STIMENT - Stimulating new ways of entrepreneurship |
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The STIMENT project partnership is based on an understanding of the power and strength that lies in fostering an entrepreneurial spirit to sustain regional growth and development. All of the participating regions have undergone structural changes that have left the regions in a state of turmoil. That is why the five regions decided to join forces to revitalise their declining traditional economic sectors such as agriculture, forestry and the metal industry. The possibilities provided by the INTERREG III C Programme offered the consortium a chance to focus on the exchange of experience to overcome their own difficulties regarding the blocking of entrepreneurship. |
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Added value for SMEs 3 T&L subprojects within STIMENT referred to following topics focused on SMEs involvement: Rational land planning for economical development of SMEs respecting social and environmental aspects. To develop a concept of methods and tools, which lead to create pre-conditions of entrepreneurship and co-operation within the Stiment regions participating including rural and suburban zones. To develop logistical services for SMEs at regions and pilot planning projects Cooperation on common analysis in the project related to develop better logistics processes for SMEs and better use of railway connections. Among these three components, 57 partners have co-operated in 9 sub-projects. This has led to many activities and useful results. • Economic intelligence : the comparison of the different regional policies supporting the innovation process in small to medium enterprises (SMEs), and identification of new tools, methods and instruments that stimulate regional innovation systems; Activities and sub-projects results: - Joint seminars and study visits to create sustainable cooperation of enterprises at both regional and interregional level in the field of design and prototype manufacturing of wooden products; new products/prototypes are either on the market or being put on the market (ECOW subproject); - Better integration of ICT into the SME business processes; 150 actors potentially affected by use of ICT, mainly on foods and health care sectors (ICTagents subproject); - The increase of cooperation between three different communities (universities, public authorities and the business community) to create a common platform (Triple-Helix subproject). • E-learning : innovative ways of using IT tools for increasing the possibilities for life-learning for enterprises; Activities and sub-projects results: - The creation of a pilot Centre for e-learning training distribution; SMEs training on e-learning with more than 80 participants (E-learning Education Centre for SMEs sub-project); - Partnership between five organisations working together to stimulate entrepreneurship using know-how and experiences in the field of e-learning, web portal for collaborative work and dissemination, a data-base based on the concept of open archives (PEROU sub-project); - Creation of entrepreneurial knowledge community (EKC sub-project) built upon the knowledge about the young entrepreneurial behaviour and their needs; 40 entrepreneurs by each country involved; • Logistics and locations : developing logistics and locations via special planning, as a tool for creating an attractive, balanced and environmentally friendly enterprise environment; Activities and sub-projects results: - Improvement of the SMEs capabilities to develop better logistics processes (T2MT); - Stimulation the entrepreneurs in view of their more active consideration for location and logistics needs of the entrepreneurs, more than 200 face-to-face interviews with SMEs entrepreneurs, more than 50 face-to-face interviews with public authorities (EU.LO.GOSCTIC subproject); - Analysis of ways of improving SMEs’ use of railway connections (SRLog subproject); |
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