Financing Research and Innovation from Europe ti Nord EST

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The project aims to implement the Enterprise Europe Network services and activities in North East of Italy, the main aim is to offer integrated, growth oriented, market and innovation support for companies, in particular SMEs. The project addresses to companies of all sectors in particular to internationalization and innovation potential SMEs and scale ups but also to secondary target groups such as clusters, business associations, universities and research centres, public authorities. The project wants to help companies to exploit the EU market opportunities, support them in the internationalization and technology transfer and provide assistance in order to make them benefit of the opportunities provided by the EU programmes, policies and initiatives. In order to implement the project and achieve the objective, Friend Europe will develop the services according to the following activities: 1) Provision of first level and second level advice support and information services in particular in the field of EU legislation, policies, programmes, Single market, relations with third countries, financing opportunities but also through business and technology-innovation audit/review, IPR advice, preparatory visits. 2) Support in the creation of cross-border partnerships between companies by the elaboration of cooperation business/technology/research proposals and by participating in brokerage events and company missions. 3) Participation and involvement of SMEs in the EU Feedback mechanism and promotion of the existing EU networks as SOLVIT 4) Provision of support to companies that want to participate in Horizon 2020 in particular assisting the in the partner search, identification of the call of proposals and assistance in the development of the project idea.