Enhancing SMEs’ modernization and green innovation and transition towards successful sustainability by transnational collaborative practices and tools

GREEN SME

Programme: Interreg IPA Adrion 2021-2027.

Programme priority: Supporting a smarter Adriatic - Ionian region

Lead partner: TECNOPOLIS Science & Technology Park (Italy)

Project budget (100%): 1.570.283,04 EUR

Partners: 

  • Business and Cultural Development Centre (Greece)
  • RDA Green Karst, Ltd. (Slovenia)
  • Zadar County Rural Development Agency AGRRA (Croatia)
  • City Development Agency Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
  • European Affairs Fund of Autonomous Province of Vojvodina (Serbia)
  • Albanian Development Fund (Albania)
  • National Centre for Development of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Learning (North Macedonia)
  • Municipality of Herceg Novi (Montenegro)

Brief project description:

The GREENSMES project addresses the challenge of promoting green innovation in business within the IPA ADRION territory, aiming to strengthen innovation capacities through transnational synergies of the quadruple helix. The project supports the green transition, clean technologies, SME development, skills enhancement, innovation ecosystem building, and rural development. Through knowledge exchange among partner regions and capacity building for SMEs, the project contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals and impactful investments in green innovations. Its outcomes include a strategy for improved cooperation between the R&D sector and the business community, as well as an action plan for the transfer and replication of activities

Project's main objective:

The GREENSMES project will develop and implement a set of interrelated actions in order to address the triple objective of:

  • enhancing awareness and transnational cooperation on green innovation
  • reducing innovation gaps, transferring improved technology and up-taking new technologies to support SMEs
  • increasing knowledge and capacity of the stakeholders in the area.

Project's main results: 

RCR79_1.1: Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations

RCR84_1.1: Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion

RCR79_1.1: Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations

RCR104_1.1: Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations