Lead Partner: Pannon European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation

INTER VENTURES promotes the internationalization of SMEs in EU border regions, thus contributing to their growth and increased competitiveness. INTER VENTURES brings together partners from five European border regions, representing various stages of evolution of SME ecosystems, from occasional cross-border cooperation through more structured networking to international clusterization. During the project implementation Partners will intensely share their experiences and learn jointly via Thematic Study Visits, Interregional Meetings combining training with discussions. Regional stakeholders will be intensively involved in the process through RSG Meetings and Webinars including training, brainstorm sessions and assisted workshops.   Lessons learnt will be adapted to regional conditions explored through targeted surveys of regional SMEs. As a result, tailor-made regional Action Plans will be elaborated that can lead to the desired improvement of the five selected regional ERDF programmes for the enhanced internationalisation of SMEs.

Lead Partner: Kaunas University of Technology

ELISE addresses a societal challenge common to European regions: to promote better health and life for all. This covers the need to improve health and well-being outcomes and promote healthy and active ageing, but also to promote market growth, job creation, EU competiveness. ELISE partners from 7 regions believe that the concrete application of the Ecosystem concept at regional and interregional level can help to address these constraints. An ecosystem groups business, researchers, clinicians and patients to translate discovery into clinical use for medical innovation in health service that ultimately improves health of the European

Lead Partner: INCYDE Foundation

Innova Foster  aims  at  leveraging  startups  (scalable, high-potential  SMEs with less than 5 years of life)  growth  through  their  engagement  into  the  innovation  processes  at local  or regional  level  and  improving  their role as  regional  and  industry  innovation  providers  in  seven  European  regions. As the EU2020 Strategy underlines startups are flourishing in Europe generating growth, employment and innovative services. Therefore, the main objective of Innova Foster project is to: identify,share examples, ideas, solution,  tailor them to regional and local needs based on strengths,implement action plans,improve  regional policies,serve as documented cases for analysis to other European regions and cities.                                            "Traditional boundaries between manufacturing and services  are increasingly being blurred and the success of industry depends very much on innovative services but regional and industrial development policies and tools still do not often take sufficient account of these changes.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           (Antonio Tajani)