Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

Programme 2007 - 2013 Central Baltic (FI-SE-EE-LA)

Date of latest update: 2025-07-05

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Description (EN):

The operational environment for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) evolves and becomes increasingly international at a quick pace. For example, the export, import, subcontracting, financing and marketing activities of enterprises are more and more often connected to international processes and actors and to their decision-making. It is a well-known fact that strengthening the competitiveness of an enterprise usually requires internationalisation. It is the duty of public business services to support SMEs in internationalisation. However, regional development or business service centres that reach vast amounts of companies are not sufficiently prepared to offer internationalisation services and the public actors lack the required resources for enterprise-specific counselling. Business advisors who work daily with SMEs do not have strong enough know-how on internationalisation. Data and analyses exist but there are no tools for distributing the information. The central objectives of the project are to identify ways of public business services to support SME internationalisation, develop the internationalisation services offered to SMEs, to improve the local availability of internationalisation services, to develop the cross-border cooperation and shared service processes of public business service centres, and to promote new business partnerships. The project targets its development procedures at public business service organisations, and thereby the project seeks extensive influence and attempts to guarantee the continuation when the project ends. The project is divided into five Work Packages (WPs): WP1 Management and Coordination, WP2 Information and Dissemination, WP3 Internationalisation training programme for business advisors, WP4 Development of regional and cross-border business service processes, WP5 Piloting SME internationalisation. The WPs have been designed in such a way that they support and complete each other. To reach its targets, the project will strengthen the business advisors’ internationalisation know-how and their ability to identify potential products and services international markets; develop organisational and regional operational models in a way that local actors are able to provide high-quality internationalisation services; identify enterprises interested in internationalisation, get them networking with each other; and identify new ways of activating SMEs in internationalisation. The results of the project include -a training programme and a portfolio (essential instructions and practical forms on internationalisation) for business advisors; -new methods and practices for providing and developing internationalisation services and for activating small enterprises in their internationalisation process; -a network of grass-root level contacts between partner organisations;and -new cross-border SME partnerships,import and export rings,B2B events arising from the pilot activities.

Achievements (EN):

The BASIS projects found ways for public business services to facilitate and support the internationalisation of SMEs. Through training, the project strengthened the expertise of business advisors in the field of internationalisation and their ability to identify potential products and services for international markets. The project also carried out work directly with enterprises by identifying enterprises interested in internationalisation, encouraging them to network with each other. Furthermore, the intention of the BASIS project was to increase the availability of local internationalisation services.

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Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation Education and training SME and entrepreneurship

Partners (14)

Lead Partner: Turun yliopisto

Address: University of Turku, Brahea Centre for Training and Development, 20014 Turku, Finland

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Riga Technical University

Name: Riga Technical University

Address: Kalku Street 1, LV-1658 Riga, Latvia

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Kurzemes plānošanas reģions

Name: Kurzemes plānošanas reģions

Address: Avotu iela 12, LV-3801 Saldus, Latvia

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Zemgales plānošanas reģions

Name: Zemgales plānošanas reģions

Address: Katoļu iela 2b, LV-3001 Jelgava, Latvia

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Ukipolis Oy Osaamis- ja teknologiakeskus

Name: Ukipolis Oy Osaamis- ja teknologiakeskus

Address: Merilinnuntie 1, 23500 Uusikaupunki, Finland

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Loimaan seutukunnan kehittämiskeskus

Name: Loimaan seutukunnan kehittämiskeskus

Address: PL 132, Kauppalankatu 2 A, 32201 Loimaa, Finland

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Yrityssalo Oy

Name: Yrityssalo Oy

Address: Örninkatu 15, 24100 Salo, Finland

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Turun Seudun Kehittämiskeskus

Name: Turun Seudun Kehittämiskeskus

Address: PL 355, Yliopistonkatu 27 a, 20101 Turku, Finland

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Södertörns Högskola

Name: Södertörns Högskola

Address: Alfred Nobels Alle 7, 14189 Huddinge, Sweden

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Saaremaa Arenduskeskus SA

Name: Saaremaa Arenduskeskus SA

Address: Lossi 1, 93819 Kuressaare, Estonia

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Pärnumaa Ettevõtlus- ja Arenduskeskus

Name: Pärnumaa Ettevõtlus- ja Arenduskeskus

Address: Akadeemia 2, 80010 Pärnu, Estonia

Legal status: n/a

SA Põlvamaa Arenduskeskus

Name: SA Põlvamaa Arenduskeskus

Address: Kesk 20, 63308 Põlva, Estonia

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Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

Name: Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

Address: Ehitajate tee 5, 19086 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: n/a

Posintra Oy Kehitysyhtiö

Name: Posintra Oy Kehitysyhtiö

Address: Kipinätie 1, 06150 Porvoo, Finland

Legal status: n/a

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Rīgas Tehnsikā Universitāte

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Kurzeme Planning Region

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Zemgale Planning region

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University of Turku

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Ukipolis Oy Osaamis- ja teknologiakeskus

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Loimaa Region Development Centre

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Yrityssalo Oy

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Turun Seudun Kehittämiskeskus

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Södertörn University

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Saaremaa Development Centre

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Pärnumaa Ettevõtlus- ja Arenduskeskus

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Põlvamaa Development Centre

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Tallinna Tehnikaülikool

Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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Posintra Oy Kehitysyhtiö

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Summary

Project name (EN): Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

Project acronym: BASIS

Project start date: 2011-01-01

Project end date: 2013-12-01

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 644 500.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 316 023.00

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2007 - 2013 Central Baltic (FI-SE-EE-LA)

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2014-09-01

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

122 / 122 (100%)

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

672 / 672 (100%)

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Building up Availability of SME Internationalisation Services

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