Programme priority: Interreg IPA Adrion 2021-2027 - Supporting a smarter Adriatic - Ionian region

• Lead partner: TECNOPOLIS Science & Technology Park (Italy)
• Project budget (100%): 1.570.283,04 EUR
• EU funding: (85%): 1.334.740,58 EUR
• Budget for partner RDA Green Karst: 169.325,00 EUR
• Duration: September 01, 2024 - February 28, 2027

Project title:

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

Project acronym:

GREENSMES

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

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Meet the partners:

• TECNOPOLIS Science & Technology Park (Italy)
• 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)
• Fund for European Affairs and Development of the 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)

This project is co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg IPA ADRION programme.

https://greensmes.interreg-ipa-adrion.eu/