The companies located in the Alpine area often find obstacles to launching innovation processes that could be adequate, sustainable and that enhance the specificity of the environment in which they are established. Their location represents at the same time a wealth and a limit and requires approaches capable of overcoming physical and technological barriers. The alpine entrepreneurial field is also characterized by the presence of recently founded creative and digital enterprises, often created by young people with high skills and remarkable ability to innovate.

Taking into account these characteristics, CROSSINNO project aims at connecting the innovation processes with the tangible and intangible cultural riches already present in the area, so as to be able to create a virtuous circuit that sees in the environment, in the entrepreneurial tradition and in the new creative skills a opportunities to strengthen businesses and promote the economy of the mountain as a whole.

In particular, the project intends to promote:

• The establishment of local working groups made up of SMEs, start-ups, ICCs and intermediaries;
• The training of intermediaries, SMEs and start-ups on the tools, methods and models developed;
• The improvement of a methodology and preparation of tools to be used for cross-fertilization actions;
• The development and implementation of local plans for the promotion of innovation, the creation of relationships between traditional businesses and cultural and creative operators;
• The creation of four pilot actions consisting in the implementation of concrete cooperation between SMEs, start-ups and cultural and creative industries;
• The presentation in an international seminar of all the plans / projects developed;
• The development of a cooperation model to be transferred to users, in particular to policy makers for the 2020+ Program.

Type of service

Informest is responsible for the following activities:

• coordination of communication and dissemination activities foreseen by the project and support to partners in the elaboration of communication materials;
• cooperation in drafting the contributions necessary for participating in project meetings, workshops and study visits;
• organization of the events foreseen by the project for the involvement of regional stakeholders;
• involvement in the analysis of the territorial context and support in drafting the project outputs, pilot actions and their evaluation;
• contribution to the reporting procedure and in the certification of the expenditure.