Central Baltic Region Smart City Solutions for Global Cities

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

SME2Go will improve the competitiveness of smart city solution developing SMEs in the Central Baltic region. Cities play a significant role in our efforts to reduce the effects of global climate change. Therefore we must examine closely the ways we live, move, use energy and construct our cities in order to reach the goals of low-carbon economy and resource efficiency. Smart cities and innovative urban environments will be main target of investments in e.g. Africa, Asia and South-America within the next ten years. For the CB region to play a significant role in exporting the R&D and innovative solutions developed here the companies providing smart city solutions in Estonia, Finland and Sweden need public support. The project team has identified ca 500 of these companies. SME2Go focuses on improving the competitiveness of these smart city solution providers. The project brings together SMEs and their knowhow, trains their sales and marketing skills, provides market intelligence and forms consortia out of these SMEs that have the readiness to enter new markets. Main output of SME2Go is 3-5 cross-border consortia that achieve sales in new markets with the help of SME2Go. In order to achieve this, cross-border co-operation is vital. The cutting edge of the intervention logic on the project is based on three key elements: 1. Each partner has a long track record in activating clusters related to smart city concepts and solutions, e.g. automation, energy efficiency. 2. Pre-established connections to several smart city solution providing multinationals offer the target group SMEs concrete possibilities to join turnkey deliveries. 3. Partners have access to existing test beds where the most novel technologies can be piloted and tested before entering foreign markets. Partners are SISP-Swedish Incubators & Science Parks, Västerås Science Park (Sweden), Turku Science Park, Posintra (Finland) and Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol (Estonia).

Achievements (EN):

Central Baltic Region Smart City Solutions for Global Cities: Cities play a significant role in our efforts to reduce the effects of global climate change. Smart cities and innovative urban environments will be the main target of investments in e.g. Africa, Asia and South America within the next ten years. The SME2Go project focused on improving the competitiveness of hundreds of identified smart city solution providers in Estonia, Finland and Sweden. The project brought together SMEs and their knowhow, trained them in sales and marketing skills and provided market intelligence. 10 consortias was formed representing joint offers to target markets by 60 companies. Many companies got a chance to participate on either planning of or an actual export mission to the markets that they would not have been reached without the cross-border collaboration. By the end of the project the first sales for participating companies were achieved and work continued with business leads and contacts The project supported 163 unique companies and one durable outcome of the project is continuous cooperation among partners to support companies in their efforts to prepare for entry and to enter to the new export markets.

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R1.3. Number of cluster co-operations exporting to new markets

Expected Outputs (EN):

SME2GO project main results and correlation with the programme result indicator are:- 3-5 Central Baltic cross-border smart city consortia formed, trained and export strategies created for them- 2-3 new sales achieved by these consortia either during the project duration or shortly (1-2yrs) after by implementing the export strategies.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: More exports by the Central Baltic companies to new markets

Thematic Objective: (03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:

Investment Priority: (03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: SISP Swedish Incubators & Science Parks

Address: Mäster Samuelsgatan nr 60, floor 9, 11121 Stockholm, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sisp.se

Total budget: EUR 489 996.33

ERDF budget: EUR 367 497.25

Tallinna Teaduspark Tehnopol SA

Name: Tallinna Teaduspark Tehnopol SA

Address: Teaduspargi 6/1, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tehnopol.ee

Total budget: EUR 400 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 340 000.00

Västerås Science Park AB

Name: Västerås Science Park AB

Address: Expectrum, Kopparbergsvägen 10, 722 13 Västerås, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vasterassciencepark.se

Total budget: EUR 340 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 255 000.00

Turku Science Park Oy

Name: Turku Science Park Oy

Address: Lemminkäisenkatu 14-18 C, FI-20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.turkusciencepark.com

Total budget: EUR 305 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 228 750.00

Posintra Oy

Name: Posintra Oy

Address: Rihkamakatu 4 A, 6100 Porvoo, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.posintra.fi

Total budget: EUR 305 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 228 750.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Central Baltic Region Smart City Solutions for Global Cities

Project acronym: SME2GO

Project start date: 2015-10-01

Project end date: 2018-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 839 996.33

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 419 997.25

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 419 997.25.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-11

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

137 / 137 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

663 / 663 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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Central Baltic Region Smart City Solutions for Global Cities

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