Institutional, Business and Educational integration in the area of Advanced Technologies and Mechatronics

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The project concept was generated on the basis of the partners in-depth knowledge and understanding of the SMEs’ needs. To addresses the above-mentioned strengths and weaknesses in the ATM domain, along with the need for deploying the existing potential for joint business initiatives along the border, the ATM Integration project adopts a demand-driven business-based approach: it deploys the potential of both the research and the business communities by having them represented on the consortium in a well balanced mix; it makes trainings needs assessment and provides training tailored to the needs identified; it makes screening of the SMEs business requests and business offers, on the grounds of which partnership opportunities are identified to best match business demand and supply; the matching process is facilitated by (i) a web-based collaboration platform and (ii) business advice by the ATM Expert Council – both of them meant to sustain and extend their operation beyond project life; a market study of third markets will be made to identify market niches where business cooperation and partnerships shall have the potential to further expand to third markets. Continuity and impact of the above approach is spelled out in Partnership Agreements for joint business, R&D or manufacturing projects between companies on the two sides of the border. The business support organisations – members of the ATM consortium – shall be built capacity on project cycle management and on delivery of qualitative business-support services to their client SMEs.

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