Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Italy - Albania - Montenegro

Date of latest update: 2022-07-22

Description

Description (EN):

The programme area shows an economy based on SMEs, which play a significant role as drivers for the innovation process and for the growth in the regions involved by the project. To boost the competitiveness of the area, innovative SMEs need to overcome multiple challenges, such as the lacking access to suitable finance due to risk exposure. Financial cooperatives can provide some of the best means for financial basis for development activities. In many cases, they are the only formal financial organizations able to stabilize financial systems during crises. The common challenge the project intends to tackle is to enhance the Economic Growth in involved Territories, through the guarantee cooperatives instrument. The aim of the project is to verify the conditions to provide to the Albanians and Montenegrin small enterprises a financial instrument that in Apulia and in Molise has been facilitating the enterprises’ access to the bank funding, both for the growth and the management. The transnational value can be seen from the impact that the tool will have for SMEs in Albania and Montenegro, in the application of good practices in Molise and in the possibility for Apulian SMEs to operate in the markets of Albania and Montenegro (CROSS BORDER IMPACT). The expected change the project will have in relation to the current situation is: Ensuring greater access to credit for firms, taking into account the current unfavorable economic situation. The main outputs are: - Pilot Action, involving n. 20 enterprises - Law proposal allowing guarantee cooperatives to operate. The approach the project intends to follow is to start from the concrete cases that occurred in Italy in order to apply them in cross-border areas where the idea appears new. Analyze the main difficulties of these territories to apply the proposed solution and then to refine it in Italy. The project is mature for realization.

Website: https://www.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Common interventions aimed to improve the cross border framework conditions in which the facilitators of competitiveness operate

Expected Outputs (EN):

Axis 1- Strengthen cross-border cooperation and the competitiveness of SMEs- OS 1.1 - Improve framework conditions for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the cross-border market. Project main results: - improving competitiveness, entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises, trade and investment through promoting and supporting entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, developing markets local cross-border and internationalization - allowing access to credit by small and medium-sized enterprises with non-harassment systems. - (transversal) promote local and regional governance and strengthen the administrative capacity and planning of local and regional authorities - dialogue between the various actors in the economy (public and private) who will take part in this project as partners.

Thematic information

Institutional cooperation and cooperation networks SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Enhance the framework conditions for the development of SME’s cross-border market

Thematic Priority:

(g) Enhancing competitiveness, the business environment and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, trade and investment through, inter alia, promotion and support to entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, and development of local cross-border markets and internationalisation

Partners (6)

Lead Partner: Unione Regionale dell'Artigianato e della Piccola Impresa Pugliese - U.R.A.P. Confartigianato Imprese

Department: /

Address: VIA PUTIGNANI 12/A, 70121 BARI, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.confartigianatopuglia.com/

Total budget: EUR 150 030.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 127 525.50

Direkcija za razvoj malih i srednjih preduzeća

Name: Direkcija za razvoj malih i srednjih preduzeća

Department: /

Address: Rimski Trg 46, 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website: http://nasme.me

Total budget: EUR 75 375.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 64 068.75

Bashkia Fier

Name: Bashkia Fier

Department: /

Address: Rruga “Ramiz Aranitasi” 15, 9301 Fier, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://bashkiafier.gov.al

Total budget: EUR 134 025.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 113 921.25

Opština Kotor

Name: Opština Kotor

Department: Kancelarija za međunarodnu saradnju Opštine Kotor/Office for international cooperation of the Municipality of Kotor

Address: STARI GRAD 317, 85330 KOTOR, Montenegro

Legal status: public

Website: http://kotor.me

Total budget: EUR 75 375.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 64 068.75

Qendra Kombetare e Biznesit

Name: Qendra Kombetare e Biznesit

Department: /

Address: Bulevardi “Zhan D’Ark”, Prona nr.33, 1010 Shtëpia e Ushtarakëve, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.qkb.gov.al

Total budget: EUR 75 375.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 64 068.75

Unione Interprovinciale degli Artigiani e delle Piccole Imprese delle Province di Campobasso ed Isernia

Name: Unione Interprovinciale degli Artigiani e delle Piccole Imprese delle Province di Campobasso ed Isernia

Department: /

Address: C.DA COLLE DELLE API, Z.I. 3, 86100 CAMPOBASSO, Italy

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.confartigianatomolise.it

Total budget: EUR 87 375.00

IPA2 budget: EUR 74 268.75

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Partners and Projects info

Regional Union of Handicrafts and the Small Enterprises of Puglia - U.R.A.P. Craftsmen and SMEs Association

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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Direkcija za razvoj malih i srednjih preduzeca, Crne Gore

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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Bashkia Fier

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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Opština Kotor

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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National Business Center

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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Interprovincial Union of Craftsmen and Small Businesses of the provinces of Campobasso and Isernia

Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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Summary

Project name (EN): Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

Project acronym: 3C4SME

Project start date: 2018-04-03

Project end date: 2021-03-15

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 597 555.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 507 921.75

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 507 921.75.

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Italy - Albania - Montenegro

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)

80 / 80 (100%)

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

354 / 365 (96.99%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Data from 5 projects (EBIT, G.W.A., LASTING, SME BE SMART and WELLNESS) was retrieved by Interact from the programme´s website on the 2023-03-01. Regarding partners only data only main partners is available. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (https://www.italy-albania-montenegro.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-22 and 2023-01-05.

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Cross-border Cooperation and Competitiveness for SMEs

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