mediterranean
Project Brief Description: The objective is to renew the interest of SMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean market,
increase investment and business projects flow and ensure that the EU finds its leading position as source of foreign direct investment in these countries. The ultimate goal: to generate sustainable and inclusive investment and trade/partnership projects. Overall objective: Boost private business and investment within the Euromed area. Contribute to an inclusive economic development in the Mediterranean region. Specific objective: Position the Mediterranean in key global sectors for future creation of jobs and value. Empower Euro-Med business and investment networks to implement targeted and coordinated strategies to support the development of MSMEs in these Sectors. Maximise the business and investment spillovers in the CapacitiesSouth ENPI countries territories. Different types of economic stakeholders will be benefiting of the activities: investment promotion agencies, development agencies, SMEs, chambers of commerce and industry, professional organisations, clusters, Running Period: investors and private and public financiers, as well as networks of diaspora and women entrepreneurs from Europe and southern Mediterranean countries. The Start: 2013 target groups will be a combination of private and public sector organisations as well as business associations. Target groups from EU and South ENPI countries: Investors. End: 2016 Companies and especially Euro-Med SMEs. Young and new entrepreneurs (among which job seekers). Intermediate bodies and economic development institutions: Contacts: Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA). Business Supporting Organizations (BSO). Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI). Export councils. National/regional/sector ANIMA Investment business federations. Private sector. NGOs. Business associations dedicated to young Network, Vera entrepreneurs. Women and expatriates. National and territorial government and Veljanovski, Project public actors: Ministries (Industry, cooperation, territorial development). Manager, CCIS, Deconcentrated administrations (SME and innovation agencies). Regional development agencies and CCI. Local and regional authorities (welcoming and vera.veljanovski@p facilitating investment projects). Free zones. Technoparks. Universities. Training ks.rs institutions. International aid agencies. Multilateral organisations projects. Final beneficiaries. MSMEs and new entrepreneurs (particularly women entrepreneurs) from EU and the South ENPI countries. Job seekers from the South ENPI countries.
Territorial authorities from the South ENPI countries. EUROMED Invest primarily targets five key sectors: agri-food, water and alternative energies, tourism, transport and logistics, cultural and creative industries. Total project amount: 4.999.983 EUR
Aspects to be further investigated:
to generate sustainable and inclusive investment and trade/partnership projects. Target groups of the project: Directly Investors. SMEs and Young and new entrepreneurs (among which job seekers) and indirectly Intermediate bodies and Policy Makers. „RISEE“ Italy - South East Europe Network
Project Brief Description:
Project objective: The Project aims at supporting the social and economic development of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) through the promotion of the economic relations among the Chambers of Commerce and Agencies for Investment with the related Italian Partners. Objectives. Boost economic cooperation and support the development of relations between Italian and SEE businesses. Promote intensification of economic relations between SMEs and national and international clustering of enterprises. Support the realization of innovative and sustainable business activities through the promotion of SMEs’ investments in the SEE countries. Train technical and managerial local staff, taking into account the needs of the private sector. Support the creation of a cooperation network between institutions and economic operators of Italy and SEE, with particular attention to support SMEs. Project provide. Technical Assistance: legal support and skills and Capacitiestechnology transfer aimed at conversion and development of the local productive system and foreign investments attraction (Phase II). Training: technical and managerial local staff, in the private sector, taking into account strategic sectors for investments and cooperation (Phase II, III). SMEs development: development of economic and trade cooperation, through Running Period: programmes of incentives of trade, logistic and transport at Regional and Interregional level. Activities schedule. Step 1: Start-up of the Project. “Kick-off meeting” and study visit for the Start: 2012 foreign partners in Milan, 22-23 March 2012, and presentation of business and investment opportunities during “International Workshop for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: the End: 2013 role and potentiality of South Eastern market between European integration and Mediterranean perspectives”. Step 2: Design of a Business Opportunities Catalogue. Identification of business opportunities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and technical assistance to the Italian SMEs. Step 3: Outgoing Contacts: mission to the North of Italy (Genoa, Milan, Trieste). Promotion in Italy of business opportunities in the strategic sector for investment, industrial cooperation and the promotion PROMOS Milan of trade exchange with the target countries. Study visit and training to the North of Italy Milan, Chamber of Genoa and Trieste, for the South Eastern European partners and presentation of business and Commerce, Vera investment opportunities in their own countries, 28-31 May 2012. Step 4: Incoming missions to Veljanovski, Project the South East European countries by the Italian Partners and SMEs. Organization of 3 multi Manager, CCIS, sectorial outgoing missions to the SEE. Serbia - Montenegro 11-14 June 2012. Bosnia and Herzegovina - Croazia 15-18 October 2012. Albania - Macedonia 04-07 March 2013. Step 5: vera.veljanovski@p Outgoing mission to the Centre and South Italy (Florence, Rome and Palermo). Study Visit to ks.rs the Centre and South Italy Florence, Rome and Palermo and presentation of business and investment opportunities in their own countries, March 2013. Step 6: Final Project Seminar in Milan, presentation of project results. Final Seminar and B2B meeting between Italian and the South Eastern Europe companies, in Milan, March 2013. The services for the SMEs. Business matching based on specific needs and necessities. Organization of business meetings with local operators. Organization of information seminars before and during the mission. Interpreting service dedicated to the Italian meetings. Transfer services for the realization of business meetings Total project amount: 335.494 EUR
Aspects to be further investigated:
Boost economic cooperation and support the development of relations between Italian and SEE businesses. Promote intensification of economic relations between SMEs and national and international clustering of enterprises. Target groups of the project: Directly SMEs and Intermediary Bodies and indirectly the Policy Makers. MICRO-EXPLO-RE-R. Mi-Cluster Support for better exploitation of research resultsEMMINVEST
Project Brief Description:
EMMINVEST aims to facilitate investment into entrepreneurial SMEs to allow them to build their mobile and mobility service concepts into sizeable, sustainable, and internationalized businesses. This will be achieved by providing information to SMEs on financing opportunities, developing and testing coaching schemes for SMEs, raising awareness of investors on relevant opportunities in the market, defining and testing cross-border co-investment facilities with existing investment groups and funding sources and involving regional innovation partners and investment groups throughout the project. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
ATLANTIS RESEARCH ORGANIZATION 9th km Thermi – Thessaloniki 57001, Greece tel.: 2310 531000, Fax: 2310 552265
Aspects to be further investigated:
facilitate investment into entrepreneurial SMEs to allow them to build their mobile and mobility service concepts into sizeable, sustainable, and internationalized businesses through the provision of information on financing opportunities, the development of coaching schemes for SMEs and the involvement of regional innovation partners and investment groups throughout the project. Target groups of the project: SMEs through the coaching schemes, Investors through the promotion of information on financing opportunities, Intermediate Bodies which supply coaching services to SMEs and indirectly the Policy Makers which take the feedback of the above actions and their impact to the business environment. MOBIP-Mobile Services Innovation Platform
Project Brief Description:
The ambition of MOBIP was to support the competitiveness of high growth ventures in the mobile services sector and to strengthen their opportunities for growth and market access, both within Europe and in wider international markets. The project aimed to facilitate access of high growth ventures to investors, exploit the potential for business-to-business cooperation, and improve access to large Mobile Corporates. Specifically, the project aims to: support the evolution of European gazelles in mobile services by identifying SMEs with high-growth potential and improving their innovation capacity, investment readiness, and access to international markets, foster all Capacitiesdimensions of innovation in mobile services, develop new or better tools for
innovation support by building on successful initiatives.
Running Period:
Start: 2009
End: 2012
Contacts:
ATLANTIS RESEARCH ORGANIZATION 9th km Thermi – Thessaloniki 57001, Greece tel.: 2310 531000, Fax: 2310 552265
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aimed to facilitate access of high growth ventures to investors, exploit the potential for business-to-business cooperation, and improve access to large Mobile Corporates. The project intends to support SMEs in the mobile services sector with high growth potential to expand their market share and enter into new markets through the b2b cooperation to improve the support capacity of the intermediate bodies and indirectly improve the knowledge of the policy makers upon this sector. PROFIS
Project Brief Description:
To analyze the existing possibilities for financing of innovation
projects at early stages in 9 project partners countries and to make an integral, collective analysis of the situation in those countries. Also, the project objective is to identify the services that are necessary to be developed , introduced and tested in order to facilitate the investments for start-ups and potential entrepreneurs within SEE. Apart from making an integral report on the overall situation regarding financing in partner countries, the project should analyze and give proposals for solution of unfavorable situations. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2014
Contacts:
Bay Zoltan Hungarian foundation for science and technology, Budapest Hungary
Aspects to be further investigated:
the project should analyze and give proposals for solution of unfavorable situations. Target groups of the project are the Startups through the improvement of their capacity to attract investors, the Investors and Funding Organizations through the identification of the procedure that select innovative investments and by this way match them with the financing needs of innovative projects which come from the research area, the intermediate bodies which support the Startups to enter the market and policy makers of the innovation sector through the improvement of their knowledge capacity and the researchers through coaching them to focus their research in the real business creating by this way potential for new and competitive jobs. SME Guarantee Scheme
Project Brief Description:
Guarantee Scheme, set up in 1997, gives guarantees for credits of small and medium sized enterprises from the South Primorska region. The Guarantee Fund is a financial instrument assuring a guarantee to loans that entrepreneurs obtain from the chosen banks. The purpose of the loan is acquisition of new equipment, building and adaptation of business premises
and acquisition or settlement of land for building business premises. Main objective is to assist SMEs in enhancing productivity and competitiveness Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 1997
End:
Contacts:
Regional development Center Koper, Irena Cergol; irena.cergol@rrc- kp.si Tel: +386 5 6637 583
Aspects to be further investigated:
The Guarantee Fund is a financial instrument assuring a guarantee to loans that entrepreneurs obtain from the chosen banks. The purpose of the loan is acquisition of new equipment, building and adaptation of business premises and acquisition or settlement of land for building business premises. Main objective is to assist SMEs in enhancing productivity and competitiveness. The project targets to improve the financial capacity of SMEs in the region to enhance their assets and the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers in the region. PROFIS – Promotion on Financing Innovation in South East Europe
Project Brief Description:
Addressing a critical gap: investment in knowledge transfer and start-ups and strengthen cross-border matching of innovative firms with suitable investors. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES developing new capacities, capabilities, new services,
new innovative sectors creating a transnational SEE network and platform of innovation service providers Contributing to regional economic development and innovation policy setting by identifying challenges, making good practices visible and suggesting options for solutions increasing the visibility of the region easing the access of new financial sources for innovative projects in SEE CapacitiesMAIN EXPECTED RESULTS 135 investment proposals prepared for negotiation with investors 360 individuals and 150 firms directly benefiting from the services provided by the project 4 new innovative products developed and tested by the project (2 training materials on promoting innovation financing, Running Period: training material on facilitating female inventors in SEE, and net-based tool for Start: 2012 promoting match-making of local SEE inventors and global investors) 9 country policy reports and 1 cross-country SEE report on financing early stage End: 2014 innovative projects (status and policy recommendations) Key results of the
project: 28 organisations with improved capacities in supporting early stage funding of innovation, 135 projects prepared for early stage funding, 10 policy papers at national and SEE levels on improving innovation funding measures, introduction of a new platform for bridging inventors in SEE and local and Contacts: global investors, and awareness building on the promotion of female Bay Zoltán inventors. Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research - Hungary; Lead Partner
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project facilitates the improvement of innovation capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support early stage funding of innovation, enhances the creation of new Startups by prepared projects from research for early stage funding and prepares researchers with concrete research results to enter the market. Analysis of bureaucratic costs for business ventures
Project Brief Description:
The project "Analysis of beureaucratic costs for business ventures"has raised the objective of verifying the economic-financial weight which, because of the organisational complexity of the Public Administration, in a rather serious manner on the businesses that want to activate or increase the own
productive and/or commercial activity. The itinerary Is structured in three fundamental phases: Phase 1: Definition of a work and Analysis programme of the necessary requirements Phase 2: Analysis procedure, recognition of beureaucratic inefficiencies, validation Phase 3: Impact of inefficiency on the companies' performance. A fourth phase concerning closure and diffusion, Capacitiescan be added to the phases specifically dedicated to the Analysis. This fourth phase would be dedicated to the elaboration and realisation of a plan of communication and disclosure of the results of the survey. The following diagram summarizes the maximum contents of the singular phases. Running Period:
Start: 2006
End: 2007
Contacts:
ISTAO
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs on the reduction of bureaucratic costs and to enhance the competiveness of innovative SMEs through the introduction to them procedures for cost reduction. Grants for young entrepreneurs to 250,000 kuna - Competition
Project Brief Description:
Youth Entrepreneurship allows young people to entrepreneurship obtaining grants for the following business activities: 1) Investments in improving the business 2) Investments in improving production services, 3) Investments in the development of new products services 4) Adaptation, arrangement and enhancement of the business manufacturing space workshop 5) management and protection of intellectual and industrial property 6) The introduction of quality management systems, standards and quality characters 7) Co- financing costs paid as a dependent project cost 8) Marketing activities and investments in new markets, 9) Vocational training and education 10) Co- Capacitiesfinancing the costs of child care entrepreneurs. Increase the competitiveness of entrepreneurs in the initial phase of operations
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2014
Contacts:
Croatian government, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts, Street: Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Phone: 00 385 1 610 61 11, e-mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them of new financing tools for young Entrepreneurship, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through their business reengineering because of financing and to the attraction of private financing through the procedure of granting in the region. Project start-up entrepreneurs in year 2012. - Competition
Project Brief Description: Project start-up entrepreneurs in year 2012. Allows new entrepreneurs obtaining grants for the following business activities: - Launching development
projects - Publicity - Education / vocational training. From the grant can finance the following categories: - Equipment, tools and inventory - Interior decorating business premises / workshops - Drawing up a business plan and consulting services for loans and guarantees - Entrepreneurship training - The cost of creating promotional materials -
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2013
Contacts:
Croatian government, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts, Street: Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Phone: 00 385 1 610 61 11, e-mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them of new financing tools for young Entrepreneurship, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through their business reengineering because of financing and to the attraction of private financing through the procedure of granting in the region. Encouraging the development of co-operative business 2008.-2012. (Measure)
Project Brief Description:
Favourable financing entrepreneurs in business zone The aim is to facilitate the financing of entrepreneurs entering the enterprise zone through favorable loans with subsidized interest. Business credits in the form of subsidized microcredit interest
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2008
End: 2012
Contacts:
The Ministry of Economy, Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Phone. 01/6106- 111; fax. 01/6109 112
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them the structure of business zones as a tool for development, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs which enter in the business zone through grant financing for the improvement of their business activities and to attract private financing for SMEs in the business zone in the initiative region. Fostering entrepreneurship in tourism 2008.-2012. (Measure)
Project Brief Description:
The program is based on credit and funds of the Ministry of Tourism for interest subsidies; small and medium businesses are granted special-purpose loans for purchase, construction, renovation and Developing small accommodation facilities with high quality types of hotel, boarding house,
apartment-hotel and camp. In the future the company plans to build / edit about 500 small hotels with supporting facilities. The program will expand the use of funds to invest in hostels as an incentive for development of youth Capacitiestourism. It is planned to organize 30 hostel. Protection, restoration and involvement in heritage tourism in tourist underdeveloped areas and production of traditional souvenirs Running Period:
Start: 2008
End: 2012
Contacts:
The Ministry of Economy, Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Phone. 01/6106- 111; fax. 01/6109 113
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs in tourism sector through the introduction new financing tools for small and medium sized hotels, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the tourism sector through financing their restructuring process and to attract private financing for SMEs for their restructuring process in the initiative region CONTEST: Tourism Competitiveness 2014
Project Brief Description:
Grant for raising the competitiveness of the tourism economy through targeted investments to support diversification of supply, the internationalization of business, sustainable development, and innovative new destination tourism products, the use of new IT and communication
technologies. Preservation of jobs, new employment, growth and development in tourism economy.
Capacities
Running Period:
Comply with the Action Plans Strategy for the
development of Tourism to the year 2020.
Contacts:
The Ministry of Economy, Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Phone. 01/6106- 111; fax. 01/6109 110
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative of grants to tourism sector for raising its competitiveness through targeted investments intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs in tourism sector through the introduction of financing tools for small and medium sized companies in the sector, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through their restructuring process and to attract private financing for the restructuring process of SMEs in the initiative region. “EMDC” Euro-Mediterranean Development Center for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Project Brief Description:
The Foundation “Euro-Mediterranean Development Center (EMDC) for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises” has been established in Milan, on June 17th 2013, by the Milan Chamber of Commerce and the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Economic Development, as Founding Members. The EMDC Initiative has obtained the official recognition (‘labelling’) of the 43 Member Countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM), as well as of the European Commission and the Arab League, as initiative of specific interest for the promotion of socio-economic development in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, in occasion of the Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) of the UfM, on December 4th 2012, in Barcelona. A key purpose of a network-based initiative such the EMDC Initiative is the identification and promotion of potential complementarities and synergy with other relevant Agencies and Institutions, as well as already existing programs and networks for economic cooperation and MSMEs development in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Moreover, the operating principle of the EMDC Initiative is to connect the main players in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, promoting synergies between them and achieving outreach and proximity through an integrated and widespread network of Country Centers to be located in the Northern, Eastern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean. EMDC Network includes an International Unit based in Milan, and EMDC Country Centers composed of and run by the EMDC Partner Agencies and Institutions in each Capacitiesinterested Country of the Euro-Mediterranean Region. The EMDC Network will provide internationalization- support services such as business events (trade missions, exhibitions), tailor-made assistance for the internationalization process including market research, preliminary diagnosis, support for the development of the strategy and partners’ research, as well as business to business (B2B) strategies. To date, no. 19 EMDC Partner Agencies and Institutions supporting MSMEs from no. 9 Euro-Mediterranean Countries. There are new members Running Period: also. Micro, Small and Medium sized enterprises from the South and East Mediterranean countries involved in the project are the main expected beneficiaries of the initiative. In addition, public and private agencies are also Start: 2013 expected to greatly benefit from this project, thanks to the capacity building programmes deployed. The ultimate goal of the EMDC Initiative is to stimulate job and value creation in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, supporting End: sustainable economic growth through the improvement of the commercial and financial environment for MSMEs development, strengthened business networks and shared access to knowledge and resources. MSMEs from the South and East Mediterranean Countries involved in the EMDC Initiative are the main expected beneficiaries. In addition, public and private Agencies are also expected to greatly benefit from this project, thanks to the capacity building programs deployed. General aims and objectives of the EMDC Initiative include creating and developing Contacts: an environment which favors the growth, networking and exchange of entrepreneurial know-how for MSMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region, aimed at job creation, with a specific focus on young entrepreneurship; favoring Ministry of MSMEs’ access to markets, including through the development of multilateral programs which extend and Economy and increase commercial relations in the Euro-Mediterranean region; creating conditions that allow MSMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region greater and easier access to financing, including by providing professional services and Regional consultancy work (e.g., feasibility studies, business plan preparation, etc.); promoting and carrying out, including Development of directly, entrepreneurial assistance to MSMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region, in particular with regard to the Republic of logistics, information technology, as well financial, economic and legal consultancy work; stimulating, facilitating and carrying out networking activities among relevant entities, whether regional, national, international or Serbia supranational, in order to assist and stimulate the growth of MSMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region; creating incentives for innovation in the Euro-Mediterranean region, including through new projects and partnerships, in order to favor the development of MSMEs in the Euro-Mediterranean region; stimulating, including through the creation of an easily accessible information platform, the adoption of policies developed by national and international entities and organizations, with a view to favoring the internationalization of MSMEs in the Euro- Mediterranean region; selecting and training new professionals to be introduced into the MSMEs’ network in order to encourage its development, including through projects aimed at recognizing and training new talent and professional profiles; participating in programs, projects and plans, through national, international and European Union contributions, financing and support, for the development and economic and financial cooperation in the Eu ro -Mediterranean region and for the MSMEs in the Euro -Mediterranean region.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in MED area through networking and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in MED area through tailored made business events and studies. START-UP LETA (Annual Competition for Start-up companies)
Project Brief Description:
Start:up of the year is the national competition of start-up companies. With the competition, we wish to recognize the best business teams,
business plans and start-up companies in Slovenian environment, professionally support them, connect them with potential investors and promote them to the higher public. Competition Start:up of the year aims to completely encourage the development of innovative business activity and business culture in the Republic of Slovenia. It’s Capacitiesbased on motivating for business action within the Slovenian Start:up road show, practical trainings for improving the business plan and exchanging experience and good practice, as well as networking at the business forum 100% Start:up and international business conference Running Period: PODIM. The competition is complete with selecting, promoting and Start: 2008 rewarding the best written business plan and the best start-up companies. The competition is once again connected with the offer for End: 2009 start-up companies offered by the Slovene Enterprise Fund. The participants of the competition with a good final ranking will once Contacts: again be able obtain up to 25 points of a total 100 possible within the tender P2. During the competition, a social network of operators in Technology Park Ljubljana, the business eco-system is formed. It consists of entrepreneurs, Development centre for investors, consultants of support institutions, media, government and information and non-government organisations and other stakeholder participants. communication Them collaborating fruitfully is crucial for a successful development of technologies Kranj, entrepreneurship. The competition is also a ticket for entering Regional Development programmes for growth and globalisation of Slovenian start-up Centre Zasavje, Primorska companies within the programme Go:Global Slovenia. Recognize the Technology Park, Venture best business teams, business plans and start-up companies in factory Maribor – Slovenian environment, professionally support them, connect them incubator, Regional with potential investors and promote them to the higher public. Development agency Celje , Jure Verhovnik, MSc, [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
Startup of the year in Slovenia is the national competition of start-up companies. With the competition are being recognized the best business teams, business plans and start-up companies in Slovenian environment which after are professionally supported and connected with potential investors. The competition is once again connected with the offer for start-up companies offered by the Slovene Enterprise Fund. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support Startups and innovation with new tools to promote them in the market and to link the Startups with the market and potential investors. Support to the farmers of Shushica Commune to reach easily the trade
Project Brief Description:
The project aim was helping the farmers to reach easily the market through theimprovement of trade infrastructure of their products. Protected the consumers facilitating a process of production respecting standards and market requests. Area of intervention: Orikum Muncipality. It was named
after the ancient city Oricum, which was located 4 km west of modern Orikum. The municipality consists of the town Orikum and the villages Dukat Fushë, Dukat, Tragjas and Radhimë. Nearby the modern city is located the Capacitiesonly marina in Albania, Marina of Orikum. Activities: Feasibility study and preparation of the technical plan .Construction of the market. The project aim
was helping the farmers to reach easily the market through theimprovement of trade infrastructure of their products. Protected the consumers facilitating a process of production respecting standards and market requests Running Period:
Start: 09.2008
End: 12.2009
Contacts:
Anila Vendresha Mob: 0682024719
Aspects to be further investigated:
Protected the consumers facilitating a process of production respecting standards and market requests. Area of intervention: Orikum Muncipality. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in agri-food sector and enhance SMEs competiveness through facilitate the access of their products in the market. Start & Go
Project Brief Description:
Start & Go is an initiative addressed to microenterprises and SMEs with young management and operating in FVG Region. The selected companies must prove a particular innovative content in terms of
product/service/management, new and improving comparing to the
existing framework. Start&GO offers to the best selected companies: partnership (meetings with important companies); incubation; funding (access to funding and venture capital), Capacitiesbook-keeping services (free service for two years); two years free membership of Confindustria Udine and Young Entrepreneurs
Group; visibility (communication and web positioning); patent and brand; Running Period: free training (management course "executive education") and press office. To support the start-up of new and innovative companies and Start: increase the competitiveness of the area. End:
Contacts:
Young Entrepreneurs Group of Confindustria Udine with 12 partners (Credito Cooperativo Banks of the Udine Province, Relifeit srl, Friuli Innovazione, Glp, Fondazione Cuoa, Unione Giovani Dottori Commercialisti di Udine, IAG Italian Business Angels of Growth, Uquido, Mugherli Financials srl, Alpimerchant spa, 200% Italiano, Business Voice e Blu Wom).Gianluca Pistrin; 0039 0432 276268; [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovation with new methods to promote Startups in the market and to foster the creation of new Startups through the connection of them with the market and potential investors . 2 INNOVATION INITIATIVES a) TUTORING AND INNOVATION SERVICE b) ‘NUOVE IDEE PER NUOVE IMPRESE’ PRIZE (new ideas for new enterprises) http://www.nuoveideenuoveimprese.org/ c) CONTRIBUTION BY CALL TO FACILITATE RELATIONS ENTERPRISES-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTERS
Project Brief Description:
In 12 years there have been 2,136 young people enrolled with business ideas, 787 business ideas, over 300 business plans produced, 39 companies were born and revitalized and are still operating, after the competition. Prizes awarded are amounting to € 424,000.00. In 2013 together with the award ceremony, it was organized a day of work on start-ups.
Capacities
Running Period:
a) Since 2010
b) Since 2002
c) Since 2012
Contacts:
MARINA GAROIA TEL. + 39.0541.363716 FAX + 39.0541.363747 [email protected] [email protected] .it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovation with new methods to promote Startups in the market and to foster the creation of new Startups through the connection of them with the market and potential investors . NEXT - Collaborative platform to support research and technology transfer
Project Brief Description:
NEXT intends to create a collaborative platform to support innovation and technology transfer in the Countries of the Adriatic area. The consciousness that innovation takes place in "systems" or open networks, through the interaction of actors which are different in competences, skills, objectives. Unlike other similar initiatives, the
distinctive and effective innovation that distinguishes NEXT is an original mix of virtual services (online platform for information sharing, access to common services, etc.) and material services/products provided directly to partners, SMEs, research and technology transfer centers, institutions. The services/products offered by the NEXT project - the following are the main ones – take Running Period: into account these considerations. Based on a context analysis and through an effective involvement of the "actors of innovation" in the Start: 2012 areas represented, "NEXT open book" will be created, a Repository which can be constantly updated by research and technology transfer End: 2015 centers (both public and private). A summary report ("NEXT trend") Contacts: will also be produced to give details, for each of the territories involved, of the level of technological intensity, the results of Marche Regional excellence in the field of research and innovation, investment Authority – opportunities, public policies support. Both of the tools will be Innovation, Research functional to identify and give visibility to excellence competences, and Competitivness of thereby facilitating the interaction between the different research productive sectors actors. Unit ITALY 00390718063337 patrizia.sopranzi@reg ione .marche.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
NEXT project propose a collaboration platform to support innovation and technology transfer in the Andriatic Region. This platform will be availiable to all the stakeholders of innovation: Policy Makers, Researchers, Intermediary Organizations, SMEs and Startups and Investors and Funding Organizations. At first level to the partners of the project, to SMEs, to Research and Technology transfer centers and Mechanism for Fostering Innovation in South East Europe (FINNO)
Project Brief Description:
SEE countries elaborate and implement the innovation policies with various level of effectiveness. There is a lack of: cooperation, capacity and understanding of innovation performance, policies and supporting instruments in the region. The aim of FINNO project is to contribute to better productivity and to achieve more comparable level of innovation among SEE countries. The project will create a communication platform of decision- makers, supported by sustainable mechanism for fostering innovation in SEE area, the FINNO Committee, a legal body which provides governance level with constant and relevant policy recommendations. The mechanism for Capacitiesfostering innovation in SEE will be developed by the key stakeholders and supporters of innovation. On the basis of innovation performance analysis and existing measures in SEE region, common methodology for measuring TIAS (Technology Innovation Assessment Scoreboard) will be developed. TIAS Running Period: Scoreboard rate will be measured in companies as direct users of innovation, Start: 2011 by using on-line Self-Assessment Tool (SAT). Based on identified TIAS rate as well as policy and economy gaps, FINNO Committee is to prepare innovation End: 2014 policy recommendations for each participating country. The main project results incorporate coherent methodology for implementation and use of TIAS and SAT, innovation policy recommendations and FINNO Committee Contacts: establishment in order to ensure sustainability of the initiative. Results achieved in the project will provide an Overview of innovation efforts of the TIA - Public Agency involved SEE countries and enable benchmarks with other European regions. for Technology of These results will be disseminated and relevant stakeholders will be provided the Republic of with the guidelines how to improve innovation policies and measures in order Slovenia Ministry of for the innovation performance to be upgraded in each SEE country. Science, Montenegro
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project will create a communication platform of decision-makers, supported by sustainable mechanism for fostering innovation in SEE area, the FINNO Committee, a legal body which provides governance level with constant and relevant policy recommendations. Results achieved in the project will provide an Overview of innovation efforts of the involved SEE countries and enable benchmarks with other European regions. Target groups of the project: Directly SMEs and Policy Makers and indirectly Intermediate Bodies and Researchers. MicroJobData – Support of Microelectronics Cluster with the creation of a candidate and job database
Project Brief Description:
The project aims at the design of a new innovative e-recruitment platform for the members Corallia Cluster. As this cluster consists of hi tech firms the platform was mainly dedicated to the fields of nanotechnology and microelectronics. The main element of this platform is an innovative algorithm
which makes automated matches between the job post requirements and the CV qualifications. The output of these matches is an ordering list of CVs based on the scoring they get for every job post. The scoring actually reflects the level of suitability. In this way the CV shorting is much better and efficient (i.e. time and cost savings). Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2009
End: 2012
Contacts:
ATLANTIS Consulting S.A. (Modikos Konstantinos modikos@atlantisre search.gr)
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aims at the design of a new innovative e-recruitment platform for the members Corallia Cluster. As this cluster consists of hi tech firms the platform was mainly dedicated to the fields of nanotechnology and microelectronics. The main element of this platform is an innovative algorithm which makes automated matches between the job post requirements and the CV qualifications. The project targets to improve the recruitment procedure of the research sector and the hi tech SMEs. Also improve the knowledge of policy makers upon the human resources management tools. WELLFOOD-Promoting food innovation for wellness in the Adriatic
Proj ect Brief Description:
WELLFOOD aims at strengthening innovation capacity of Adriatic Regions on agri-food sector, by stimulating the link between business, RTD-inn. Centers, producers-consumers as a pillar for territorial growth, development and integration of the Adriatic Ionion area. Nowadays policy level is searching for holistic social innovation of communities, health and wellness implying the adoption of new governance strategies to favor health and wellbeing facing social transformation. WELLFOOD places the accent on cross-border dimension promoting coordination action among stakeholders (regional bodies, RTD Centers, SMEs and Food Associations) to overcome the obstacles Capacitiesin the field of innovation promotion, encouraging partnership and innovation services by programming clustering policies of Innovation for Food Quality and Safety overcoming main critical factors related to development of food sector in Adriatic regions. Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
Provincia di Forli- Cesena, Phone Number: 003905437141224, luciano.pizzigati@pr ovincia.fc.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
Nowadays policy level is searching for holistic social innovation of communities, health and wellness implying the adoption of new governance strategies to favor health and wellbeing facing social transformation. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the agri-food sector for the improvement of their competiveness and the production of quality products, the Research centers for the connection of their research activities with the needs of the agri-food sector, intermediate bodies which support SMEs for the improvement of their capacity and the policy makers for the improvement of their knowledge capacity in the agri -food sector. GIFT 2.0 – Greece Italy Facilities for Transport 2.0
Project Brief Description:
Greece and Italy are the main gateway to and from Europe both for freight and passengers flows. Whereas GIFT 2.0 considers Adriatic-Ionian area as a unique HUB for traffic flows of short-medium and long distances. The project identifies 27 hubs among ports, airports, bus and railways station and merge
the different existing services, or optimizing the ones, in order to establish a unique interface able to give information, data, tickets, and transit times in real time. In spite of advances in transport, and thanks to information and communications technologies (ICT), regional travellers need of increasing support for easy access to destinations of interest and high-valued cultural Capacitiesresources. GIFT 2.0 intercepts common bottlenecks not yet overcome, in and among both the target areas including the adjacent territories, in order to find jointly solution through the main output: unique “virtual logistics” platform specialized for different market segments to improve facilities. The overall Running Period: objective of GIFT 2.0 aims at demonstrating how to develop the Adriatic- Start: 2013 Ionian geographical area, in Apulia and Greek Regions, with multipurpose approach through the joint coordinated management of existing End: 2015 infrastructures and common services, in order to intercept new traffic flows (short connections, neighbourhoods and long distances) and consolidate redistributing the existing ones in an optimized way, minimizing generalized Contacts: costs. Region of Apuglia- Italy
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project improves the info capacity and so the competiveness of SMEs in the following sectors: transport, logistics and tourism, improves also the info capacity of the policy makers for better decisions related to the freight and passengers flows in the region and the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers in the region. TPNM - Tourism Promotion to New Markets
Project Brief Description:
The Tourism Promotion to New Markets project (TPNM) comes to address issues emanating from the difficulty of Cross Border (CBC) areas to increase their competitiveness as a common tourist product. The current situation exhibits a lacking of an integrated tourism marketing strategy as there are many partial operations, sites/systems of limited capabilities and outdated technology, especially when one considers the recent shift of interest in social media and the wider use of mobile phones. Given the expansion of e-tourism market and the corresponding reduction of conventional distribution channels, the current situation requires immediate and concerted action to Capacitiesupgrade the electronic display, management and distribution of the tourism product. The international practice and experience in marketing management of touristic destinations requires centralized management of information for each destination through advanced and technologically state of art portals Running Period: that provide geo-localized information.The project aims to unify the touristic Start: 2012 product of the CBC area for increasing the visibility of its touristic potential and promote its attractiveness not only to domestic and EU markets but also End: 2013 to new touristic origins (Russia, Japan, China), while strengthening tourism business ties in both sides. To that end, five partners from Greece and Albania have joined forces to create the conditions of a unified touristic product of the Contacts: cross border area, capable of stimulating touristic development. Corfu City,
Aspects to be further investigated:
The Tourism Promotion to New Markets project (TPNM) comes to address issues emanating from the difficulty of Cross Border (CBC) areas to increase their competitiveness as a common tourist product. The current situation exhibits a lacking of an integrated tourism marketing strategy as there are many partial operations, sites/systems of limited capabilities and outdated technology, especially when one considers the recent shift of interest in social media and the wider use of mobile phones. To that end, five partners from Greece and Albania have joined forces to create the conditions of a unified touristic product of the cross border area, capable of stimulating touristic development. Target groups of this project are firstly the policy makers and intermediate bodies that support the tourism sector towards the improvement of their capacity for the promotion of the tourism in the two countries and secondly the SMEs of the tourism sector in both countries which are going to improve their info capacity through networking activities. EIICM – European Information and Innovation Centre Montenegro
Project Brief Description:
Its aim is to help SMEs to develop their innovative potential and to raise their awareness on Commission policies. The network help clients in their search for business partners, especially in countries other than their own, arrange individual on-site visits to assess a company's needs and provide advice on a broad range of business issues. A well-proven database enables different contact points to remain constantly in touch with each other and to pool partnership offers and requests.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2014
Contacts:
Directorate for SME Development Rimski Trg 46, 81000 Podgorica, tel.+38220406302, fax.+38220406323, mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aims to help SMEs to develop their innovative potential and to raise their awareness on Commission policies. The network help clients in their search for business partners, especially in countries other than their own, arrange individual on-site visits to assess a company's needs and provide advice on a broad range of business issues. A well-proven database enables different contact points to remain constantly in touch with each other and to pool partnership offers and requests. Target groups of the project are the SMEs through the improvement of its competiveness because of networking, the intermediate bodies which support the SMEs through the improvement of their knowledge capacity and the policy makers through the improvement also of their knowledge capacity. BIVEE
Project Brief Description:
The BIVEE project's aim is to develop a reference framework, a new
management method and a service-orientated ICT platform for exploiting Business Innovation in virtual companies. The use is therefore not addressed at one singular company but at an ecosystem consisting of suppliers, clients,research centres, etc. This framework serves to address the innovation
process at the centre of small and medium enterprises, with reference to the innovative space and the productive space. BIVEE will supply a repository of all the information that gets exchanged within the virtual ecosystem and through the Key Performance Indicators will enable a monitoring of all of the Capacities phases that bring about the creation of the idea through to the realisation of the prototype (Virtual Innovation Factories), or an improvement of the process phases extended to the whole production chain (Mission Control Running Period: Room). Start: 2011
End: 2014
Contacts:
Engineering Personnel network
Aspects to be further investigated:
This framework serves to address the innovation process at the centre of small and medium enterprises, with reference to the innovative space and the productive space. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation in ICT sector and to promote the development of research activities for the development of new products and the competiveness of SMEs through networking in a visual platform. Cluster PoliSee
Project Brief Description:
ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart
specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy. ClusterPoliSEE aims at defining, developing and implementing regional cluster policies as a corollary of the pooling of resources and integration of activities along the global value chain, matching regional competitive advantages with international synergies.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Contacts:
Marche Region - European Policies Department - Managing Authority for ERDF and ESF Italy 60125 Ancona Via Tiziano 44, mauro.terzoni@regio ne.marche.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
ClusterPoliSEE main objective is to enhance the capacity of regional policy makers to confront, prevent and anticipate change, developing smart specialization strategies for cluster improvement, thus accelerating differentiation and structural change towards a knowledge-based economy. The project affects directly the policy makers and indirectly the SMEs and Intermediary Organizations like Chambers of Commerce. Capacities
Project Brief Description:
The Capacities programme strengthens the research capacities that Europe needs if it is to become a thriving knowledge-based economy.
It covers the following activities:
Research infrastructures
Research for the benefit of SMEs
Regions of Knowledge
Research Potential
Science in Society Running Period:
Specific activities of international cooperation. Start: 2007
End: 2013
Contacts:
Aspects to be further investigated:
'The Capacities' strengthens the research capacities that Europe needs if it is to become a thriving knowledge-based economy. The project affects mainly the research area and indirectly the Policy area for research. Environmental and RES-Technologies in the Balkan area
Project Brief Description:
Contribute to the process of economic development in the Balkans, and in particular, in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia through targeted interventions in the environmental sector, priority for reaching economic sustainable development, employment growth,
employment growth and European standards in the area.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Contacts:
Promofirenze, Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence: Laura Tettamanti +39 055 2671452, Fax +39 055 2671404 Email: laura.tettamanti@ metropoliaziendasp eciale.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project contributes to the process of economic development in the Balkans, and in particular, in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia through targeted interventions in the environmental sector. Target groups of the project: Directly the Intermediary Bodies and Policy Makers and indirectly also the SMEs in the environmental sector. “WENS” European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors
Project Brief Description: Project objective: to contribute to the promotion of female entrepreneurship across the
Republic of Serbia through establishing National Network of Ambassadors; to encourage the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship in Serbia by encouraging and supporting entrepreneurial potential and talents of women and increase their overall involvement in entrepreneurship; specific: to inspire women to start their own businesses and become entrepreneurs; to increase self-confidence of women in
establishing and running a successful business; local, national and international networking in order to motivate women to understand that entrepreneurship can be a time of their careers. One of the current problems of the EU economy is insufficient realisation of entrepreneurial potential, which becomes even more significant when considering the gender structure of entrepreneurs. Statistics have shown that, when compared to men, Capacitieswomen are self employed less often, i.e. they are less likely to start their own business or to have an ambition to do so. Since intellectual potential of women and their participation in the European competitiveness is not fully used, the European Commission insists on the Running Period: promotion of female entrepreneurship and creation of business environment suitable for establishment and management of enterprises lead by women. With this goal, the Start: 2010 European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors Project was initiated on End: 2012 October 5, 2009. The fundamental idea of the project is to form the network of successful business women that will represent the role models for future female entrepreneurs throughout Europe. In the beginning, the network consisted of 150 female ambassadors
from ten European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Island, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Contacts: Poland, Slovakia and Sweden), and by the end of 2010 twelve more countries joined them, National Agency for one of which is Serbia. The role of Ambassadors. Promotion of female entrepreneurship on the national level: by addressing groups of women in schools and faculties, through Regional contacts with social groups, appearing in the media, as well as organising thematic Development conferences, establishing business connections, and initiatives for finding work, and their activities will be covered by media (television, radio, magazines, project website, participation in major events, and awards to the most successful entrepreneurs). Participation in the work of the European Network of Female Entrepreneurship Ambassadors: participation in meetings of the European Network, participation in “e- conferences” and in “electronic communication”, participation in relevant EU campaigns, thus making contacts and improving business climate for female entrepreneurs in our country. Objective: supporting development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship in Serbia by encouraging and supporting entrepreneurial potentials and talents of women, and increasing their overall engagement in entrepreneurship.
Aspects to be further investigated: to contribute to the promotion of female entrepreneurship across the Republic of Serbia through establishing National Network of Ambassadors; to encourage the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship in Serbia by encouraging and supporting entrepreneurial potential and talents of women and increase their overall involvement in entrepreneurship. Target groups of the project: SMEs which belong to women for the purpose to become the Ambassadors, Intermediary Bodies like Chambers of Commerce and Policy Makers with the purpose to differentiate their strategy towards the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship. Regional ICT Foresight exercise for Southeast Europe - (FORSEE)
Project Brief Description:
Project FORSEE puts efforts on introducing a foresight culture in order to create a
common regional methodology through which ICT sector stakeholders (policy makers, industry players and research community) will be able to voice aspirations, meet challenges and help develop a vision for the region in this field. The Project’s main objectives are: To embed a foresight culture in the policy making process in the SEE countries, which will lead to an acceleration of their
economic growth and will enhance their preparedness to the challenges of the globalized economy, to open a dialogue between all relevant stakeholders from participating countries, synthesize views and create a sense of regional ownership
Capacitiesof proposed policy recommendations, to initiate transnational collaboration in developing strategic plans for the ICT related socioeconomic growth through significant savings in resources, improved efficiency and increased capacity to compete in the global market, to make a careful selection of priorities in ICT RDI Running Period: policies in each participating country which will allow already limited available resources to be channeled into activities with realistic potential for important Start: 2009 achievements, to create a framework under which these areas of priorities will be re-evaluated as pillars of a Regional Plan for development in each of the End: 2012 participating countries, to produce a set of tools and a methodological platform for performing regional Foresight exercises which will remain as legacy to the SEE region for future use and reference. The FORSEE Project has 3 main stages: Design the Foresight exercise, the context analysis per country and the staffing of the Taskforce and Policy Steering Committee with representatives of project partners Contacts: and external Foresight or policy experts (including partners and regional stakeholders, and external foresight or policy review experts). Present FORSEE exercise methodological approach and goals through a Green Paper in Open Consultations attended by the widest possible relevant audience in each SEE country to stimulate Stakeholders’ participation in the process, in order to ensure transparency and inclusiveness. Run a regional foresight pilot exercise as a participatory process in order to synthesize stakeholder views to create a common vision for the development of ICT RDI in the SEE region, leaving behind tools and a sustainability plan for the establishment of a virtual Regional Foresight Center (RFC).
Aspects to be further investigated:
Project FORSEE puts efforts on introducing a foresight culture in order to create a common regional methodology through which ICT sector stakeholders (policy makers, industry players and research community) will be able to voice aspirations, meet challenges and help develop a vision for the region in this field. FORSEE promotes the public consultation among the policy makers, SMEs, Intermediate Bodies and Researchers in the ICT sector. The results of it will be a support tool for decision making for the policy makers. BI-NET : Regional Business Incubators’ Network “Black Sea BI-Net”
Project Brief Description:
Overall objective: To accelerate the development of a productive and competitive economy and improve cooperation in the Black Sea region. Specific objectives: (1) To increase the institutional capacity of the business support organizations, public authorities
and business incubators in development and promotion of specific policies related to business incubation as a tool to support and strengthen start-up and innovative SMEs. (2) boost the level of cross-country cooperation between business incubators, business support organizations, public authorities and incubated SMEs to Capacitiesimprove the economic competitiveness of the Black Sea region Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2015
Contacts:
Organization for Small and Medium Enterprises Sector Development, Republic of Moldova 48, Serghei Lazo str., of. 313, MD-2004, Chisinau mun., Republic of Moldova Telephone number: +373 22 225380 Fax number: +373 22 295797 Contact person : Mrs. Iulia IABANJI Contact person's email: [email protected] office@odimm.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to accelerate the development of a productive and competitive economy and to support and strengthen start-up and innovative SMEs in the Black Sea region. Target groups of the project are startups and innovative SMEs in the Black Sea Region, intermediate bodies which support SMEs and Policy makers which will improve their knowledge after the implementation of the project activities. Adriatic food and tourism: Innovating smes/ Adria Footouring
Project Brief Description:
The general objective of ADRIA FOOTOURING is to boost innovative capacity of traditional sectors such as tourism and food by improving the innovation environment were existing and new SMEs are operating. A mutual benefit will contribute to increase the
competitiveness of Adriatic region.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
Province of Pescara -ITALY
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to introduce innovative ideas in the market. The project improves directly the knowledge capacity of policy makers and intermediate bodies which support SMEs in tourism and indirectly the competiveness of SMEs in the fore mentioned sectors. SLOHRA ZONET-Promotion of integration of business zones, incubators and technology parks into an innovative entrepreneurial network in the cross- border region of Slovenia-Croatia
Project Brief Description:
Searching and developing better, innovative products is possible only in the case of greater cooperation, networking and entering foreign markets. Small business in the region close to the border has in past decade developed disconnectedly, depending on momentary capabilities. Planning and
establishment of zones was primarily dependent on local circumstances and without consideration of the broader economic space. Project partners and zones (business-craft zones, technology parks, incubators, etc.) recognized the need and demonstrated intention for new cooperation and search of mutual synergic effects. The network of Slovene-Croatian regional development Capacitiesagencies (RDA) – SLOHRA, established in the ongoing Interreg Slo-Hu-Cro Running Period: project, is the main advantage of this project’s realization, because it eases the establishment of contacts and advances the quality of cooperation in Start: 2004 individual regions. Opportunities which will be followed are primarily related to establishment of the joint economic space and better services which for End: 2006
small and middle-sized enterprises (SME) Main objectives of the project: to improve the access and spreading of information about cross-border Contacts: entrepreneurial area, to increase cooperation of entrepreneurial zones to establish the structure for partnership network development, to improve ISTRIAN DEVELOPMENT awareness of small and medium-sized enterprises of cross-border business AGENCY, LTD., opportunities and to promote a joint economic space. Target groups of the Mletačka 12/iv, project are business zones, incubators, technology parks, support 52100 Pula, Croatia, Boris Miletić (project entrepreneurial institutions (SEI), regional development agencies, companies manager), contact operating in these zones and other operating companies which are interested person Tea Gobo: in entering into the zone, unemployed, students, potential entrepreneurs, +385 52 38 19 00 general public, via public access to acquired joint data and local communities. [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
to improve the access and spreading of information about cross-border entrepreneurial area, to increase cooperation of entrepreneurial zones to establish the structure for partnership network development, to improve awareness of small and medium-sized enterprises of cross-border business opportunities and to promote a joint economic space. Target groups of the project are intermediate bodies such as business zones, incubators, technology parks, and support entrepreneurial institutions (SEI) through the improvement of their knowledge capacity, SMEs and Startups in the region through the improvement of their competiveness and their capacity to enter the market, researchers through coaching to focus their research towards the market needs, policy makers through the improvement of their knowledge capacity and investors and funding organizations through their networking with new Startups and innovative projects from the research area. MEDOSSIC-Mediterranean organization structure and strengthening of innovation capacities for sustainable development
Project Brief Description:
The project aims to create transnational network structure between regional
development actors with the specific goal: to improve implementation of regional policies in the innovation field and increase the capacity for sustainable development by encouraging innovation of “clean” technologies. The partners have stated that social environment in the Med regions is not stimulating enough to assure good results in the innovation sphere. Partners
believe that Med space has high potential to develop innovations, which will contribute to sustainable development in the whole Med area. The main obstacle is the lack of coordination and co-operation among key stakeholders
Capacities(government institutions, public research institutions, universities, local communities, chamber of commerce, SMEs, …). The regional development
actors see an opportunity to play an important role in strengthening innovation capacities by cooperating and coordinating with stakeholders in Running Period: order to provide more efficient implementation and functioning of undertaken measures. The concrete outcome is to establish pilot structure in Start: 2009 each region for counseling and providing information to target groups (SMEs, End: 2011 young researchers, innovators,…).Activities set up in the project proposal will be implemented through the transnational network structure to provide considerable impact on strengthening innovation capacities at transnational Contacts: level and so contribute to the “green” economic growth and employment in the Med area. Regional Development Agency of Inner- karst Region, Ltd., Mateja Simčič
Aspects to be further investigated:
The concrete outcome is to establish pilot structure in each region for counseling and providing information to target groups (SMEs, young researchers, innovators,…). Activities set up in the project proposal will be implemented through the transnational network structure to provide considerable impact on strengthening innovation capacities at transnational level and so contribute to the “green” economic growth and employment in the Med area. Target groups of the project are firstly intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers in the MED area and secondly researchers and innovative SMEs to improve their knowledge capacity towards the improvement of the innovation capacity of the society. MLADIEKOIN
Project Brief Description:
The project was aimed at encouraging youth to eco-innovativeness and cross- border cooperation between Slovenia and Croatia in this area. By exchanging experiences, good practices, new ideas and projects, new ideas have been
realized and new partnerships established. Based on this consortium, young entrepreneurs might emerge, which was also the goal of the project.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2013
Contacts:
BUSINESS CENTRE NOVO MESTO LTD. (Slovenia), contact person Simon Jeraj +386 7 33 72 991 simon.jeraj@rc- nm.si
Aspects to be further investigated:
By exchanging experiences, good practices, new ideas and projects, new ideas have been realized and new partnerships established. Based on this consortium, young entrepreneurs might emerge, which was also the goal of the project. The project contributed to the enhancement of knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers. iCON - Competitiveness of SMEs through Innovation anδ Collaborative Entrepreneurship
Project Brief De scription:
The project aims to increase the competitiveness of SMEs in the program area through networking and cooperation. Collaboration, knowledge exchange and technology transfer, innovation and internationalization are expected. The partnership is composed of the most important business structures and
associations from the both sides of the program area, which are connecting and representing all the SMEs in this area providing an excellent knowledge of the business reality. The heart of the project is the establishment of connections (networks, clusters, platforms) among SMEs in order to increase their competitiveness and contribute to the overall competitiveness of the Capacitiesterritory. The activities of knowledge and experience exchange combined with new forms of cooperation are promoted by the structures and business associations. Common services will be developed for the internationalization of SMEs, also with the help of new technologies and information sources: DBE (Digital Business Ecosystem), KMS (Knowledge Management Systems) as Running Period: promoted by the European Commission to promote regional development. Disadvantaged social categories (senior, pensioned) will be included and those Start: with potential in entrepreneurship (young people) through a system of cross- End: border working internships in the companies. Contacts:
Razvojna agencija ROD, David Bratož, Gregorčičeva ulica 20, 5270 Ajdovščina 00386 5 3653600 [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The heart of the project is the establishment of connections (networks, clusters, platforms) among SMEs in order to increase their competitiveness and contribute to the overall competitiveness of the territory. Target groups of the project are intermediate bodies of the region such business zones, incubators, technology parks, support entrepreneurial institutions (SEI) and policy makers such as regional development agencies through the improvement of their innovative capacity and SMEs through the improvement of their competiveness by coaching and networking. ADRIAFOOTURING-ADRIATIC FOOD AND TOURISM: INNOVATING SMEs
Project Brief Description:
Specific objectives: To improve the capacity and effectiveness of business support organizations involved in innovation services: in order to create an effective innovation-friendly environment, it will be important to act on
criticalities of the innovation support systems To increase the innovation potential of traditional economic sectors, thanks to the help of enabling sectors such as ICT. Traditional sectors, such as food and tourism, are usually considered as innovation followers. New technologies and ICT could indeed contribute to the innovation process of products and related services as well Capacitiesas organizational models To promote the concept and systematic practices of sustainable innovation in order to boost entrepreneurship towards innovative paths through concrete tools and services To increase the diffusion of the culture of innovation among the communities, innovation culture is still Running Period: under-represented in partner’s regions Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
Provincia di Pescara, Phone number: 003908520552270 adriafooturing@pro vincia.pescara.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
ew technologies and ICT could indeed contribute to the innovation process of products and related services as well as organizational models The project targets to improve the capacity of innovation to intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers and enhance the competiveness of SMEs in sectors such as food and tourism. T-LAB - tourism laboratory
Project Brief Description:
The main outcome of the project will be: established and upgraded cross- border portal used for networking initiators of new tourism projects and opportunities for their realization and accompanying other activities such as
education, counselling, experimentation. Purpose of the project is incubation of new tourism project. We will also encourage business networking.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2015
Contacts:
SPIRIT Slovenia, public agency, Dimičeva 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Aspects to be further investigated:
Purpose of the project is incubation of new tourism project. We will also encourage business networking. The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers in the tourism sector of the project region and to improve the competiveness of SMEs in tourism sector through networking and coaching. BOOST-IT (Set-up of a Collaborative Permanent Network for Boosting the Participation of Incubated SMEs in Innovation Processes under FP6 activities)
Project Brief Description:
Boost-It gathers into a permanent structure a core group of innovation service providers and small incubator societies, in order to develop a framework (made of services and tools), capable of supporting incubated SMEs through the live-cycle of their own innovation projects.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2006
End: 2008
Contacts:
Inovamais - Inova+
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies which support incubated SMEs and policy makers in the project region and to improve the competiveness of innovative SMEs through mentoring and coaching A.N.I.S. "Reinforcing synergies between public policies in support of e-business for SMEs" (Action PP/4.1.2.)
Project Brief Description:
Reinforcing synergies between public policies in support of e-business for SMEs. The goal is to bring companies to the use of computer technology, and in particular e-business. Through the network, companies can also be informed about the policies and spending programs, in particular, about the
activities of R & D and technological innovation.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2008 End: 2008
Aspects to be further inv estigated:
The project targets to improve the ICT knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies which support SMEs and policy makers in the project region and to improve the competiveness of innovative SMEs the improvement of their ICT capacity. REBOUND - Researchers on the Boundary
Project Brief Description:
The Researchers Night we propose is transnational, strongly focused on attracting young people to scientific and technological disciplines and aimed at presenting researchers as people, engaged in activities having a strong impact on society and daily life.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2011
Contacts:
University of Udine
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the researchers, the intermediate bodies which support researchers and policy makers in the research sector of the region. IPATECH. Miniaturization technology: synergies of research and innovation to enhance the economic development of the Adriatic.
Project Brief Description:
The general objective of the Project IPATECH is to strengthen research & innovation competences in the agro-food sector in order to contribute to competitiveness & increase the development of the Adriatic area through economic, social & institutional cooperation. The working team aims at
improving research capacity & cooperation in the Adriatic area, by increasing levels of competence, encouraging transfer of innovation & creating a transnational network between the entrepreneurial, institutional, academic
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
Agricultural Research Council – Via Salaria 1, 63077 Monsampolo del Tronto (AP) ITALY Marche - Ascoli Piceno Valentino Ferrari
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote research and innovation, to strengthen the competences of the researchers to fulfil the needs of the market and the society and to increase the competiveness of the SMEs through networking them with institutional and academic in the project region. ADRIA-HUB - Bridge technical differences and social suspicions contributing to transform the Adriatic area in a stable hub for a sustainable technological development
Project Brief Description:
This trans-national association aims to promote and facilitate the contact among Educational and Business galaxies, creating “new channels and methods of communication”. Considering that public institutions, private consortia inside the partnership act in the name and for the interests of their
public and business associates, it is evaluated that Adria-HUB impacts directly over more than 120 protagonists of social and economic life in the Adriatic region. Moreover, large business associations (like Chambers of Commerce and Public/Private Associations) are going to widely spread methods and outcomes generated in the partnership. Specifically, Adria-HUB intends to Capacitiesinstitutionalize relationships and integrations acting on different levels: Political Approach: merging interests and efforts for common purpose, overcoming divisions between populations inherited from past; Educational Evolution: comparing education models and effects, pushing the university Running Period: curricula toward the needs of industry; Social Action: reinforcing the Start: 2012 employment of young people and their correct positioning on the labour- market; Implementation of ICT: creating an advanced web-oriented platform End: 2014 to connect data and information all over the Adriatic region; Workforce Straightening: merging individual skills and industrial needs towards the recruitment of the most appropriate professionals; Transfer of Technology: Contacts: providing industrial needs for technology to the universities as source of innovation; Research and Development: forwarding the R&D efforts and Alma Mater capabilities of university partners toward a “business-driven research”; Studiorum Industrial Innovation: focusing resources and attention on a specific industrial University of sector, the wood processing industry, relevant for the whole area; Eco- Bologna sustainability in production: developing methods and prototype solutions in respect to environmental and eco-friendly aspects.
Aspects to be further investigated:
This trans-national association aims to promote and facilitate the contact among Educational and Business galaxies, creating “new channels and methods of communication”. Considering that public institutions, private consortia inside the partnership act in the name and for the interests of their public and business associates, it is evaluated that Adria-HUB impacts directly over more than 120 protagonists of social and economic life in the Adriatic region. The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation, to drive the forces of the researchers towards the needs of the market and the society, to inform investors and funding organizations for the availability of innovative projects for investment and to increase the competiveness of the SMEs through networking and coaching in the project region. CluStrat Boosting Innovation through new cluster concepts in support of emerging issues and cross sectoral themes
Project Brief Description:
The CluStrat project strives to develop a Joint Strategy on how to enhance the innovation capacity and competitiveness of clusters in the Central Europe area. At the beginning, an analysis of potentials shows hubs of strategic importance with regard to emerging industries and cross-cutting issues at
regional level. Strategy development builds upon this basis. In order to feed the strategy development process, CluStrat partners have initiated a systematic Policy Dialogue at regional, national and transnational level. The Policy Dialogue is an ongoing process of exchange, discussion and learning which involves cluster policy makers at all levels in the development of new Capacitiespolicy approaches and strategy elements.At the same time, sectoral experts, cluster practitioners and members such as companies, universities and other R&D institutions are involved in CluStrat for their expertise and hands-on experience: Expert workshops for in-depth assessment of the potentials Running Period: related to emerging industries and cross-cutting issues Regional and cross- Start: 2011 cluster/interregional pilots to test the strategy elements in practice. End: 2014
Co ntacts:
Steinbeis-Europa- Zentrum Germany
Aspects to be further investigated:
The CluStrat project strives to develop a Joint Strategy on how to enhance the innovation capacity and competitiveness of clusters in the Central Europe area. At the beginning, an analysis of potentials shows hubs of strategic importance with regard to emerging industries and cross-cutting issues at regional level. Strategy development builds upon this basis. In order to feed the strategy development process, CluStrat partners have initiated a systematic Policy Dialogueat regional, national and transnational level. The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote clustering concepts and to increase the competiveness of the SMEs through the promotion of innovative concepts of networking in the project region. Ip4Smes
Project Brief Description:
The project target is the company and the network of enterprises. For the pilot action, the project involves companies from ICT and Construction engineering; moreover, OEM and components sectors or others sectors with high Intellectual Property potential are been considered too. Also the project activities are directed to the public actors involved in the Intellectual Property Services and information (Chamber of Commerce, Innovation Agency, Research Bodies, Patlib). The goal is both to strengthen the link between the world of research with the market and businesses through a greater use of the intellectual property instruments and to consolidate a cross-border network Capacitiesof cross-border.
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Contacts:
Treviso Tecnologia
Aspects to be further investigated:
The goal of the project is both to strengthen the link between the world of research with the market and businesses through a greater use of the intellectual property instruments and to consolidate a cross- border network of cross-border. The project facilitates the knowledge improvement of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector, the expansion of usage of intellectual property instruments by them and the increase of the SMEs’ competiveness through their connection with the research area of the project region. RE-SEED
Project Brief Description:
Re-seed is a Project aimed at using and value adding of research results to favour start up of high-tech companies, at the same time offering self- employment opportunities to high skilled young people in the Region. The impact of RE-SEED will be the start-up of high-tech new entreprises
particularly in the following sectors: agrifood, extended ICT and IT, metal processing and new materials, biotech, biomed, applied mathematics. RE- SEED supports the development of 15 innovative business ideas coming from research framework by offering to potential entrepreneurs training and taylor made consultancy services. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Contacts:
Università degli Studi di Udine
Aspects to be further investigated:
Re-seed is a Project aimed at using and value adding of research results to favor startup of high-tech companies, at the same time offering self-employment opportunities to high skilled young people in the Region. The impact of RE-SEED will be the start-up of high-tech new enterprises particularly in the following sectors: agri-food, extended ICT and IT, metal processing and new materials, biotech, biomed, applied mathematics. The project facilitates the improvement of innovation capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovative actions, promotes the creation of new Startups through mentoring and coaching and support the researchers to head their research activities towards the market needs. Also networks the new startups with potential investors. INCO-NET
Project Brief Description:
The INCO-NET project has been established to enhance the competitiveness of innovative SMEs and startups by promoting cooperation and the exchange of know-how in the area between Italy and Austria. To that end, a cross-
border network will be established to provide entrepreneurs with opportunities to upgrade their skills, promote the exchange of ideas and foster business process innovation. As a step forward in that direction, INCO- NET aims to establish a cooperation network of science parks, business incubators and intermediate bodies - i.e- the organizations whose mission is Capacitiesto provide a link between companies and research or public institutions. Using available tools and know-how, INCO-NET will help small companies to start networking, enhance their skills, propose and share solutions to the issues that are most frequently encountered in the crossborder area. The main Running Period: project focus is on young entrepreneurs and female entrepreneurs. Special Start: 2013 initiatives are devoted to these 2 target groups, relying on the crossborders tools and services that can best support their growth as entrepreneurs. End: 2016
Contacts:
Friuli Innovazione
Aspects to be further investigated:
The INCO-NET project has been established to enhance the competitiveness of innovative SMEs and startups by promoting cooperation and the exchange of know-how in the area between Italy and Austria. To that end, a cross-border network will be established to provide entrepreneurs with opportunities to upgrade their skills, promote the exchange of ideas and foster business process innovation. As a step forward in that direction, INCO-NET aims to establish a cooperation network of science parks, business incubators and intermediate bodies - i.e- the organizations whose mission is to provide a link between companies and research or public institutions. The project facilitates the improvement of innovation capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovative actions and enhances the competiveness of innovative SMEs by networking. In-FVG New ideas for the regional development
Project Brief Description:
IN-FVG New ideas for the development of the regional territory IN-FVG project has been promoted in continuity with previous activities fostered in the regional territory aimed at supporting business start up and technological transfer. The main goal of this initiative is to encourage the development of highly innovative enterprise projects by means of first-class business training
and shadowing programs in close relation with the Research, Enterprise and Finance System. Among the project specific objectives there is also the creation of a wide network of consultancies, collaborations and contacts on Capacitiesthe regional territory in view of future business activity, provided thanks to the IN-FVG partnership advanced resources. The Business Plan Development
ends with a finalized Business Plan in view of the Business Start up. In order to facilitate the training activities as well as the internship period, IN-FVG Running Period: provides also financial grants meant for unemployed participants. The amount of these grants is defined according to the region/country of residence, Start: 2008 namely: 9.000€ for residents in Friuli Venezia Giulia, 15.000€ for residents in End: 2011 other Italian regions, 18.000€ for residents in another countries.
Contacts:
Friuli Innovazione
Aspects to be further investigated:
IN-FVG New ideas for the development of the regional territory IN-FVG project has been promoted in continuity with previous activities fostered in the regional territory aimed at supporting business startup and technological transfer. The main goal of this initiative is to encourage the development of highly innovative enterprise projects by means of first-class business training and shadowing programs in close relation with the Research, Enterprise and Finance System. Among the project specific objectives there is also the creation of a wide network of consultancies, collaborations and contacts on the regional territory in view of future business activity, provided thanks to the IN-FVG partnership advanced resources. The project facilitates the increase of the competiveness of the project region through networking of the stakeholders such as intermediate bodies and policy makers which support early stage funding and innovation, SMEs and new, Researchers and Funding Organizations. Cluster Club
Project Brief Description:
The Adriatic Economic Cluster Club project aims at improving the innovation transfer of territorial and productive system in the Adriatic area through market research and following cooperation activities. The overall objective is
to accelerate the reinforcement of clusters’ system and the creation of new ones, with particular attention to the building of SMEs network involving, P.As., public and private institutes of research and associations. The Cluster Club Project focuses on nautical and shipbuilding sectors including the supply chain of plastic, rubber, metal, wood and textiles. The main aim of the project Capacitiesis to accelerate the reinforcement of the cluster system as well as the creation of new clusters with particular attention to the building of a SME network involving Public administration, institutes of research and associations. The project will also improve the innovation possibilities of Running Period: territorial and productive systems in the Adriatic area through cooperation, Start: 2012 business activities and market research. End: 2014
Contacts:
Contact person: Roberta Lazzari Unioncamere del Veneto roberta.lazzari@eur osportelloveneto.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The Adriatic Economic Cluster Club project aims at improving the innovation transfer of territorial and productive system in the Adriatic area through market research and following cooperation activities. The overall objective is to accelerate the reinforcement of clusters’ system and the creation of new ones, with particular attention to the building of SMEs network involving, P.As., public and private institutes of research and associations. The project facilitates the increase of the competiveness of the project region through networking of the stakeholders such as intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote cluster concepts, SMEs and Researchers. Energy Villab
Project Brief Description:
The EnergyVillab project aims to create a network of Living Labs which develop virtuous behaviours for the application of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) RUE (Rationale Use of Energy) MOB (Sustainable Mobility System) - (hereafter RRM) - and positively influence the development of SMEs, clusters, municipalities and local support policy makers of the Italian Slovenian cross-
border area. European existing Living Labs experiences inspire the birth of ten Living Labs, in order to allow their best development into Energy Virtuous Living Labs. Through the EnergyViLLab Network, the project aims to obtain Capacitieslocally diffused benefits able to ensure concrete economical revenues in a sustainable energy development frame. The project involve as main actors
the Chambers of Commerce, SMEs, Clusters, Handcraft Associations, Territorial Development Centres, Energy Agencies, Universities, Research Running Period: Institutes, Municipalities and policy makers of the involved Regions. Start: 2011
End: 2014
Contacts:
Contact person: Michela Bergamin Unioncamere del Veneto michela.bergamin@ eurosporrtellovenet o.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The EnergyVillab project aims to create a network of Living Labs which develop virtuous behaviors for the application of RES (Renewable Energy Sources) RUE (Rationale Use of Energy) MOB (Sustainable Mobility System) -(hereafter RRM) - and positively influence the development of SMEs, clusters, municipalities and local support policy makers of the Italian Slovenian cross-border area. The project facilitates the increase of the competiveness of the project region in the fields of RES use and Energy Efficiency through networking of the stakeholders such as intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote Energy Efficiency and production of electricity from RES, SMEs in the energy sector and Researchers. Emilia Romagna Start Up
Project Brief Description:
Support young People and their entrepreneurship: this a key objective of the Emilia Romagna development policies, for this reason has
Capacities
Running Period:
Start:
End:
Contacts:
Emilia Romagna Region
Aspects to be further investig ated:
Support young People and their entrepreneurship: this is a key objective of the Emilia Romagna development policies. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support young people and their entrepreneurship, to promote the establishment of new innovative SMEs and the creation of new jobs and also help young researchers to promote their research results in the market Creative Growth
Project Brief Description:
The idea of the Creative Growth project is to provide comparable data about the creative sector, by developing ajoint basis for a European model for comparing the creative sector in different regions.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2008
End: 2011
Conta cts:
Ostsam Regional Development Agency Lucie Sanchez lucie.sanchez@aste r.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The idea of the Creative Growth project is to provide comparable data about the creative sector, by developing a joint basis for a European model for comparing the creative sector in different regions. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the creative industry, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the creative sector and to foster cooperation among the stakeholders of the creative sector in the project region. ENTRE:DI Entrepreneurial diversity - Fostering Entrepreneurship
Project Brief Description:
Entrepreneurial activities have quite an enormous impact on regionaleconomic performance and on the renewal of regional knowledge.
Fostering entrepreneurship with (semi) public funding contributes to a more prosperous regional economy and can reduce the unemployment rate significantly. The experiences of the project partners as well as acknowledged
studies show that entrepreneurial initiatives are successful, if different types of services are provided for starting and young entrepreneurs. Such a map-like function with various bus and tramway stopsservices includes assessment,
Capacitiestraining, on- going consultation, facilities
Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2011
Contacts:
Kompass - Zentrum fur Existenzgrundungen Frankfurt am Main GmbH, Germany
Aspects to be further investigated:
more prosperous regional economy and can reduce the unemployment rate significantly. The experiences of the project partners as well as acknowledged studies show that entrepreneurial initiatives are successful, if different types of services are provided for starting and young entrepreneurs. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support young entrepreneurs, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the project region. RST – Rede de serviços tecnologicos
Project Brief Description:
The RST Project is a program of international cooperation promoted and managed by Sebrae (Brazilian Service to support micro and small enterprise), IDB (Interamerican Development Bank), and by the Italian Marche region and COSMOB (Technological Centre for the sector wood and furniture).
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2016
Contacts:
Consortium: Cosmob Spa, University of Camerino, Marche Region Beneficiary/Client: SEBRAE
Aspects to be further investigated:
The RST Project is a program of international cooperation promoted and managed by Sebrae (Brazilian Service to support micro and small enterprise), IDB (Interamerican Development Bank), and by the Italian Marche region and COSMOB (Technological Centre for the sector wood and furniture). The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in Brazil and to enhance the competiveness of the SMEs in this region. Startup – Lab
Project Brief Description:
The itinerary intends to develop in the participants certain attitudes, behaviour and planning capacities suitable for promoting and stimulating projects that are defined by marked characteristics of creativeness, innovation and scalability on the international markets. The Special Itinerary is addressed at young Italians and foreigners that:-present marked attitudes and a decisive
inclination towards realising corporate projects of a high technological and market potential and -have a real familiarity with the English language The programme is composed of three consecutive full time parts: -Education: 6 Capacitiesformative modules for 6 weeks at the ISTAO head quarters. As well as the customary activities held in the letture hall, it is expo terd that there will be
moments for comparison with direct winte sesso of the eco system of Innovatative businesses from Italy and on an International scale. Execution:2 Running Period: weeks to be conducted at incubators, acceralators, laboratorial research companies which are consistent with the entrepreneurial idea to be Start: 2012 developed. -Capstone Experience: 1 week at the ISTAO head quarters. End: Conclusive module through out which the participants have the possibility to verify the knowledge and skills acquired concluded by a public presentation of their project. Contacts:
ISTAO
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to develop in the participants certain attitudes, behavior and planning capacities suitable for promoting and stimulating projects that are defined by marked characteristics of creativeness, innovation and scalability on the international markets. The Special Itinerary is addressed at young Italians and foreigners that:-present marked attitudes and a decisive inclination towards realizing corporate projects of a high technological and market potential and -have a real familiarity with the English language The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation development and to enhance the competiveness of innovative SMEs through the introduction to their human resources how to manage projects of a high technological and market potential. Educational course: "Paper as a creative work tool" BACKGROUND FOR THE PROFESSIONAL AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE PAPER INDUSTRY
Project Brief Description:
The itinerary is integrated within a programme of a much larger context, entitled "Officine Unesco della Cultura e dell’Impresa”. The Unesco workshops make up a significant part of a series of actions and operations on the Fabriano territory linked to a project of "cultural development" which have helped put the city up for candidacy for the role of "Network of Creative Cities" Unesco. It is therefore a
matter of an important opportunity for giving new drive to that which is a local asset, a truly distintive advantage of the territory, a worldly excellence which currently risks disappearing forever. -Promote and revitalise the economic activities which revolve around the paper production chain -Facilitate the insertion of new resources in the productive businesses -Support the birth of new Capacitiesentrepreneurial initiatives -Promote the safeguarding of traditions and productive Running Period: knowledge of the Marche region Beneficiaries The Marche region, with an end to
promoting and sustaining the potentialities for development of a sector belonging Start: 2013 to traditional manufacturing industry promotes the launch of specific Educational End: 2014 itineraries on paper with reference in particular to those particular trades which are now carried out by an older generation that is leaving behind without successors, a patrimony of knowledge which should rather be valued and Contacts: maintained. The TECHNICAL-CREATIVE OPERATORS are to be considered amongst ISTAO the most essential role, who are characterised by a higher degree of technical professionality and marked aptitudes also towards the "creative" handling of paper. We can detect furthermore the necessity to stimulate new activities and therefore to form ENTREPRENEURS, who as well as possessing marked managerial aptitudes, discover within the paper industry the opportunity to express their own entrepreneurial aspirations and aptitudes. It is at these two types of professional figure that the two Educational itineraries are directed, intended for 20 young unemployed or jobless people, under 35, with 30% of the places destined for young foreigners. Six of the twenty places available in each course are therefore reserved for foreign students: for this reason, the course will predominantly be conducted in the English language. COURSE PROGRAMME Module 1- Paper and the master paper produce r Module 2- Building of managerial abilities Module 3- Administrative tools and skills Module 4- Paper: object and product of the enterprise activity Module 5- Creating a business in the paper industry Module 6- Skill sharing Module 7- Orientation in the business world Module 8- Final exam Module 9- Company internship
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in the paper industry and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the sector through the development of their human resources. POREEN Partnering opportunities between Europe and China in the Renewable energies and environmental industries
Project Brief Description:
The project aims at integrating and combining the economic, legal and engineering competences, in order to analyse the level of cooperation so far achieved between China and Europe in the renewable energies and environmental industry sectors. POREEN aims at increasing the availability of
Inter-disciplinary studies with a complete overview of the Europe-China relations. The development of an integrated awareness of circumstances is fundamental in supplying a useful and reliable information in support of local and community politics as well as the companies that operate in/with China. POREEN will furthermore lay foundations for additional correlated studies on this theme and reinforce interdisciplinary research connection between Capacities European and Chinese centres of excellence.
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2016
Contacts:
University of Macerata Prof. Francesca Spigarelli: francesca.spigarelli @unimc.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aims at integrating and combining the economic, legal and engineering competences, in order to analyze the level of cooperation so far achieved between China and Europe in the renewable energies and environmental industry sectors. POREEN aims at increasing the availability of Inter- disciplinary studies with a complete overview of the Europe-China relations. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote the cooperation between China and to promote cooperation in science, business and technology sectors between China and EU.
CHETCH China and Europe taking care of healthcare solutions
Project Brief Description: The research project intends to contribute actively to the cooperation
between Europe and China investigating opportunities for mutual integration in the healthcare sector. Cooperation and potential synergies will be examined from a comprehensive perspective, including policies at national and local level, the legal environment, medical practices, healthcare industries and related businesses. An interdisciplinary approach is followed. Researchers in the social science and humanities areas will compare the European and Chinese healthcare systems at different levels, including value systems and ethical issues. The economic expert will specifically analyse the integration reached so far, in the healthcare industries (i.e. technologies, Capacities pharmaceutical products, etc.) on the basis of foreign direct investments, trade and micro economic data. The typical cost-benefit tools will be used to Running Period: evaluate the economic impact of integrating Western Medicine (WM) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) practices, supporting the medical team of Start: 01.01.2014
experts. The legal instruments will help define obstacles and plausible End: 31.12.2017 solutions that can be generated by the regulatory environment, as well as appropriate solutions to enhance collaboration both at institutional, medical practices and business levels. The team of experts in the medical field will Contacts: investigate best practices of traditional medical systems using a modern Polytechnic science framework. The team will develop a process of recognition and University of scientific validation of TCM versus Complementary Alternative Medicine Marche Prof. Attilio (CAM) at different levels. Mucelli: [email protected]
Aspects to be fur ther investigated:
The research project intends to contribute actively to the cooperation between Europe and China investigating opportunities for mutual integration in the healthcare sector. Cooperation and potential synergies will be examined from a comprehensive perspective, including policies at national and local level, the legal environment, medical practices, healthcare industries and related businesses. An interdisciplinary approach is followed. Researchers in the social science and humanities areas will compare the European and Chinese healthcare systems at different levels, including value systems and ethical issues. The economic expert will specifically analyze the integration reached so far, in the healthcare industries (i.e. technologies, pharmaceutical products, etc.) on the basis of foreign direct investments, trade and micro economic data. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote the cooperation between China and EU in health sector and to enhance the cooperation in research and business in this sector between China and EU. Increasing Knowledge Transfer In the MEDiterranean area
Project Brief Description:
The project, approved by the MED programme for a total of 1.851.500 euro included in the action of territorial cooperation in the mediterranean area of
the European Union. Iktimed intends to contribute towards promoting new policies for the support of innovation in favour of the small and medium enterprises of the mediterranean area. The guiding principles of the project
are as follows: - the innovation does not exclusively reside within the traditional research centres. - it is necessary to have an integrated cooperation between public, private and world of research - the
Capacitiestranseuropean networks of innovation and knowledge are fundamental for the system of Italian enterprises And those of the Marche region. Exactly for
this reason, the partnership composed of 13 organisations from 7 different Running Period: countries wants to promote a major cooperation between public and private, through both the recognition of the best practises for the financing of Start: 01.2010 innovation and through the creation of communities for innovation: transnational mediterranean networks composed of research centres, End: 06.2012
universities and clusters, finalised in the development of Innovatative work programmes. The project ended in May 2013. Contacts:
Marche Region – Innovation and Research Department Tiziano Street, 44 – 60125 ANCONA Ph. +39 071 8063602 fax 0718063058 e-mail: anna.torelli@region e.marche.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The guiding principles of the project are as follows: - the innovation does not exclusively reside within the traditional research centres. - it is necessary to have an integrated cooperation between public, private and world of research - the trans european networks of innovation and knowledge are fundamental for the system of Italian enterprises And those of the Marche region. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation and to increase the competiveness of the research sector and the SMEs through networking and collaboration. AdriHealthMob – Adriatic Model of Sustainable Mobility in the Health & Care Sector
Project Brief Description:
The proposal refers to the need to define a model of sustainable transport
and health care, capable of making the accessibility and mobility of passengers safer and more rational. The aim is therefore to provide solutions to the needs of mobility, promoting and creating an area border the Adriatic to the health and car, defining and implementing transport services and
introducing ICT solutions (eHealth, mHealth, teleHealth).
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 01.10.2013
End: 31.03.2016
Contacts:
Federal Ministry of Health of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aspects to be further investigated:
The proposal refers to the need to define a model of sustainable transport and health care, capable of making the accessibility and mobility of passengers safer and more rational. The aim is therefore to provide solutions to the needs of mobility, promoting and creating an area border the Adriatic to the health and car, defining and implementing transport services and introducing ICT solutions (eHealth, mHealth, teleHealth).The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in health sector of the area border the Adriatic and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in health sector through their introduction to hi tech ICT solutions. Zoone - Zoo Technical Networking for a sustainable Innovation in Adriatic Euroregion
Project Brief Description:
ZOONE aims to strengthen the capacity for innovation and for researchers/technicians at the institutional level to create an enabling environment and specific support for livestock enterprises. Building an innovative line of science-based and institutional share is the need to develop innovative entrepreneurial frames. ZOONE aims to promote joint research
activities and innovative scientific-institutional framework and policies for the modernization, ensuring the environment, economic and social sustainability for animal husbandry based on knowledge and innovation. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 01.03.2011
End: 28.02.2014
Contacts:
Region of Marche
Aspects to be further investigated:
The guiding principles of the project are as follows: - the innovation does not exclusively reside within the traditional research centres. - it is necessary to have an integrated cooperation between public, private and world of research - the trans european networks of innovation and knowledge are fundamental for the system of Italian enterprises And those of the Marche region. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation and to increase the competiveness of the research sector and the SMEs through networking and collaboration. Strategy for Entrepreneurial Learning 2010.-2014.
Project Brief Des cription:
Action Plan for the period from 2010. 2014. - Measure 1 : develop a positive attitude and to sensitize public entrepreneurship - Measure 2 : Increase interest in training entrepreneurship - Measure 3 : introduce entrepreneurial learning and training in all development policies and programs - Measure 4 :
introduce entrepreneurship as one of the key competence in all educational curricula - Measure 5 : increase the capacity of educational institutions for introduction of education for entrepreneurship - Measure 6 : increase the competencies of educators , teachers and trainers for entrepreneurship education - Measure 7 : strengthen cooperation and networking of Capacitieseducational institutions , scientific and economic subjects on entrepreneurship programs - Measure 8 : develop additional programs and
facilities professional entrepreneurial competence in formal and informal forms of education and teaching - Measure 9 : develop Running Period: entrepreneurial competence of all employees - Measure 10 : Increase the Start: 2010 number of successful small businesses established of business opportunities, Encouraging entrepreneurial thinking and the development of entrepreneurial End: 2014 competence contributes to increasing employability and efficiency of social security systems and increase domestic production and exports. Contacts:
Croatian government, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts, Street: Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, Phone: 00 385 1 610 61 11, e-mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative designed and implemented a Strategy for Entrepreneurial Learning for the period 2010.- 2014 in Croatia. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them of new methods for Entrepreneurial Learning and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through the development of their human resources in the region Compliance with EU standards, innovation, new technologies and marketing 2008.- 2012. (Measure)
Project Brief Description:
Measures to increase the technological capacity of small and medium entrepreneurship and facilitating access to the best research and technologies, and the introduction of quality management systems and harmonization with the technical standards of the EU. Harmonization with the technical standards of the EU
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2008
End: 2012
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative takes measures to increase the technological capacity of small and medium entrepreneurship and facilitating access to the best research and technologies, and the introduction of quality management systems and harmonization with the technical standards of the EU. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them of new methods for the improvement of SMEs’ technological capacity and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through their increase of their technological capacity in the initiative region. Intellectual Property Protection 2008.-2012. (Measure)
Project Brief Description:
Support for linking intellectual property rights and business strategy, intellectual property protection, search and use Information Database of Intellectual Property, Marketing activities aimed at the commercialization of intellectual property – innovation. Understanding of the importance of intellectual capital
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2008
End: 2012
Contacts:
The Ministry of Economy, Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia [email protected] Phone. 01/6106- 111;
Aspects to be further investigate d:
The initiative promotes the procedure of linking intellectual property rights and business strategy, intellectual property protection, search and use Information Database of Intellectual Property, Marketing activities aimed at the commercialization of intellectual property – innovation and Understanding of the importance of intellectual capital. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the SMEs through the introduction to them integrated methods for handling intellectual property rights to enhance the competiveness of innovative SMEs through their facilitation to understanding the importance of intellectual capital in the initiative region. Second European Social Innovation Competition
Project Brief Description:
The Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, invites Europeans to come up with new solutions to reduce unemployment and minimize its corrosive effects on the economy and our society both now and in the future. Social innovation is not only desirable, it is necessary. The European Commission is offering this prize to social innovations that have a
real impact on helping unemployed people get jobs or creating new opportunities for work by, for instance: Increasing the number of unemployed people who move into work; Increasing the earnings of un- or under- Capacitiesemployed people; Increasing the employment of disadvantaged or marginalised groups (e.g. young people, over 50s, people with disabilities,
working mothers); Increasing the number of people becoming self-employed or starting their own businesses. The field of social innovation in Europe is Running Period: already offering many examples of solutions that address the unemployment challenge by: Stimulating entrepreneurship and enterprise, offering a new Start: 11.12.2013 approach to employment support, blurring the lines between learning and End: work, improving the systems that match people to jobs, creating and shaping new markets.
Contacts:
EUROPEAN UNION
Aspects to be further investigated:
The Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, invites Europeans to come up with new solutions to reduce unemployment and minimize its corrosive effects on the economy and our society both now and in the future. Social innovation is not only desirable, it is necessary. The European Commission is offering this prize to social innovations that have a real impact on helping unemployed people get jobs or creating new opportunities for work. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote social innovation through the introduction to them new methods for social innovation and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in social economy through their restructuring process in the initiative region. Design for innovation
Project Brief Description:
Design for innovation aiming to accelerate the take-up of design in innovation policies at European, national and regional levels and to create the capacity and competencies needed to implement these policies. The Action Plan is structured under three strategic areas for action: Promoting understanding of design’s impact on innovation; promoting design-driven innovation in
industries to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness; promoting the adoption of design to drive renewal in the public sector. Understanding of design’s impact on innovation. Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2014
End: 2016
Contacts:
EUROPEAN UNION
Aspects to be further investigated:
Design for innovation aiming to accelerate the take-up of design in innovation policies at European, national and regional levels and to create the capacity and competencies needed to implement these policies. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote innovation at National and European level through the introduction to them new decision tools for their policies and to enhance the competiveness of the research sector across Europe through the introduction of the design for innovation in its restructuring process. Assistance to competitiveness and compatibility with the EU of Serbian SMEs (ACCESS)Project Brief Description:
GIZ Support Programme - Assistance to Competitiveness and Compatibility with the EU of Serbian SMEs (ACCESS). Context. Over recent years, Serbia has progressed to become a potential candidate for EU accession. The Government has begun to bring Serbia into line with the acquis communautaire – the body of laws, rules and policies with which all EU Member States must comply. The process of integration with the EU creates additional pressure for Serbia to implement reforms. In order to benefit from the closer links with the EU and thus create new jobs and safeguard existing ones, it is crucial for SMEs in particular to increase their competitiveness. Serbian Government is
therefore focusing its efforts on improving competitiveness and the employment impact of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Approach. The programme helps Serbia to meet the Copenhagen economic accession criteria: the existence of a functioning market economy as well as the capacity to cope with competitive pressures Capacitiesand market forces within the Union. The Copenhagen criteria, adopted in 1993, comprise political, economic and institutional criteria which all candidate countries are required to fulfill in order to join the European Union. The programme also supports Running Period: the implementation of Serbia’s National Economic Development Strategy. The programme assists the Serbian partners to put in place the institutional frameworks Start: 2011 that are essential for improving the competitiveness of Serbian SMEs. It operates at the national level and also in specific economic sectors: machine-building, information End: 2013
technologies, agro-industry, and energy-efficient building materials. The main components of the programme are: the business and investment climate, innovation systems, quality infrastructure and standards, and increasing the efficient and effective absorption of EU funding programmes. The implementing organizations and cooperation partners are the Serbian Ministry of Economy and Regional Development (MERD) and the Ministry of Science and Technological Development and their Contacts: subordinate authorities, chambers of industry and commerce, associations, universities and research institutes, and quality infrastructure institutions or QI service providers Ministry of such as testing laboratories and certification bodies. The participation of other relevant Economy and ministries, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, is also anticipated. Cooperation with the Regional German, European and Serbian business community is a core element of the project’s Development of the methodology. Development partnerships with private industry (PPPs) are primarily for Republic of Serbia the sectors receiving funding, but will also focused on the topics of quality infrastructure and innovation. The main objective of the Programme ACCESS is to improve economic conditions thus enabling successful operation of Serbian SMEs in the EU internal market.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support SMEs in Serbia through the introduction to them the existing structures at EU level as a model for their restructuring process and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs through the introduction of EU institutional frameworks for SMEs. APULIAN ICT LIVING LABS Project Brief Description:
APULIAN ICT LIVING LABS is a project set up by the Apulia Region to test new
approaches to innovation activities. The networking of researchers,
companies and groups of citizens can design new products and services and so they become co-developers. Through ideas and knowledge exchange, prototypes are evaluated and innovative technological solutions are tested. This is a chance for economic, social and cultural change. In fact, an "open
ecosystem" was created whereby the user actively takes part in researching and testing innovative solutions, which have been developed through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). By adopting this Capacitiesmethodology, the Apulia region has set up several financial tools available to Apulian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working in this sector. These
tools are set out in the 2007-2013 ERDF Operational Programme, Convergence objective" Investing in your future", Axis 1, Measure 1.4, Action Running Period: 1.4.2 "Supporting the growth and development of SMEs specialising in offering digital content and services". The aim is to develop and enhance new Start: 2012 products and services for the SMEs and families within the entire region. End: 2015 InnovaPuglia is responsible for implementing the project and it uses telematic procedures to manage regional calls for proposal on the web portal to develop and promote the territory and the companies listed on the Sistema Contacts: Puglia. The "Apulian ICT Living Labs" are responsible for carrying out the following activities on the identified focus areas (Environment, Security and INNOVAPUGLIA Territorial Protection; Cultural Heritage and Tourism; Electronic Governance SPA, Gaetano by the PA ; Health, wellness and socio-cultural dynamics ; Competitive and Grasso renewable Energy ; Training and Education ; Transport and Sustainable Mobility ; Digital Creative Industry) : Analysing and understanding the technological needs of the end-user; Defining interactions between the various players involved; Prototyping and personalizing solutions; Testing and experimenting with new technologies in real time that meet identified needs; Demonstrating and presenting developed prototype solutions, with the aim of making them usable for future communities of interested users as well.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support innovation with new methods to promote Startups in the market, to guide the research sector towards the needs of the market and for the benefit of the society and to foster the creation of new Startups through the connection of them with the market and potential investors .
PACE The Partners for Acquis Compliance and Energy Efficiency
Project Brief Description:
The Partners for Acquis Compliance and Energy Efficiency (PACE) project aimed at speeding-up the integration process of business communities in
the 6 Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). The PACE project offered
companies the unique opportunity to undergo so-called Acquis Audits analysing their compliance with EU legislation in selected areas. The PACE project was launched by EUROCHAMBRES, the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry, in December 2010, as part of the EU IPA Socio-Economic Partnership Programme. Enterprises from Western
CapacitiesBalkan Countries received free of charge and tailored acquis compliance consultancy through the implementation of the PACE project. Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2012
Contacts:
EUROCHAMBRES
Aspects to be further investigated:
The (PACE) project aimed at speeding-up the integration process of business communities in the 6 Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia). The PACE project offered companies the unique opportunity to undergo so- calledAcquisAudits analysing their compliance with EU legislation in selected areas. Target groups of the project are the SMEs and indirectly the Intermediary Organizations and the Police Makers. Large-scale demonstrators in support of GMES and GNSS based services-LDA
Project Brief Description: The LDA project aims at implementing on a large scale, and in a real life test
bed, innovative mobile services based on COPERNICUS (The European Earth Observation Programme, fromer GMES, http://www.copernicus.eu/) and GNSS (The Global Navigation Satellite System, http://www.gsa.europa.eu/) in the region of Attica, Greece. The region of Attica is an ideal area for demonstrating the potential of such kind of services for addressing societal challenges. Attica has the highest concentration of manufacturing and commercial activity in Greece. It is the main hub of communications, with facilities for the rapid transport of raw materials and finished products. The Capacitiesregion accounts for 40% of total national employment and has a plentiful supply of manpower, particularly skilled labour. It also has a wealth of ancient monuments and sites, which attract millions of visitors from all over the world. The concentration of both economic activity and population in Attica Running Period: has led to uncontrolled building, inadequate public transport, an increase in Start: 2013 unemployment and crime, etc, and the deterioration of the natural environment. The project is co-funded by the European Commission in the End: 2015 framework of the European Mobile and Mobility Industries Alliance for the development of large-scale demonstrators in support of COPERNICUS (former GMES) and GNSS based services in Europe. Contacts:
Greek Research and Technology Network S.A. Mesogeion AV 56, 11527 Athens, Greece
Aspects to be further investigated:
The LDA project aims at implementing on a large scale, and in a real life test bed, innovative mobile services based on COPERNICUS (The European Earth Observation Programme, fromer GMES, http://www.copernicus.eu/) and GNSS (The Global Navigation Satellite System, http://www.gsa.europa.eu/) in the region of Attica, Greece. The region of Attica is an ideal area for demonstrating the potential of such kind of services for addressing societal challenges. The project intends to improve the capacity of innovation in the mobile sector through the mobilization of Researchers and the SMEs of this sector and also through the expansion of the information capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers. FAB LAB ATHENS
Project Brief Description:
FAB LAB ATHENS is an active node of the Digital Fabrication Laboratories network Fab Labs, that are a platform for cooperation between people and organizations from different countries around the world. Fab labs are conceived and designed to encourage the idea that anyone can fabricate/make anything anywhere in the world by sahring technological and social knowledge and by using machines of digital manufacturing. The project emerged from a program launched by The Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) of MIT and is led by physicist Neil Gershenfeld (director of CBA). The project of Fab Labs has extended from laboratories in Capacitiesdowntown Boston to rural India, South Africa, Norway, Spain, Afghanistan, Kenya and more. All Fab Labs work in coordination through the Internet and a video conference network, and they meet annually in a global event. The Fab Lab programme explores how the content of information Running Period: relates to physical representation. The Fab Labs are laboratories of Start: open personal digital fabrication in which it is possible to make almost anything, from a computer measuring 1 cm by 1 cm to an intelligent house. These End: open labs are distributed in various parts of the world and connected to each other by way of the Internet and video conferencing, which allows the sharing of experiences and with it the creation of a network of distributed Contacts: knowledge. Areti Markopoulou. [email protected] www.fablabathens.gr
Aspects to be further investigated:
FAB LAB ATHENS is an active node of the Digital Fabrication Laboratories network Fab Labs, that are a platform for cooperation between people and organizations from different countries around the world. Fab labs are conceived and designed to encourage the idea that anyone can fabricate/make anything anywhere in the world by sharing technological and social knowledge and by using machines of digital manufacturing. The project emerged from a program launched by The Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) of MIT and is led by physicist Neil Gershenfeld (director of CBA). The project intends to introduce innovative ideas in the market. It enhances the development of innovative enterprises, improves the knowledge capacity of policy makers and intermediate bodies which support SMEs and reveals new talents in the research sector. RI.QUA, Training the standards of quality and safety in force in the EU and the modern techniques of cooking
Project Brief Description:
Innovative cooking techniques can improve the performances;
reduce costs and the waste of time and food. All together it means added value and success. B2B meetings are aimed at enhancement of cooperation between two countries.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2013
Contacts:
Directorate for SME Development, Rimski Trg 46, 81000 Podgorica, tel.+38220406302, fax.+38220406323, mail: [email protected]
Aspects to be further investigated:
Innovative cooking techniques can improve the performances; reduce costs and the waste of time and food. All together it means added value and success. B2B meetings are aimed at enhancement of cooperation between two countries. Target groups of the project are the SMEs in the tourism sector and especially in catering through the improvement of its competiveness because of networking and the introduction of innovative cooking techniques, the intermediate bodies which support the SMEs in tourism sector through the improvement of their innovative capacity and the policy makers in tourism sector through the improvement of their knowledge capacity. LEGEND-Low enthalpy geothermal energy demonstration
Project Brief Description:
LEGEND overall objective is the promotion of energy efficiency concepts &
low-enthalpy geothermal energy benefits in the Adriatic area through the development of demonstration cases in public & residential buildings utilizing GCHP (Ground Coupled Heat Pumps) as well as the development of cost/benefit monitoring activities and policy & financial supporting schemes.
Therefore, the project carries out an assessment of the technological, environmental and economic key-factors (capitalizing the results of GEO.POWER, VIGOR & SEAR projects) to address practical application with Capacitieshigh transferability potential in 7 countries & 11 regions of the IPA Adriatic area and P&P partnership models to facilitate the diffusion of GE technologies
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Aspects to be further investigated:
LEGEND overall objective is the promotion of energy efficiency concepts & low-enthalpy geothermal energy benefits in the Adriatic area through the development of demonstration cases in public & residential buildings utilizing GCHP (Ground Coupled Heat Pumps) as well as the development of cost/benefit monitoring activities and policy & financial supporting schemes. The project targets to improve the knowledge capacity of the intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote energy efficiency concepts in the project region. M2RES - FROM MARGINAL AREAS TO STRATEGIC SITES FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY PRODUCTION! Recovery of marginal areas through sustainable development programmes aiming at restoring the value of jeopardized land through platforms for the production of renewable energy
Project Brief Description:
The goal is to recover marginal areas (landfills, quarries, open cast mines, former military areas, contaminated sites, etc.) through investmens in renewable energy sources (photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, biogas, etc.). The project shows the participation of many partners from the European
Union (Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria) and from
countries involved in the pre-accession process (Montenegro, Serbia, Albania), and includes relevant public actors with complementary interests: national and regional agencies for energy, research centres, the system of Chambers of
Commerce, banks. M2RES wants to give impetus to the sustainable Capacitiesdevelopment of the European Union, generating economic and social value for areas which suffer for marginality, having lost their primary functions. The Running Period: turning key will be to change them into platforms for the production of
renewable energy. Start: 2011
End: 2014
Contacts:
ENEA: Italian National agency for new technology and sustainable economic development
Aspects to be further investigated:
The goal of the project is to recover marginal areas (landfills, quarries, open cast mines, former military areas, contaminated sites, etc.) through investments in renewable energy sources (photovoltaic, wind, biomass, geothermal, biogas, etc.). The project shows the participation of many partners from the European Union (Italy, Slovenia, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria) and from countries involved in the pre-accession process (Montenegro, Serbia, Albania), and includes relevant public actors with complementary interests: national and regional agencies for energy, research centres, the system of Chambers of Commerce, banks. The project facilitates the recover of marginal areas in the project region through investments in the field of energy production from RES via networking of the stakeholders such as intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote Energy production from RES, SMEs in the energy sector, Researchers in the Energy Sector, Banks and Investors . JADE - Joining innovative Approaches for the integration and Development of transnational knowledge of clusters policies related to independent of Elderly
Project Brief Description:
The project Jade comprises 5 Clusters guided by Research: Italy, France, United Kingdom, Finland and Turkey, composed of experts of a high level and with vast experience in the active field, in the management of cronic diseases, in the prevention and in indipendent life. The activities of Jade maximise the potential
of the 5 regions involved in the project by encouraging and supporting the development of the regional clusters, including universities, Research centres, businesses and local authorities. This will enable each of the regions involved to intensify the part that Research plays and to invest more in advanced technologies, developing innovative clusters at a local and regional level with Capacitiesan end to increasing their capacity for investment and their concentration on
Research, significantly contributing towards a successful involvement of their workers in the European Research projects and subsequently towards an economic development. The project Jade encourages the collaboration with Running Period: and exchange of aquaintances, the disclosure and reciprocal learning between Start: 2011 Partners in order to identify the best solutions, with an end to acquiring scientific and technical progress and to identify new case studies/ subject End: 2014 matter for Research. In this way Jade contributes towards a development of regional and national politics, with the aim of preventing health issues and invalidity even from a young age. The main objectives of the project are: To Contacts: Define an Agenda of Common Research lead by the needs of the elderly and based on new themes of Research, paying particular attention to the SVIM Project knowledge and technologies of the emerging conscious environment in the Cordinator Ida residential sanitary assistance field. To Develop a Plan of Relative/ Joined Prosperi E-mail Action in order to improve the relationship between politics and Research for a [email protected] sustainable coordination. To encourage the common scientific transnational t Telephone +39 collaboration a and cooperation regarding the technological advances of a 071 28994 Fax +39 conscious environment to promote and encourage a Research integrated 071 28994235 between the regional authorities, the local boards/corporations and the business sector, improving their potentiality for collaboration amongst regional transnational groups. Grow, share and circulate the awareness of important knowledge and common experiences in order to improve the integration Aspects to be further investigated:
Contributes towards a development of regional and national politics, with the aim of preventing health issues and invalidity even from a young age. The main objectives of the project are: To Define an Agenda of Common Research lead by the needs of the elderly and based on new themes of Research, paying particular attention to the knowledge and technologies of the emerging conscious environment in the residential sanitary assistance field. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support research and to enhance the competiveness of research sector in health in the project region. INNOVAge - Improving the effectiveness of regional development policies in ecoInnovation for smart hOme and indipendent liVing to increase the quality of Aging people -
Project Brief Description:
2012 was the year of active ageing and intergenerational solidarity. By way of this initiative, the European Commission wanted to promote a different vision of the demographic phenomenon Which causes the continual increase in middle age people of the population. The increase in the number of elderly
people is not only seen as a cause of the crisis of sustainability of the traditional systems of welfare but also as a potential factor of social cohesion and of economic development of the European Union. With this strategic vision in mind the project INNOVAGE fully lives up to its title. The project sets the objective of improving the impact of the locally developing politics in the
Capacitiesarea of assistive domotics for the elderly, with particular focus on the innovation of environmental and energetic sustainability of the technologically advanced solutions applied to the Smart Home. Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2014
Contacts:
Marche Region – Innovation and Research Department Tiziano Street, 44 – 60125 ANCONA Ph. +39 071 8063602 fax 0718063058 e-mail: anna.torelli@region e.marche.it
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project sets the objective of improving the impact of the locally developing politics in the area of assistive domotics for the elderly, with particular focus on the innovation of environmental and energetic sustainability of the technologically advanced solutions applied to the Smart Home. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the policies for elderly and to promote innovative solutions for Smart Homes supporting by this way indirectly the development of SMEs Matreco – New materials for eco-sustainable transports
Project Brief Description:
The project aims at the development of materials with high technological content through a competitive process of transformation; the final results are functionalized components and structures with a high environmental sustainability.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2015
Contacts:
Cosmob Spa Beneficiary/Client: Italian Ministry for University and Research
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aims at the development of materials with high technological content through a competitive process of transformation; the final results are functionalized components and structures with a high environmental sustainability. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to enhance the competiveness of the research sector through its focus at the development of materials with high technological content in the project region. WoodRub - Utılısatıon of recovered wood and rubber for alternatıve composıte products
Project Brief Description:
WoodRub project, in line with the objectives of LIFE + Environmental Policy and Governance, aimed at the increasing of the efficiency of resources; through the use of wood and rubber scraps, new innovative composite have been created in substitution of traditional and less eco-efficient products.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2014
Contacts:
Cosmob Spa, Aidima, Acciona, Sonae, Brunel University, Enjily International, University of Thessalonikis, Keridis, Marche Multiservizi Beneficiary/Client: European Commission
Aspects to be further investigated:
WoodRub project aimed at the increasing of the efficiency of resources; through the use of wood and rubber scraps towards the creation of new innovative composite in substitution of traditional and less eco-efficient products. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to enhance the competiveness of the research sector through the development of alternative composite products. GREEN@HOSPITAL
Project Brief Description:
The project has the objective of demonstrating how ICT technologies can
bring about 15% reduction of energetic consumption through out hospital structures.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2012
End: 2015
Contacts:
AEA srl Personnel network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project has the objective of demonstrating how ICT technologies can bring about 15% reduction of energetic consumption throughout hospital structures. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which promote energy efficiency, to promote the development of research activities for the improvement of the energy efficiency in the health sector, to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the ICT sector through the introduction of the advanced ICT technologies to them. RAMSES
Project Brief Description:
The aim of European RAMSES project is to develop a new tipology of solid oxide combustible cells, with better performance, robustness, enduring stability and minor production cost. The project Partners will deal with the choice of materials, methods of fabrication and development of the first prototypes.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2011
End: 2014
Contacts:
Commissariat à l’energy atomique et aux energies alternatives Personnel network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The aim of European RAMSES project is to develop a new tipology of solid oxide combustible cells, with better performance, robustness, enduring stability and minor production cost. The project Partners will deal with the choice of materials, methods of fabrication and development of the first prototypes. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support research and to promote the development of research activities for the development of new products (solid oxide combustible cells). RenewIt
Project Brief Description:
The project's objective is to develop a dynamic tool that evaluates the
economic benefits of energetic efficiency operations and production systems of renewable energy during the planning or revamping of Data Centres with the objective of obtaining Data Centres that consume practically zero energy.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2013
End: 2016
Contacts:
Fundacio Institut de recerca de l’ingegneria de Catalunya Personnel network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project's objective is to develop a dynamic tool that evaluates the economic benefits of energetic efficiency operations and production systems of renewable energy during the planning or revamping of Data Centres with the objective of obtaining Data Centres that consume practically zero energy. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support research in energy efficiency and to promote the development of research activities for the development of new products (data centers with zero energy consumption). GRACE
Project Brief Description:
The GRACE project has reached the objective of integrating and combining the controll process with quality control through multi-agent technology. This has
allowed an improvement in efficiency, a reduction of the periods of inactivity, a saving of energy and a limiting of the number of nonstandard products . The advantages obtained by using this type of approach are determined during all
of those productive processes characterised by a high variability owing to external obstacles or to changes in the process parameters.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 2010
End: 2013
Contacts:
Polytechnic University of Marche Personnel network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The GRACE system will act at the Distributed Control System (DCS) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) levels, implementing the sharing of process critical information between and inside the two layers. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support research in ICT sector and to promote the development of research activities for the development of new products. DOGGIES
Project Brief Description:
The aim of the European project is to perfect two diverse technologies , for the detection of gaseous substances, and to integrate them in a singular device system to be used for security measures as an alternative to trained dots. The chosen technologies are the tunable diode infrared laser spectroscopy and the Ionic mobility mass spectrometry.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 07.2012
End: 07.2015
Contacts:
III V LAB GIE Personnel Network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The aim of the European project is to perfect two diverse technologies, for the detection of gaseous substances, and to integrate them in a singular device system to be used for security measures as an alternative to trained dots. The chosen technologies are the tunable diode infrared laser spectroscopy and the Ionic mobility mass spectrometry. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to increase the competiveness of the research sector through the development of new products for the surveillance of hidden persons and illegal substances. MIRIFISENS
Project Brief Description:
The aim of the project is to apply the most advanced techniques in order to reveal liquid and gaseous substances with the spectroscopy IR, to classifiable
applications such as "safety and security".
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 09.2012
End: 09.2016
Contacts:
III V LAB GIE Personnel Network
Aspects to be further investigated:
The aim of the project is to apply the most advanced techniques in order to reveal liquid and gaseous substances with the spectroscopy IR, to classifiable applications such as "safety and security". The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to increase the competiveness of the research sector through the development of new products for the surveillance of hazardous substances. INTERAID
Project Brief D escription:
Development of a mobile robot with manipulator to enable to make advanced diagnosi a and quality control within industrial environments. Movements of the robots carried out via the interaction between robot and human.
Capacities
Running Period:
Start: 10.2010
End: 04.2012
Contacts:
Personnel Network
Aspects to be further investigated:
Development of a mobile robot with manipulator to enable to make advanced diagnosia and quality control within industrial environments. Movements of the robots carried out via the interaction between robot and human. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the research sector and to increase the competiveness of the research sector through the development of new products for advanced diagnosia and quality control within industrial environments. HTA - School of Health Technology Assessment
Project Brief Description:
HTA is a multidisciplinary process, well-defined methodological point of view, which collects in a transparent, systematic, impartial and consistent information on clinical aspects of medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of innovative healthcare technologies. The technological innovation (medicines, biomedical equipment, diagnostic techniques,
therapeutic procedures) subject to HTA process is evaluated and compared with existing alternatives in terms of clinical efficacy, the cost-benefit ratio, the impact on the population and the direct and indirect cost. The course is Capacitiesdirected to the staff of health facilities employed in health departments, administrative offices, pharmacies, clinical engineering services, computer and
technical education authorities. The course is free of charge. In a context of Running Period: crisis in which is increasing the demand for health and care needs in terms of new health and social health, HTA is a valuable tool to support investment Start: 05.2013 decisions for the introduction of numerous innovations in the health system of health technologies and biomedical scientific research and the market End: 06.2014
provide. PROGRAM OF THE COURSE (ed. 2013) HTA: The process HTA and risk management HTA and industry HTA, between efficiency and equity HTA and Contacts: Institutions HTA: sistematic reviews and metanalysis HTA and Clinical Engineering HTA: the cost of quality HTA from the point of view medical and Agenzia per clinical PROGRAM OF THE COURSE (ed. 2014) The methodology tools of HTA l’innovazione The bibliographic research HTA: sistematic reviews and metanalysis Practical nell’innovazione Applications & Case studies Reallocate resources: Invest & disinvest with the nell’Amministrazion HTA e e nei servizi pubblici locali scrl Dr.ssa Pamela Maronari – Director
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project promotes HTA as a multidisciplinary process, well-defined methodological point of view, which collects in a transparent, systematic, impartial and consistent information on clinical aspects of medical, social, economic and ethical issues related to the use of innovative healthcare technologies. The technological innovation (medicines, biomedical equipment, diagnostic techniques, therapeutic procedures) subject to HTA process is evaluated and compared with existing alternatives in terms of clinical efficacy, the cost-benefit ratio, the impact on the population and the direct and indirect cost. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in health sector and to increase the competiveness of SMEs in this sector through the implementation of new organizational procedures. GLICOL- Verify the co-solvent properties of diethylene glycol
Project Brief Description:
The purpose of the conventional is to activate a technical and scientific collaboration in the field of the Research a Programme ISPRA, named GLICOL " ecotoxicological characterisation of the diethylene glycol through long term toxicity tests with shellfish, seafood and fish and studies of the co-solvent mechanisms relayed by diethylene glycol in the production waters" with an
aim to identifying and mapping out an experimental 'set up' for the evaluation of possible co-solvent mecchanisms between the DEG and the sea water in the vicinity of the off-short in the Adriatic sea, which can determine a major Capacitiessolubilisation do various organic contaminants, such as benzene, toluene, etilbenzene, silente, hydrocarbure aromatique polycyclique, alkane) and
inorganics (such as here metals in organic and non organic form) present in the production waters. Running Period:
Start: 03.2013
End: 04.2014
Contacts:
Superior Institute for the Protection and Environmental Research, ISPRA
Aspects to be further investigated:
The purpose of the conventional is to activate a technical and scientific collaboration in the field of the Research a Programme ISPRA, named GLICOL " ecotoxicological characterization of the diethylene glycol through long term toxicity tests with shellfish, seafood and fish and studies of the co-solvent mechanisms relayed by diethylene glycol in the production waters" with an aim to identifying and mapping out an experimental 'set up' for the evaluation of possible co-solvent mechanisms between the DEG and the sea water in the vicinity of the off-short in the Adriatic sea. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in environmental sector and to increase the competiveness of research sector in environment through the development of advanced technologies to face the problem of sea pollution. Advanced systems of production for geo thermal Science
Project Brief Description:
Energy Sorces, active for some years in the field of renewable energies and in
particular in the geo thermal heat content field, in collaboration with ALSEO Pilings and with LUCAP, has developed a research project aimed at optimising the geo thermal applications, by studying the aspects and the potentialities in the Italian territory. The three businesses in question have made use of the specific competences of the Polytechnic University of the Marche region, of the University of Urbino and of the University of Camerino to create a work team capable of
facing all of the project phases. The starting point was the optimistic n of the patent AN2006A000063 developed by Energy Resources on a particular Capacitiesgeothermal spiral probe which compared to other classic geothermal U probes can be inserted in a perforation ranging from 8 m to 25 m. This type of probe, equal in thermal return, enables a saving on costs of the construction of the Running Period: geothermal exchangers that range from 30 to 50 %. The current technology for exploiting thermal energy present in the earth implies geothermal probes that Start: 01.2008
require notably deep perforations , equal to 100-150 metres. In order to realise End: 11.2009 such perforations it is necessary to use costly, purpose built machinery that present a significant comparison with regards to both the timings of realisation Contacts: and the overall installation costs. The problems linked to the transportation of the geothermal probes to the installation site must not be over looked, given their Energy Resources considerable length. For these reasons the installation of the geothermal plant S.p.A.;Alseo s.r.l.; incurs initial elevated costs and as such a long period of amortisation. This created LUCAP s.r.l.; ETA s.r.l.; a heavy obstacle to the penetration of technology in the market, above all in the Energy Resources has small implantations where initial costs are significantly high. The new concept of developed an actual geothermal probe that Energy Resources has developed stands out from classic U patent of a geo probes and proposes a spiral with an average diametro of 50cm that reaches a thermal spiral probe; maximum depth of 25 metres and foldable during the transport on site. The innovative geometry of the spiral probe develops a greater surface and exchange length of probe per linear metre compared to a traditional vertical probe. This allows for a thermal return per linear metre that is greater and therefore a shorter perforation is required. The costs regarding the perforations and the installation are as a result notably reduced with an excellent return of the amortisation plan of the entire plant.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project aimed at optimizing the geo thermal applications, by studying the aspects and the potentialities in the Italian territory. The costs regarding the perforations and the installation are as a result notably reduced with an excellent return of the amortization plan of the entire plant. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to increase the competiveness of SMEs in this sector through the introduction of new technologies for the optimization of geo thermal applications. “GEOTERMOTEC – Acquisition of new geological knoledge and thermotecnical be applied to geotherma heat pumps”
Project Brief Description:
The project provides for the acquisition of new knowledge to be applied to geological and thermotechnical geothermal heat pumps through work of two young technologists, engineering and geology (with a multidisciplinary approach), and in collaboration with the University of Urbino and the Politecnical University of Marche. GEOTERMOTEC is focused on the design and implementation o fan experimental geothermal plant at the new headquarters of “Termoidraulica e Sanitari” located in Urbino (PU). The plant will be characterized by high Energy efficiency with a system for monitoring Energy behaviour of the system heat pump/geothermal probes/mortar Capacitiesfilling/land; work will also be performer experimental evaluation of consumption of the system. In the project is planned to build a prototype machine for the measurement of thermal efficiency (MPRT) and the study of the chemical and physical behaviour of the heat transfer fluid within the Running Period: borehole heat exchangers. The assembling of a new machine prototype for Start: 04.2009 testing the thermal performance of the wells and pilot plant test, will determine the correct sizigi of geothermal plants resulting in considerable End: 07.2010 savings for the end user and the consequent diffusion of technology for Termoidaulica’s commercial purposes. Contacts:
Termoidraulica e Sanitari s.r.l. di Gulini Stefano
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project provides for the acquisition of new knowledge to be applied to geological and thermotechnical geothermal heat pumps through work of two young technologists, engineering and geology (with a multidisciplinary approach), and in collaboration with the University of Urbino and the Politecnical University of Marche. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to increase the competiveness of SMEs in this sector through the introduction of new technologies for the optimization of geothermal heat pumps. Experimental plant Scientific Campus “Enrico Mattei”
Project Brief Description:
Into the Scientific Campus “Enrico Mattei” were carried out 11 perforations in which they were entered 9 vertical geothermal probes with a single U 100 meters deep, at a distance of 10 meters from each other, a piezometer of 100 meters and an exploratory well 20 meters deep. The heat exchangers have been associates with a heat pump with a power of about a 50 kW thermal and
a COP of about 4.5. The geotherma system has the function of supporting the main air-conditionig and heating trhough 10 fan size 800x800 mm, 2 classrooms (A,B) and the library of the Campus, with a total area of about 400 Capacitiesm2. This system has been made possible thanks to public funding of 80% of the costs incurred in upgrading the energy efficiency of the Scientific Campus
“Enrico Mattei”, trhough participation in an invitation of the Marche Region. The weels were made through auction of 1.5 meters in length and with a Running Period: rotary percussion method of advancement in air and water. At the end of the excavation and insertion of the heat exchangers, the holes were filled with Start: 2010 cement heat. T-shaped joints have been linked to some probes to allow the End: execution of some Thermal Response Test (TRT) has allowed us to describe the thermal performance of the heat wave and the ground due to the different characteristics of the subsurface lithologies. Contacts:
Dott. Blasi Alessandro e Dott. Filippo Piscaglia (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”)
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends to describe the thermal performance of the heat wave and the ground due to the different characteristics of the subsurface lithologies. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to increase the competiveness of SMEs and research in this sector through the development and introduction of new technologies for the optimization of geothermal heat. INNOVATIVE PROBE FOR WIDESPREAD USE OF GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE
Project Brief Description:
The primary objective originally was to research an innovative heat exchange system (vertical geothermal probe), newly developed both form the point of view of materials that the geometries, in order to make the heat exchange with the subsoil more efficient allowing it to meet the design requirements of a geothermal system, using a smaller number of perforations (or less linear
meters of drilling) with respect to the use of the traditional geothermal probes currently on the market. The work has also helped to deepen, ongoing, some technical aspects for which there was no bibliography, whose study has Capacitiesbecome essential for the conduct of subsequent phases of work within the project itself. The project of developing an innovative geothermal probe has
been validated through the creation of models and simulations on existing geothermal probes; probes prototype, however require further study, not so Running Pe riod: much from the point of view of performance, which is already very promising, but from different points of view as the most practical transportation, Start: 06.2012 installation and other factors, however, contribute to the usability and the End: 05.2013 convenience of these systems.
Contacts:
Dott. Filippo Piscaglia (University of Urbino “Carlo Bo”)
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project of developing an innovative geothermal probe has been validated through the creation of models and simulations on existing geothermal probes; probes prototype, however require further study, not so much from the point of view of performance, which is already very promising, but from different points of view as the most practical transportation, installation and other factors, however, contribute to the usability and the convenience of these systems. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to increase the competiveness of the research in this sector through the introduction of new technologies for the optimization of geothermal heat. INNOVATIVE MATERIALS FOR THE LOW TEMPERATURE GEOTHERMAL: TEST AND SIMULATION LOOKING FOR THE BEST EFFICIENCY
Project Brief Description:
The main objective of the research is to bring innovation to the vertical geothermal heat pump systems in order to make them more efficient in terms of heat transfer. An
improved system efficiency translates into lower installation costs of a low-enthalpy geothermal system, thus favoring the spread of this technology that uses a renewable resource in an environmentally responsible manner. Sono stati selezionati i due modelli innovativi di sonde geotermiche verticali, che hanno mostrato le migliori caratteristiche in termini di efficienza di scambio termico, nelle simulazioni software. Dai disegni di progetto sono stati pertanto realizzati 2 prototipi negli stabilimenti di I-Tube srl. Two are the innovative models of vertical geothermal probes which Capacitiesshowed, during the software simulations, the best characteristics in terms of heat exchange efficiency. From the drawings of the project were therefore realized 2
protopypes in the establishments of I-Tube srl. Il processo di costruzione dei prototipi di scambiatore di calore ha portato il personale dell'azienda ad affrontare diverse Running Period: problematiche tecniche, legate sia ai materiali utilizzati, sia alle forme particolari delle sonde geotermiche innovative, ricercando ogni volta soluzioni ad hoc per soddisfare le Start: 04.2013 esigenze di progetto. The process of building prototypes has led the company’s staff to address several technical challenges related both to the materials used both to the End: 03.2014 particular forms of innovative geothermal probes, each time looking for ad hoc solutions to meet the needs of the project. In this last phase of the project was planned a series of tests on the prototypes both to confirm the data derived from Contacts: software simulations of improved heat exchange efficiency and to verify the practicality of the installation of prototypes during the construction of a plant Dott. Del Moro geothermal. On the 14 March 2014 at the “Enrico Mattei” Scientific Campus of Stefano (University University of Urbino GEOSTUDIO Ligi Ltd carried out n. 3 perforations in the of Urbino “Carlo destruction of the nucleus. The perforations have been pushed up to the depth of 12 Bo”) meters which is considered sufficient for the comparative tests designed to verify the increased heat exchange efficiency of the prototypes, with respect to a probe U. Le perforazioni sono state spinte fino alla profondità di 12 metri, ritenuta sufficiente per i test comparativi progettati per verificare la maggiore efficienza di scambio termico dei prototipi realizzati, rispetto ad una sonda ad U.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The main objective of the research is to bring innovation to the vertical geothermal heat pump systems in order to make them more efficient in terms of heat transfer. An improved system efficiency translates into lower installation costs of a low-enthalpy geothermal system, thus favoring the spread of this technology that uses a renewable resource in an environmentally responsible manner. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to increase the competiveness of the research in this sector through the introduction of new technologies for the optimization of geothermal heat pump systems. WORKSHOP: Air-conditioning system with geothermal heat pumps Project Brief Description:
Established officialy in late May, the Spin-Off Geo.In.Tech LTD held Tuesday,
June 17 2014 from 10.00 to 13.00, IN THE Hall of the Scientific Campus “Enrico Mattei” a workshop entitled “Air-conditioning system with geothermal heat pumps”. At the end of the course, participants had the opportunity to take a guided tour of two plants “pilot” low enthalpy geothermal, made in Urbino in recent years through projects coordinated by the Department of Earth
Sciences, Life and Environment in partnership with local businesses and cofinanced by Marche Region. The Workshop was organized by the spin-off within the European program Leonardo Da Vinci “Lifelong Learning” entitled Capacities“People in the Labour market” run by Euromobilità srl in Italy. The event was intended primarly to 20 professionals members of the Greek Association
“Euboea Thermal-Hydraulic-Air Conditioning-Fuel Gas Installers”. The conference also was attended for free by the students of Degree and Ph.D. Running Period: from the University of Urbino, who explored the research carried out in recent Start: 17.06.2014 years by professors and young researchers of Spin-Off. End:
Contacts:
Geo.In.Tech. s.r.l.
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project intends with the workshop entitled “Air-conditioning system with geothermal heat pumps” to promote the innovative technology in the market. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers in energy sector and to establish a new Startup in the geothermal market through the introduction of its technology to the technicians of this sector. POWERED - Project of Offshore Wind Energy: Research, Experimentation, DevelopmentProject Brief Description:
The project is aimed at defining strategies and shared methods for the
development of offshore wind energy in all the countries bordering on the
Adriatic Sea. This choice would allow a rapid increase of energy installation, thanks to the reduction of the problems of landscaping that are often the
main obstacle to the inclusion of wind farms in areas with high population density or in areas of high scenic and historic value. In addition it also issues related to the transportation of large-sized turbines, especially in countries
such as Italy is particularly acute due to the small size of carriageway of reads linking the main road with the inland areas, would be reduced. The industrial ports on the Adriatic Sea could play a decisive role in the process of Capacitiesdevelopment, becoming veritable hub of sorting but also production centres of technological components.
Running Period:
Start: 01.03.2011
End: 31.03.2014
Contacts:
Region of Abruzzo (Italy)
Aspects to be further investigated:
The project is aimed at defining strategies and shared methods for the development of offshore wind energy in all the countries bordering on the Adriatic Sea. This choice would allow a rapid increase of energy installation, thanks to the reduction of the problems of landscaping that are often the main obstacle to the inclusion of wind farms in areas with high population density or in areas of high scenic and historic value. The project intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support the production of energy from wind through the define of strategies and guidelines for the development of offshore wind energy in the countries bordering the Adriatic sea. “43 Hectares“ site - Marghera Project Brief Description:
The Bucentaur was the galley of the State of Venice , on which the doges
embarked every year on Ascension Day to celebrate the rite of venetian marriage to the sea , but also in other festivals , such as the Festa delle Marie and inputs in the Ducal Palace of Dogaressas . The Bucentaur was considered valuable and a spectacular reception hall to welcome guests and to visit the city and was the subject of numerous paintings by the
Venetian painters of the eighteenth century . He survived until the fall of the Republic and the arrival of the French occupation in 1797. On January 9, in 1798 it was destroyed by Napoleon in defiance to the Republic Capacitiesabolished , but also , more importantly, to extract gold decorations , burned on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. The hull of the Bucentaurus was converted into a gunboat and then floating prison. With the Running Period: establishment of the Foundation Bucentaur, has started a project for the reconstruction of the last Bucentaur in shipbuilding in the city. The In progress
reconstruction work is carried out taking into account the written and pictorial sources come down to us. The Project " Bucentaur " is the Contacts: planning and study of a support historical, artistic, cultural and sociological which supports the construction of the ship. Through the Fondazione Bucintoro, - creation , promotion and enhancement of the Image of the Buccintoro , Venezia, Associazione the project aims to stimulate interest , attention, and above all the Scientifica Palazzo creation of services , cultural resources , publications, participation of Cappello in Rio di San organizations, institutions , museums, libraries and qualified human Lorenzo al civico 6391 di resources, and promoting of a new communications strategy. The Castello- 30122 Venezia – Bucentaur , in fact , is not only the ship itself, but a representation of a tel.0412413185 – fax period of history, art , culture and society. The project, therefore , it is 04102415422 ; e- proposed as a tool for promoting the utilization and historical re- mailpaterno- enactment in key tourist and cultural opportunities to enable local [email protected](diretta- national and international company's business related to the historical personale) ; tradition of shipbuilding in the Adriatic and Ionian coasts. This initiative, if mailsegretariogenerale@ viewed from the perspective of long-term investments in sustainable fondazionebucintoro.co tourism or cultural purposes should trigger chains of skills related to m ; technology and Materials for niche but extremely interesting for the Adriatic -Ionia n economy . Aspects to be further investigated:
The initiative, therefore , it is proposed as a tool for promoting the utilization and historical re- enactment in key tourist and cultural opportunities to enable local national and international company's business related to the historical tradition of shipbuilding in the Adriatic and Ionian coasts. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support tourism and culture in the region with new methods to promote the development of these sectors, and to foster the creation of new SMEs in these sectors through the differentiation of the cultural and tourism services in the region. Regional Road Map - Wine sector Project Brief Description:
In the contest of GBE-Factory project a so called “road map” has been
realized, that consists in a widespread action involving many relevant actors and potential investors in the field of RES, providing them with tailored solution for installation of RES plants. Unioncamere del Veneto, as leader partner of the GBE-Factory project, realized a regional roadmap targeted on the wine sector, in which best solutions for RES investments in wine
companies are described. The choice is mainly due to the fact that wine is still a very important field for export, interest and importance, not only for the Veneto Region, but also for many Italian regions and other partner countries. CapacitiesThe mail objective is promoting the use of the wastes of wine sector, such as for example vinasse, wine scraps, for the production of energy. This approach
has been promoted trough conferences and seminars. Running Period:
Start: 04.2013
End: 12.2014
Contacts:
Project manager: Erica HollandErica.hollan d@eurosportellove neto.t
Aspects to be further investigated:
In the contest of GBE-Factory initiative a so called “road map” has been realized, that consists in a widespread action involving many relevant actors and potential investors in the field of RES, providing them with tailored solution for installation of RES plants. Unioncamere del Veneto, as leader partner of the GBE-Factory project, realized a regional roadmap targeted on the wine sector, in which best solutions for RES investments in wine companies are described. The mail objective is promoting the use of the wastes of wine sector, such as for example vinasse, wine scraps, for the production of energy. The initiative intends to improve the knowledge capacity of intermediate bodies and policy makers which support wine sector in the region with new methods for energy efficiency and to enhance the competiveness of SMEs in the wine sector through the transfer of new RES technologies for energy efficiency.