Project objectives:

The ACIND project aimed at enhancing the exchange of knowledge and good practices on sustainable industrial development between the two shores of the Adriatic Sea and promoting common approaches and methodologies in order to involve local actors on local development and investment attraction issues. In particular, the project focused on innovation, energy management and environmental management in industrial sites. The project also aimed at increasing the planning skills of the involved territories to realize suitable infrastructures and thus contribute to their harmonious development and the reinforcement of local cohesion, as well as to create the right conditions for the identification and planning of infrastructures for local and SMEs development.

Project activities:

• Setting up of thematic working tables and local working groups;
• Development of an “assessment toolkit” on industrial sites and SMEs, SWOT analyses about local specificities;
• Identification of good practices and their classification in Best Practise Providers (the territory where the good practice can be found) and Best Practices Recipients (actors interested in solving a specific issue);
• Implementation of pilot projects on innovation, sustainable environmental management and energy efficiency to develop industrial clusters.

Expected Results:

• Elaboration and sharing of methodologies and planning processes in order to start initiatives aimed at strengthening the competitiveness of the industrial sectors and fostering bottom up approaches in setting up local development policies;
• Evolution to a new model of production, environmentally sustainable and focused on knowledge economy assets, skills and quality of productive and managerial processes, energy saving and efficiency;
• Increase of the skills in planning industrial sites and, in particular, of the capacity to plan and realize technologically advanced industrial sites, with ecological and innovative equipments and spaces and services for new business, as business incubators and technological parks.

Type of service

Participation to the thematic working group on Knowledge Society and co-operation with the Municipality of Codroipo to create a Local Working Group.

Definition of the “assessment toolkit” on the attractiveness of the production areas and the services provided to SMEs (technological parks).

Evaluation and elaboration of documents for the updating of the project web site.

Realisation of two pilot projects:

1. Study of the use and demand of wi-fi methodology in industrial clusters (Broadband for all via Industrial Clusters);
2. Pilot study to promote the use of innovative technologies among SMEs (DBE model and Industrial clusters).