Mercati Aperti (Open Markets)

Ref 4	Project title		Mercati Aperti (Open Markets)
Name of candidate	Country	Overall project value (EUR)	Proportion carried out by candidate (%)	No of staff provided	Name of client	Origin of funding	Dates (start/end)	Name of partners if any
Informest	Italy (Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia)	2,389,944	14	15	Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia	ERDF obj. 2 Italian Region Friuli Venezia Giulia	02/2004 – 12/2006	Finest S.p.A. – Italy Sviluppo Italia Friuli Venezia Giulia S.p.A. – Italy Agemont S.p.A. – Italy Chamber of Commerce of Udine – Italy
Detailed description of the project						Type of services provided
Project objectives: ● Assisting SMEs to operate on international markets (especially 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.						● Organization of events and seminars for SMEs ● Participation in international trade fairs ● Market researches ● Company visits