Innovation capacity building through Maritime clustering initiatives

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2021-04-17

Description

Description (EN):

Through globalization SMEs are facing the challenge of increased competition from developed and emerging economies. In order to transform this challenge into an opportunity, clusters can act as facilitators and “springboards” to help SMEs internationalize. Cluster support can thus help SMEs secure access to global value chains and develop long-term strategic partnerships. Previous studies (in 2014-2015) showed that although clustering initiatives and measures are found in many ways and forms but there’s the lack of very practical, active regions organized measures, advisory days, the steps sequence and mentoring to encourage enterprises to form clusters. Quite many maritime SMEs have heard about clustering initiatives, but much of them, especially SMEs, do not understand clustering benefits, meaning, do not know how to organize these processes and the benefits expected. Much of SMEs willing to enter foreign markets and clustering allows this in most efficient and safe way, but lack of information and risks reduce the wish and maritime SMEs remain to be regionally oriented. The need for information on this topic is huge, but SMEs are physically unable to take the work-time to strategies and other primary documents, which are usually contained in international legal terminology, more detailed analysis of this process for understanding and be skilled in that. The idea of project will help blue and green SMEs to set realistic actions and measures and required information to form a clear concept of clustering and through trainings – maritime SMEs representatives will gain more skills to engage in clustering processes/initiate that independently. Thus the transfer of innovation for the benefit of blue and green sector SMEs through joint cross-border actions will be realized. Seed funding is needed to make deeper analysis of current challenge proximity and terms also gain most actual information in changing environment for serving SMEs with most efficient and useful way.

Website: https://southbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Improved transfer of innovations through blue and green SMEs initiatives towards maritime clustering capacity.

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main output of the Seed Money will be project concept paper of the future project in which the main goal will aim at increasing innovations capacity and potential of blue and green SMEs, working in maritime sector, through cross-border networking, training and capacity-building services. Project will help blue and green SMEs, operating in maritime industry, get more skills in clustering and have practical advices on how to organize clustering, what benefits are, also find appropriate partners while participating in cross-border workshops and partner search events. The main activities will cover cross-border trainings and capacity building services for blue and green sectors SMEs, provide business advisory services on new services and products in the SB market through cross-border ventures (clusters, networks) also Exchange experience and stimulate innovation transfer, develop and test of cross-border smart specialization strategies and joint branding concepts in blue and green sectors of the South Baltic economy and also develop cross-border cooperation models, networks and platforms with participation of SMEs, research institutions and public administration for common purposes development. In that way project wants to reach the improved transfer of innovations through blue and green SMEs initiatives towards maritime clustering capacity.

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Improve the transfer of innovation for the benefit of blue and green sector SMEs through joint cross-border actions

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 (3)

Lead Partner: Klaipeda University

Address: Herkaus Manto St. 84, LT-92294 Klaipeda, Lithuania

Legal status: public

Website: www.ku.lt

Total budget: EUR 18 400.00

ERDF budget: EUR 15 640.00

Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Name: Akademia Morska w Szczecinie

Address: Wały Chrobrego 1-2, 70-500 Szczecin, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: www.am.szczecin.pl

Total budget: EUR 7 200.00

ERDF budget: EUR 6 120.00

Baltische Windenergiegesellschaft

Name: Baltische Windenergiegesellschaft

Address: Stephanstraße 17, 18055 Rostock, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: www.baltweg-mv.de

Total budget: EUR 9 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 650.00

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Summary

Project name (EN): Innovation capacity building through Maritime clustering initiatives

Project acronym: ClusterMare (seed)

Project start date: 2016-09-01

Project end date: 2016-12-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 34 600.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 29 410.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, .

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Poland - Denmark - Germany - Lithuania - Sweden (South Baltic)

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

2024-03-01

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

155 / 155 (100%)

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

589 / 870 (67.7%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Data from 66 projects (Seed Money Projects) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2024-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://southbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-24 and 2023-01-24.

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