Laboratory network for testing, characterisation and conformity assessment of electronic products developed by SMEs

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-06-16

Description

Description (EN):

No electronic product can be successfully placed in global markets if it does not conform with international standards. This typically requires extensive testing of product prototypes. In the project, eight universities from the Baltic Sea region set up an innovation support network to provide testing and consultation for small and medium sized enterprises in the electronics sector during early product development. TEST-4-SME initiates an innovation support network in the Baltic Sea region to provide testing and consultation for electronics SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) during early product development. Tests and consultations focus on how to demonstrate conformity with international standards. All electronic products need to prove conformity to standards, which requires testing of product prototypes. Early stage testing can help avoid failures in later stages and can thus save costs. The network members advise and train enterprises’ staff in conforming to standards and share knowledge across the network to improve the quality and efficiency of testing in order to speed up the process of product development for electronics enterprises. In the scope of the project, seven enterprises test the network's services. The project compiles a list of electronics testing labs, creates governing rules for the network and analyses demand for existing testing services in the region. The network is open to other electronic testing labs. Some investments into testing equipment are planned. Laboratory staff is to be trained. Testing services are evaluated and the long-term sustainability strategy planned.

Achievements (EN):

The project has mapped the testing services in laboratories in Estonia, Finland, Germany Latvia and Lithuania. The database of available services helps laboratory staff to guide small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) interested in testing electronic components to the most suitable lab, either within the TEST-4-SME network or beyond. The first lab staff training in Vilnius for the project partners brought together administrative staff and laboratory specialists in order to share best practices in testing and service provision, thus to increase their overall performance. The project also holds training sessions for SMEs that could become customers of the networks’ testing labs. So far, 70 SMEs from Estonia, Finland, Lithuania and Latvia have cooperated with the research institutions. They used laboratory services, received individual consultations, training or visited the TEST-4-SME network laboratories. The partnership conducted two investments to bridge the technological gaps in the electronics testing services in the Baltic Sea region. The project purchased an electrostatic discharge required for testing any kind of electronic product, planned to be installed in the lab in Estonia, and a reference solar cell allowing for quantitative measurement of output power of modules, planned to be installed in the lab in Estonia. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/test-4-sme/

Website: http://testelectronics.eu

Delivered Outputs (EN): List of electronics testing labs Investments into testing equipment Training curriculum for laboratory staff Service provision rules Long-term sustainability strategy

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship Knowledge and technology transfer

Specific Objective: ‘Research and innovation infrastructures’: To enhance market uptake of innovation based on improved capacity of research and innovation infrastructures and their users

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority: (01a) enhancing research and innovation (R&I) infrastructure and capacities to develop R&I excellence, and promoting centres of competence, in particular those of European interest

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: Tartu Ülikool

Department: Tartu Observatory

Address: Ülikooli 18, 50090 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://kosmos.ut.ee

Total budget: EUR 445 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 378 250.00

Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte

Name: Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte

Department: Institute of Energy Systems and Environment

Address: Kaļķu iela 1, LV-1658 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.rtu.lv

Total budget: EUR 285 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 242 250.00

Latvijas Universitāte

Name: Latvijas Universitāte

Department: Institute of Biology University of Latvia

Address: 19 Raina Bulvar, LV 1586 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lu.lv

Total budget: EUR 150 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 127 500.00

SIA VIZULO

Name: SIA VIZULO

Department: LTD VIZULO

Address: Starta iela 1, LV-1026 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.vizulo.com/en/

Total budget: EUR 9 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 692.50

SIA "JLU Technologies"

Name: SIA "JLU Technologies"

Department: SIA "JLU Technologies"

Address: Ilukstes street 107/1-16, LV-1082 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.jlutechnologies.lv

Total budget: EUR 9 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 692.50

Ventspils Augstskola

Name: Ventspils Augstskola

Department: Ventspils University College Lifelong learning centre

Address: Inženieru iela 101, LV-3601 Ventspils, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.venta.lv

Total budget: EUR 100 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 85 000.00

SIA "CRYOGENIC AND VACUUM SYSTEMS"

Name: SIA "CRYOGENIC AND VACUUM SYSTEMS"

Department: LCC "CRYOGENIC AND VACUUM SYSTEMS"

Address: Andreja iela 7/9, LV-3601 Ventspils, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cvsys.eu/

Total budget: EUR 9 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 692.50

VšĮ Perspektyvinių technologijų taikomųjų tyrimų institutas

Name: VšĮ Perspektyvinių technologijų taikomųjų tyrimų institutas

Address: Vismaliuku str. 34, 10243 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.protechnology.lt

Total budget: EUR 145 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 123 250.00

Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Name: Centria-ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Department: Centria Research and Development

Address: Talonpojankatu 2, 67100 Kokkola, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.centria.fi

Total budget: EUR 340 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 255 000.00

Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design

Name: Hochschule Wismar, University of Applied Sciences: Technology, Business and Design

Department: Wimar Business School, European Project Center

Address: Philipp-Müller-Str. 14, 23699 Wismar, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hs-wismar.de

Total budget: EUR 200 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 150 000.00

UAB Modernios E-Technologijos

Name: UAB Modernios E-Technologijos

Address: Vismaliuku str. 34, 10243 Vilnius, Lithuania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.met.lt

Total budget: EUR 56 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 47 600.00

Crystalspace OÜ

Name: Crystalspace OÜ

Department: Crystalspace

Address: Anne 1-56, 50604 Tartu, Estonia

Legal status: private

Website: http://crystalspace.eu/

Total budget: EUR 9 050.00

ERDF budget: EUR 7 692.50

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Summary

Project name (EN): Laboratory network for testing, characterisation and conformity assessment of electronic products developed by SMEs

Project acronym: TEST-4-SME

Project start date: 2017-10-01

Project end date: 2020-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 757 200.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 439 620.00

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 81.90%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 439 620.00.

Documents

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Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

TESTELECTRONICS _

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/test-4-sme/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: http://www.testelectronics.eu/

Brochures / magazines / manuals

Training curriculum for laboratory staff

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/test-4-sme/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2021-05-07

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

BEST PRACTICE PROCEDURES FOR TESTING

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/test-4-sme/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-10

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

TEST-4-SME Network’s Sustainability Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/test-4-sme/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

TEST-4-SME Network’s Long-term Sustainability Action Plan

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: http://www.testelectronics.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

DECLARATION OF INTENT - TO PARTICIPATE IN TEST-4-SME NETWORK

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Brochure / magazine / manual

Data source: http://www.testelectronics.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Reports

Project Test-4-SME’s overall report on regional mapping of SME’s

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.testelectronics.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

TESTING SERVICE PRICING PROTOCOL FOR TEST-4-SME

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.testelectronics.eu/

Publication date: 2022-08-28

Document date: 2020-09-04

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

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

2023-06-16

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

200 / 200 (100%)

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

2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

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Laboratory network for testing, characterisation and conformity assessment of electronic products developed by SMEs

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