Competence Upgrade for Business Excellence in Malta

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CUBE-MT is the project’s acronym and stands for the Competence Upgrade for Business Excellence in Malta. The project aims to accelerate the transformation of Maltese SMEs that have the ambition and potential to grow competitively by leveraging sustainability and digitalisation. Assisted companies will be supported to find their resilience through the enabling support of internationalisation, innovation, and access to funding. The project will operationalise the priority areas outlined in this Call, with a focus on sectors of key national importance; manufacturing, cultural heritage, retail, construction, logistics, mobility, tourism, and ICT. The implementation plan for the advanced services under the CUBE-MT project will follow three phases: [i] Capacity-building: this phase will ensure proper awareness-raising and initial engagement of the relevant stakeholders, creating a strong network with business communities to prepare the deployment of SME transformation journeys and providing a mapping of the targeted SME community and relevant stakeholders. [ii] Scouting & Onboarding: the mobilisation of SMEs and their endeavour in transforming their business towards digitalised and sustainable competitiveness will take place, leveraging strategic communication processes and channels that reach appropriate SMEs. On insights gathered through the analysis of the preceding macro of the sectorial and industry level, a deeper needs analysis, on a 1-to-1 basis, is undertaken through an individual outreach programme to SMEs this identifying potential clients to embark o the client journey. [iii] Journey: this phase will focus on the identified star clients that have committed to take up their journey and executing their work plan. Skilled Network Advisors will apply the hub and spoke approach to register foreseen impacts, utilising effective and timely communications actions to disseminate the successes and continue building the Network brand