1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme
1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme
1.2 - INTERREG IIIB Alpine Space Programme
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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 />
A<br />
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F<br />
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SI<br />
A<br />
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CH<br />
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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