Project objectives:

The project aimed at developing cross-border cooperation, through the analysis and the feasibility study concerning the implementation of a joint-ventured operative structure in charge of investment promotion in North-Eastern Croatia. This innovative body shall support and provide high value-added services to the economic actors and enterprises of the agro-food and logistic sectors. The project contributed to the setting up of new highly innovative enterprises in the agro-food sector, providing services for innovation and internationalisation processes in Croatia.

Project activities:

• Analysis and study of the territory;
• Research of models for enterprises in the agro-food sector and the advanced technology distribution;
• Activities for the creation of the enterprise supporting system;
• Common services and process to transfer know-how;
• Workshops and research activities for local enterprises;
• Partnership for the setting up of a joint-venture in the county;
• Drafting of a plan for financial/fiscal incentives targeted at the Italian and Croatian production systems and in particular at SMEs to foster the industrial development of the target area.

Expected results:

The project allowed for the single entrepreneurial ideas collected during the dissemination activities to become real investments for the economic development of the Vukovar County and its agro-food sector in particular, also due to the analysis of the technical and economic structure of the County, of the available financial opportunities in national, European and international resources, in the agreed framework of the incentives for enterprises.

Type of service

Participation to the Working Group.

Preliminary analysis of the economic structure and agro-fodd sector in the target territory.

Organisation of technical seminars with the entrepreneurship associations and the actors.

Drafting of a plan of incentives to support cross-border collaboration.

Design and implementation of the project website.

Organization of missions for enterprises from Veneto.

Feasibility study on the Support Centre for innovation and technological exchange in agriculture.