The IDEA (Interactive Database for Enterprises and Associations) project is conceived as one of the promotion and assistance activities addressed to companies, in the framework of art. 5 of the Italian Law 84/01 regulating the Italian participation to the stabilisation, reconstruction and development process in the Balkan Area.

The Project objective, in accordance with the priorities defined by the resolution of the Italian Council of Ministries on 20/11/2003, was to facilitate the availability and the circulation of the information essential for companies development in the beneficiaries Countries, and for the attraction of foreign investments. In particular, the Initiative aimed at: 

• Monitoring, region by region, the existent supporting tools for companies arranged both by Central and by Local Authorities (at regional, county and municipal level), also pointing out if such tools are available for Italian companies and Mixed Capital Companies as well, or only for purposely established joint ventures between Italian and local enterprises;
• Monitoring, at regional and sub-regional level, the public and private organizations providing business supporting services (Service Providers), in particular to SMEs, in the beneficiaries Countries;
• Implementing, on the basis of the just mentioned monitoring activities, an interactive multilingual database, available through the Internet, containing organized information about all the private and public entities that provide services to enterprises at regional and local level in the beneficiaries Countries. In addition, the database contained information concerning the provided services and their accessibility;
• Creating a technological support system to facilitate the networking among the local development agencies, the business supporting organizations, and the companies final beneficiaries as well. The final network increased such the subjects’ capacities in providing good-quality services tailoring local and foreign companies needs, especially those Italians. Thanks to the networking, the companies shall interact amongst each others and with the supporting organisations.

Type of service

Project design, organization and management. Coordination of project activities.

Identification of a methodological approach for the survey activities with regard to the Business Support Organisations, their services, projects, and ongoing development programmes.

Development and implementation of the technological platform. Technical support provided as for the web site’s architecture and graphic layout , the database design, and the defining and prototype implementation of the questioning criterion capable to identify effective information retrieval systems.

Starting and promotion of the system. Support provided for the web site’s publishing, the contents updating, the web-marketing activities.

Indicators and SWOT analyses.