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Aim<br />

NENA<br />

<strong>1.2</strong><br />

Network Enterprise Alps<br />

Enhancing sustainable development, competitiveness and innovation through SME and cluster cooperation.<br />

The NENA project intends to establish an <strong>Alpine</strong>-wide net-<br />

work of and for SMEs which are committed to a sustainable<br />

development. In a tougher worldwide market NENA will help<br />

enterprises and clusters of <strong>Alpine</strong> core economic sectors to<br />

be more competitive especially by making use of the innovation<br />

potentials. More networking, a better market orientation,<br />

good strategies and the mobilisation of cooperation synergies<br />

within and between the different economic sectors are<br />

the main objects NENA wants to reach. On a long term, jobs<br />

will be saved and created in the participating SMEs. All three<br />

aspects of sustainable development – economic, social and<br />

ecological – will be enhanced. The exchange of know-how,<br />

the initiation of cooperations, the offer of training, the tearing<br />

down of language barriers as well as image enhancing<br />

measures for SMEs are the tasks of the future network. By<br />

involving partners from urban and rural areas, NENA will help<br />

to attenuate the increasing polarisation.<br />

Activities<br />

NENA focuses on the following <strong>Alpine</strong> core economies:<br />

The meta-cluster „Renewable Resources“ with the clusters:<br />

Value added chain of wood<br />

Energy from renewable resources<br />

Saving energy – Passive house<br />

Crossing Functions “Innovation and Technology” with:<br />

Innovation management<br />

Education and training<br />

Process optimisation and certification<br />

Interface management<br />

The activities are concentrated on the creation of best practice<br />

examples. In a first workshop the partners developed a<br />

common understanding of the project goals and started preparing<br />

common transnational activities. An analysis of potentials,<br />

synergies and feasibility of cooperations between <strong>Alpine</strong><br />

clusters and enterprises, focusing on the selected core fields,<br />

will provide a theoretical background. In all partner regions<br />

pilot projects will be carried out involving additional co-partners<br />

in some of the regions. In most pilot projects there will<br />

be a cooperation with partners from the other regions. The<br />

experiences gained in the regional projects will be exchanged<br />

at transnational level. In parallel to the pilot actions, the NENA<br />

team will start building up an <strong>Alpine</strong> wide enterprise network<br />

and to prepare marketing activities. Professional PR work in<br />

French, German, Italian and Slovenian will make all NENA<br />

activities known to stakeholders.<br />

Outcomes and results<br />

Thanks to the ´Network Enterprise Alps´ involved enterprises<br />

and clusters have an intensive exchange of knowledge and<br />

experience, new cooperations and business relations are created<br />

and the access to new regions and markets is possible.<br />

Selected <strong>Alpine</strong> core economies are strengthened by mobilising<br />

existing synergies and innovation potentials. Pilot projects<br />

will be developed and implemented on regional level, most<br />

of which will be complementary or similar to each other. Pilot<br />

project examples: establishment of an “Innovation Assistant”,<br />

innovation contest “Timber Construction”, Native resources<br />

certificate, Raising energy efficiency in the building sector. On<br />

an <strong>Alpine</strong> wide level a core group of SMEs from urban and<br />

rural regions will have founded a network. They have agreed<br />

on common goals and network activities. International and national<br />

network structures will have been established and will<br />

assure the permanence and the further enlargement of the<br />

network. Network services and activities such as newsletters,<br />

workshops and education measures have been carried out<br />

and are scheduled for the future.<br />

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FL<br />

Lead partner<br />

Project partner<br />

Lead partner<br />

Entwicklungsverein Natur<br />

und Kulturerbe Vorarlberg<br />

Other partners<br />

Provincia A. di Bolzano<br />

CCI Lyon<br />

Regione Piemonte<br />

FH Rosenheim<br />

Posoški razvojni center<br />

Energieagentur Oberst.<br />

Tiroler Zukunftsstiftung<br />

ITZ<br />

CIPRA International<br />

Project website<br />

http://nena.telesis.at<br />

Contact person<br />

Franz Rüf<br />

Tel +43 (0)5579 7171<br />

Fax +43 (0)5579 7171 71<br />

franz.ruef@telesis.at<br />

Duration<br />

03.2006 – 02.2008<br />

Total budget in EUR<br />

2.380.000<br />

ERDF in EUR<br />

1.165.000<br />

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spatial planning & competitiveness

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