Project objectives:

• Assisting SMEs that operate on international markets (especially in New Member States and Eastern Europe in general);
• Informing enterprises about economic opportunities in foreign markets;
• Identifying SMEs assistance needs, in particular concerning the selection of foreign markets and partners;
• Defining innovative enterprise strategies essential to identify: new market opportunities; new foreign partners; new trans-national sources of innovation;
• Generating new development and internationalisation projects on a territorial basis;
• Extending the international network of relationships between enterprises, suppliers of consultancy, centres of excellence and innovation, bodies and programmes for local development, governmental agencies and chambers of commerce;
• Promoting collaboration with EU and foreign partners, with particular attention to those located in the new EU Member States.

Project activities:

• Matchmaking events, seminars, conferences;
• Support to specific dynamic sectors to build common strategies to approach new foreign markets;
• Mapping of SMEs in the project eligible areas;
• Opening of Information Points;
• Creation of a project website.

Type of service

Organization of events and seminars for SMEs.

Participation in international trade fairs.

Market researches.

Company visits.