| 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 |
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