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Nisatel is a regional ICT Company that offers service internet connection, WIFI services for SME-s and development of ICT investments project in the South of Albania

Detyrat kryesore dhe drejtimet specifike të veprimtarisë Identifikimi, testimi, përshtatja dhe futja në praktikat bujqësore e teknologjive dhe inputeve të reja për pemët frutore bërthamore, ullinj, hardhi dhe agrume; Përgatitja e paketave teknologjike dhe projekteve tip për krijimin e pemëtoreve, ullishtave, vreshtave e agrumeve; Asistence teknike e trajnime për projektimin, ngritjen dhe mirëfunksionimin e fidanishteve, pemëtoreve, ullishtave, vreshtave dhe agrumeve; Prodhimi dhe shtimi i materialit bimor të certifikuar për fidanishtet (pemë frutore, ulli, vreshta dhe agrume); Kërkime dhe testime në nivel ferme për problemet e ngritura nga fermerët për pemët frutore bërthamore, ullinj, hardhi dhe agrume; Trajnime për specialistë të bujqësisë, fermerë dhe subjekte të tjerë të interesuar; Sigurimi i ekspertizës teknike për strukturat e shërbimit këshillimor dhe fermerët; Demonstrimi i teknologjive të reja të kultivimit për pemët frutore bërthamore, ullinj, hardhi dhe agrume; Përgatitja dhe publikimi i materialeve divulgative për specialistët e bujqësisë dhe fermerët.

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NEC Notranjska ecological centre, Cerknica is a non-governmental and non-profit private institution founded in 1995. With years of experience in interdisciplinary projects we are specialized at comprehensive solutions in obtaining national and EU funding. We operate as a competence center for entrepreneurship, project management, sustainable development, tourism, rural development and creative industries. NEC, Cerknica provides social innovation for 20 years - 20 years of interaction to create synergies both at home and abroad. Thanks to everyone who co-create our common story. You are kindly invited to introduce yourself to us. We are looking forward to cooperate with you. Our strengths are expertise of project team (IPMA Certified Project Managers, Managers of European projects), experience (20 years of tradition), networking (membership in Slovenian and foreign networks), emphasis is placed on the integration and collaboration with customers and mutual cooperation for creation of synergies.

Steklarstvo Starc L.t.d. is a company with a long glaziery tradition. Our offer consists of cutting, shaping, tempering and similar proceses on different types of glass. We also manufacture glass doors and walls, shower cabin glass and similar more complicated glass products. In terms of glass manufacturing process, we cover activities from cutting and breaking glass to further processing of glass. Thus, if necessary, we proceed with sanding, painting, sandblasting and engraving patterns etc. In addition to ordinary clear glass, we offer also thermopane or double-paned glass, ornament glass, fire-resistant glass and some other types of glass and mirrors.

The main emphasis of the activities of Inkubator d.o.o. Sežana is on local development and job creation. The main purpose of a business incubator is to help new companies towards success and consequently towards creating wealthy and possibilities for new jobs. In accordance with the purpose the incubator does not offer entrepreneurs only flexible premices, but also most of those services that entrepreneurs cannot handle themselves, especially in the initial phase. Special emphasis is placed on financial advisory service, business planning, networing and marketing. When entering a new phase of development with the business innovation centre we upgrated the package of services and expanded processes of incubation on procedures of innovation. Because of the large number of premises incubator Sežana could offer help and support to a greater number of entrepreneurs in the entire cycle of initial business growth from preincubation trough incubation to postincubation phase. Thus Inkubator Sežana has had the key role in promoting local economic development for a decade and a half.

The Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica is a member of the University of Primorska. It is the only faculty of tourism in Slovenia that offers multi-disciplinary teaching and research of tourism and educates human resources for high-quality planning, management and an excellent tourism offer. Turistica has its roots in the year 1994, when the College of Hotel and Travel Administration was founded in the frame of the Tempus project. A year later, the first generation of students enrolled. Since 2003, Turistica has been a member of the University of Primorska, and in 2008 it was transformed into a faculty.

Our company offers wide experience in Engineering, in static and dynamic calculations and noise prediction in the marine, offshore, machinery and civil industry. Our experience includes all the aspects of noise reduction measures, including the development of acoustically improved components supplied by the marine industry. Ship technical comfort class requirements specification regarding noise and vibrations may prevent many problems during later stages of a shipbuilding project. We assist ship owners in preparing technical specifications and advises the shipbuilding industry on required precautions in order to comply with contract specifications.

Healthy Entrepreneur Association was established in 2004 with the desire to jointly prepare welfare programs, to spread the awareness of the importance of taking care of health, companionship and positive thinking. Although the Association connects mainly entrepreneurs who have chronically lack of time, we are aware that only a healthy entrepreneur is able to achieve business success and a healthy society.

Primorska Gospodarska Zbornica (PGZ) - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Primorska is an independent, voluntary interest association and represent the junction of regional entrepreneurs, micro, small, medium and large enterprises. It represents its members' interests in relation to the state and designs and provides conditions of work and economic development in the region. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Primorska offers to members a wide range of business support services and with this supports their competitiveness, for instance: -Information and advice from the field of internationalisation, setting up of business subjects, promotional activities, international integration; - Providing courses, seminars and workshops from the field of law, finances, marketing, international cooperation, human resources management, etc ...; - Assistance in establishing contacts with partners home and abroad; - Linking the economy of Coastal-karst region; - Fostering innovation and innovation activities in the region; - Participation in national and international projects is of key importance for PGZ. It is involved in projects as a leading or a project partner.

The Faculty of Health Sciences is an internationally recognizable educational and research member of the University of Primorska. It is a quality centre for developing and transferring knowledge in the field of health. The Faculty’s main mission is the undergraduate and postgraduate education in the field of nursing and nutritional counselling – dietetics, and the pure and applied scientific research and development work in the field of health assurance and maintenance within the research Food, Nutrition and Health Institute.

Transactiva Inc. is a biotechnology SME who represents a R&D center for therapeutic molecules whose production cannot be carried out by chemical synthesis, requiring innovative biosynthetic processes. Our activities are aimed at defining technological platforms exploitable at an industrial level for the production of therapeutic proteins in plants (process known as “molecular farming”). Our objective is the registration of molecular farming – derived biotechnological therapeutics, accomplished through the fulfillment of partnership agreements with medium and large pharmaceutical industries with which we cooperate for the development, scaling-up and commercialization of the drugs. Our main activities are: - pharmaceutical research (with particular focus on the application of recombinant DNA technology in plants); - development of novel platforms for the synthesis of biotech drugs in plant tissues; - molecular farming of pharmaceutical proteins for the therapy of tumors and orphan diseases.

Leader in the compressed air field. We sell, repair and manufacture of systems of compressed air production and distribution. We provide 24/7 support. ISO 9001 certified and F.Gas certificates.

Online ordering built just for your restaurant. Are you tired of losing 20% on your online sales, but you still want to offer your clients the possibility to order your dishes online? TapFood is the perfect solution for you!

innov@ctors, a spin-off of the University of Udine, designs and develops innovative ICT and electronic payment solutions for companies of any size. innov@ctors also develops solutions and offers consultancy about IT security and business continuity. innov@ctors is an Ingenico, Verifone, WatchGuard and Barracuda partner.

Gadamed Srl is one of the companies of GADA Group. GADA® has evolved from a group of successful Italian regional distribution companies, established between 1978- 1996, representing innovative medical technologies from global market leaders. GADA, as a legal entity was founded in 2005, and is today a national healthcare leader in Italy. The GADA Companies offer Cardiovascular, Blood and Infusion Management, Multi-Market Medtech product technology solutions from industry leaders and a broad range of integrated healthcare services. Gadamed in particular deals with the design and implementation of technology solutions for traceability and security based on RFID technology to support the processes and the ordinary and extraordinary technical assistance on equipment.

AHUN Srl was founded in 2010 and has realized the 20km.info project, the "territorial" social network tailored for Small Local Activities. The purpose of the project is to modernize the territory facilitating meetings between small digital business (companies and professionals who work in the Internet world, marketing, photography, graphic arts, etc.) and non-digital small business (shops, restaurants, service companies, etc.).

DDSME is responsible for the following areas: Defining the strategy for SME; preparing and realizing SME development projects and programs; financial support for SME; realizing the aims and EU standards; preparing educational and special programs for SME development, etc. The mission of the DDSME is foster the sustainable socio-economic growth and stability of Region through creating healthy communities, prosperous businesses and job opportunities by means of strategic planning, promoting adequate business environment, territory marketing and implementation of community development initiatives. The Directorate is a knowledge-based organization and a catalyst for the socio-economic development of Montenegro region. Directorate for Development of SMEs focuses its capacities on non-financial support (increasing competitiveness, stimulating exports, non-formal education, introduction of international standards, development of institutional support at the local level, development of clusters, improving innovation, research, etc.) while channeling finances to a greater extent through banks and the IDFM as well as other institutions.

CBM manages the District of Molecular Biomedicine of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. it activates synergies between public and private entities in order to develop the potential of the "smart health" Cluster in the fields of biomedicine, biotechnology and bioinformatics.

Italian-Serbian Chamber of Commerce is an apolitical and non-profit organization that represents the direct answer to the commercial and economical needs of Italian and Serbian entrepreneurs. It is also a generator that cultivates the entrepreneurs' and investors' exchange of information and experiences on the Serbian and Italian market. It promote and develop the business network and economic exchange between two countries.

Private sector intermediate organisation, focusing on the provision of support to big corporates and SMEs in relation to legal, accounting, financial and funding issues.

Aegeanboard provides the opportunity of bareboat chartering to everyone who desires to treat himself with premium holidays sailing in the Aegean and the famous islands of Sporades and Cyclades.

MAZI TRAVEL was founded by able executives who have worked in the field of tourism for 25 years . MAZI TRAVEL is a tour operator who specializes in cultural, mice, leisure travel destinations, both for individuals and groups.

Urbangrains is your everyday imaginative brand of food essentials, offering a range of artisan, often unusual foods. Driven by our own devotion to know our food origins, we have teamed up with like-minded local producers who stay true to their craftsmanship.

Dr Giorgos Stefanidis (BA, MSEE, PhD, PE) he is a specialist and traffic theory and transport telematics .He was for twenty years faculty at the departement of civil engineer of the university of Minnesota

The company's objective is to contribute to the development and protection of natural resources and the general development of Thesprotia and Arta regional units of Epirus region.

Online communication plans and ideas that serve and promote the brands, we create marketing solutions with the most technologically advanced tools.

expert in energy production biomass with special qualifications in district heating systems

infoFACTORY was created by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the Department of Mathematics and Computing at Udine University with the aim of bringing the technology and expertise developed at the University onto the market . We develop open systems using current technology: Node.js, Python, Django, Java, Phonegap, Titanium, Unity, etc. We have developed web management systems, intranet documents, sport communities, Web Apps, native Apps, e-books, interactive books, etc.

experienced professional in the semi conductor industry and in the technology development and manufacturing of photo voltaic systems

The Business Incubator Zenica (BIZ) is located in business zone Zenica 1 and started to operate in 2005. The initiative (Business Incubator Zenica) aims to promote and develop the idea of entrepreneurship and to provide support to SMEs in Zenica Municipality and the whole Central Bosnia Region. The partners are: governmental institutions (Ministry of Economy of Zenica-Doboj Canton, Business Service Centre of Zenica-Doboj Canton), educational institutions (University of Zenica) REZ-RDA Regional Development Agency for Central Bosnia Region, Business start-Up Centre Zenica. This partnership is a result of the common interests in promotion and development entrepreneurship in Zenica Municipality. The market analysis and analyses of the business climate in Zenica Municipality showed the unavailability of business premises at low prices, as well as lack of entrepreneurship tradition in the SME sector. At the moment, BIZ includes 29 business space units: 25 of them are suitable for workshop activities and 4 of them are suitable for office related activities (all facilities are currently used).

Within the project “Establishment of the Regional Entrepreneurship Centre in Herzegovina” the Business Incubator Trebinje has been established in 2009. The major financial support for its establishment was provided by EU (88%). The project was implemented by Mostar Business Association LiNK in cooperation with the partner and co-financers, municipalities Trebinje and Jablanica. The key goal of this incubator is to support small and medium enterprises, especially start-up companies by reducing initial costs of setting up a business. Furthermore it provides assistance in selection and analysis of business ideas, registration and partnerships, in linking potential business partners and in facilitating business initiatives. The business incubator offers possibilities for development of new businesses and application of modern technology as well as new business, technical, organisational and marketing structures and methods. The Incubator offers 570 m² of office space and there are 7 start-up companies with 17 employees.

Expert in insurance market; consultant in SME funding programs. Policy advisor in regional development. Counseling in business deals.

high level consaltant with more than 10 years of experience in AIMMS and smart II

high level consaultant with more than twenty years of experience in S.M.E. support and holding

M.K.E. provides counseling for entrepreneurship, innovation and new business creation. Alongside counseling by expert counselors provided counseling from established entrepreneurs (mentors) with the aim of transferring know-how (know-how). Still, the unit informs stakeholders on the possibilities of funding from both the current and the expected subsidy programs.

The Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, flanked by members of the teaching staff with significant theoretical and empirical knowledge in modern economic research, which allows them to pass on to students all modern trends and "discoveries" in the field of Economics.

The aim of Centre is: “The promotion of activities regarding a Development Centre for Innovative Enterprises, at no expense”.This aim is achieved through the provision of innovative services to local enterprises and bodies as well.

The company's objective is to contribute to the development and protection of natural resources and the general development of region Aetolia - Acarnania (Western Greece).

With operations ranging from production activities to studies, management and execution of programs and working closely with all the agencies and local actors, the 'Epirus SA' has established itself as a growth engine of the action area.

At a time of highly competitive labor market, where there is inadequate typically only qualifications for entry into a profession, the program of studies was structured so as to respond to competitive and evolving conditions.

The Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TCG) aims at developing Science and Technology in sectors related to the disciplines of its members, for the economic, social, and cultural development of the country, in accordance with the principles of sustainability and environmental protection.

Accordance with its institutional context is the scientific director of the state and society.

Τhe Economic Chamber of Greece, in excellent and institutionalized relationship with the Economic Universities and professional bodies of Economists industry, faces problems arising from the process and implementation of economic science.

Območna Razvojna Agencija Krasa in Brkinov (Local development agency of Kras and Brkini) was established in the year 2005 with the aim to prepare and implement joint development programs and other tasks from the field of structural policies, in specific promotion of economic, social, spatial and environmental development and the promotion of entrepreneurship and tourism and the implementation of active employment policies in the entire area of Kras and Brkini.

Micro tour operator specialized in experiential tourism.

The SERDA Business Incubator was officially opened in May 2005 with the aim of establishing the appropriate infrastructure and creating favourable business climate for support to SMEs. The incubator is located in Sarajevo and has 1,000 m² of office space for the disposal including the educational centre with 2 IT classrooms, conference hall for 100 people. The project “business incubator” is a result of partnership between Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency (SERDA) and Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), Barcelona Aktiva and the Municipality of Barcelona. The value of the project was EUR 688,000. The cofinancing from Spanish donators was concluded in 2007 and the project has been financed by the SERDA funds since August 2007. 18 enterprises (88 employees) are currently located in the incubator, which are using incubator’s office space (up to 3 years) and consulting and educational services. Within its educational centre, the incubator provides its internals and also external clients variety of seminars, workshops and lectures: e.g. language courses (English, Spanish), European Computer Driving License (ECDL), seminars for potential entrepreneurs, introduction to ISO Standards, IT, project cycle management, HACCP courses, and courses for unemployed people.

The Business Incubator in Jablanica has been established within the Project "Establishment of the Regional Entrepreneurship Centre in Herzegovina" funded by the European Union. The project was implemented by the Entrepreneurship and Business Association LiNK Mostar, in cooperation with the partner municipalities of Trebinje and Jablanica, the Association of independent entrepreneurs Jablanica and with support of the Federal Ministry for Development, Entrepreneurship and Craftsmanship. Business incubator Jablanica was opened in 2008. Three out of eight offices are currently used. The incubator covers a total of 270m².

The Business Incubator in Brčko operates on the project’s basis of the Department for Economy of the District of Brčko. The Incubator consists of 125 m2 for offices and 1,755 m2 is covered by entrepreneurial hall. In 2009 the premises were fully occupied. The Companies located at the compound are mainly active in refinement of metal surfaces, furniture manufacturing and shoe production.

The ARTECO Wood Technology Centre was established in January 2009 by the company ARTISAN in cooperation with the Excellence in Innovation (EI) Project. The mission of ARTECO is to become a unique, leader-oriented and self-sustainable technology wood industry centre. ARTECO has sold its services to over 200 SMEs. ARTECO offers the following services: • Education and training; • Design and development of prototypes; • CNC machine; • Drying Chamber/Kiln; • Consultation.

AgroLink is an information platform for agricultural producers, processors, traders, service providers and other individuals and companies who are directly or indirectly related to agriculture. It provides its members with information from the agriculture sector via Internet, mobile phone or SMS. Information on the following subjects is available: Regional wholesale prices; agricultural law and policies; Finance, incentives (at all levels of government) and grants; Contact database for agricultural businesses. Additionally AgroLink offers trainings, seminars and conferences as well as mediation in trade and export.

The University development center and university incubator of Primorska is a non-profit society, which means that the profit generated in a financial year is dedicated exclusively to the company’s activity and to support the incubates. The mission of the University Incubator is to link academic sphere with the economy in order to extend the entrepreneurship culture among young people, students, professors and researchers and the rest of the inhabitants of Primorska. To provide a complete support service in terms of infrastructure and business counselling for newly developed high value added enterprises and new top-level research organizations in Primorska region. Its vision is in the next 5 years become a leading Slovene university development center and university incubator according to the successful newly established start-up and spin-off enterprises as to the number of professors and students in Primorska region. Within the next 5 years develop new and innovative forms to accelerate a knowledge flow between the economy and the academic sphere of Primorska intended to realize revenues from the licence fee and commercialization of research knowledge. The founders of the Univirsity incubator of Primorska (UIP d.o.o.) are the University of Primorska and Gea College – College of entrepreneurship.

Faculty of Management is a higher education institution for education and research in the fields of social sciences and business management. In addition to education and research, the basic activities of the faculty are providing consultancy to companies and other organisations, publishing and organisation of international conferences. Faculty of Management was established in 1995 as a freestanding institution. In 2003 it became one of the founding members of the University of Primorska.

According to Association program, the Agency: • Tries to initiate and influence the development and finalization of Strategies related to innovative sector, supported by adequate measures of economy and politics; • Tries to initiate Laws about innovative activities and creation of adequate innovation support infrastructure; • Supports and develops innovative activities, etc; • Jointly organises with Banja Luka City Innovators Association on a standard basis the “INOST of the Young People” an exhibition supporting young inventors. The important issue is science and R&D popularization among young population.

The Municipality of Prijedor and the Economic Development Agency Prijedor (PREDA-PD) initiated the creation of the Business Incubator Prijedor with the financial support of Italian programme SEENET, German GTZ, and Swiss SDC. The Municipality used the property of former army barracks of Palančište (18,063 m²) and now after the redevelopment and reconstruction of the facilities, the renovated object consists of management of the Incubator, surface and other business space. In 2009 two more buildings were ready for occupancy. Combined, the two renovated buildings offer 688 m² of office space. The second phase was realised with support of funds from European Commission. The Incubator offers 1.271 m² of office space and there are 7 start-up companies with 41 employees. Average utilisation accounts for 77%. The running costs of the incubator are financed by the Municipality of Prijedor. There are plans to extend the Incubator.

The Business and Entrepreneurial Centre - Incubator “Lipnica” Tuzla was established in 2004 as a Limited Liability Company and its work is regulated by the Law on Public Companies of the Federation BiH. It has official managing structures (the Assembly, the Supervisory Board, and Management) and the Municipality of Tuzla is continuously providing support to the Incubator in order to create better conditions for companies located in the Centre and support expanding capacities and growth of the Centre. The main objective of the Centre is to support potential business start-ups and run entrepreneurial activities especially in the first phases of establishing businesses. The Centre is operating as an incubator facility. The Business and Entrepreneurial Centre - Incubator “Lipnica” Tuzla is currently using 10,933 m2 of facilities divided into 28 individual objects (entire complex covers 159,000 m2). In 2010, the Centre accommodates 32 companies (40% of the companies are business start-ups) with around 280 employees. Companies located there are mainly acting in production and service provision, especially in wood processing, mechanical, aluminium, textile, shoe, paper, chemical and other sectors. The Centre is financially supported by the Budget of Municipality of Tuzla. This source of funding is regular and provides partial funding for the operational and maintaining expenses. The additional funding is coming from its regular business activities (renting space to businesses, fee for mutual services etc.) and periodically throughout project applications and their implementation (e.g. Cantonal and Federal Funds, EU Funds etc.)

The Association Bosper is a non-governmental organization whose primary goal is to provide a comprehensive service to agriculture producers and foster the development of agricultural production in BiH, in order to reduce poverty in rural area. Bosper originated in the Lutheran World Federation, agriculture office in Tuzla, a humanitarian organization which successfully implemented numerous project of urgent aid and job creation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the last decade through the development of agriculture and application of modern technologies resulting in the increase of the quality and quantity of yields. Based on this approach, Bosper continues the work as a local NGO Bosper Tuzla and supported many beneficiaries to perform agricultural production as their primary activity and as their basic source of sustenance. Bosper’s mission follows the idea of “Living by own work” and has already implemented several agricultural development projects with 1-4 years of duration: • Project on Regional and Local Private Sector Development with Focus on Food Market, supported by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) • Project on Capacity Building of Individuals and Groups through training and Education, supported by German organisation- EED • Project on Reintegration of Communities -Job Creation in Agriculture and Handicraft, supported by HEKS-EPER Switzerland • Project on Agriculture Development in Cooperation with Local Communities, supported by Municipality Tuzla The projects are implemented with support of international and local donors and stakeholders and in cooperation with governmental institutions, NGOs and other organizations. Furthermore, Bosper provides education for agricultural producers in introduction and application of new technologies in market oriented production, legal support, connection with suppliers, consultancy, marketing support, etc.

The Agro-Incubator Žepče was established by the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers of Žepče in August 2008 with the aim of providing infrastructural support for agribusiness development in the municipalities of Žepče, Zavidovici and Maglaj. The specific objectives of Agro-incubator Žepče are: • To provide an increase of quality and quantity of products through use of infrastructural support of Agro-incubator; • To commercialize products and to facilitate access to the market; • To provide sustainability and expansion of production trough help in access to financial sources; • To provide business contacts and to connect individual farmers and smes; • To contribute to integration of agro-business to economical flows and registration of agricultural production; • Education of farmers about agricultural production and associating. The Project „Agro-incubator Žepče“ is financed within the CARDS program as a part of the fifth call of the EU to assist small and medium enterprises and regional economic development (EU RED Fund). The project was founded by the Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers Žepče together with two partners: the Association of Agricultural Producers “Poljoprivrednik” from Zavidovići and the Association of Agricultural Producers „Jedinstvo“from Bočinja, Maglaj. „Agro-incubator Žepče“is located in a newly reconstructed facility spread on 650 square meters.

The Wood and Furniture Cluster Drvo Prijedor was established in 2005 by local companies with support of the Agency for Economic Development of the Municipality Prijedor (PREDA) in order to provide a platform for business cooperation, education, exchange of information, and development of SMEs of the wood and furniture industry sector. Currently, it gathers 11 wood processing companies. The aim is to promote the regional wood and furniture industry and improve the business environment and economic development of this sector. The Cluster “DRVO” Prijedor is supported by PREDA, RARS, the Investment Development Bank of Republic of Srpska, Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) and the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ). The Cluster DRVO is a member of the Southeast and Central European Cluster of Forest-based Clusters.

The Wood and Furniture Cluster Drvo Banja Luka was established in 2005 by local companies with the support of the City Development Agency (CIDEA) in order to provide a platform for business cooperation, education, exchange of information, and development of SMEs of the wood and furniture industry sector. Currently, it gathers 12 wood processing companies. The aim is to promote the regional wood and furniture industry and improve the business environment and economic development of this sector. The Cluster “DRVO” Banja Luka is supported by the City Development Agency (CIDEA), the Republic’s Agency for the development of SMEs (RARS) and Chamber of commerce of Republic Srpska. The Cluster DRVO Banja Luka is member of the Southeast and Central European Cluster of Forest-based Clusters.

The main objective of the Automotive Cluster BiH is to increase the competitiveness of all participating companies of the automotive industry. For this purpose, AC BiH combines the competences of its currently 28 members and acts as a platform and motor for technological innovations, national and international cooperation, marketing and sales. To achieve its objective, AC BiH conducts the following activities: • Representation of its members in trade associations, other organisations and in the public; • Preparation of recommendations and strategies for the development of the automotive industry; • Exchange of information and interests, public relations; • Initiation and maintenance of horizontal networks (e.g. involvement of suppliers of the same value-added chain in common activities for development, production, sales, etc.); • Initiation and maintenance of vertical networks (e.g. involvement of enterprises along the value-added chain (R&D, production, marketing) in the systemic buildup of system competence; • Offering consultancy and services to strengthen the competitiveness of its members; • Measures for awareness-raising to improve the degree of awareness of its members and the business location BiH for international automotive companies and investors.

Research Innovative Technology Centre (RITC) has the following objectives: • To improve the competitiveness of SMEs in processing industry; • To enhance collaboration between private sector, universities and research institutes; • To promote and support research and development activities.

The Innovation Centre Banja Luka (ICBL) foundation is focused on the creation of future - oriented jobs, based on knowledge and technology, providing assistance to entrepreneurs in creating successful companies and assist BiH in transition to a knowledge-based country. The ICBL was established on November 25th 2009 in Banja Luka with help of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Norway, aiming to become driving force of innovation society by linking science and R&D to business sector. ICBL is a concept that is significantly wider than an “ordinary” incubator. While the centre is designed to have an incubator function, it contains education and training elements, conference facilities and so called “business gardens” inspired by the Norwegian experience. ICBL has also contacts with Area Science Park from Trieste, Technopark Zagreb and Serbian R&D Centre.

In 2007 the European Union provided funds for the establishment of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre (CIP) at the University in Zenica (UNZE). EU funding was made available through the TEMPUS programme (Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Studies). The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre UNZE defines its mission in close cooperation and implementation of joint programmes and projects with the Business Start-Up Centre Zenica, Local and Regional Development Agencies – ZEDA and REZ, Business Service Centre (BSC) of the Cantonal Government, Business Incubator Zenica and Business Incubator Vitez. The main goals of the project are: • To promote innovation and entrepreneurship among students and faculty members; • To train trainers; • To create workshops in future technology and practices; • To provide consulting services to enterprises; • And to spread knowledge and expertise that will contribute to economic development in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The centre currently employs 2 persons and engages associates from University on project basis. It cooperates closely with all faculties and institutes within the University of Zenica. The Centre has currently two departments: • The Department for Enterpreneurship • The Department for Business Development (market research, development and design of prototypes, technology and organisational planning) The Centre also has a Multimedia centre, virtual library and business incubator. The CIP will be mostly oriented towards younger academic fellows who should acquire experience and references for their involvement in more advanced organisational units of the UNZE. Moreover the CIP aims to create a scientific environment where exchange between senior researcher and junior researcher will be promoted.

The mission of MTTC is to increase the competitiveness of domestic firms operating in the tool and dye industry. MTTC offers services based on advanced technologies through the virtual engineering model. The centre is positioned as a destination for the most advanced technologies that utilize licensed software and accredited engineers. It was founded as a collaboration of the EI project with seven regional companies.

The organizational structure of the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina is regulated by the Regulations concerning the Internal Organization of the Institute for Intellectual Property of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which was adopted on the Assembly 104 of the Ministers Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina held on November 4, 2009. The Institute consists of: • Copyright and Related Rights Council; • Council for the Development of Intellectual Property Users; • Council for Intellectual Property Protection. The Institute conducts further activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina: • It coordinates the procedure for the acquisition, maintenance, transfer and cessation of industrial property rights (patent, utility model, trademark/service mark, industrial design, and geographical indication); • It coordinates the procedure for the registration of integrated circuit layouts; • It coordinates the procedure for the international registration of industrial property rights under the international conventions to which Bosnia and Herzegovina acceded; • It pursues the tasks in the domain of copyright and related rights, relating to the rights of authors on their works in the domain of literature, science and art, the rights of performers, broadcasting organizations and phonogram and database producers; • It issues licenses to the associations of authors and other copyright holders for the collective management of such rights and it supervises their work; • It carries out information and documentation tasks in accordance with the standards set out by the world intellectual property organization (WIPO/OMPI), laws and implementing regulations governing intellectual property; • It prepares the ground for the accession of Bosnia and Herzegovina to bilateral and multilateral agreements, conventions and treaties in the domain of intellectual property; • It drafts laws and implementing regulations in the domain of intellectual property; • It fosters international cooperation with the institutions in other countries, as well as with the international intellectual property organizations operating at global, regional or other levels.

The objectives of the Technological Park of Mostar are to: • Assist in the establishment, growth and development of technical companies; • Raise the competitiveness of the whole region on the basis of technological development; • Promote and encourage innovation; • Support and encourage research in collaboration with the faculties of natural sciences and engineering; • Arrange technical training for young entrepreneurs. The park aims to train internationally competititve entrepreneurs with the overall goal to create new jobs and raise the competitiveness of the entire region.

The BH Wood Cluster Association is a private sector group promoting networking and joint activities in research and information dissemination, collaborative operations, and joint marketing. It emerged throughout the USAID Cluster Competitiveness Activity in particularly the Wood Processing and Forestry Cluster (WP&F Cluster).

The Wood and Furniture Cluster Drvo Banja Luka was established in 2005 by local companies with the support of the City Development Agency (CIDEA) in order to provide a platform for business cooperation, education, exchange of information, and development of SMEs of the wood and furniture industry sector. Currently, it gathers 12 wood processing companies. The aim is to promote the regional wood and furniture industry and improve the business environment and economic development of this sector. The Cluster “DRVO” Banja Luka is supported by the City Development Agency (CIDEA), the Republic’s Agency for the development of SMEs (RARS) and Chamber of commerce of Republic Srpska. The Cluster DRVO Banja Luka is member of the Southeast and Central European Cluster of Forest-based Clusters.

Foreign Investment Promotion Agency (FIPA) of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a State Agency established with the mission to: -Attract and maximize the flow of foreign direct investment into Bosnia and Herzegovina, and encourage existing foreign investors to further expand and develop their businesses in BiH. -Facilitate the interaction between public and private sectors, and have an active role in policy advocacy in order to contribute to continually improving environment for business investment and economic development. -Promote a positive image of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a country that is attractive to foreign investors.

Republic Agency for Small and Medium Enterprises was established in accordance with the Law on Promotion of small and medium enterprises, and began its work in September 2004. year. It acts as a legal entity and a non-profit organizations. The Agency is supporting the establishment and development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship in the Republic of Srpska and generating a whole support system of small and medium enterprises. The main objectives of the work of the Agency are to increase participation of small and medium enterprises in the overall economy of the Republic of Srpska, changing the structure of the business through increasing the participation of productive activities and services in the total domestic product, increased technological development, competitiveness and open new markets for small and medium enterprises, increasing the number of businesses and workers employed in these companies and the establishment of regional cooperation with neighboring countries to exchange experiences and implementation of regional comparative advantage in entrepreneurship.

The City of Prijedor got its Development Agency in 2006, aimed at strengthening of entrepreneurship and business environment at the local level. Economic Development Agency Prijedor "PREDA-PD" was founded on 22.12.2006.  The Agency's mission is to promote entrepreneurship, training and support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), creating jobs and the overall improvement of the economic situation in the municipality of Prijedor.

Association for Development NERDA is registered at the Ministry of Justice as a non-profit organization at the state level in May 2004, and officially started operations in January 2005. NERDA acts as a regional development agency for northeastern BiH, comprising 34 local governments and Brcko District (total of approximately 1 million inhabitants). Since its foundation, NERDA has been working on strengthening, coordination and promotion of economic development of NE BiH, mobilizing internal and external resources to contribute to building strong region, improving the quality of life and competitiveness of regional economy. The target group of the NERDA are primarily SMEs and local authorities, as well as other levels of government, universities, NGOs, etc. The main activities aimed to SMEs include: managing the Guarantee Fund for SMEs through a contract with investors and partner commercial banks, providing services through the Center for support and promotion of entrepreneurship, management of development grant fund donors aimed at supporting SMEs, tracking trends in priority industrial sectors in the region and publication of findings in a brochure Barometer of SMEs. The main activities aimed at local governments are strengthening the capacity of local communities through educational courses, training and events on the topic of EU funds and ways to use them, preparation of project proposals, strategic planning, information on current calls for proposals, support for international cooperation, promotional activities and meetings, etc.

The Department of Business Administration of the Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I.) of Epirus, which was founded in the academic year 2013 under the Presidential Decree (P.D.) 84/3/6/2013, belongs to the School of Management and Economics. The Department of Applied Foreign Languages in Management and Commerce and of the Department of Hospitality Management merged in September 2013 and gave birth to the new department. The Department of Business Administration is structured into two main study tracks. In particular, it has two distinct study tracks, each with a distinct number of enrolled students (i.e. students who have passed the national university entry examination): A) Business Administration, which offers two optional tracks to senior students A1) Business Administration A2) Applied Foreign Languages in Management and in Commerce

We have been working together since 2010, and we are driven by our passion for technology and dedicated to developing smart and versatile solutions. We enjoy creating web and mobile Apps with style.

The Technology Transfer Office of the University of Ferrara works on Industrial Property, innovation, research, business creation (startups, spin off) and funding opportunities.

Consultancy and mentoring for supporting innovative business ideas towards trade goals (business development, investment caapcity, trade analysis).

Working in the field of 3D printing, 3D survey, design, architecture, multimedia and web design.

Hi, I'm Viviana Silotto I'm 28 years old and I'm graduated at the Technical Institute A.Gritti, a tourism school. After graduation, I studied Film at the National Academy of Bologna, graduating with honors in video filming and editing. During my studies I worked for about two years Televenezia as an intern, The Regional TV was able to form me in different sectors in the field of video footage, as a TV direct operator both as tele-reporter from the road. I worked two years at Pixartprinting Spa into technical graphics department and as a costumer support in French. I have a strong interest in film, fashion and street art. Now I work as a freelance in the field of Videomaking, I collaborate with two partner Nichola and Giacomo, our collective is Holic, and we make videos,graphics,web etc. We have an office in the centre of Mestre, entirely rebuilt by us. Holic was born in 2014 as a collective oriented to produce video content and graphics for corporate advertising campaigns or individual professionals working in different sectors.We have worked with Magis, Jacob Cohen, Italy Design Studio, IMG Cinemas, I.U.A.V. fashion and regional "Orders of Doctors of Agronomy and Doctors of Forestry of the Veneto ". We have developed several personal projects to enhance our city. I can cite "Zeit" musical event organized in Marghera, a Format aims to enhance the independent music and in 2015 "Profiles" video interviews with candidates mayors to the municipality of Venice, which were intended to learn about the man behind the news. The "Profiles" project is taking different paths, we are developing in different areas, making it a Holic video format. This is our web site http://www.holiclab.com/, like this you can see our works. I hope you will enjoy my work, and i hope to be part of this project.

The core activity of the start-up is assisting SMEs for their development. The start-up support companies giving them the tools to strengthen their internal structures and improve their competitiveness in the local and global markets. The start-up has extensive expertise in the following fields: - fundraising - business plaanning - business strategy - innovative financial instruments (crowdfunding, seed & venture capital) - evaluation of intangible assets - assistance of SMEs in financial operations - EU project management

Business incubator center Uzice is founded in 2008, to support start-up entrepreneurs in the first years, in order to help them to survive on the market. BIC Uzice is located in the Sevojno industrial zone (5 km from Uzice), near regional road Belgrade-Uzice. It facilities of 1600 m2 are composed of 20 business units of 22-115 m2, and has administrative premises with conference hall and training rooms. BIC provides support for young entrepreneurs, in terms of renting business premises under favorable prices, administrative-technical assistance and trainings. It supports manufacturing and innovative companies, as well as companies providing various intellectual services. In addition to support for its tenants, BIC provides advisory services to would be entrepreneurs and existing companies dealing on the market.

WEST METAL GROUP Cluster is established in 2014, and gathers 11 enterprises from Zlatiborski County dealing in the metal processing industry. The other 5 founders are educational institutions (secondary technical schools and high education institutions) and intermediary organization. The cluster is founded in order to improve competitiveness, export and initiate new jobs creation. The vision of the cluster is to become recognizable by its innovative products and services competitive at foreign markets. The mission of the Cluster: • Cluster fosters fellowship and build relationships among its members (companies, institutions) based on trust. • Contributes to increased exports of its members, helping them to come out to new international markets and meet the requirements of these markets. • An important factor in the life of the local community and the state - an organization having an impact on decision-makers that are important for creating a business environment and education

Cacak STP enables cooperation of economy, science and research through development of new ideas. It provides infrastructure, management and technical support to innovative nd newly established companies, by that enabling them further growth and development through expert professional support and technology transfer. We provide following services: • Business –production premises with central heating and air conditioning • Necessary equipment, internet connection and phone connection • A common conference room for meetings and presentations • Using of logotype of NTP Čačak as a business brand • Promotions, media presentations, consulting and education • Support in access to financing sources • Assistance in entering foreign markets and matchmaking with foreign partners STP recognizes its role mainly in connecting entrepreneurs and researchers and companies have better and more competitive products.

Regional Development Agency Podrinja, Podgorine i Rađevine doo, Loznica was established on June 2013, as a result of signed Protocol on Cooperation between municipalities Bogatic, Krupanj, Mali Zvornik, Osečina, Ljubovija and Loznica on joint implementation project for the establishment of regional development agencies in the territory of Western Serbia. In January 2014, the Agency has received accreditation from the National Agency for Regional Development to perform delegated tasks or implement development projects and activities funded from the state budget and other sources in accordance with the Law on Regional Development. Beside this Agency conduct activities in the field of regional development in terms of: the preparation and implementation of professional development programs for the development of enterprises and entrepreneurship, development of infrastructure and the development of institutions and organizations and to improve the capacity of local governments.

The Regional Economic Development Agency for Sumadija and Pomoravlje represents a partnership of private, public and NGO sectors from the district of Šumadija and the district of Pomoravlje. Mission of the Agency is to create conditions for sustainable socio-economic development of the region by building instruments of regional and local economic development and stable network of key factors: the Serbian government, local authorities, the Regional Chamber of Commerce, the National Employment Service, associations of entrepreneurs, universities, financial institutions, donors, NGO sectors, local media and others. Activities of the Agency are aimed at managing the development process in following areas: development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship, human resource development, infrastructure development, tourism development and the development of the rural.

Regional development agency Eastern Serbia – RARIS was founded in June 2007 as a Limited Liability Company by 7 municipalities, Regional Chamber of Commerce Zajecar, companies AD Vodogradnja and AD Road Company from Zajecar and NGO Timok club, Knjazevac. Vision: Balanced and more equal regional development of Serbia. Mission: Creating, supporting and encouraging regional development and creation of a stimulating business environment in Eastern Serbia. RARIS objective is to support development initiatives based on institutional networking and partnerships aiming at sustainable development of Eastern Serbia with special attention to the SME sector in the region. RARIS managers are in contact with over 1200 SME’s providing information, promotional activities, trainings, consulting and mentoring services on a daily bases. Agency also provides assistance with the preparation of documents and applications for financial and other forms of support, as well as with networking to the SME Sector.

Mission of NiCat is to provide companies and community with high class services in the area of professional trainings, standardization, national and international marketing and lobbying in order to increase competitiveness in the field of advanced technologies. Our goal is to increase of the turnover of the cluster members both on national and international market; strengthening of the capacities of the companies for technological development and innovations and development of new technological products and services, promotion of the City of Nis as a favorable location for business operations in the advanced technology field. Our members are: 23 successful local companies from electrical and electro-mechanical industry as well as in ICT industry; Faculty of Electronic Engineering and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – University of Nis and 3 economical development support institutions (Regional Development Agency South, Regional Chamber of Commerce and Business Incubator Nis).

The company for agriculture development Zlatiborski Eko Agrar was founded in 2011. Company is established for implementation of the strategic objectives of Čajetina municipality in the field of agriculture, stated in the adopted planning documents. Within the company there is a laboratory for milk quality control in Kriva reka village for which the funds were provided through the project Zlatiborsko Komski pašnjaci. Eko Agrar is established as a non profit company and it exclusively deals with development of agriculture and support to farmers from the territory of Čajetina municipality.

The institute ZAVOD ZNANJE POSTOJNA was established in 2009 and it consists of three units: Adult education centre, Museum of Notranjska and Cultural centre. It takes care of adult education, tourism, culture and other activities for Municipality of Postojna and performs public service in museums. The whole institution has 15 employees. One of the activities of our Centre is also an Incubator . An incubator is an environment that guarantees favourable conditions for the start of a new company. Beginner entrepreneurs – incubates, are offered an adequate infrastructure. In the future, with the help of external partners, we will develop and trained team offering a wide range of business services to help entrepreneurs, with a view to promoting entrepreneurship and economic development in the region. It is designed for entrepreneurs to overcome the initial difficulties in setting up, organizing and developing business to the stage where business cope alone.

Sprinter is an Italian SME, founded by Antonio Ferraioli, Alessio Flego and Ugo Poli, active in the design and management of projects financed by national and international public funds. Our clients are public bodies, corporations and non-profit organizations. In the headquarters of Codroipo it is also active a small coworking space.

Iside develops and implements innovative and high-performance product in solar energy field. Specifically they are working on two projects with these advantages: − PhotoVoltaic material replaced by easily recyclable materials (aluminum and plastic) − Lightweight, compact, flexible, easy to install − Architectural integration: chance of installation on any kind of flat or tilted surface with a reduced bulk − Structural works and basements are not required

The company aims to empower local small and medium enterprises to become agents of social change, developing innovative projects, which bring to reconsider the intersection ìI between corporate performance and society. Projects aim also to instill in future entrepreneurs the values of social responsibility, the importance of community welfare and the empowerment of creative people. Wh Is a two floors craft factory building, 300 sq.mt, previously used as textile warehouse. Today it offers 22 personal desks in open space; 3 private offices; 1 meeting room, coffee and relax area. Within the small community of freelancers (30 people), members are very familiar with one another. They are professionals mainly in the fields of design (Interior; products; architecture); web and app developers; information literacy consultants; researchers on social entrepreneurship and more in general knowledge workers. After more than one year since its opening, Warehouse has become a very appealing space to emerging entrepreneurs and to local businesses.

Adrifund is the first Slovenian rewards based crowdfunding platform. We launched the platform with the first projects seeking funding on 30th March 2016 so we are fresh on the ''market''. We are an independent Slovenian start-up working with our business partners - Icelandic crowdfunding platform www.karolinafund.com. We are the first in Slovenia who studied and adapted rewards based crowdfunding model in a way that is suitable for Slovenian legislation and taxes obligations for project creators. Air aim is to become an Adriatic (regional) crowdfunding platform (especially for the Ex-Yugoslavian countries) helping creative projects be brought to life with crowdfunding. If possible please add www.adrifund.com on the list of crowfunding platforms that you have published on your website. I am available for any further information on the email provided.

Since its foundation as a spin off at Padova University, ETIFOR has worked to turn scientific knowledge into practical solutions in four defined areas of intervention: forest certification and supply chain, climate change and ecosystem services, international cooperation and rural development. The pursuit of this goal involves working as a consultant and offering high-level training, as well as developing environmental and forest regeneration projects, both innovative and sustainable, in different Countries in the World.

GMP Company has been in business for over a decade. The country we live in is abundant with resources necessary for our operation, it has been our inspiration, it illustrates our diverse needs and teaches us how to adapt to numerous requests of our buyers. We also use our favourable geographical position in sense of good transport connection to export markets. GMP Company employs around 130 employees and this number is growing constantly. Much effort and work has been put in the furniture factory in order to turn ideas and aspirations into current products and business results. At present, we are one of the most famous furniture factories in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region. Our basic activity is production of upholstered furniture for residing purposes. We try to identify the products our buyers wish to buy, we try to fit in their possibilities and satisfy functionality and aesthetics requirements. Interior decoration style represents a life style to a certain degree, because the furniture, apart from it functionality, can show other sides of creativity and comfort.

Company TRI BEST d.o.o. Banja Luka was established in 1996. years and operates in the field of Metal industry, starting with the servicing, design and manufacture of hydraulic components (cylinders, generators, valves, pumps, etc.) as well as market research. first significant results, the company begins to realize at the end of 1998th when they purchased machines for metal and formed workshops that began to produce their own products and services. The next phase of development of the company starts in 2000. when plans were made long-term development firms that were implemented over the past 10 years. Then the defined core business company that was based on the following: The plan envisaged the construction of its production and office space, the development of their own products and the winning technology in the production of the planned products. At the end of this period, we can conclude that all designed plans implemented in its entirety. Development company ran very dynamic so that today the company employs highly qualified personnel, information systems have been introduced to monitor the production process and design and ISO 9001-2008 standards that allow us access to a wider market and to ensure a higher quality of our products and services. Based on the analysis of the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina and neighboring countries, and the assessment of development in some industries had opted that our business activities for the period 2011-2015 are developing in areas where we've had good results. In accordance with these plans, preparing documentation and equipment of production facilities with new equipment in order to provide "CE" Sign for our products, which has enabled us to go to the markets of neighboring countries, Croatian, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia.

The company ARDOR doo was founded in 1996 , with headquarters in Banja Luka . The main activity is the sale and distribution of furniture. Since its establishment, we have developed a network of reliable business partners and satisfied customers we help to enrich your living space , beautify and complement the furniture in our product range. The company excels in retail furniture in the Banja Luka region , where we have already established for years as a leading distributor . Responding to clients' needs and seeking to improve the quality of our work and offer furniture , in 2007 we opened the first distribution and sales center in Banja Luka , of 6000m2 , in the Obilićevo .

Foundry of colored and gray iron was established in year 1917 with the intention to maintain the machinery used in mines of iron ore Ljubija and to produce gray and colored iron for the needs of economy and civilians in surrounding area. It is located inside of the production complex of Mine Ljubija (as it was part of Mine Ljubija) and it is at the site until today. Production was not stopped during the Second World War or during the latest war in ex Yugoslavia, but the scope and structure of production was fully depending on the political and economic situation in surrounding. The main activity and the purpose of the Foundry was to provide maintenance for the machines of the Mines of iron ore Ljubija, whose part it was until year 1992. Significant efforts of modernization and implementing of new products have been made in the period between year 1987 and year 1992 when the production of the covers and drains was implemented. These products had their market in the whole territory of former Yugoslavia. In the period between year 1992 and year 2001 foundry has transformed into public company, then the state at the end into joint stock company with full name: Joint Stock company Foundry for gray and colored iron, ad Ljubija. Main activity of the Foundry today is production-casting of gray iron, bronze and silumin for what is fully equipped. Production program of gray iron consists of standard production of covers and grids produced in low-volume production process. Production of spare parts and other individual products is organized on the basis of samples or models and according to customer requests.

Our Organization exists since 2004. During 2006 we started our primary Business (Management Training) and became authorized Franchisee of Crestcom International LLC (Denver, Colorado, USA) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We also work in Serbia since 2016. Crestcom International is World leading Management and Leadership Training Company. Our Company works with Managers in public and private Sector. We also have trained Sales People in B&H – Clerks, People in Retail Sale, Sales Persons on the Field as well as Sales Directors. We also conduct Consulting Activities in order to improve Processess in private Companies as well as in Public Sector. Since 2009 we assist our Clients in creating strategice Documents (Studies, Strategies, Plans, Models, Analyzes, Research, Reports etc.). Part of our Activities is devoted to Project Cycle Management (PCM). We prepare Project Documentation and implement International and Domestic Projects.

Fagus was established in 1991 in Maslovare (Kotor Varoš) by private capital. At that time, it was a facility for primary wood processing (a sawmill). Today, Fagust is continuing a tradition, wherefrom it draws a great experience for production of windows and doors made of natural materials. Top quality windows and doors of Fagus company are 100% made in Republika Srpska. They are developed and manufactured in modern facilities in Banja Luka with over 350 employees. To a large extent, the high standard of quality starts with innovation and willingness to improve in order to continuously follow the latest developments of techniques. Fagus generates a large part of the sales through export from Srpska into: Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Germany, England, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Spain.

Economics Institute of Banja Luka was founded in 1960, and has the status of scientific institution has since 1972 . Our years of experience , confirmed the realization of more than a thousand projects during half a century of existence , enables us to offer clients creative solutions in response to the challenges of modern business. Economics Institute is a modern consulting company which , through financial services and business consulting , provides support to clients in the public and private sectors and contribute to the development of socio - economic environment . We are a member of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN ) and the Association of Southeast Europe Economic Institutes ( SEEA ) .

The University of Banja Luka is the leading higher education institution in the Republic of Srpska which provides a high quality education and efficient studying conditions for an optimal number of students and offers research applications and services for both economy and other institutions. The university is devoted to long-lasting, organized activities in order to improve the quality of its functions, which proves to be the only manner of keeping the leading educational role in the country and gain international recognition, which is our primary mission and vision. We are interested in the progress of the local community and the society in general so we willingly offer our intellectual potentials to companies and institutions. he University of Banja Luka was founded on November 7, 1975. The University of Banja Luka consists of 15 faculties and the Academy of Arts with the total of 55 first-cycle study programmes. The teaching process is run by 784 full-time professors and teaching assistants. Furthermore, there are 170 part-time professors, 168 guest lecturers from abroad, and 121 associates in charge of clinical practice. The administration service covers 82 professional associates and lab administrators, and 476 office workers. Currently, there are around 18, 000 students from both the Republic of Srpska and abroad. So far, 30,571 bachelor degrees, 304 MSc and MA degrees, 700 specialization degree, 1,104 MPhil degrees, and 537 doctoral degrees have been awarded. The majority of our faculties are located at two campuses in the vicinity of the Vrbas River bank and the city centre. The campuses include student residences, restaurants, sport courts, student clubs, and the University IT center.

Founded in 1943, Standard a.d. from Prnjavor is a furniture manufacturer with a long tradition. As part of SOUR Šipad, Standard has been until 1985. producing mostly school furniture. From that expertise it transfers its activity to the production of furniture for households from mixed materials all until 2000. By the virtue of outstanding quality and successful design, Standard has grown in the 1980s, in a company with 300 employees which has been distributing its products in both domestic and foreign markets. In the period from 1990 to 1995 Standard has operated with smaller capacity. Cooperation with the Swedish company IKEA began in 2000, when Standard had 90 employees. That same year, Standard has been registered as a joint stock company, which was a precondition for starting the sale of shares. During 2004, Swiss company Daccomet AG from Zurich started privatization and currently owns 84.5% of shares. State funds own 14.6% and small shareholders own 0.9% of shares. After the purchase of the majority Standard’s shares by Daccomet AG, three cycles of investment in equipment, facilities and training of employees have been conducted with the aim of improving the quality and increasing the capacity. Standard currently employs over 300 workers and has started with the fourth investment cycle. Besides the investments in upgrading technological and organizational processes Standard a.d. did a lot in the field of environmental protection, which is essential for the efficient and modern way of doing business. We are aware that technological development has more increasing impact on the protection of the environment so that we have, in order to preserve natural water resources, decided to build a modern, compact and portable device for biological-aerobic waste water treatment – Biorotors Tehnix. Standard a.d. operates in accordance with IKEA requirements out of which IWAY is one of the strictest environmental and social standards. IWAY standard refers to the minimum requirements for environmental, social and working conditions in the process of purchasing products, goods and services. We are currently implementing ISO 50001 for energy efficiency. Sustainable development in our business will allow us to ensure long-term access to key raw materials, strengthen competitiveness and increase productivity. In addition, it will help us to stay ahead of future potential competitors in the market.

Main activity of “Delfin-Trgotrans" Co is primary and secondary wood processing. From the very beginning, significant funds were invested into the purchase of automatic wood processing machines and construction of business premises. Modern environmental standards are respected and applied at production. Full utilization of logs enables preservation of the local forest resources.

Wood and timber industry Vukelic d.o.o. Aleksandrovac was founded in 1997. The company’s main office and its section are in Aleksandrovac, in the Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The factory is located 20 kilometres from both the Croatian border and the capital of the Republic of Srpska, Banjaluka. The company is founded as a joint-stock company, with private means only, and it is one of the biggest wood-processing company in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Wood and timber industry Vukelic d.o.o. deals with primary and secondary wood process, production of half-finished products and placing of its goods. The company employs 150 workers, and the production is organised in three sections located on the area of 60 000 m2. Applying high standards, The Sawmill, The Section for Elements Production and The Section for Panel Production produce square-edged timber, different kinds of elements and top-quality panels. Complete production of Wood and timber industry Vukelic d.o.o. is exported to western Europe: Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Norway, Great Britain, as well as to Asian countries: China, Japan, Malaysia, the competitive markets that are very demanding when the quality is in question.

The company was founded in 1957. Since 2001, after privatization company operates as a joint stock company under the name Metalna Industrija Prijedor. On day 23 January 2014 legal form of the company was changed into a limited liability company. Primary production is focused on manufacture of welded steel structures and components of carbon structural stee for various industrial application. The company disposes with 52000 m2 ground space, of which 6000 m2 indoor production spaces, which is served by 5 bridge cranes with maximum loading capacity 80 t. Existing production capacity allows us production of approximately 5000-6000 tones per year of welded steel constructions and assemblies.

The association is founded in 1999 by entrepreneurs from Zepce and acts as a NGO. The members and beneficiaries of UPIP's services are SMEs, businesses, start-ups, associations, cooperatives, family farms from the agribusiness sector. The work and activities of UPIP Zepce are focused on strengthening of economy and improving of business environment, through the establishment, strengthening and development of infrastructural "hard" support for the development of business activity, business incubator, agri-food innovation center, experimental products, mechanical ring, craftsmanship and "soft support" services. UPIP organizes and tracks primary agricultural production, supports application and implementation of innovative processes and new technologies, launches initiatives for the adoption of sectorial policies and measures. UPIP is involved in networking at local and regional level, promotion, research and finding new markets, administrative and technical services, rural development, education. Independently and in partnership with similar organizations, UPIP realized a number of development projects financed by foreign funds (90% EU funds) and co-financed by BiH institutions. UPIP continuously cooperates with academic community, local and regional development agencies, associations, SMEs and cooperatives working at local, regional, cross-border and transnational level.

University Entrepreneurship Centre is the coordinating unit for cooperation of the University of Banja Luka with business sector. We promote entrepreneurship among our students and professors, through training, mentoring, incubation and other business development support services. We also provide consulting, project management and knowledge and technology transfer services, as well as business development training to enterprises.

Apulia Invest is the perfect partner for foreign and Italian buyers who intend to seek out and evaluate a residential or productive investment within the region of Apulia. In an historical moment characterized by significant and widespread economic hardships, Apulia Invest stems from the need to create opportunities for development in Apulia, resulting in important implications for the production of a region that still has great growth potential and utilization. The Company (Apulia Invest) offers personalized and expert advice, ensuring an efficient and practical support aimed at providing the answers to all the needs of those persons who intend to take advantage of the investment opportunities that this land, from the point of view of tourism, industrial, cultural, logistical and commercial offer. Apulia Invest, providing strategic consulting and operational services to the business, aims to attract and facilitate investments in the territory in which it operates, becoming a bridge between the economic potential of Apulia and entrepreneurial skills and investment capacity in any sector. The incoming business service that the Company offers, flexible and modifiable to fit the needs and expectations of the Customer, avoids the problems that an investment in an unknown territory and an unfamiliar social and economic situation might face, limiting thus the risks. The strategic line identified by Apulia Invest optimizes the time and cost of investment, allowing the Customer to easily overcome the problems related to bureaucratic delays and complexity of the Italian legislation, very copious and often difficult to interpret. Its deep foundations rooted in the territory, allowing to Apulia Invest to provide advice and assistance of all kinds through its network of more than 50 professionals specializing in the field of legal, tax, commercial and technical, supporting the Customer not only in the start up phase, but also in the management and development of the project / investment.

ID106 is an innovative space located in Pesaro created in order to stimulate and develop new ideas and concepts. Startuppers, designers, talents from different sectors work all together inside the space of ID10, where they find the perfect conditions to develop their businesses. Our premises have been developed in order to give to the users the sensation of being in a creative environment, having the possibility to share ideas and experiences, to get a sort of “reciprocal innovative contamination” 1200 sq m 43 DESKS FOR START UPS 10 CO-WORKING POSITIONS 1 MEETING ROOM 1 CERTIFIED ROOM FOR TRAININGS AND COURSES

Unioncamere del Veneto is the association of the 7 Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture of the Veneto Region. Unioncamere supports and promotes the regional economic system by facilitating the relationships among the Veneto Regional Government and the other Local Authorities. Its strategic function has become even more significant since the transfer of the political, regulatory and administrative powers to the Regions. Unioncamere supports also the simplification of relationships among enterprises and Public Administrations, creates opportunities in the fields of Research and Education and promotes initiatives supporting the economic development of the Veneto Region and the internationalization process of SMEs. Eurosportello del Veneto, the EU Policy Department of Unioncamere del Veneto, born in 1991 as Euro Info Center (EIC IT- 378) to inform, advise and assist businesses on EU issues. Coordinator of Friend Europe Consortium of Enterprise Europe Network in the North East of Italy. The department staff has developed an excellent knowledge of EU institutions and programmes and thanks to the participation to EEN acquired specific skills in the field of innovation support, internationalization services, research and innovation, technology transfer and SME feedback. The combination of new skills with the typical competences of the Chambers of Commerce - such RDT, trademarks, patents, start up support, organization of SMEs dedicated events, training for companies - has made it a reference point for the whole region. Furthermore the participation to EEN is for Eurosportello del Veneto, and than for Unioncamere del Veneto, an opportunity to enlarge and consolidate its European and international links with experienced organizations to support clients and build cooperation.

SIPRO-Local Development Agency of Ferrara (Italy) is the technical board which is in charge of supporting the territory in implementing activities thought for the local economic development. SIPRO works in strong collaboration with local authorities, the University of Ferrara and SMEs both in the framework of EU funded projects and national/regional projects. The fields of intervention: • Low carbon economy: renewable energy, energy efficiency for businesses and public entities; • Innovation and business promotion: business incubation, entrepreneurial culture promotion, support and promotion of innovative startups and Cultural and Creative Industries; • Smart cities initiatives: project design and development of smart cities solutions; • Territorial development: brownfields and sites regeneration, valorization and promotion of the cultural heritage; • EU project management (cross-cutting field): management-coordination and financial responsibilities of several European funded projects.

Tecnopolis was created in 2009 for the management of the homonymous Science and Technology Park, located in Valenzano, 12km far from Bari in the Apulian Region. Tecnopolis PST promotes and develops the science park strategy through: • The management of technological services, logistics and maintenance related to the premises; • The attraction in the Apulian Region of labs, research centers, public bodies and innovative companies; • The creation of new innovative companies and university spin-offs; • The valorization and the technology transfer of research results towards small and medium companies; • The support to local public bodies in the promotion of local development; • The advanced educational activity of entrepreneurial and technological character. Tecnopolis PST offers the following services: • Localization in the Science Park premises of initiatives with a high level of innovation • Certificated incubator of innovative companies and offer of co-working spaces • International cooperation and cross-border opportunities sustained by the EU projects • Applied research projects with companies and universities and research organizations • Training of hybrids profiles and entrepreneurial education • Information, orientation and education on the opportunities of creating a company, mainly in high intensity of knowledge sectors; • Scouting of the innovative potential(business idea); • Coaching during the whole period of development of the company: pre-start-up phase, start-up, development and way-out; • Technical assistance and strategic advice in the business plans preparation; • Assistance for searching and selecting financial partners able to sustain an effective startup and the final juridical configuration of the new companies. The key persons involved in the project have the following skills: - Researchers in the innovation and technology area - Teachers for adult and long life learning education - Consultants for SMEs in the area of strategy, marketing, technologies and financing.

Auleda is a non-profit non governmental organization established in August 2003 in Vlora, Albania, as part of the international network of Local Economic Development Agencies sponsored by ILSLEDA. It is an independent body, with its own legal structure and functional autonomy, based on a public-private partnership.AULEDA mission is to sustain the social, economic, cultural and environmental development of Vlora region, reinforcing and integrating its own resources according to the principles of human development. Specifically, AULEDA contributes to establishing and strengthening local and regional Strategic Planning in Vlora area, and provides support to institutions and civil society in their commitment to comprehensive local development. AULEDA innovative characteristic is its approach to territorial development. Indeed, it is the first Albanian organization dedicated to enhancing the involvement of regional public and private stakeholders in the process of regional development, therefore constituting an example of good practices and defining a reproducible model of regional management. AULEDA not only realizes feasibility studies for development initiatives and helps in defining the territorial strategic planning, but also supports the development of local people's capacities and skills in territorial management and the application of participatory methods in regional development decisions... Moreover, AULEDA is directly committed to the population of Vlora district, with initiatives that sustain economic activities with a positive social impact and support a working model that favours professional inclusion of vulnerable groups. Providing services as mapping of local resources, support to business planning and management, sustain to enterprises networking and to social economy, and mostly operating in priority economic sectors for regional development as sustainable tourism, agro-food production, fishing and craft, AULEDA serves about 300,000 residents in the seven municipalities and 19 communes of Vlora district. In the last ten years AULEDA has demonstrated responsibility and professionalism in realizing its mission and objectives, attracting the interest and financial support of, among the others, UNOPS, UNDP, European Commission, Oxfam GB, Soros Foundation, Italian Cooperation, American Embassy in Tirana

The Agency for Innovation was founded in 1988 and deals with the promotion of Innovation processes in local public administration, of consulting and development of the area and the local economy. API also focuses on the dissemination of best experiences of Innovation within the public sector on a national and international level. It also organizes seminars and conferences in collaboration with industrial partners, and professional services company. API since 2002 manages EU projects, providing consultation on innovation and technological development, support to PA and SME's.

ATLANTIS Consulting is a private firm (est. 1992) composed of highly skilled employees (engineers, economists, IT experts). The company has experience in the fields of business management consulting, RTDI strategic planning, ICT research, entrepreneurship, science, technology & innovation policy, evaluation and impact assessment, management, implementation and support of national/international projects.

LIR – Evolution is a development, consulting and research agency, qualified to work on different aspects of sustainable development including economic development, environmental protection and management, energy efficiency, renewable energy and waste management. Experienced members, who have long-term extensive experience in identification, design and implementation of integrated and development projects funded by European Union and other various financiers, established LIR Evolution. LIR Evolution has implemented 34 projects on sustainable economic development, waste management and energy efficiency. LIR Evolution has 6 full-time, 3 half time employees and pool of over 20 associate experts. Mission of LIR Evolution is to implement and coordinate development of projects and to offer consulting services for the achievement of the sustainable development based on a balance between economic efficiency and energy efficiency without negative influence on environment.

RDA Green Karst acts as an institution on the regional level with the aim of enhancing development in all aspects of working and living in the Primorsko-notranjska region. It functions as a regional co-ordinator of interests on the local as well as on the national level in the fields of regional development, economy, human resources, environment and natural resources management, and rural development. The RDA Green Karst aimes at developing, enhancing and sustaining regional development and provides development, organizational, technical and professional support through the following services: • coordination and communication with the aim of enhancing participation of regional stakeholders, • project development and management, including financial management, • training for public and private sector, • information, communication and promotion activities. The RDA Green Karst is a reliable partner with extensive experience in project management, consulting services and regional development. Our staff are dedicated, knowledgeable about various areas of interests and determined to generate changes in our natural and social environment. Therefore we welcome you to contact us with the possibility of creating future partnerships.

Juraj Dobrila University of Pula was founded on the 11th of October, 2006, and it was registered with the Commercial Court Registry in Pazin on the 21st of December 2006, as a legal successor of the "Dr. Mijo Mirković" Faculty of Economics and Tourism, Faculty of Philosophy in Pula and Higer Teacher Education and Training School in Pula. The University is organized on the basis of an integrated structure principle, using the department-based structure with common administrative and technical services, which allows an efficient and high-quality way of accomplishing the mission, objectives and development strategy. The constituents of the University are the Departments/Faculty which are structured according to the classification of science into areas (social, humanistic, artistic and bio-technical) and fields (economics, education sciences, linguistics, history, music, biology), thus allowing the teaching and scientific research component to be integrated into a whole. Implementing the Bologna process, adjusting our teaching and non-teaching methods to the European standards and bringing study programmes into a line with the economic needs are the basic foundations of strengthening the quality at the Juraj Dobrila University. Juraj Dobrila University of Pula is organized towards project creation and implementation (office for international cooperation and EU projects, a relevant number of young scientists from different fields of research). As a public body which operates in the field of science and high education it has strong capacities for the development of educational and training programs which can be created for various target groups including SMEs.

VIDAVO develops innovative mobile applications, assisting citizens on-the-move and medical professionals to better manage health and wellness. Monitoring of chronic conditions, like diabetes, hypertension over tablets and web platforms, telemedicine applications as well as services for aging & independent living is where VIDAVO innovates, bringing healthcare via your mobile device!

InnoPolis’ vision is to promote a holistic sustainable approach of innovation – both technological and social, in harmony with cultural values predominant in the different communities, societal groups and regions of the world. Innovation and Culture activities are structured around a number of main strands according to their focus and level of intervention: local, national, transnational, regional, interregional, supranational, worldwide. {policy for Regional Competitiveness / Awareness Raising / Education and Training / Projects / Networks / ICT and cross thematic dialogue & culture} InnoPolis mission is characterized by the continuous pursuit of actions related to inter-regional innovation taking into account the cultural dimension. Executive from the EU Integration networks of excellence domain, ex National & EU Officials & Regional practitioners, Academia & research fellows, Business Community represenatives.

European Regional Framework for Co-operation - E.R.F.C. - taking stock from a host of EU networks of excellence, which its founders participated or initiated, is established in a converge region (Aegion, Western Greece), with an ever expanding network of offices in other Regions in Greece (Corfu, Thessaloniki), EU (Brussels), in the World (Montenegro Podgoritsa). ERFC, aims at serving as a best example of bottom up Institution Building towards EU Integration for the benefit of the citizens and inter-regional competitiveness, playing a key role, contributing in the implementation of EU Regulations and Directives through its participation in EU funded networks & projects, at interregional level. Mainstreaming EU project recommendations into National & Regional policies is its ultimate goal. Territorial Co-operation is enhanced as ERFC’s members and associates are key EU Integration executives, Public Bodies, Academic Institutions and Civil Society bodies, securing the creation of economies of scale.

DoubleIP was established in November 2009 by a group of people with extensive technological and marketing know-how, envisaging that their Ideas Put In Practice can fulfill the needs and requests of the highly demanding mobile services and communications age. Through evolutionary use of technology DoubleIP focuses on: Mobile Marketing activities, embracing and elevating user interactivity and engagement of consumers with brands using any available means of communication. Mobile and Internet Applications and Services, astonishing consumers and business customers by continuously challenging the unlimited creativity of individuals and teams. VAS and B2B inventive service offerings, leading our customers to competitive advantage, increased ARPU and superior technological infrastructure and knowledge, which eliminate the barriers of advancement and change. We commit to continuously expanding our leading ideas with new products and technologies geared to customers' needs.

Family Goes Out is making family life easier ! Created by parents for parents, we are helping you find the perfect place for activities and vacations for your family in Greece.

ATHLENDA is a startup based in Pylaia, Thessaloniki, Greece. ATHLENDA specialises in the domain of Sports Media Services.

Wanderlust is a Private Company based in Athens, Greece. Our vision is to create a web platform that showcases Greek thematic tourism by offering a one-stop service; an appealing and user-friendly application where travellers can design their trip by combining different kinds of accommodation and alternative activities such as agricultural, adventure sports, culinary experiences, cultural tours and events. We are part of the "egg - enter-grow-go" programme, a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative by Eurobank designed and implemented in cooperation with Corallia, that aims to boost young innovative entrepreneurship and improve employment opportunities for young people in Greece.

GPSeminars specialises in dramatised and continuing education programmes and consulting services for adults and businesses, and scientific support communities for children and adults development.

Glossopolis is a Greek language e-learning platform that helps you communicate in all the possible situations you may need to speak Greek in Greece. The main philosophy of Glossopolis is that the best way to learn a new language is to visit the country that is spoken and speak with the locals so we help you have access to a series of local businesses and speak Greek with the well trained personnel. When you get there and you speak the language there is a very nice reward for your effort! You get reduction from 15-30% for the services of the businesses you have visited! In this way, you save money during your holidays and you feel the place as locals do! This new language learning method and way of tourism is called Linguistic Tourism. So instead of being just a tourist why don’t you become a linguistic tourist?

EPI SYSTEMS SA provides continuous market, high quality technology solutions and services, adapting all the particularities of each sector/market. Information-Communication & Automation projects.

SAINTIAGO is a mobile applications development company with headquarters in Athens. SAINTIAGO has developed the nutrINsider with the descriptor “All in one supermarket app”, an innovative platform for consumers, FMCG manufacturers, supermarkets. nutrINsider is an award winning application: “APP FOR THE YEAR 2015” (Infocom Mobile World), “P FOR CONSUMERS” Silver award (Mobile Excellence Awards).

ATLANTIS Consulting is a private firm (est. 1992) composed of highly skilled employees (engineers, economists, IT experts). The company has experience in the fields of business management consulting, RTDI strategic planning, ICT research, entrepreneurship, science, technology & innovation policy, evaluation and impact assessment, management, implementation and support of national/international projects.

Brite was established in 2009 with offices in Greece (R&D) and the US (Marketing / Sales) and is funded by its founders. We have also completed a contract with the Corallia Cluster Initiative that aimed at validating our technology for volume production. Brite's technology for 3rd Generation Photovoltaics is patented. We develop technology and products for solar glass PanePower™, transparent, colored PV panels, suitable for usage as green house covering and building windows. Brite's vision is to become the leading supplier of power producing solar glass for greenhouses, homes and office buildings worldwide. Our Mission is to develop and establish the volume production technology for achieving solar panel efficiency of 5% or better with a transparency of 70% or better at competitive cost. Our technology will enable the mass production of solar panels, which can be used as windows in greenhouses, homes and office buildings. These panels can produce energy using both sunlight and artificial light. Our solar cells with new composite organic / inorganic lightweight nanostructured materials, contain a solid electrolyte as opposed to competing technologies using a liquid electrolyte that suffers from long term reliability problems. This is the first reference solar cell with competitive performance and cost, achieving a 70% transparency and thus suitable for use in greenhouse applications.

Smart Service & Solution is a management consulting company , specialized in helping companies and organizations in the definition and implementation of strategic plans, bussiness model, lean startup and business model.

MIVOQ provides software and services to allow anyone to create personalized synthetic voices. In order to obtain a personalized synthetic voice, the user should simply read and record a few sentences and submit them to the MIVOQ servers, which will create a model, in digital format, of the voice of the author. The user may then share this digital voice with other users or just use it. The digital voice will be available for all the applications requiring the generation of speech, such as e-mail/sms readers, telephone services, e-book readers, GPS navigation systems, Web applications, VOIP, video games, home automation, and others. MIVOQ services can effectively be integrated with Web 2.0 services (blogs, social networks, instant messaging) and by the last generation of advanced electronic devices, giving an added revolutionary value. An example could be the possibility to listen to messages of a chat conversation with the voice of the authors themselves, or automatically create an audio podcast starting from the content text of a blog.

Ez Lab srl is an innovative Italian start-up working in the field of advanced IT solutions for Semantic Web and Open Data in CLOUD environment, in particular the development of cutting edge software solutions for the agroindustrial sector. EZ Lab srl is registered in the Italian National Registry of Research of the Ministry of University and Research and it has been allocated with the number 61902YCD. The company was created in the middle of the year 2014 as a spin-off of different esearch projects developed with the University and the Center for Applied Research of the University of Padua. Its offices are in Padua at the Start Cube - incubator of innovative businesses. Despite its high – valued experience in research and development project, Ez Lab is clearly oriented to marketable product and services.

ENERGAID [ENERgy-Gain Active-Insulation Device]. A innovation that enables the construction of prefabricated, thin walls and roofs that are competitive and air-conditioned exclusively from renewable energy sources (geothermal, hydrothermal or solar). In many cases the application of ENERGAID will also be possible in existing structures, permitting radical energy requalification, also combined with architectural requalification/upgrade, providing even more economical benefits.

Veneto Innovazione Spa is the in-house company of the Veneto regional Government. It was set up with the regional act n. 45 of September, 6th 1988. The aim is to promote and develop applied research and innovation inside the regional production system, particularly focused on SMEs meaning to pursue high technological standards, environmental improvement and human resource qualification. Veneto Innovazione gathers and co-ordinates scientific, organizational and financial resources existing or converging in the region, with the goal to transfer acquired information on new production processes and research results and to urge SME technology growth. Technology growth interests many and various sectors and Veneto Innovazione is the ideal partner not only for manufacturing companies, but also for service and commercial businesses, for research centres and public administrations.

Inform, Develop, Motivate for a democratic and prosperous society. IDM provides expertise, policy analysis, applied research, and capacity building for key societal actors to drive reforms and engage in evidence-based policy processes. IDM mission is to advance societal capacities, generate and provide knowledge, skills and expertise for inclusive policy making and evidence-based alternatives to bolster democracy and sustainable development. By combining the advantages of a knowledgeable think-tank and a resourceful operational non- governmental actor, the Institute’s expertise extends in the following thematic areas: o EU enlargement process with a specific focus on Western Balkans’ accession o Human capital development, management and result oriented performance o Sustainable integrated development with particular focus on EU development policies o Good governance, decentralization reforms and inclusive policy processes o Consolidation and development of civil society sector as a powerful actor to generate broad consent, values and positive change o Security sector reform and specialized studies on security issues.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Tirana (CCIT), is an institution of public right, independent and non-profitable, functioning according to the Law Nr. 9640, “On the Chambers of Commerce and Industry”, approved by the Albanian Parliament on 9/11/2006. CCIT is the biggest and the most powerful Chamber in Albania, founded in XIXth century (prior 1897 year) and representing today an institution combining the old national traditions with the modern experience of the European Chambers. THE SERVICES OFFERED BY THE CHAMBER  Executive Services  Business Service  Registration & Consular Services  National Registration Centre (NRC)  Joining the Fairs  Industrial Property Protection  Chamber's Projects  Bids  Training  Consulting  Fairs  Business forums  Trainings/Workshop  International events Chamber's Projects The CCI Tirana has been leading or implementing partner in various projects under various funding. Our team has proven the ability to analyze the state of art: research aiming at identification of the size of the problem; generalize the best practices and transfer the “know how” and share experience through training, roundtables, study-visits and organizing awareness campaigns. CCIT has a separate Department of Projects and Trainings (ACBRT). The main goals of this department are as follow: 1. encouraging and carrying out studies, researches, projects, information and training activities in interest of the small and medium sized enterprises and business development in the Tirana Region and country as a whole; 2. encouraging the contacts and networking with other research, education and training organizations in the country and abroad aiming at increasing the collaboration and exchange of ideas and experience on business research and training, approach and integration in the European legal and institutional framework.

Yunus Social Business (YSB) helps create social businesses around the world. YSB sets up incubator funds and accelerator programs across the world, helping people in developing and emerging countries to become successful entrepreneurs through financial support but most importantly through training, coaching and mentoring as well as access to local and global networks. YSB has been co-founded by Peace Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus to scale his experience in setting up over 40 social businesses in Bangladesh. YSB has an enthusiastic team of management consultants, venture capital and international development specialists. Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany and with subsidiaries in Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, India, Tunisia and Uganda, Yunus Social Business is expanding the social business movement around the world. In Albania it started its activity in 2012 with the initiative of the Government of Albania

I am an experienced Management Professional with a solid – almost 20-year - background in addressing a range of development issues through civil society, government, business, UN, EC and other international agencies. My capabilities are a combination of meticulous, deadline- oriented, coordination skills with creative research-based problem-solving attitude allowing me to plan, design, manage, monitor, assess and advise on topics ranging from human rights and education issues to local development and good territorial governance with a view on making good and efficient use of resources. Particularly committed to fostering the highest standards of professional ethics and responsibility which drive my positive attitude in dealing with people, my high communicative outlook and enhanced leadership skills as well as my adaptability to changing situations.

We are a small company dealing with web design and networking solution.

“Vlora Youth Center” is a non-profit organization operating in the city of Vlora in the public interest, for the respect of human rights and democracy, in accordance with the Albanian Constituency principles, international binding documents for Albania and native legislation. Based on the law of the Non-profit Organizations of May 2001, the registration of Vlora Youth Center was done on November 12th, 2002 at the Court of First Grade in Tirana. Vlora Youth Center is a Juridical Person in the form of non- profit organization (NPO). The Center undertakes and supports the development of youth policies and promotion of the human rights and social integration of the people in need, paying particular attention to the situation and difficulties of the children, young people, disabled people, and women. The Center has the objective to offer to the young people and children, without political, religious, cultural, gender, race or nationality discrimination, services to the benefit of their integration in the work, study and society in general. In collaboration with partners from Italy, Greece and Albania, Vlora Youth Center has:  Implemented a social incubator services for supporting new social enterprises/co-operatives initiatives which include vulnerable groups of people in the labour paths, especially in traditional crafts.  Designed a recognized system of training in the field of social policies and services in Vlora and strengthened local capacities for cooperatives and social enterprises through the production of a Training Handbook and provision of trainings on social policies and services and start-up businesses/enterprises.  Designed a cross border system for the social enterprises and cooperative economy for local development with the definition and participation to a transnational European cooperative association and economic empowerment through the identification of common clusters in the border region such as the production of a Study for the Cross-Border Area Clusterisation and 5 Integrated Sectorial Development Action Plans for the targeted territories.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION University “Pavaresia” Vlore licensed on 12-03-2009 with the decision of the Council of Ministers No. 279 was opened after the publishing of the “Official Book” No.41/2009. This university comes into the sphere of Albanian and European education with a clear mission and well thought of identity. University “Pavaresia” aims to be a place where all students who are looking for a quality education while gaining intellectual, cultural, and local values. This University is made up of two Colleges: The College of Economy and Social Sciences and the College of Applied Sciences. It not only offers a rich variety of titles and diplomas but it also guarantees the future development of its students by putting them in the right path after they have graduated. Our university not only aims at strengthening teaching methods but also focused in being involved in research at the European level. It acts as a research center, which fulfills all international standards of research. We are not only a university which strives to enrich its bright and promising students and set them on the right path for the future, but we are a university that aims at constantly supporting our brilliant staff through research projects and agreements with international partners. These partners will help us to develop further and to continue to progress in our region.

The University of Vlora Ismail Qemali is one of biggest public academic institutions in the south of Albania. It plays an important role on developing continuously human resources in several area of knowledge. Educating professionally, developing values and creating scientific competencies to young people, these are some of objectives that the university has intended during its existence. Transformation processes of the institution in accordance with regional changes that reflect the development of the society and the economy of the Vlora region; these are in the focus of University objectives. The University of Vlora Ismail Qemali is created in 1994, located in the centre of Vlora City in three main buildings. There are available 30 bachelor study programmes, 28 master programmes and 1 doctoral study programme in maths. The university develops a wide range of academic, scientific and social activities, aiming to become an important factor in the southern region of Albania. Here, there are working 217 people as academic staff, and 57 non-academic staff. With its policies, University of Vlora gives a great support to its staff on continuous education and scientific qualification. There is a considerable number of professors and PhD-s in specific fields. The university has been partner in several projects funded by European Commission programmes and its activity is in full compliance with the Bologna process. Nowadays, the university structure consists of four faculties, as faculties of Economics, Health, Technical Sciences and Education. As part of University of Vlora, There are centres of third mission activities attached to the institution. Regional Developing Centre is a new Centre founded by University of Vlora Ismail Qemali as one of Albanian partners in the U3M project, under Tempus Programme. RDC offers training, consulting and promoting services for several subjects of Vlora region. RDC as a research and continuous education Centre for regional development is going to implement the main objectives of U3M Project in order to develop the third mission activities in Albanian Universities. After a work of two years, RDC is established as a multi-functional activity Centre oriented on research, education and social engagement. The main objectives of RDC activity  Ensuring lifelong learning and the job training for academics and Vlora community at large.  Ensuring support for the research and scientific work organizing conferences, seminars and workshops;  Promoting the innovation and transfer technology to business and other institutions in Vlora region  Enhancing the employability of university graduates;  Fostering transfer and multiplication of academic knowledge to society;  Setting up a continuous learning and quality improvement system for the university. Research Activities. RDC centre supports and organizes :  Scientific conferences and workshops for academic staff for well-defined objectives in order to discuss and show research works and innovation ideas in several areas.  Open presentations of student works to promote the best works of them in the labor market of the region.  The centre provides hardware and software tools in the ICT Area to support the individual or group of researchers with access on the web and other information resources. Educational Activities. RDC gathers requests and information on needs to organize:  Short courses on continuous education to achieve some objectives  Three short cycle study programmes  Certification of new competencies for alumni  Support on continuous education of human resources on several sectors of economy and society of Vlora region Promotional and Social Activities. RDC provides a comfortable environment for students and other people of Vlora community to organize social and cultural events like:  Promotional activities and presentations to know the capabilities of RDC centre  Presentation and organization of new release of movies, competitions, celebrations, historical dates celebrations, etc.  Promotion of new innovative solution with economic and social impact in Vlora region.  Organization of open days for schools and educational institutions to know better UV.

Associate Professor Ermelinda KORDHA is actually teaching at Business Administration Department, University “Ismail Qemali” of Vlora, since 1999. She actually teaches Management Information Systems and Marketing Research. The research work includes the participation in more than 20 International Conferences, inside and outside Albania as well as the publishing of over 12 articles in well-known International Journals. This is the result of her professional experience enriched from the implementation of different projects for community development and also the participation as an expert in research and analyses for EU projects.

The Foundation was established on 4th October 2006, by the County of Istria. The Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote international cooperation, philanthropy, volunteerism and overall development of a democratic society, paying particular attention to constant improvement of life in local communities. The Foundation promotes community development and active citizenship by providing financial support, information, consulting and development of cross-sectoral cooperation and other forms of support to civil society organization. According to the European classification, the Foundation for partnership and civil society development is classified into the category of public mixed foundations that combine the grant program and the implementation of operational activities. The Foundation has three functions: 1) Informative: provides important information about civil society. Information on how to present a project idea or how to write a project proposal for EU funding. You can find out all the information in the Foundation’s brochures, newsletter and official website. 2) Financial: throughout the year the Foundation opens calls for proposals and publishes them on its website. The Program Committee of the Foundation, as an independent and professional body, assesses the submitted applications according to pre-defined and publicly available criteria and selects the best projects. Grants awarded by the Foundation for the realization of projects of civil society organizations have been provided by the County of Istria, the Fund of cities and municipalities, the Philanthropic fund and the National Foundation for Civil Society Development. Our partners from these funds provide financial resources and the Foundation sends them back to the community through programs, projects and activities of civil society, thus creating a cycle of mutual support and improvement of life in communities in the County of Istria. The Foundation operates at an international level as well, by writing and implementing projects with foreign partners. 3) Educational: organizes workshops, panels, seminars and roundtables on topics related to the civil sector and the issues important to all citizens. In this way, the Foundation creates the space for citizens to participate, express their opinions and influence decision making processes and to actively improve life in their community. All activities of the Foundation, held and planned, can be followed on the official website.

LiNK is a promoter of economic development, representing interests of entrepreneurs and providing qualified services, active since 2001. The uniqueness of LiNK approach, extensive experience and skills is directly related to entrepreneurs. Based on identification of entrepreneurs’ real needs, LiNK works on advocacy and lobbying towards public policies for better business conditions. LiNK successfully implemented over 50 projects (mainly international). LiNK has built a strong partnership with the Italian Cospe and Oxfam. In BiH, LiNK has built a network of partner organizations for local economic development- LEDnet. LiNK participates in other networks: Network of NGOs BiH Agreement Plus, Network of Incubators BiH, Network of Credit guarantee funds FBiH, Network for Rural Development. Through its technical unit- LiNK Centre of services, they provide the following services: Information on public tenders, competitions within BiH programs to support development; helping in the preparation of applications for grant and loan funds; business consulting; development of business and investment plans; providing loans through the Guarantee fund.

Bosnian Business Angels Network is a network of private investors interested in investing in productive, innovative and export-oriented companies in the early stages of development, and investing in various types of projects.

PI Agency for Development of Small and Medium Enterprises City of Trebinje was founded in 2005 to promote SMEs, provide systematic support to economic development of the City, support citizens who want to start their own business and existing firms in their further development. The Agency's mission is to create conditions and opportunities for an adequate involvement of population and SMEs in economic flows what will, through an integral development of local resources and opportunities as well as concentrated efforts of local stakeholders, improve the sustainable economic development of the community. In addition to the regular activities such as expert advisory services and practical support to existing and potential entrepreneurs, Agency continuously develops new programs, prepares and implements projects contributing to creation of a favourable environment for development of entrepreneurship, organizes educational events for citizens, regularly distributes information related to entrepreneurship and enables direct support to entrepreneurs when possible.

ZEDA is a development agency with mission to create development priorities of Zenica Municipality, create partnerships for implementation of development projects, to prepare projects and coordinate their implementation. ZEDA is the main organization supporting the Municipality development, that is achieved through direct cooperation and strong support by the Municipality as local authority. It is established as a limited liability company in 2004. ZEDA’s development functions  Management of business infrastructure  Implementation of strategic development goals as defined in General strategy of economic development and Strategy of entrepreneurship development, SMEs in Zenica  Promotion of entrepreneurship and development of business environment in the Municipality  Support to SMEs by increasing their competitiveness  Business services market development through support of high-quality entrepreneurs ZEDA mission is to create conditions for development of dynamic, modern and diverse economy in Zenica through the development of entrepreneurship and SMEs by integrating and managing material, human and financial resources.

Our company constantly strives to deliver high-quality renewable energy systems with respect to the environment and to your unique needs! Here at ZEIS we bring together the three invaluable qualities for any successful engineering project: extensive technical expertise, economic sustainability and endless ‘hunger for innovation’!

Erzetich Audio is focused on personal audio, specifically on headphone amplifiers and accessories. Their line of products started with three headphone amplifiers: Bacillus, Bacillus Tilia and Perfidus, as well as a glass stand Tilia Vitro. In 2014 joined them Deimos, a prestige dual-mono headphone amplifier. The company is located in the west of Slovenia, in the woods of Trnovo, not really far away from the border with Italy. Erzetich Audio products keep a clean and fine industrial design, as well as a simple use and positioning. That's why they strive to keep the units as compact as possible by incorporating the power supply directly into chasis. No need for annoying external power supplies. The linden tree being the symbol of Slovenia, they dedicated three products to it: Bacillus Tilia, Tilia Vitro and Deimos. All of them are made of artificially aged linden wood. Every wooden chasis is randomly modelled and painted, so not two of them have an equal pattern.

PRC is a regional development agency. The main task of PRC is to facilitate development in the Goriška statistical Region. Organisation works in the public interest most notably in the areas of business, human resources, environmental, spatial planning and rural development and promotion. We are link between academia, R&D centres, business support institutions, companies and public sector (national, regional and local institutions, especially between municipalities in the region). We have long standing experience with EU and national funded projects as leader partner, project partner or external experts. Working fields: o multidisciplinary projects of regional, local, national, transnational and cross-border cooperation, o entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and innovation, o human resource development, o tourism development, o environment and spatial development, o rural development, o technical assistance and cooperation with partners from the EU and other countries o promotion

Tomappo is a web and mobile application that helps people grow their own vegetables. It guides them through the whole gardening season: from soil preparation and garden planning to the care of the plants and cooking. With the data gathered, Tomappo is the tool for efficient affiliate marketing of gardening related products and services

We are regional incubator for startup companies, located in Slovenia near border with Italy.Primorska Technology Park is a non-profit company that promotes the establishment,operation & growth of technologically-advanced companies offering high market potential. We assist such companies in overcoming business & market challenges in order to enable them to turn their ideas into products&enter the market as soon as possible. We want to create an internationally-recognizable business environment to attract the best innovative, technologically-advanced companies&individuals&institutes from the science and research world.We create an international stimulating business environment where know-how,technologies,innovation,services are integrated.We offer programs for startups in different development stages and assist entrepreneurs in starting a business/business consultancy, offer them business workshops, assistance in obtaining grants,making business plan,verifying business idea, networking.

With a wide range of stone claddings and their accessible prices Aliasko company wants to persuade our costumer that interior and exterior walls can achieve enviable appearance with stone cladding. We are a company with a non-typical organisation which allows us a lean functioning. Our offer will be supplemented and improved in the future according to requests and needs of our costumer. We do not offer only the stone claddings, but also an entire installation consulting, acquisition of suitable installing components and also the proper installation of the products. A safe installation of stone claddings can be guaranteed only by the entire service which is specific and in some cases the professional designing is required. This way the installed product will reach the foreseen life period.

Mojca Stubelj Ars is a researcher, innovator and entrepreneur. She holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences and has been a Fulbright Scholar during her graduate studies. Mojca conducts various socio-demographic studies for different organizations, lectures at the university level and consults on the topics of: environmental protection, sustainable tourism development, early education and decision support. Feel free to contact us for partnership or to discuss possibility for conducting research or educational events together. MINI POLIGLOTINI are multilingual books for children for early language learning. The text in books is always in three different languages and is adjusted for readers with dyslexia. Books include a fairy tale, picture dictionary, rich didactic material, social and didactical game. MINI POLIGLOTINI aims to become the world's leading brand of books and didactic games for early language learning.

Our core services are orientated toward organizations, companies and professionals from the zero phase to the follow-up phase; in particular: 1. Support and consulting services on a wide range of subjects, including law, taxation, corporation, finance, ecc. 2. Support and consulting to organizations, companies and professionals in the process of internationalization or relocation to and from Slovenia. 3. The carrying out of the operative phases, for example: • Company formation • Opening of bank accounts • Personnel search and selection • Commercial property search • Ecc. 4. Strategic activities: • Analysis, evaluation and implementation of corporate structures AD HOC, for specific needs • Active or passive trusteeship for special needs. 5. Turnkey service. 6. Marketing and oriented services. 7. Communication plans, also integrated. 8. Interpreting and negotiating assistance, also abroad”. 9. Multilingual contract drafting

The Regional Chamber of Craft and Small Business has nearly 1.000 members performing crafts or craft-related activities, home and applied crafts, in the following municipalities: Brda , Kanal , Miren-Kostanjevica , Nova Gorica , Renče-Vogrsko and Šempeter-Vrtojba . The Chamber of Craft and Small Business main function is to protect and represent its members, to care for legal procedures and reputation of craftsmen and to make the following activities:  issues permits, licences and runs the register of crafts  on the national level it creates and coordinates the development policy of the Republic of Slovenia  represents interests of the employers and regulates the relations between the employers and employees  independently and directly cooperates with other partners in the area  promotes their members at home and abroad  organizes training programmes for their members and their employees for different branches  ecc

The company LED LUKS, proizvodnja svetil, d.o.o. is a young high-tech innovative company dealing with the development of luminaries, which for operation at the same luminosity need significantly less energy than traditional luminaries and they are more environment- and user-friendly than traditional energy-efficient luminaries. In development the company uses the state-of-the-art technologies for security lighting (security module) and systems for control of light fixtures with the sensor of presence and light. Led luks design LED luminaires that make difference with serving people’s everyday needs and make their life simpler and better. With profound knowledge of light and its effects Ledluks staff assists customers to reach in their projects high lighting quality and perform durable solutions

WORKING EXPERIENCE 2009 to date Founder of NGO “Business Women Association of Montenegro-Business Woman”. President of Business Women Association of Montenegro from December 2013 2008 to date Owner and Managing Director, M.A.S. CODE agency, Marketing & Advertising Solutions Clients: Port of Kotor (Kotor Boat Show), m:tel, , Brown Forman, BBM, Deposit Protection Fund, Ministry for Human and Minority Rights, , Montenegrin Employers Federation, Radio and Television of Montenegro, Parliament of Montenegro, NGO Zdravlje-porodica”, NGO “Civilni centar”, HTP “Korali”, Atlas Hotels Group Eko Jugopetrol AD Kotor, Carpisa Montenegro, NLB Montenegrobank, ReSPA. Projects: GIZ (AIM Project/ Guidelines for harmonisation of Montenegrin consumer legislation”; Project: Support to Tourism Destinations in Central and Mountainous Regions of Montenegro), National Tourism Organization of Montenegro (Joint Promotion and Increased Level of Safety of Nautical Tourism in Dubrovnik-Neretva County and Montenegrin Coast/NauTour), Regional Tourism Organization Bjelasica & Komovi (IPA Cross Border Cooperation Programme Albania-Montenegro Farm Tour), Ministry for Human and Minority rights, Gender Equality Department, Campaign “Rural women”, Ministry of Finance, UNDP Awareness and Engagement Campaign “Grey Economy All Out” (PR expert) UNDP Gender Programme IPA 2010 Economic empowerment of the women (Consultant), Lake Routes Project “Cross Itineraries Tourism System Empowerment and economic development – Shkodra Lake” (Marketing Expert), Women Entrepreneurship - a job creation engine for South East Europe, SEECEL (South East European Centre for entrepreneurial Learning) Working group member. 2008 to date Guest Lecturer for Marketing Management and PR under Directorate for Development of Small and Medium Sized Enterprise and Adizes Institute Montenegro initiative/project: “Chance for Young Managers” and “Entrepreneurs Encouragement in Business - Start up”, UNDP Gender Programme IPA 2010, Business Start Center (BSC) Bar, Project Start W "Supporting the development of women's potential in rural tourism" (Bed and breakfast training), Project Lake Routes (Marketing&Branding and Bed&Breakfast trainings). 2007 - 2008 Media Manager – McCann Erickson Podgorica 1998 – 2007 Editor and Executive producer for the Advertising agency of National TV of Montenegro

Friuli Innovazione is a research and technology transfer centre. It rules the enterprises incubator Techno Seed and the Science and Technology Park entitled to Luigi Danieli in Udine. It provides 4 main services: 1. TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: to promote collaboration between enterprises and the scientific and technological research network. 2. BUSINESS FINANCING: to inform, educate and support enterprises and researchers to identify the most appropriate finance instruments, to identify key operating stages, to search partners and to verify eligibility criteria for European technological research and development programs, European structural funds and Italian funds. 3. BUSINESS START UP: to support and assist the creation of high-technology enterprises. 4. HOSTING: for companies and researchers who want to implement their projects in a dynamic, research oriented environment, we offer an attractive space equipped with facilities and infrastructures to develop science and technology research projects.

Pordenone Technology Park is a Technology Park located in the province of Pordenone, in the North-East of Italy. It deals with technology transfer promoting the dialogue between enterprises, institutions and the regional research system. Through its network of expertise, it encompasses a broad range of disciplines and is able to provide different services, from those aimed at favoring the adoption of technology to intellectual property support services. It is an incubator of potential entrepreneurs, business ideas, innovative enterprises and start ups providing tools, skills and resources to assess the technological feasibility, commercial and economic, and services and support for project management, for development of technology studies, for the improvement of products, for the identification of financing instruments and more. It participates in several European funded projects working on different issues and consolidating national and international partnerships.

The UNIVERSITY OF PADUA supports and promotes the technological transfer sustaining professors and researchers on the issues of the protection of the intellectual property and the creation of academic spin-offs. Moreover the University support the development of new innovative enterprises through a business plan competition (Start Cup Veneto, this year at the 14th edition) and a digital hackaton (H-ack Unipd at the 1st edition this year). Finally, it has promoted together with other local institutions a Business Angel Network (BAN Veneto).

221e develops incorporated “smart” systems for innovative products. It is specialized in electronics and in miniaturized sensors, especially in movement control inertial systems. It creates sensorial platforms that interpret the external environment and execute programmed actions, based on the control alghoritm. The sensors can be used in different industries, from health to sport, from entratainment to security, where the movement is a fondamental variable. It offers an ecosystem of correlated technologies to amplify the utility and the application fields. Everything is developed in-house to deliver ad-hoc solutions to satisfy every need of the client.

A+ SUN SYSTEM is focused on design, manufacturing and commercialization of innovative high quality tensile structures for photovoltaic plants. Its mission is to create and apply innovative technical solutions to photovoltaic plants to make installation easier, broaden applications fields and reduce turnkey costs: "grid parity". SunNet Roof allows installation of photovoltaic systems on difficult roofs where traditional mounting structures cannot be applied. SunNet Ground allows installation of PV systems on landfill, quarry walls, vineyards and orchards.

SME since 2013 developing research, projects, consulting, production, innovation and services referring to ICT, “Ambient Intelligence” and “Smart Environment”.

After 15 year of experience in management – procuration, trade, commerce, marketing, developing brands, developing IT solutions & sailing Adrinaut branding & commerce has developed an innovative concept of the simulation of sailing branding all territory as an enchanting place to visit. The concept has won three internationally rewards (golden medal in Germany, bronze in Switzerland and golden medal in Croatia). First products are entertaining nautical guides - boardgames MediterraNaut & Conquer Adriatic. The player takes the role of a skipper and discover sunken ships, endangered species, national parks, parks of nature, legends, UNESCO sites, autochthonous of the locations - islands, coastline, local winds, regattas and much more. These products have been created to be fun and to awaken the tourist in the player. Products are souvenir, business gift, entertaining and educational for children and adults. Uniqueness of the every place and company in our creations is our adventure.

Aephoria.net is a business incubation program for startup companies operating in Greece. Our goal is to support great ideas and get them through the tough early stages, so that entrepreneurs can transform their dreams into good business with a positive economic, environmental, and social impact. Provide participating startups with education that will enable them to create scalable and replicable business models that have a positive impact on the environment and society. Foster an ever-growing network of sustainability-minded people and companies with deep connections into markets, technologies, and funding. Contribute passionately to the creation of thriving economic, employment, and social conditions in Greece.

AGHETERA conducts research activities and consultancies on the sustainability issues. It participates as partner or subcontractor in several EU programmes for sustainability (Intelligent Energy, H2020, LIFE+, SEE, etc).

Agritest S.r.l. is specialized in diagnostic kits for plant virus detection. The products have been developed to be used by testing laboratories, assisting the nursery industry in pathogen-free certification programs. Established in 1993, Agritest S.r.l. is privately held by the management. Management and personnel were trained in academic and industrial research centers. The production facility is located in the technological park of the University of Bari, Tecnopolis, Valenzano, Italy. The laboratory is fully equipped to conduct the whole manufacture cycles of two product lines, the serological and the molecular: • Plant virus purification and antigen preparation; • in vitro production of monoclonal antibodies; • Preparation of antibody reagents; • Production of RNA and DNA probes; • Freeze-drying of plant viruses and molecular reagents; • Calibration and standardization of the kit diagnostic performances; • Post-sales quality control. Explorative research is also conducted by out-sourcing.

Agrivi is an award winning knowledge base cloud farm management solution focused on helping SME crop farmers to optimize their production process through innovative data-driven approach to farming with goal to improve agricultural productivity, increase yields per hectare, lower costs and make their production competitive. Our objective is to build a revolutionary knowledge-based farm management solution that will completely disrupt the way farmers are growing crops today. Agrivi completely changes existing approach of delivering only plain software support to farmers (without built-in knowledge and intelligence) and brings innovative data-driven approach of managing production with the help of farm management software based on built-in practice knowledge that thinks for the farmer and guides him towards resource-efficient production with increased yields.

The company is deeply involved in the following areas of forensic examinations, corporate governance and consulting service delivery: • Corporate governate • Corporate ICT governance • Integral security (CSO function) • Information security (CISO function) • ICT forensics (private persons, criminal and penalty law investigations, corporate customers) • ICT evaluations and appraisals • Feasibility studies of new technology projects & master plans • Training and education • Business process modeling • Development of ICT human resources The company has experience working for the clients in the most complex and challenging environments & organizations. This involves: • Difficult geographical areas and diverse cultures • Interim management and recovery of failed projects • Work under tight financial, time and quality constraints • Decision-making under stressful and changing project environment conditions.

I was born at 08.10.1974 in Cetinje, Montenegro, where I finished my Primary and Secondary school with the LUCA award for the best results. After that, I started to study a Mechanical faculty University of Montenegro and finished it at January 2000. I was a winner of “Trimo Award” for the doctoral dissertation. I was secretary on 10 national conferences SQM with quality management systems theme and secretary on 3 international conferences with quality management systems theme. I was teams member for organization 5 national conference with theme of maintenance and machine reliability, team leader in 2 projects of laboratory accreditation and team leader in 2 projects of quality management systems implementation. I was member of Montenegrin Government team for development manufacturing program in OBOD-Cetinje factory, member of team for Implementation quality management systems in 9 Montenegrin firm, team member for Implementation standard ISO 17025 (laboratory accreditation), ecc.

Graduated magna cum laude at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan (Italy) in 2004, Alessandra Melini was admitted to the bar in 2006. She worked as an associate for 10 years in major law firms in Milan (Dewey Ballatine LLP, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Grimaldi Studio Legale and Gattai, Minoli & Partners Studio Legale) acquiring considerable experience and specific competences in assisting both Italian and foreign clients on any commercial-law related aspects, with particular reference to extraordinary transactions (e.g. mergers&acquisitions) and other equity transactions. She has considerable experience in the sectors of private equity and venture capital and assisted Italian and foreign players in any kind of domestic investments (e.g. start-up, early stage investment, development capital and follow-on funding, leverage buyout (LBO), management buy-out (MBO), management buy in (MBI) and buy-in management buyout (BIMBO)) and related exit procedures.

The mission at Angelo Investments is to work with talented entrepreneurs and management teams to develop new technologies and build substantial business enterprises around them. We achieve this by providing capital financing to seed early-stage hi-tech companies located worldwide but most importantly by deploying our team to work together with entrepreneurs to create market-leading companies. Entrepreneurs do not view us as typical venture capitalists, they view us as business partners and fellow executives helping them build exciting, market-leading companies. Our business model is one of openness and real collaboration, where we work hand in hand with entrepreneurs to help them succeed and realize their vision.

ANTEO srl is a spin off of Ca’ Foscari University. Its mission is to research and provide advanced advisory services for sustainability strategies, planning and reporting of all the operations under them. Anteo’s competency includes: measuring and reducing the carbon footprint both at corporate and product level; definition of low carbon policies and strategies; natural capital valuation and accounting; sustainability’s KPIs definition; materiality analysis; sustainability reporting and integrated reporting.

ANTLOS is the platform bringing together experienced skippers and boat owners with sea lovers and coastal tourists. The service is designed to resolve those issues that, despite the actual offer already on the market, are a barrier for tourists: costs perceived as not accessible and transparent; low nautical/maritime skills; unclear refund policies. Through the skippers recruiting processes, the central figure of our service, we ensure: all-inclusive prices within reach of the average tourist, captains with several years of experience in the field and location, and a high level quality service, certified and guaranteed by us. Antlos, the best way to enjoy the sea!

APCO is the Italian Professional Association of Management Consultants. APCO is a professional association of individuals gathering and qualifying experts that realize in Italy continuous and professional activities of organizational and managerial consultancy, both individually and as associates/partners or employees of consultancy firms. APCO was set up in Milan in 1968. APCO issues to its members a quality certification pursuant to law 4/2013 about jobs that do not have professional associations , since it is included in the list set up by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. APCO is a member of ICMCI – “International Council of Management Consulting Institutes”, the entity gathering national professional associations that aims at representing and certifying the professional role of its members as coherent to provisions of their statutes. APCO adheres to CoLAP, it is inscribed in UNI and participates in the activities of lesgislative implementation about consultancy. APCO is inscribed in ACCREDIA.

Apulia Kundi is an association of research and science created to promote new solutions and new perspectives able to protect the biodiversity of the planet through the production of microalgae spirulina. Considered since ancient times the "food of the gods", Spirulina is a microalgae green-blue, belonging to the family of cyanobacteria photo synthesizing containing principles of high nutritional value as to be definitaimmagine by FAO the "food of the future." For these reasons and for its vast fields of application in the field of human and animal nutrition, renewable energy, water treatment, cosmetic and general well-being of the person, spirulina found today a high scientific interest the development of green business. "Spirulina, consumed as food for hundreds of years by tribes of various places in the world, possesses extraordinary nutritional benefits, therapeutic and health, because of its high nutritional value." - FAO, 2007.

Atlantech is a spin off of Verona University, which aims to innovate an entire industrial sector, that of the installation of lighting poles. Atlantech proposes an alternative patented foundation to the classic concrete plinth with a lot of advantages.

The company has considerable experience, know-how and expertise in modern financial tools. It collaborates with experienced personnel, which is distinguished by its high level of knowledge, expertise and professionalism, all of which make it especially capable of meeting the most demanding conditions.

ATLANTIS Engineering SA is active in the development and implementation of integrated solutions in the field of electromechanical equipment maintenance and industrial production is a subject of intense activity and research. The company’s vision is to contribute in improving the competitiveness of any company that wants to meet dynamically the modern challenges.

AUTOMATIC STORE SRL is a start up born in 2014 from the experience on the field of industrial automation of Mr. Luciano Vimercati. The main focus of the company is the design, manufacturing and commercialization of automatic warehouses for goods storage. The products have high technological innovative and efficient contents and moderate prices.

AV Consulting is an italian based industrial design and product development agency. We are specialized in product design, mechanical engineering, materials and technologies research and prototyping. It works across a wide array of industries as diverse as medical device, automotive, home applliances, domotic, machinery, lighting to furniture and renewable technologies. With a team of marketing staff, design engineers we offer companies a tailored service assisting companies New Product Development requirements meet the needs of the market, the engineering complexities and the aesthetic values without losing sight of user friendly aspects. We make product that look good, address the need of users and make a substantial impact on the market. 3 departments: Strategy & Italian Design; Engineering & product development; Cost saving, Prototyping & Production. Please visit: www.avconsultingitalia.com

In response to the strong demand for legal advice and assistance in the field of ICT, Law Firm Avvocati D'Agostini has developed over ten years of expertise and experience in new technologies law with particular reference to: - contracts for ICT services and legal advices on open source; - legal aspects of cloud computing; - protection of domain name and brand on the net (in particular unfair competition and misleading advertising on the web); - legal issues of websites and e-commerce; - electronic invoicing and digital preservation of documents; - privacy and information security; - computer crimes; - reputation Management; - intellectuale and industrial law; - business continuity in Public Administration; - digital Administration.

The company has as main purpose the diffusion and the strengthening of economic and managerial entrepreneurial culture , as well as the local economy fabrics development, with particular reference to the startup , according to national and international perspective. To achieve these goals , Bel On Line has implemented tools , processes , products and services to be delivered through the information media. The Network , already frontier of new generation of education , is the ideal channel, both for smartness and potential of interaction , to better communicate the contents which the startup focuses on.

The main activity of Bclever is the development of a new product, Spider: a small device that is able to print any kind of digital images directly on big surfaces. Bclever is involved also in R&D projects regarding machines development.

BIC Incubatori FVG S.p.A is a business incubator, established in 1989 in the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Northeast Italy) with head-quarters in Trieste. BIC Incubatori FVG S.p.A. has been acknowledged as a “Centre for Business Innovation” by the Directorate General for Regional Policy of the European Commission and is a certified member of the European Business Innovation Centres Network (EBN). The incubator is located in the industrial zone of Trieste and covers an area of 12.000 square metres, 8.500 of which house workshops for business ventures. On average BIC Incubatori FVG hosts simultaneously about 30 companies. In 2013 the global yearly turn-over of the companies present in the Incubator was 33 million euros with about 200 employees. Since its establishment BIC Incubator FVG have accompanied 231 start-up companies.

BinaryTree was founded in Greece in 2004 by a group of consultants to address the market need for Data Warehousing solutions. It grew organically, with successful results from day one to become one of the market leaders in the Information Management space. BinaryTree has delivered successfully more than 70 Information Management projects for more than 50 clients the last 3 years. These clients represent all the major industries such as Banking, Telecommunications, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Retail and Public. Even though all these different industries operate very different businesses we find that there are great similarities in the challenges and good synergy effects can be gained across the industries.

BIOCONVERSION is a university spin-off acquired by the activity of a research group composed of veterinarians, engineers&entomologists of the Bari University “Aldo Moro". It designs, builds & manages systems for bioconversion based on a new proprietary technology "e-CORS®"(engineered Conversion of Organic Refuses by saprophages) PRODUCTS–SERVICES: BIOCONVERSION has created a system based on an innovative technology called CORS:exploits the natural ability of insects to digest the organic matter to transform waste into resources with high commercial value. The systems "e-CORS®" optimize the conversion feature of the insects improving performance with the help of automation. Bioconversion has designed a bioreactor able to meet the requirements of: • Modularity; • Extreme Simplicity structural system; • Easy management; • High environmental compatibility; • High profitability coming from waste disposal and the co-generation of products with high commercial value; • No emission of greenhouse gases.

Bionian Cluster is the only cluster of its kind in South-eastern Europe. Focuses on Biotechnology activities including Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals, but also Environmental Sciences, industrial processing, clinical investigation and primary production. Due to its strategic location among Europe, Africa and Asia, and the fact that there are no other relevant biotechnology clusters in those areas, in the near future Bionian Cluster seeks to expand its activities in South-western Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia and Russia. Bionian Cluster's aims are to promote research and market development in Health Sciences and Biotechnology applications and a knowledge-based Bio-economy in South-eastern Europe, to foster competitiveness, knowledge transfer and innovation from the science base to the industry, and to foster job creation and economic prosperity.

BioPicTM is a project that merges agriculture with design, LED lights illumination, nutri- tion, and 3D Printing and Laser Cutting. The end goal of the project is not simply to have nice garden and fresh vegetables, but rather use city agriculture to encourage healthy food choices, promote good health and sustainable choices and fight the ef- fects of climate change.

BLUEFARM srl is a spin-off SME of the Venice University Ca' Foscari, Department of Environmental Sciences, lnformatics and Statistics, established in February 2014. Bluefarm mission is to bridge the gap between scientific research and application in the field of sustainable aquaculture, with particular focus on Mediterranean areas, including North African countries. Bluefarm partners are Dr Roberto Pastres, Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry at the Department of Environmental Sciences, lnformatics and Statistics, and Dr Daniele Brigolin, lecturer on Ecology. Our activities focus on the following key aspects of sustainable aquaculture: site selection and environmental impact assessmenu optimization of husbandry practices and monitoring; production of new species.

A winning strategy is given by the meeting between the entrepreneur, with extensive experience of own product, and Bo. Di. Ltd. , with 10 years of experience. Our agency is able to plan a strategy of visibility completely dedicated to your Company with the aim of finding new Trades and new Clients. After visiting the Company, we are able to produce, free of charge, a check-list of present communication, pointing up the necessary interventions and sharing out the strategy in effective phases in order to work efficiently on the Web. What we can do for you : - Complete planning of the corporate image of the trademark, the catalog, the brochure, etc,. - Graphic design of Web-sites, also Responsive - Set up of business or company Web-site, fully customizable by the Client - Positioning of the Web-site on search engines in order to increase traffic and business visibility - Integrated E-Commerce Business Web-sites - Innovative ICT projects for tourism - Hotel management systems with Booking.

BPW First Croatian Club Pula is the first associated club of Business and Professional Women in Croatia and in the region of Southeast Europe. Club has two hundred members and friends in the county and across Croatia. The main program of BPW Club is to provide the business information, education and lobbying. The club was founded on 3rd March 2001. In accordance with its program, BPW First Croatian Club Pula regularly holds monthly meetings of Club members, with the presentations of various economic issues, and it promotes the networking of women through the projects Lobbying for Shopping and Pre-clusterization.

Brite is a supplier of power producing solar glass for greenhouses, homes and office buildings worldwide. Its mission is to develop and establish the volume production technology for achieving solar panel efficiency of 5% or better with a transparency of 70% or better at competitive cost.

Local Business Center Cetinje was established in October 15, 2002 by the National Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development, as integral part of similar bodies throughout the country. In June 2011, the center has been overtaken by Municipality of Cetinje getting status of local administration expert body responsible directly to the city mayor. Business Center Cetinje staff perform the following affairs: • SME analysis and statistics; • Entrepreneurs and SME models of business registration advising; • Designing of business and investment plans; • Marketing, management, company diagnosis, organization, intermediation between SME and consulting agencies, as well as other relevant information provision; • Development projects in the municipality; • Designing special studies on request; • Preparation of educational programs for SMEs and entrepreneurs; • Finding appropriate financial sources for SMEs and entrepreneurs; ecc.

Business incubator center is founded in 2008, to support start-up entrepreneurs in the first years, in order to help them to survive on the market. BIC Uzice is located in the Sevojno industrial zone (5 km from Uzice), near regional road Belgrade-Uzice. It facilities of 1600 m2 are composed of 20 business units of 22-115 m2, and has administrative premises with conference hall and training rooms. BIC provides support for young entrepreneurs, in terms of renting business premises under favorable prices, administrative-technical assistance and trainings. It supports manufacturing and innovative companies, as well as companies providing various intellectual services. In addition to support for its tenants, BIC provides advisory services to would be entrepreneurs and existing companies dealing on the market.

BSC Bar was established in 2007. to help foster a favorable environment for economic development through enterprise creation and support. The core activity of BSC Bar is to support new business start-ups through business training programs built on a curricula portfolio of 38 modules that have been delivered throughout Montenegro. Business Start-Up Centre Bar offers students and SMEs the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and to consider establishing their own business as a career opportunity. Business Start-Up Centre Bar provides advices during start-up assessments and establish contacts with other experts from industry and research. Business Start-Up Centre Bar organizes offers individual counselling services, free registration, micro loans, networking with companies, internationalisation and business incubatory premises. Also, it offers access to European and international markets for Montenegrin SMEs and provide growth-oriented, integrated business and innovation support services that help strengthen the competitiveness and sustainability of Montenegrin SMEs.

BITF is established with following goals: • To encourage and support young and educated people in starting up their own business and to keep them in Serbia, • To create the conditions for commercialization of the results obtained through science and research activities of university professors and their associates, by spinning of private enterprises, • To facilitate the creation of new Hi-Tech SMEs. Our results in numbers: • 600 m2 of renovate business space • 600 students has passed the trainings on entrepreneurship • 280 young people engaged in the incubator and enterprises-tenants • 45 small enterprises tenants of the incubator • 33 new technologies/services developed in innovation projects • 9 patents applications • 3 clusters/networks established • 1 service center developed (set of legal, accounting and financial services, business plan). Market research services and protection of intellectual property services are currently developing. • 1 project center developed.

Casaparlante is an innovative START UP in the tourism sector of Corfu. The Living History Museum Casa Parlante opened to the public in March 2014. Our name is a reference to the strong Italian cultural and architectural influence in Corfu. Located in central Corfu Town, Casa Parlante recreates the environment of an historic mansion, by depicting the everyday life of 19th century nobility. It includes animated figures and features the essences and sounds of the age, creating an authentic and involving experience. Casa Parlante is one of the WINNERS of the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2013, under the name “Corfu Living History.

CASTER is a part of Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, more concrete its component - Faculty of Economics and Tourism „Dr. Mijo Mirković“. Scientific–research activity oriented towards socio-economic processes in Istria County and Croatia is a part of Faculty tradition. The biggest step forward was made through scientfic journal Economic Research and through paper publications of international conferences organized by Faculty. CASTER will continue to work on creating top ranked public research department by building necessary research infrastructure in order to achieve significant quality progress. One of the key tasks is to provide support to associates, other University Departments in the area of innovative quantitative research methods with a goal of enhancing of research activities at the Faculty. Advanced quantitative methods are base for modern „state of the art“ researches in the area of social science.

Centre for social innovation and sustainable development is indipendent, non-governmental and non profit organization which is founded with the goal of envisoning and implementing the new model for solving social problems in an innovative and sustainable way.

CEDRA HR main objective is promotion & support of eco-social innovation, entrepreneurship and development, i.e. fostering society and economy based on triple bottom line (people-planet-profit) principles & values. CEDRA HR main activities include awareness raising, information and education activities on the concept and practice of eco-social innovation, entrepreneurship and development in Croatia, EU and globally, with the basic aim to recognize these concepts and practices as the most cost-effective tools & solutions for the challenges of quest for a smarter, more sustainable and inclusive societies and economies, as well as in order to enable sharing and exchange of the best practice models and to build capacities of individuals, organizations and communities to apply these principles and practices in their own specific socio-economic context. CEDRA HR founders initiated several regional initiatives aiming to develop a wide and self-sustainable eco-social economy support network.

Center for Quality at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in Podgorica was established with the aim to develop cooperation with industry and take a contribution in increasing SMEs competitiveness. The Center for Quality was founded at the end of 1996. The Center’s activity counts three courses: • Quality and standards (ISO 9000, ISO 14000, ISO 18000, ISO 22000/HACCP-Consulting and training...), • Applied informatics, and • Industrial engineering. The Center is launched an international journal called "International Journal for Quality Research“. It was launched in 2007. Once a year Center for Quality organizes the conference called SQM (Quality management systems) where it gathering a number of people from the country and region in order to gather new information and knowledge about the possibilities of improving competitiveness of organizations.

Centre for Promotion of Entrepreneurship Piran is acting in the field of business services and has its seat in the business zone of Lucija, Liminjanska street 96. Its main activities are: - general business consulting (business information providing, informing, entrepreneurship support instruments, tender conditions and candidating assistance, contacting and mediation of business contacts with potential partners), - specialized business consultancy services, - development projects (local, national and European), - research projects. Business-consulting activity is designed for a wide range of users: potential and already established entrepreneurs, craftsmen, students and other job seekers. Within our activities we give emphasis to inform and notify entrepreneurs, which along with consultancy is very useful for small entrepreneurs, because they can benefit from a comprehensive business assistance at one place and consequently save time.

CEPOR is the first independent policy centre and think-tank which deals with the problems of the SME sector in Croatia. CEPOR is a NGO founded in 2001 and since then it is influencing public and political environment, and emphasizing the key role of entrepreneurship and SMEs in the development of Croatian economy. CEPOR aims to contribute to the shaping of entrepreneurial culture and stimulating institutional and regulatory framework for entrepreneurial activity, with the goal of achieving strong economic growth based on international competitiveness. CEPOR’s founders are the organizations and institutions interested in the development issues of the small and medium enterprise sector – from the academic community to business associations, development agencies and entrepreneurial centres.

GECC was founded in 2015 and is registered as a non-profit organization.Its work is based on the organization of experts-professionals in specialized areas to enable domestic & foreign partners & investors the maximum level of service. We combine reliable & long-term strategic partners from different parts of the world who share similar thoughts&philosophy.We build a successful business relationship on trust and mutual benefit. We avoid bad experiences with excellent knowledge of technology, economics&legal procedures. Activities: • Coordination of bilateral&multilateral collaborations with EU countries in energy projects • Participation in development of strategic documents in the field of environmental protection&renewable energy • Proposal/preparation/implementation/monitoring of projects with consultants support • Advice on applying for tenders relevant institutions at EU/Croatia level • Capacity building through training, development and manuals and other scientific publications • Etc.

Cluster “Inteligentna Energija” is a SME business network which will, with their creative approach, contribute to strenghtening of RES industry and energy efficiency. Role and goal of Inteligentna Energija is to provide complete support for investors in implementation of overall solutions, ensuring quality and sustainability of electricity production from RES, through their knowledge of actual technology. Cluster has knowledge, experience and quality in areas of hydro-energy (small hydro-power plants) solar systems (FV and thermal) and energy efficeincy as well as associated subsystems, facilities (switchyards) and communication. In line with major activities in energy sector and positive market trends in RES and energy efficiency, cluster will produce solutions and systems which ensure economic growth as well as energy savings in communities while taking care of environment.

COHO is a collaborative working environment, based in Thessaloniki. It provides its lodgers with infrastructures and equipment necessary to make their work conditions convenient. Inside this environment, people have the opportunity to interact with each other and effectively create social and business networks. The can also benefit from the support of experienced professionals, in an environment that encourages creativity and innovation, The prices can vary from 40€/hour to 100€/month, depending on the infrastructures provided, such as: fast internet access, fully equipped meeting rooms, fax and coloured printers, lockers, brainstorming blackboard, living room etc. COHO is a good opportunity for people who possess the aspiration for business ventures, but lack the financial means to acquire a professional working space.

Compagnia delle Opere Pesaro Urbino is an enterprises’ association which embraces SMEs operating in all economic sectors is member of Enterprise Europe Network from its origin. CDO’s main goal is to connect businesses through a network that makes it possible to exchange experiences, suggestions and information and it organizes initiatives and events in order to offer a fruitful entrepreneurial environment, to support the creation of new business relationships and to enhance SMEs competitiveness on national and international markets. Thanks to the participation to the EEN project, Compagnia delle Opere offers a wide range of services, including among others, financial services and assistance on funding opportunities, support to SMEs internationalisation, assistance to the innovation management process and support for education and employment by organizing seminars, workshops, training sessions, b2b events, company missions, incoming of foreign operators, international brokerage events,… Thanks to the participation to European projects and the adoption of tailored ICT tools Compagnia delle Opere offers assistance to companies interested in assessing and improving their innovation and project management capacity. Direct visits to local companies, business and technological audits performed at the companies’ premises, enable us to investigate company strengths and weaknesses, business and commercial projects, innovative ideas, financial constraints and identify companies’ needs and potentialities in developing new ideas, products, services and markets at international level.

The COMPUTER SCIENCE PARK has been created in 2014 to promote technological transfer in all the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). CSP supports the spin-off creation as initiatives emerging from the cooperation among companies, the Department of Information Technology and other local institutions. It also aims to attract start-ups thanks to its innovative and stimulating environment favourable to business internationalisation. Finally, the Park is an attracting place for technical offices of medium and big companies interested in increasing the technological level of their products.

Confartigianato Udine is an apolitical, independent, non-profit, private organization representing craft businesses, their entrepreneurs and small and medium sized enterprises. Confartigianato Udine is founded on a principle of voluntary membership and has more than 7,000 associated firms, located in Udine province, a part of Friuli Venezia Giulia region, in North East Italy. It directly provides entrepreneurs with assistance, lobbying, information, and other supporting activities. By means of a well-developed “service company”, all the firms adhering to Confartigianato Udine can enter a well-established and still enlarging range of services as: accounting, bookkeeping, business consultancy, internationalization services, etc. Confartigianato Udine also interacts with all relevant institutions at a local level (i.e.: trade unions, other SME associations, chamber of commerce) or at a regional and national level thanks to its belonging to Confartigianato network.

Having supported enterprises since 1945, Confindustria Udine is now a reference point for industry and all related activities, having gained a role of intermediation and proposals towards all administrative and social actors. This role is today even more relevant, since competitiveness is strictly linked to innovation and growth. Another nuclear aspect are Confindustria Udine relationships with the local territory, where decisions are taken about infrastructures, services, environment, city plans, ecc. All these decisions are of extreme importance for the future of local enterprises, that gain the possibility to influence them through our association so as to favor development conditions. The association represents an asset of shared values and experiences, that are made available to all entrepreneurs of the local territory to foster growth of the industrial base.

The Consortium Ethics is a nonprofit Research Organism with the main aim of to scout innovation within industries and develops it in real application of scientific support. The Consortium, born in 2006 with the aim to promote R&D in ICT, subsequently extended its activity in Electronics, Renewable Energy, Biology and Food Science fields. Activities development are supervised by a Scientific Committee composed by University Professors, Researchers and Professionals.

Consorzio Innova FVG, a public economic body totally owned by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, is a nonprofit research organization specifically aimed at developing of mountain areas. Main activities are: managing the Technology Innovation Centre (CIT) located in Amaro (UD) Italy, qualified as a Science and Technology Park; promoting the scientific and technical knowledge transfer in the context of specific projects; implementing development projects that involve companies, Research centers, Universities and others bodies. It operates mainly in the framework of the following economic sectors: electronics, microelectronics and ICT; new materials e nanotechnologies; optical; wood sector; agri-food; renewable energy. It owns also PTLAB-Pervasive Technologies Laboratory, a research lab for designing and prototyping activities associated with electronic microsystems. It coordinates Nanonet.exe, an international net of public and private competence centers in nanotechnologies.

Consultant at LTA Consulting Srl. Activities: business consultancy and other management consulting and business planning.

CREAA is a creative office on demand. Our mission is translating the creative power of arts as catalyst of corporate communication and business innovation. We began our research in creative innovation in 2010 by launching the Business Meets Art event within Etrarte Arts Association. In 2013 our project won the contest “Spazio alle idee” (“Space to ideas”): we founded CREAA that has been then included in the business structure TechnoSeed in Udine (Italy) managed by Friuli Innovazione (Friuli Innovation). CREAA works with a great network of artists and creative professionals who have different backgrounds and life paths. We put at our partners and clients' disposal: our competence in project management, the culture of working with both private and public organizations and, above all, the protection of commercial confidentialities and copyrights. Moreover, we value equality and sustainability in our work environment.

CROSSING is an academic spin-off registered as Innovative start-up. The entrepreneurial idea at the basis of CROSSING is the preparation of compounds and of a specific class of molecules used as cross-linking activators (ACL). The company wants to use these activators in the manufacturing production on big scale, thanks to the innovative technology developed by CROSSING, strongly reducing production costs and increasing the number of ACLs which will be available on the market. The application sectors are packaging production for food storage, antibacterial materials, non toxic leather, super absorbent materials, glass modified for food and sanitary use, food for animals, etc… Crossing has the know-how for the application and the industrial development of ACL. The business idea has been awarded from the Start Cup Veneto 2014 allowing the team to access the National Start Cup and being among the 53 innovative start-ups of the year. Crossing has been classified at the Global Social Venture Competition, among the 58 innovative start-ups in February 2015, among the start ups invited to the Italian stand at Expo 2015, as the best idea at the Planet Green Chemistry congress in Milan (31 March – 1 April 2015).

He holds a Bachelors' Degree in Environmental Management and Business Administration as well as Masters Degree in Environmental Management and Business Administration for the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece . And he is also a Phdc of Economics. Extensive experience in the management (project management) of financing programs for both public as well as private bodies.

The National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” (NCSR “Demokritos”) is the largest multidisciplinary research center in Greece, with critical mass in expertise and infrastructure in the fields of Nanotechnology, Energy&Environment, Biosciences, Particle and Nuclear Science, Informatics and Telecommunications. The Center was inaugurated in 1961 as a state-owned entity under the name Nuclear Research Center “Demokritos”, following the coming into operation of the nuclear reactor research facility. In 1985, it has been renamed as National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” and became an autonomous Legal Entity of Public Law supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), while preserving its administrative and financial independence. The NCSR “Demokritos” conducts world-class basic and applied research, for advancing scientific knowledge and promoting technological development in selected areas of national socio-economic interest.

An enterprise that integrates various technologies and systems, where the common denominator is characterized by geographic data, satellite data & electronics. It introduces the concept of CloudGIS, with the development of applications "low cost" like MobileGIS & SocialGIS (Civil Protection Veneto region), for private & public administrations. Tools SMART CITIES (QR3 ,SocialGis) that allow users to interact with public or private administrations for the collection of environmental, social & economic information, represented and shared with existing social networks. In addition to specific terrestrial & marine monitoring (benthic sampling to support the certification of fish products for large retailers), just part of the service package, acquisition, processing and interpretation of spectral and multispectral images (activities research and development in collaboration with AIRMAP) by Drones multicopter & Fixed Wing going to complete the MODEL DerMap for monitoring and land management.

Mr. Dikeoulias is graduated of the Law School of the University Saarbrueken Germany. He has been a business consultant since 1993 and has considerable experience in the field of human resources and especially intra-operational training. He was also a human resources consultant of Lambrakis Press SA. Group of companies. Since 1999 he was a project manager of many advisory programs in Greece, Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He has extensive experience in the legal and regulatory framework for the operation of the Greek government, particularly in relation to the implementation of co-financed programs. He has also significant in the private sector, investment and quality. During his professional career he has obtained valuable experience in large scale investment projects, worked with many consultants and developed specific organizational skills.

Disma realizes for SME’s initiatives designed to accelerate the development of business plans, create networking opportunities of the community and provide assistance to enterprises in the use of support tools in close connection with the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. Disma organizes workshops with the aim of accelerating the process of development of innovative projects, questioning the projects with mentors, consultants and university researchers. Services offered: Entrepreneurship training; Business model and corporate strategy; Acceleration of enterprise; Intermediation between supply and demand for innovation; Analysis of public policies to support companies.

DITEDI - Distretto delle Tecnologie Digitali [Digital Technologies District] is a body promoting digital culture, and a network of over 130 digital and innovative businesses. Established in 2009, it is recognized by the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia as a reference point on issues relating to digital culture, and in the past 24 months it has organized over 150 seminars and technical workshops, for a total of almost 5000 participants. In these five years it has gone from strength to strength, exceeding geographical boundaries and expanding to cover the entire region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Today its young, dynamic staff works every day to ensure high-added-value services to members of the public, businesses and public administration bodies alike.

Ditenave was established in 2009 as a non profit organisation and in June 2012 obtained the approval from the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research and became a limited liability consortium. We are a non-profit organization with the vision of establishing a regional synergic system that enhances a sustainable and inclusive value creation chain in the blue economy by leveraging scientific knowledge and industrial skills of the territory. Its mission is to link industries & scientific institutions within a network of organized relationships finalized to develop Research, Innovation and Education projects with the aim to enhance the competitiveness in the maritime technology sector. Ditenave is specifically committed to: - stimulating and managing the demand for and supply of research in order to create synergies and boost innovation; - supporting the growth in competitiveness of regional businesses in order to facilitate product and process innovation; - planning and organizing training programs so as to meet the emerging needs of the territory; - advisoring the regional institutions for fostering the dialogue among all the maritime stakeholders.

Dubrovnik Neretva Regional Development Agency DUNEA llc was founded in 2006 on the initiative of the Dubrovnik Neretva County and its basic role is to achieve sustainable development of the County and to improve and coordinate existing development activities. DUNEA currently employs staff specializing in project management, coordination of development strategies, advisory and technical assistance to entrepreneurs, organizing various workshops, seminars and events, participation in statistical regions and promoting investment opportunities. The pool of human resources includes economy, tourism, agriculture, ICT, energy management, engineering, education and culture professionals. DUNEA llc has portfolio of different types of projects delivered through crossborder cooperation programs and projects (IPA, IEE, UNDP, SEE,etc), covering relevant economic, cultural and social sectors. Combination of years of experience in project management & fields of professions guarantee DUNEA competence.

eAmbiente srl was founded in 2003 by Dr. Gabriella Chiellino, first graduate in Environmental Science in Italy, who successfully leads a team of technicians with solid skills in the environmental and energetic sector, sustainability projects that balance the reduction of environmental and energy impacts with economic investment. eAmbiente analyzes and evaluates the environmental and energy impacts of processes and products, defining concrete actions for the improvement of their efficiency and sustainable management. Today it is engaged in innovative ways with its customers and partners: from carbo / waterfootprint to Corporate Social Responsibility, from environmental impact assessments to the certification process, from energy management to ESCO interventions. eAmbiente participates in European and international projects on climate change and innovation: from Biomethane to the ICT applied to the environment, and it has just developed an APP for the accounting of environmental indicators of production process and it is following the monitoring of the waste at EXPO Milano 2015 .Many companies believed in us and not only Italian ones: now our customers are more than 1000. Thanks to them we have grown over the years and we have managed together environmental and energy potentialities that we communicate to the market today.

ECAM RICERT born in December 2012 from the union of the ECAM and RI.CERT laboratories active in the field of analysis and laboratory tests. The ECAM laboratory is more than 30 years old thanks to the skills and experimentations of Dr. Renzo Camporese in the sector of environmental chemistry and his experience in managing water production companies. The laboratory mainly deals with problems linked to industrial and civil water purification, analysis of the garbage disposal, supervision of the air and gas emissions, chemical and micro-biological investigations. The laboratory RI.CERT has been founded in 1998 by a group of building companies and furnaces to test the quality of first materials and of finished products. The laboratory conduces analysis in the geo-technique and in the transports sectors (bitumen, concrete, steel, etc).

BakouONE Business Center offers a working environment that promotes innovative activities, suitable for the needs of a Startup company, located inside a big building that can accommodate offices at low costs. Its members belong in an open team of programmers, designers, engineers and businessmen that share experience and knowledge. Harvard management mentors, lawyers and accountants offer for free their consulting services, regarding business plan composition, marketing and media strategy development, and funding solutions. Office prices start from €2,5/day (cleaning, electricity etc. bills not included) and offices can be rent from one day to one year. Meeting and Seminar rooms are also provided, as well as lockers, printing & fax machines, translation services, limitless coffee, reception, personal lines etc.

ECOLUTION is a consulting company on the themes of environmental sustainability, quality management systems, work health and safety. Founded in May 2014 thanks to the initiative of four professionals willing to valorise their ten-years experiences.

Founded in 1980, EKT is integrated with the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) and is supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. Director of EKT is currently Dr Evi Sachini. EKT's services aim at the country's entire scientific and business community, universities, research centres, enterprises and public and private sector bodies. It: provides Science & Technology (S&T) information services; operates the Science and Technology Digital Library; develops and promotes Greek digital content, such as the National Archive of PhD Theses; supports the automation and networking of libraries and develops state-of-the-art library tools; provides information on research and innovation; stimulates and supports the participation of Greek organisations in competitive European research programmes; disseminates research results and innovative technologies to the market.

Endeavor officially launched in Greece in September 2012, aiming at identifying and supporting the top local entrepreneurs that will help transform the Greek economy and establish a new era of hope, optimism and sustainable economic growth. We are looking for the future business leaders and role models of Greece, irrespective of sectors. Endeavor in Greece was founded by Mareva Grabowski and is supported by a local board of leading business persons in various sectors.

ENEA is the name for Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development and hosts over 2700 staff employees, distributed in its 9 research centers all over the national territory. It conducts research and innovation activities, and provides public administration, enterprises and citizens with its advanced services. Specifically, ENEA is concerned with energy efficiency, renewable energy sources, nuclear energy. It hosts experimental laboratories and facilities, and also dedicates its technological innovation skills to cultural heritage conservation, agro-food, health, and the environment. The Unit is strongly committed in transferring the technologies developed to foster innovation and competitiveness of enterprises in Apulia and southern Italy. For this purpose it relies on the support of its technology transfer office in Brindisi (uttb), the node of the ILO (Industrial Liaison Office) network offices in the Apulia region.

Ennebi would like to introduce on the market a new type of machine for the production of vinyl records . Nowadays there is no manufacturer or producer of this machinery. It should also be said that the most recent have been produced in the 80's and they are completely inefficient , and require also a great deal of maintenance.

Enterprise Greece is the national official Investment and Trade Promotion Agency of Greece under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Development, and Tourism, which promotes and facilitates private investment in Greece and export trade from Greece. It is designed to assist foreign investors and enterprises to do business with Greece, to provide key information about Greece as an investment destination and to promote the entire gamut of investment sectors in which Greece excels. In addition, it is to promote the export of Greek products and services internationally through marketing, events, and trade centres. Enterprise Greece supports Greek businesses to reach new markets, to find new business partners, and become more competitive and attractive. The Organization is also promoting an extensive and dynamic Public and Private projects portfolio per category and sector, constantly updated. These projects are of a high investment scale in terms of their criteria and make up ideal investment opportunities for potential investors.

EOPPEP develops and implements the National Accreditation & Certification System for non-formal education, including initial and continuing vocational training and adult education, and provides scientific support to Vocational Guidance & Counseling services in Greece.

Ergonbluenergy is specialized in: ? the design, construction and maintenance of new turnkey Hydropower Plants and rehabilitation of old plants - www.ergonbluenergy.com/download/epccontractor. pdf ? the design, construction and maintenance of electromechanical equipment, especially Trash Rake Cleaning Machines - www.ergonbluenergy.com/download/trashrake- cleaning-machine.pdf

EST S.C. is a company offering advice services, implementing and managing projects for profit and not for profit organisations, promoting projects linked to the issue of social innovation and local regeneration. Among its activities, there is the co-working space CO+.

ESTECO SpA is specialized in the research and development of engineering software solutions for the optimization and integration of all stages of the design and simulation process. The company was founded in 1999 by three engineers, Carlo Poloni, Luka Onesti and Enrico Nobile who decided to turn their knowledge, acquired within the framework of a EU-funded optimization project, into a successful commercial product. The technology developed by ESTECO can be applied to a number of industrial sectors, providing support to companies seeking to improve their products. Its main markets are the automotive and aerospace sectors, with recent investments in the energy, biology, life sciences and bioengineering sectors. ESTECO’s vision is to transform inventions into innovation via flexible, modern and customized tools that satisfy the demands and standards of design engineers.

We are producers of: 1. Devices for remote monitoring and control via GSM /GPS network. 2. Data Loggers. 3. Access control Systems. 4. IT engineered and custom made products in the field of embedded systems, automation, measuring, telemetrics, / telecommand and applied electronics in the field of access control. In day work we use GSM/GPRS, LAN, WiFi, ZIGBEE, Bluetooth, RF868 communication technology in our devices. Having expedience in analog and digital electronic. Successful integration of Microchip, Atmel, ARM Cortex M4. We implement components of majority leaders of electronics producers. More than 50 satisfied customers in our customer portfolio in which many of them on international level.

The Network Eurolink is a team of highly experienced professional person and their cooperators specialized in law, accounting, in handling and solving corporate business and fiscal matters respectively. The mission of TheNetwork Eurolink consists of guide the Italian and European firms through the processing of internationalization supporting them, step by step, in their activity pertaining both the establishment and management of their own commercial activity abroad. Small and Middle Sized Companies are our target. In other words we look for companies willing to achieve entirely with their forces an operative and commercial entirely activity based outside the national territory.. Service: Legal Advice, Accounting Tax and Compliance, Payroll and Human Resource, Grants and Funds, Business Advisory. Languages spoken: English language, German, Slovenian and Chinese (Mandarin). Main markets Europe: Italy, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia.

ExiMotion is active in the field of Robotic of Healthcare and Assistive Technology devices. The primary goal of ExiMotion srl is to propose innovative technological solutions that fill the gap between scientific research and actual applications for end-users and clinical facilities.

EXORDIUM is an innovative start up which has developed the on-line platform “Cosa ti porto” allowing the consumer to order their own meal delivered home from the restaurants of the city. The service is innovative for the restaurateur as well, offering a logistic system to organise the home deliveries.

Fablab wants to be a Digital Factory for the development of ideas innovative. The business model of the start-up is characterized by the development of the following drivers: - Open source; - Production in real time; - Repair and Maintenance; - Personalization; - Fast prototyping and production of HW and SW solutions The heart of the Fab Lab consists of a modern technology that allows digital manufacturing through the use of 3D printers.

FAA was established in 1973 as a successor of the Academy of Applied Arts, founded in 1948 on the basis of the School of Applied Arts. Actually, the roots of today's FAA date back to 1895, when Serbian Drawing and Painting School “Kiril Kutlik” was opened, and to 1905, when Arts and Crafts School was established in Belgrade. Today, FAA is a complex educational institution which consists of ten Departments and eight Studios, where teaching is conducted within the framework of 15 modules attended by approximately 721 students. FAA educates experts for various artistic skills and fine arts disciplines, taught in 10 specialized Divisions: Applied Painting, Applied Sculpture, Interior Design and Furniture, Applied Graphics Scenery, Costumes, Textile Design, Ceramics, Industrial Design, Conservation&restoration of paintings and works of art on paper and Conservation and restoration of sculptures and archaeological objects.

FASMETRICS is among the leaders in the Greek radio-telecommunication industry market and their product offering includes ground breaking radio site solutions, efficient antenna systems for mobile and backhaul applications, specialized radio components for network deployment as well as software tools and platforms that can be provided under the revolutionary concept Software as a Service (SaaS).

Senior project manager specialized in H2020, COSME, FP7, CIP-IEE and LLP project drafting, management and reporting. I was in charge of IMAGEEN and WEEN projects as main coordinator. With an international work experience in consultancy, publishing and institutions on EU topics and technological trends, I am in charge of environmental and R&D projects and manager of APRE Veneto (Agency for the Promotion of Research in Europe). I am project officer of the Enterprise Europe Network and member of the EEN Sector Group on Sustainable Construction.

Filippo Prataviera has long experience in advising SMEs for the development of research projects, innovation, training and investment, also co-financed with funds from regional, national and European level. He offers support activities to public entities for the development of research projects funded through programs of European territorial cooperation. Services offered: Business model and corporate strategy; Acceleration of enterprise; Intermediation between supply and demand for innovation; Analysis of public policies to support companies.

Find is a spin off of the University of Bari, a collaboration between academia and business. Being the University one of the partners, our advice on R & D is one of the best examples of how testing and research can be useful tools to improve the industrial reality. Our scientific team consists of experienced and qualified that provides its experience and expertise to the development of new products or processes, or the improvement of existing products or processes up to the development of strategies to place such products on the market. To this end, for each project, is made up of a team composed of both consultants to staff of the client company. The goal is to create tailored solutions that are processed according to our wealth of knowledge. Our constant presence on the land and our skills allow us to give our customers tangible results that aim to enhance the '"essential advantage".

FLAG Terre di Mare is a limited consortium company, made up of public bodies and corporations in the area. The Flag’s area covers the municipalities of Molfetta, Bisceglie and Giovinazzo. FLAG “Terre di Mare” is recognized by Puglia Region with the initiative of the European Union “Sustainable development of fisheries areas”, Axis IV of the EFF 2007-2013. The company’s structure of the FLAG Terre di Mare is the essential link between the territory, fishermen, businesses, citizens and public bodies in the area, for motivating the sense of local identity, by the bottom-up approach. The company’s structure is, in short, the organizational tool, which allows to put an idea into something that can be done and will be done!! The guiding objective of the development strategy of the FLAG “Terre di Mare” is securing the sustainable development of the fisheries zone, by an approach inspired by principles of environmental, social and economic sustainability.

Flavio Garzitto – SMEs professional consultant. Main operating fields: business strategy, market research, setting up distribution and selling networks, business partner research, franchising consulting, retailing management and development.

The FLUX has activity as that of the development of a software called PLYCAST for managing Web TV and all of its major components or Video On Demand and Live Streaming. The term Web TV (short for Web Television) is the set of technologies that allow the use of television over the Internet. The ns. concept of Web TV is similar to that of a traditional TV with a Palimpsest programmable daily and where to place advertisements at times agreed. The result is a single video stream that can be transmitted simultaneously on Digital Earth by a local TV. PLYCAST consists of a Front-End (the public part of the site, the one visible to those who surf on the internet) and a back-end or the part of management of the site that you access through authentication with username and password. This component allows the customer to manage its Web TV in a completely autonomous.

The Fondazione’s mission is to encourage processes of creation and spreading of innovation in businesses, particularly new ones, and in the region with the aim of linking up the local system to the dynamics of knowledge-based economy so that its economic, cultural and social potential may be completely fulfilled.

The Strategic Plan is now a landmark for local governments to design the future development of the city of Rimini. The Strategic Plan has a cross-sectoral approach and was created by the organizing committee, at the beginning it included the Municipality of Rimini, Province of Rimini, Chamber of Commerce, Carim Foundation and on the Region of Emilia Romagna. In 2007, was established the Rimini Venture Forum that gather the cultural, economic and social associations (about 70), while in 2013 was founded the Agency Strategic Plan which has the task of assisting operationally the Forum and institutions for the implementation of projects progressively identified. The Strategic Plan is specifically concerned with strategic areas of the city, such as tourism, urban regeneration and territorial mobility, social cohesion, welfare, housing and living spaces, enhancement of cultural and historical heritage, landscape and typicality, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Found.ation is one of the first co-working spaces in Athens, operated by a very diverse team with complementary skills and networks. Found.ation aims to meet the specific needs of technology start ups and offer facilities and services in the areas of technology, graphic design and entrepreneurship. The main objective of Found.ation is to enhance and accelerate entrepreneurship in Greece, creating a productive and growing ecosystem of entrepreneurial and technological talent which will form the basis for developing new Greek technology start ups.

Research associate on Frugal Government at Politecnico di Milano and visiting professor on innovation and entrepreneurship at the Ulster Business School of the University of Belfast. Project manager for several public and private organizations in Europe, including clients from Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia and the UK.

The Hive is certified incubator under DL n. 179/2012 converted by Law no. 221/2012. The Hive accompanies and supports startups in their different development stages, by acting as a propeller to accelerate initial growth phase, market entry and research of capital. The Hive has an integrated set of qualified services, shared between settled startups, including: advanced training to develop over time a new class of entrepreneurs with managerial skills; coordinated actions of promotion and marketing, analysis and management of integrated projects; shared databases, agreements with credit system, opportunities to use research laboratories and technology platforms. The Hive has a network of consultants and qualified managers, accompanying new entrepreneurs in the implementation of their business idea, providing expertise in the field of research, strategy, marketing, finance and management.

The Galileo Science and Technology Park is a consortium established in Padua in 1997, whose shareholders are public bodies and its mission is to enhance the competitiveness and the capabilities of local businesses through innovation. Galileo provides companies with services for product innovation in two main areas: industrial design and new materials. As regards Industrial Design, Galileo has been operating since 1991 with Scuola Italiana Deisng (SID) which offers, in additional to its institutional training activities, services to companies as a creativity centre for product innovation. As regard new materials in 2001 Galileo created MaTech, a centre which support manufacturing companies in the solution of their specific technical and engineering issues by the application of new materials.

GEOVIS S.r.l. was founded in 2008 in Altamura, near Bari, with the aim to develop innovative technologies and services in the environmental sector. Analysis are carried out in accordance with local regulations on the following matrices: ENVIRONMENTAL MATRIX: water, soil, air, control of air emissions and discharges of water. WASTE: Waste classification for eligibility in disposal facilities, treatment or recovery, counseling for proper management of the integrated waste cycle. COMPOST: approval as per legislative decree no. 75 of 29 April 2010, agronomic advice for use in agriculture. The analytical services listed above can be accompanied by counseling services specially equipped and developed on the actual needs of the client.

APP for MOBILITY is an italian organization formed in 2013, after the funding announcement "Principi Attivi 2012", sponsored by the Region of Puglia . The organization was born from the meeting of different skills and interests in the fields of urban mobility, computer design, digital communication and public participation has as its purpose to support the dissemination of "best practices " in urban areas , experiencing the ' use of new technologies and the direct involvement of citizens . The first integral project of APP FOR MOBILITY has been dedicated to the research of the bike sharing called Geteasybike. Currently APP FOR MOBILITY focused on the commercialization of bike sharing, which has registered the trademark at the Chamber of Commerce. It is also in the process of recognizing the status of start- ups to guide the activities towards scientific research.

H-FARM is a Venture incubator, a platform created with the aim of helping young entrepreneurs in launching innovative internet start ups and supporting the transformation of Italian companies in a digital perspective. The business accelerator model takes an average of 36 months, during which H-FARM invests in and supports the growth of these companies. H-FARM is based in Ca’ Tron, Seattle (USA), Mumbai (India) and London (UK). In the first 10 years H-FARM invested approximately € 20 million in about 80 projects creating over 450 new jobs.

Dr Thyrsos Hadjicostas is an electrical engineer with graduate studies and experience in business management and the energy sector. He holds a PhD in power system economic planning from London University and an MBA from Henley Management College. He has worked for 6 years for the Electricity Authority of Cyprus, in various engineering and management positions. Since 1995 he has embarked in a consultancy career in Greece. He was member of the Consultancy Committee of the Greek Management Consultants Association and supported the Federation of Greek Enterprises and Industries on industrial infrastructure and HR development. He has worked extensively in public administration and utilities sector projects in Central, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, funded by Governments, EU Commission, World Bank, IFC, EBRD, USAID. His responsibilities involved the design, implementation, management, monitoring, and evaluation of large technical and economic development projects

The Hellenic Association of Mobile Applications Companies (HAMAC) represents a vibrant sector of more than 80 high-tech companies whose activities include the development of added value mobile applications, the provision of added value services for telecommunication providers, the provision of innovative communication, content and application services.

The Hellenic Association of Mobile Applications Companies (HAMAC) represents a vibrant sector of more than 80 high-tech companies whose activities include the development of added value mobile applications, the provision of added value services for telecommunication providers, the provision of innovative communication, content and application services.

The City of Venice intends to promote Herion as excellence incubator of cultural and creative enterprises.

HTEC is engineering company founded in 2008, specialized for software development, custom electronics and embedded systems development center. Since its funding HTEC was providing development services for large corporate customers and for the set of smaller companies and startups mostly from USA and EU and have built reputation of reliable and high quality development partner. Modern project management approaches, completely transparent relationship with customers, flexible business models, very adaptable to client processes with high quality engineering was appreciated among our customers and enabled us to have long term successful cooperation, having our clients often considering HTEC teams as a core engineering teams of their company working on mission critical projects with strict deadlines. Areas of expertise of our teams cover a full spectrum of IT services, from web and mobile applications to development of sophisticated signal processing algorithms.

An innovative cluster of businesses, researchers and other stakeholders involved in wireless and mobile technologies, the Hellenic Mobile Cluster (HMC), is an initiative of the Association of Mobile Application Companies Association (HAMAC). HMC consists of companies/ members of the Mobile Application Companies Association and 13 associated research and academic institutions. According to the HAMAC, the cluster is at the "core" of a new dynamic segment of the Greek economy that is developing, despite the crisis, with strong technical expertise and a highly competitive international orientation.

The Institute of Biomembrane and Bioenergetics (IBBE) is located in Bari. IBBE staff consist of 44 units: 33 CNR employees and 11 Bari University associated researchers. For more than thirty years IBBE has been recognized as an outstanding research institute in the field of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes both at the national and international level. IBBE investigator scientific reputation is internationally renowned due to fundamental original contributions given in biochemical, molecular genetics and biophysical aspects of bioenergetics and Biomembrane research. More recently, research activities have extended to biotechnological and biomedical research areas, with important scientific results achieved also in these fields. IBBE has also been carrying out an intensive postgraduate research and training activity in cooperation with Bari as well as other Italian Universities and International Research Institutions.

The Information Technology cluster of Istria was established in November 2007. It was established as an initiative of the Istrian Development Agency, the University of Pula and six entrepreneurs. The Cluster was established as a solution to overcome obstacles and barriers faced by commercial entities that directly or indirectly operate in the information technology sector of Istria and Croatia. The main goal of the Information Technology cluster of Istria is the promotion, development and improvement of information and communication technologies of the Istrian IT companies as well as the protection of domestic technology and knowledge. Today the Cluster has 14 members.

ICT HUB is a business incubator for technological entrepreneurship. ICT HUB’s goal is to help technology-based entrepreneurs successfully develop their product and enable them to transition into the financing stage and enter the market. We offer young people modern workspace and full mentoring, technical and infrastructural support so that they can turn their ideas into a successful business. Founders and investors: DNA Communications and Orion Telekom, in cooperation with USAID. Partners of the project include Serbian Association of Managers (SAM) and Serbian Private Equity Association (SPEA). ICT Hub is a “No Equity Incubator” where all the intellectual property originating from ICT Hub remains under absolute ownership of its users. We offer: space, program, mentors and lecturers, consulting and support, connecting.

ICT Network is an association of companies, individuals, academic&research institutions devoted to the development of ICT sector in Serbia. It was established in 2010 by the merger of two former cluster initiatives, Serbian Software Cluster & Embedded.rs. As a unique information hub, ICT Network today provides its members with access to relevant and up-to-date information from ICT industry, thus enabling them to boost their competitiveness and grow. As an open organization, it offers its members equality of opportunities and a transparent framework for efficient fulfilment of their interests. One of Cluster’s main objectives is to encourage its members to suggest their own initiatives or projects which can be realized either through Cluster’s extensive network of strategic partnerships or in cooperation with other member companies. It provides its members with a variety of opportunities helping them to build greater visibility while keeping their business operations cost&time effective.

Idea Istria d.o.o. is an agency for the development of new cultural tourism products. Our mission is to:create high-quality cultural tourism products, offer guests and visitors in Istria content filled time to enrich their knowledge of the historical and cultural heritage of Istria, contribute to the goal that culture may become the main reason for choosing Istria as a tourist destination. Our main product is Pula City Tour. It is an excellent opportunity to learn about and see historical and cultural monuments, tourist attractions of Pula by taking a ride on the tour bus. Sightseeing tour is organized by “hop on hop off” principle, i.e. a ticket can be used from any station point within 24 hours limitation. Vehicles are equipped with the audio system in 12 world languages, which introduces passengers to the city landmarks while driving along (Croatian, Italian, German, Slovenian, English, Russian, French, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish).

iforU is a non profit organization for the empowerment and support of young women entrepreneurs through Mentoring & Networking. We are targeted to women that have recently started their business or have had their own business for a while but are ready to take it to the next level. Vision Women have great ideas and a way of going about things that differentiates them from their male counterparts. When they realize their potential and are encouraged to fulfill it, they move mountains. Greek society traditionally has not encouraged its women to go into business; "safer" options have always been promoted over self-employment. Greece's economy needs healthy, innovative, extrovert, humane enterprises and for this, it needs to empower its women. Our vision is to see women in Greece achieve their full potential in business, playing an important part in the new order of things. So we want to create the best Mentoring network for young women who want to succeed as entrepreneurs.

Ilda Coba – Consultant for SMEs on research of facilitated funding schemes and soft loans for: training in projects of organisational restructuring and business development; industrial research, experimental development and strategic plans; business reorganisation projects through efficiency analysis and the implementation of integrated systems as the Management Check; projects focused on the strategic development of the company, the internationalisation, the co-marketing and the partnerships.

Impact Hub Athens is part of Impact Hub, a global network founded in 2005. The Impact Hub community is an ecosystem that consists of more than 60 Hubs worldwide and more than 8.000 members, mostly social innovators and businessmen. Impact Hub Athens is a social enterprise community centre, an innovation lab and a business Incubator. Since 2012, it encourages the development of projects and initiatives that address to cultural, environmental, educational and humanitarian matters. It provides its members with a unique environment of resources, inspiration, and collaboration opportunities to grow the positive impact of their work, inside a collaborative workplace of 500 m2. All the social enterprises are being charged with a very low price for using the co-working spaces and they are provided with the advantages of advisory support and infrastructures. The Impact Hub Athens’ member have the opportunity of participating in events, presentations, seminars and workshops

IMT srl, a privately owned Company founded in April 1991, is active in the fields of System Engineering, Marketing, Project Management and Quality in high technology industrial sectors, with specific reference to Space. The Company operates mainly through Project Teams, drawing from a highly skilled pool of professionals working by tasks and objectives. This work organization, that minimizes the number of permanently hired people and, thus, the G&A expenses, greatly facilitates the handling of unforeseen workload events, with immediate benefits to the Clients.

Info Solution S.p.A. is a consultancy, design, engineering and manufacturing company that works in the fields of computer science and electronics since 1998. One division is dedicated to the funded research project aimed at developing technologies that can become new business. Funds come from both civil (EU, National) and military (DNA PNRM) sources. The areas of activity of this division are: autonomous vehicles, environment perception, wireless sensor networks and telemedicine systems, the Bayesian artificial intelligence.

The cultural association named “Informatica e Società Digitale – IES” (Informatics and Digital Society) aims to wisely and consciously disseminates the digital culture in the nowadays society, proposing innovative ideas and solutions to contribute to societal challenges of the new millennium according to objectives of the European Digital Agenda, Innovation Union, Framework Programme and regional Structural funds regulated by the European Union. So, the main mission of IES is to disseminate the digital culture and innovation among the major local stakeholders, including public administrations, private companies, schools and citizens. IES dedicates a special focus on youngers helping them to build and shape their scientific and technological career by involving them in its projects. In order to deliver on its objectives, IES relies on the skills of its co-funders such as developers, educators, engineers, seconded national experts at the EC and researchers in ICT.

Innovation Centre of Advanced Technologies (ICAT) is an innovative private enterprise based on knowledge. It is a start-up oriented to transfer knowledge toward applied products that will improve life style. The team members have results in different ICT areas including telecommunications, measurements, microelectronics, energy efficiency, smart grid, and mechanics. The core of employed staff is ten PhD students full of youthful curiosity and ambitions to prove themselves at R&D field. Our major competitive strength is the synergy between professional experience and the youthful energy. Company’s business philosophy is to prototype innovative ideas, to start production and/or to offer them as products to other manufacturer and spin-offs. We hope that most of them will give chances to our ex-students for self-employment. Our mission is to show that it is possible to earn a living in Serbia by selling innovative ideas and products that make common life comfortable.

Innovation Land & Sea (AegeanBoard) provides charter sailing yacht in the Greek Islands (Sporades and North Aegean islands). AegeanBoard provides the following services: • Sailing • Liveaboard diving • Cruises (honey moon, special cruises for companies or organizations) • Snorkeling • Culinary experience • Flotilla sailing or diving cruises • Learn to sail/ Learn to Dive Programs

Insieme aims to help SME’s growth, development and internationalization through corporate finance transactions. They assist clients in making acquisitions, divestitures , mergers and joint ventures . Moreover , thanks to the B2Merger platform, companies and financial operators can meet to buy , sell and aggregate companies in complete safety and confidentiality.

Institute for Medicinal Plant Research "Dr Josif Pan?i?" is a state scientific research and production institute established in 1948 under the name "Institute for medicinal herbs testing Josif Pancic." Today the Institute is a unique research and production unit with a distinctive production program. The Institut is a leading and knowledge-based organization in the field of medicinal plants in Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans. Scientific research activities of “Dr Josif Pancic Institute” take place in the following areas: • pharmacognosy, chemical characterization of medicinal plants, production technologies in the field of extraction plants, distillation of essential oils, making modern galenic forms based on medicinal plants. • medicinal plants cultivation, domestication, selection and production of seeds and planting materials, preservation of genetic sources of medicinal plants outside their natural habitats. • Quality control of raw materials and products from medicinal plants.

Institute of Agriculture and Tourism is a public research institute, with 140 years long tradition, specialized in fundamental and applied research in biotechnology, ecology and social sciences. Besides scientific research, Institute maintains a high quality network with private sector, which incorporates both scientific and professional aspects, mainly in the domain of agriculture and tourism, supporting the regional agriculture development and increasing the quality of food industry and tourism in rural areas. Research activities are mostly oriented to viticulture, enology, olive growing, olive oil investigation, vegetable growing, agro-food products development, ecology, sustainable development, protected area management, agricultural economics and organization of the agriculture and the food system as well as to spatial planning and protection and rural development. All these activities imply that Institute is very proactive in knowledge transfer and in science popularization.

International Route is a spin-off company of the University of Macerata that provides consultancy to SMEs who want to invest or export abroad. Our team is formed by professors, PhD students, professionals & companies. We join academic & professional skills and, in fact, our biggest strength is the wideness of the competences. Services of International Route are: ??Analysis of human, financial & management resources of the client company ??Study of the political, social and geographical risk situation of the country in which the client company would invest ??Analysis of imports, exports & trade barriers of the target country & study of the segmentation of the target market ??Evaluation of the opportunity to register Patents & Trademarks ??Elaboration of the marketing strategy (Product, Price, Promotion, Positioning&Distribution) & analysis of competitors ??Support for the stipulation & review of international contracts ??Specific&non-specific translations from/to European&non-European languages.

The Ionian University aims to contribute to the revival and cultivation of the local intellectual heritage, a heritage partly deriving from the cultural impact of the long-lasting European occupations. What is more, the Ionian University aspires to play a significant academic role as one of the Greek Higher Education Institutions through its educational, scientific and intellectual activities. The number of Departments, as well as the fields covered, indicate that the Ionian University has chosen to operate on a narrow and therefore controllable base. The teacher to student ratio (approximately 1:10) illustrates this fact. Moreover, the dispersion of the Departments’ facilities in different parts of the urban complex of the city of Corfu, a city with a population of 40,000 residents, declares the University’s will find its place in the structure of a city with a rich historic and architectural heritage.

IQbility is a Quest Group of Companies' initiative, in partnership with the PJ Tech Catalyst fund. Quest operates in South Eastern Europe, in the ICT sector, Renewable Energy and Courier Services. PJ Tech Catalyst fund is a venture capital fund that invests in seed stage startup companies in Greece. The goal of the initiative is to identify, incubate and accelerate the development of the highest-potential startups in Greece, through high quality mentorship, valued leadership, experiential education and corporate resources. It focuses exclusively on the ICT industry, meaning consumer internet, enterprise software, mobile applications, big data, cloud services etc. IQbility seek to bridge local entrepreneurial talent with well established corporate resources to achieve significant global business results. For this purpose, it has created a co-working space where the teams can settle, work, meet and exchange ideas and experiences with other startups, invite their customers, ecc.

IRENA - Istrian Regional Energy Agency Ltd. Labin, was founded in 2009 by the County of Istria. IRENA was established as an independent nonprofit organization, providing advisory services to the public in form of information, help in raising awareness, training, etc., to local decision makers on energy issues in the public and private sectors, households and citizens. We encourage energetics in Istria with conventional energy sources and the promotion of energy efficiency, with the possibility of using renewable energy sources and cogeneration. The development of the company as well as its operation is closely connected to the development and quality of the living conditions. We want to be a quality link in the functioning of all energy branches within the Istrian County. The activities and efforts regarding the education of our citizens on energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy sources and cogeneration present a special challenge and they are necessary due to the rising cost of conventional energy sources on the world market and the problems caused by global warming.

IRTA is a form of private – public partnership owned by prominent Istrian hotel companies and the Istria County. There are 3 areas of expertise within IRTA: ICT in tourism, regional projects and EU projects. It manages the Istria destination official website as well as the information and booking centre of Istria where professionally educated operators answer e-mail or phone inquiries on Istria and accommodation. IRTA also manages official online advertising of the Istria tourism board. It is one of the leading partners in the Ministry of Tourism project started in 2013 – Hotspot Croatia. There are around a hundred free wifi points in Istria. Bike and Outdoor and Inspirit are projects IRTA has been developing through the last couple of years. Events dealing with regional legends have become a great part of cultural promotion, while both bike and outdoor events for professional athletes and recreationists create interest for the region not only in high season, but during other periods, too. A project still in development whose launch is due in June 2015 is the “Visit Istria” services website, where all services (rent-a-car, guided tours, excursions etc.) will be presented and bookable either individually or as a package.

Located in Ancona, capital of the Marche region on the Adriatic sea, ISTAO (Istituto Adriano Olivetti) is one of the oldest Italian Business Schools and has focused itself on the education of young graduates, entrepreneurs and managers since 1967. It rapidly became a reference school in the diffusion of a new entrepreneurial culture in Italy. The Institute was founded by Giorgio Fuà, a relevant italian economist, supported by the Social Science Research Council of the United States, the Italian National Research Council, the Bank of Italy and the Adriano Olivetti Foundation. ISTAO was born as an entrepreneurial school devoted to fulfill the management needs of enterprises. ISTAO offers a wide range of business training activities, both for new-graduated and for company managers.

Istra Inspirit organisation deals with innovative and sustainable tourism. It was established in July 2012 as a platform for a new cultural and touristic project Istra Inspirit Travel through time. Its purpose is to promote regional history and heritage by combining it with new theatre performance and with high level of interacting with the audience. The target group of the organisation's work are local people, youngsters and children, and tourists. The main goal is to educate people of Istrian intangible heritage, such as myths and legends by bringing them to life, using live performance, interactive methods in combination with the music and food from the reenacted era. All these performances are placed in tangible architectural heritage - city castels, historical city cores, museums or archeological sites. In the year 2014 Istra Inspirit runs an educational programme by organizing educational workshops and shows for preeschool and school children.

ICT company specialised in software development for tourist, hotel and restaurant industry. Founded in 1991 with headquarter in Pula and Banch office in Porec. Market leader in Croatia for software for hotel industry and software for tourist boards. Company has 26 employees and annual revenue is around 1 million USD.

KIDPASS is the urban guide to places and events dedicated to children.

The business center KonektOn encourages cooperation and exchange of knowledge, experience, good corporate and business practices along with identification, development and implementation of new business opportunities in the environment. We are engage in development of an open-source entrepreneurial culture bringing together entrepreneurs who are looking to co-create business and sales opportunities, expand their own network and are eager to acquire new knowledge. We believe that the success key for the KonektOn community members is in the collective knowledge and business networking in the safe environment. Our work is based on partnership, proactivity, knowledge, creativity, reciprocity, fairness and persistence. We are mostly active in fields of cooperative entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and women's entrepreneurship with business mentoring, training and coaching. We are a team of different specialists working for almost 15 years in different fields of management.

Technology Strategy, Program Management & Business Development in Telecoms/IT. 19 years of experience leading teams of 5-50+ staff members. Managed projects & contracts ranging from €100k - €30M in budget. Delivery of effective technology strategy and innovation, enabling the rapid launch of competitive new products, services and sales. Specialties: Telecom company startups, business planning, strategy, equipment & services procurement, vendor relationship management, contract optimization & negotiation, Program & Project Management, Network Sharing, Managed Services, DAS, Design, Engineering, Operation of Mobile/Fixed Network, lawful intercept, data protection, number portability, roaming, Service/product development, Network Service Management, Network innovation, Investment optimization, outsourcing, merger, acquisition, due diligence, start-up.

Technology executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience focusing in mobile telecommunications. He has significant experience as a high-tech startup founder and CTO. He has been successful in leading R&D projects. His working experience has been developed in a variety of environments ranging from SMEs to large multinational corporations He is also used to working in international multi-cultural environments.

Kreativni odjel d.o.o. is a company for market communications and multimedia production with headquarters in Rijeka, Croatia, Europe. It has been rewarded for its excellence with several awards. Our primary line of business is multimedia and web production, postproduction and video design, but we also provide services ranging from print media and Internet design to branding and media communication services. This includes Internet games and TV quiz games. Architectonic and other complex visualizations round up the offer.

The Atelier Studio Centro Veneto has been founded in 1968 to offer structured and customised advice services to institutions, business manager and professional. Since 1983 it works on the issue of the generational changeover and has developed several tools to face this delicate process in its complexity. These tools are part of the Kit.Brunello.System, European recognised Best Practices, to ensure entrepreneurial competitiveness of companies and territories.

The company purpose is to use research results in the field of environment through the design, development and management of environmental solutions. We conduct assistance activities and technical&scientific advice to companies & public administration in relation to environmental issues. Main activities: • Environmental Monitoring • Design&implementation of environmental monitoring activities • Innovative methods for monitoring air quality LEnviroS conducts air quality monitoring techniques with both innovative and conventional methods and is able to provide customized services to the territory in relation to the needs. The activity includes design of monitoring plans, network management, monitoring, sampling, analysis, validation and interpretation of the data collected for: • analysis and monitoring of air pollution • analysis of odors in various environments • pollution in confined spaces • compliance with regulations on chemicals (REACH Regulations, CLP, BIOCIDES) • decision support.

I am a tax lawyer, accountant and PhD candidate. I have been studying incentives for SME and innovative start up in the last 2 years, publishing in this topic quite a number of articles (last two are “Il conferimento in start-up innovativa come opportunità di tax-planning”, Rivista delle operazioni straordinarie, Euroconference and “Nuovi incentive alle PMI, un intervento multidisciplinare”, Rivista delle operazioni straordinarie, Euroconference). I would like to help start ups in their restructuring phase, from a legale, tax and accounting point of view. I would also like to advise possible investors to understand specific incentives (tax credits) attributable to persons (individuals and corporations) who decide to invest in the start up equity.

Ing. Loris Favero – Consultant for SMEs on: safety certifications, quality, environment, SOA; research and innovation, strategic plans for their development; business reorganisation projects through efficiency analysis and the implementation of integrated systems as the Management Check; projects focused on the strategic development of the company, the internationalisation, the co-marketing and the partnerships; training in projects of organisational restructuring and business development.

LUCE lN VENETO is a cluster consistlng of more than 4O top Venetian lighting SMEs, its sole aim is to propose great products according to the ethos described above. The cluster mission is: to enhance the competitiveness of the Venetian enterprises in the production and marketing of lighting systems and increase the value-added of these products as part of a process of economic integration of the supply chain.

Lynkteam, startup founded in 2015, is based on 3 main aspects that define its added value: Innovation, Partnership and Ethics. The Mission is to help SMEs to be competitive in modern marketplace, innovating and differentiating them from competitors, and removing everithing that doesn’t create value added, thanks to the synergy between ICT and Management areas. The best project in LynkTeam’s porfolio is TapFood, a multi-sided platform dedicated to Food&Beverage SMEs’ needs, that gives a high-tech content solution that links online sales, enterprise’s management and computerization of procedures.

Who we are: ? We are experts at helping our clients develop and deliver realistic and appropriate business marketing solutions, that will truly benefit their businesses ? We develop bespoke marketing, PR and advertising activities for companies looking for a more flexible programme with which to reach their target audience than those usually on offer from other mainstream media agencies ? We understand the effectiveness of integrated communications – and working directly on your behalf makes project objectives clearer and ultimately more cost effective ? Our focus is on developing your brand through meaningful and powerful engagements Areas of work: Consumer Products and Services, Tourism, Sports, Culture, Non-Profit, Telecommunications, Industry and energy sector, Government/Public Affairs/Legal, Entertainment. Services we provide: • Advertising • Media planning & buying • Public Relations • Event Management.

Madeba’s philosophy starts from an idea of research and development linked to a constant pursuit of innovation in IT that have a real market output. They are working on three projects: - Viewer for Augmented Reality - Development of mobile app that take advantages from the viewer - Portable 3d scanning

MadeUp is a platform that allows the connection between Brand and Customers through an nfc tag embedded into the product and a smartphone. Our value proposition is composed by three features: Anti-counterfeit system; A new costumer experience concept; A system that allows brand to track their products after sales. We are a multifaceted team composed of analysts, designers and software engineers striving together for the same goal: create a unique and intuitive solution for the industry. MadeUp works in H-FARM, an Italian venture incubator.

MAKE IT LEAN SRL grows up to support companies in responding to the more and more competitive market through the Lean production. Reducing all business activities with no added value in the productive processes and re-organising the entire activity (through modern IT services), relevant results could be achieved in terms of efficiency and production.

Dr Rodoula Makri is Senior Researcher and Technical Project Manager at MFOL/ICCS since 2000 in RF and Microwave Systems Engineering. She holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1992, NTUA), a PhD in Modelling and Design of MMICs (1999, NTUA) and an MBA (2001, AUEB/NTUA). She has long experience in the design and development of MMICs and RF/microwave and mm-wave wireless systems, various types of antennas through advanced CAD software, systemic analysis, EM modelling, satcom and space based applications. She has published over 40 papers in refereed international scientific journals and conferences. She has served as Lecturer at the University of Aegean and the Hellenic Airforce and Army Academies. She has worked in 15 European and 20 national research programs as a Senior Researcher/Scientific Responsible. She has extensive experience in Laboratory microwave/RF, field and EMC/EMI measurements. She is IEEE MTT Greek Chapter Chair.

He holds an MSc in Technical Change & Industrial Strategy from PREST Institute of the University of Manchester and a BA in Civil Engineering from the Democrition University of Thrace. His continuous support in RTD project management and his contribution to the formation of technology strategies and business development have created a portfolio of strong working relationships and contacts with many high-tech IT firms and policy makers globally.

METRIS was established as an independent legal entity on January 16th 2015 as the legal successor of The Istrian Development Agency (IDA) Ltd., the first regional, and one of the leading Croatian development agencies. From 2009 to 2014 the Research Centre for Materials in the Region of Istria - METRIS operated as IDA R&D department. METRIS was established within the project "Research Centre for Metal Industry in Istrian County - MET.R.IS.", co-financed by the EU from the PHARE 2006 fund. Today METRIS performs its services in 6 laboratories designed for the analysis of the metals and their chemical, mechanical and structural characteristics, as well as for the simulation of their static, dynamic and non-linear responses with numerical methods. The new, sixth laboratory will analyze and measure antioxidative potential of food (METRIS-MedILS cooperation). Except for metals and other firm materials, equipment in METRIS can provide wide spectra of analysis for archeologist and conservators.

Mijena d.o.o. is an Internet marketing agency specialized in Search Engine Marketing and Online Business Optimization. Our complete Internet marketing service is designed to generate a meaningful return-­on-­investment (ROI) on Internet marketing campaigns for our clients. Mijena's services include: Search Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Web Analytics and Web Strategy and business consulting.

MindXUp is a management consulting company , specialized in helping companies and organizations in the definition and implementation of strategic marketing plans developing also innovative services high-tech oriented

MindXUp is a management consulting company , specialized in helping companies and organizations in the definition and implementation of strategic marketing plans developing also innovative services high-tech oriented.

Moku is a Software Development firm. We transform ambitious ideas into extraordinary products. We work closely with the client, extracting requisites, building user experiences and finding business opportunities. We translate the complexity of real life problems in elegant solutions. We write quality code that is easy to maintain.*

MR Energy Systems is a Consulting Engineering company, with many years of national and international consulting and business development experience in the field of sustainable energy and climate change related services, MR Energy Systems helps clients to achieve lower energy costs and better environmental performance. We supply high-end consulting and engineering services to private and public clients, in the framework of the economic and cultural transition which sees the Environment more and more as the central element of international policies, and of individual people’s daily choices. MR Energy is registered at the Commercial Activities Registry of the Province of Belluno as innovative start-up, and is qualified as an ESCo, and is therefore authorized to operate within the White Certificates market (Energy Efficiency tradable certificates system).

National Agency for Regional Development is the key factor in creation and implementation of the national policy of sustainable regional development. Mission& Vision: The Agency is the primary resource centre for information and coordination of institutional, entrepreneurial and individual initiatives and measures for the purpose of development of all regions in the state: • Creating the network of partnerships with all key actors of social development • Initiating and supporting the development, infrastructure and investment programmes and projects, thus contributing to improvement of competitiveness, entrepreneurial capacity and investment potentials • Informing the public, forming and advising special target groups relevant to regional development • Improving the local self-government capacities for using the European funds. • Fostering inter-municipal, interregional and cross-border cooperation between the private, public and civil sector.

The Trout Breeding Cluster of Montenegro comprises of 5 freshwater fish producers that are actively growing rainbow trout and, in smaller quantities, brown trout. The maximum annual production capacity of the cluster is 364.5 tons, of which only about 30% is currently operational. The cluster’s territory is characterized by a high quality of water. Rivers flowing down the mountains to the fishponds are rich in oxygen, which is necessary for growing trout. As a result, the fish produced in the cluster is considered high quality. However the cluster faces many challenges, mainly related to outdated production technology, which has significant consequences on the volume and quality of the produce, especially in smaller ponds. Inappropriate facilities for growing young fish result in unfavorable air and water temperatures. In addition, producers lack automatic or semi-automatic feeders which lead to unequal allocation of feed amongst fish.

The National Hellenic Research Foundation, one of the largest Research Centers in Greece, was founded in 1958 originally under the name "Royal Research Foundation". It is a non-profit Research Foundation supervised by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) of the Ministry of Culture, Education and Religious Affairs in Greece. Today, NHRF consists of the following Institutes and Units: Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Institute of Biology, Medicinal Chemistry and Biotechnology (IBMCB), Institute of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry (TPCI), National Documentation Centre (EKT).

We are small company founded in 2013. Our main activity is organization of boat excursions, exactly semisubmarine rides in Medulin archipelago. Semisubmarine represents a novelty in tourism offer: it is a vessel designed to look the same as a real submarine, with a conning tower, dive planes and rounded hull shape. During each tour you can see something different because the vessel is not stationary – it sails along the coastline of Medulin and nearby islands. SemiSUBMARINE constant speed is between 1–2 knots, slow enough so that you have a chance to see all details & the sea creatures are not too frightened by our arrival. You can observe different fish species, starfish, sea urchins, bivalves, hydroids & different marine algae. To climb aboard is very easy, the only thing you have to do to experience this adventure is get down the staircase to the viewing cabin. We didn't forget the youngest, who may be seeing the sea creatures for the first time in their lives.

NEC Notranjski ekološki center, Cerknica is a non-government, non-profit private institution founded in 1995. We are specialized in competency centre for entrepreneurship, we have tradition and experiences in interdisciplinary projects, we are experts in project management, sustainable development, tourism, rural development and creative industry. We are also active in social innovation for 20 years. NEC, Cerknica endeavours to support development of all target groups, by performing concrete localized actions. We have a number of highly educated and professional employees and a range of external experts that we participate with. Together we create conditions for growth and development: personal, organisational and societal. We ensure that the complexity evolves to clarity. We interpret and connect vertical views to horizontal development.

Employed at Local Business Center Cetinje established in October 15, 2002 by the National Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development, as integral part of similar bodies throughout the country. In June 2011, the center has been overtaken by Municipality of Cetinje getting status of local administration expert body responsible directly to the city mayor.

Alexander Nioras holds a BSc degree in Mathematics with specialization in Economics from the University of Sussex and an MSc degree in Technology and Innovation Management from SPRU, University of Sussex, UK. He has an extended experience in science, technology and innovation policy projects at regional, national and EU level and in project management in the line of the 3rd Community Support Framework. He has also been involved in the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Structural Funds' projects. His expertise covers also issues in the design and implementation of foresight exercises through his collaboration with a number of companies where he was responsible for the design and implementation of economic and social statistical surveys.

We show integrity in everything we do. Our words and deeds are in alignment. We promote change. We constantly change and improve ourselves, our business and our community. We encourage partnerships. In today's world working together can make difference between success and failure. We foster innovation. As innovation point contact for this region we connect stakeholders to produce new value. We create technology. Technology improves people's lives, making us a little bit better society than we were yesterday. Vision: Region of South East Serbia is a center of development of Advanced Technologies on the Balkans. Mision: To provide companies and community with high class services in the area of professional trainings, standardization, national and international marketing and lobbying in order to increase competitiveness in the field of advanced technologies.

Nova iskra is a unique meeting point of the emerging creative professionals and forward-thinking business. We manage design and employ innovation in order to discover new values in the fields of creative business, education, social improvement and empowerment of local communities. Our multifaceted platform embraces the design process as a starting point for developing problem-solving ideas, projects and services by assigning them with tailor-made, trans-disciplinary teams comprised of leading experts, professionals and creatives. We use progressive ideas and experiences from the creative domain as a tool to empower, update and develop small and medium-sized businesses, as well as to provide creative and business support to entrepreneurs, on a local or global level. We are determined to affirm the young, emerging talents and provide them with opportunities to be the agents of change and local economic growth, alongside with the companies which share our values.

NTP realizes activities of research and development, production of products and services in the sector of micro and nanotechnology, in particular in the sectors of laser imaging and optical sensing&biosensing. NTP was recognized in 2012 as an innovative Italian startup company by MISE (Ministero Italiano Sviluppo Economico). NTP was recognized in 2015 also as social vocation company (SIaVS) since the mission aims to furnish to anyone an easy & smart visual access for a trusty interpretation of the “world” between micro/nano dimensions. This will be done using a new device (a prototype is already set) born from optical engineering, 3D rendering and physical-chemical principles applied to the most modern informatics platforms, such as smartphone or tablet. The prototype was made in a small form factor and it will be able to reach anyone through wifi connections.

The National Technical University (NTUA) is the oldest and most prestigious educational institution of Greece in the field of technology, and has contributed unceasingly to the country's scientific, technical and economic development since its foundation in 1836. It is closely linked with Greece's struggle for independence, democracy and social progress. In Greek, NTUA is called the "Ethnicon Metsovion Polytechnion" which stands for National Metsovion Polytechnic. It was named "Metsovion" to honor the donors and benefactors Nikolaos Stournaris, Eleni Tositsa, Michail Tositsas and Georgios Averof, all from Metsovo, a small town in the region of Epirus, who made substantial donations in the last half of the 19th century.

Officine Creative Marchigiane – OCM is a team of young techology innovators based in Pesaro. OCM is made up of different professionals (engineers, programmers, a smith, graphic designers) and makes available all his different skills and technology to create new job opportunities. OCM offers professional courses “learning by doing” to those who want to invest on their future, defining new strategic positions in traditional enterprises. OCM works next to business companies, start up, craftsmen e SME supporting them by developing new products in all steps, from the research of alternative loans, to the market launch on digital platforms. OCM’s open source and technologic knowhow define a unique service in the region of Marche.

ORAFI IN RETE born on 26 October 2012. the main focus are the e-commerce of the goldsmith industry and related accessorizes both in Italy and foreign; the support to companies of the sector in selling activities (marketing, e-commerce, co-working spaces and web platform). More specifically, the objective of the company is to establish an Italian marketplace where jewelleries, craftsman and small producers could integrate their off-line and on-line activities in a sale omni-channel and collaborative consumption project.

Over 1700 olive growers operate in the Olive Oil Cluster of Bar and Ulcinj in Motenegro. There are currently 12 large mills within the cluster and a number of traditional producers that have a very small turnover.A large number of very old olive trees as a good platform for joint niche marketing and cluster branding, local associations existing, cooperation between producers in certain areas, linkages with international research bodies partially established, autochthonous olive tree species (zutica) in the region.

Love towards nature and awareness of healthy nutrition inspired the family in agriculture production of various vegetable cultures for their own needs. Returns have soon become “surpluses”, so in 2006. OPG Dermit was founded by Damir Dermit. Production was wholly organized as an organic production. The initial enthusiasm has remained for nine years so far, and we expect further successful cooperation with customers and other potential partners.

Orange Grove is a co-workspace supported by the Dutch Embassy and leading businesses and universities in Athens, aiming to help fighting youth unemployment and brain drain from Greece to other countries. It also encourages young Dutch citizens to move and work in Athens. It is a well equipped, neatly designed space for 50 young entrepreneurs, that has links to companies (from corporations to start-ups) and educational institutions. The Orange Grove itself is a network of the participants, the sponsors and the Embassy, that helps young entrepreneurs to bring their start-ups a step closer to success. Orange Grove supports graduates, or young entrepreneurs (younger than 35) keen to develop their business in Greece. It offers state of the art flexible workspaces equipped with a conference room, workspaces on sofas and desks. Participants in Orange Grove have the opportunity to attend master classes, seminars and lectures and the chance to be coached/mentored by experienced professionals.

Research and Development of new products in the context of Internet of Things. Overout would like to mantain a strong focus and connotation in R&D, through the creation of laboratory able to be a real engine of ideas, concept, prototyping in the field of home automation.

Extensive experience in: • Health & Safety Engineer • Maintenance Senior Consultant • Application Senior Consultant Specialties: MS Office, Access, JDEdwards (Manufacturing, Production,Quality).

The Parco Agroalimentare di San Daniele is a development agency for the food industry established by a regional law (LR 27/99 as amended). Recently, the Regional Council of Friuli Venezia Giulia with the new Regional Law 3/2015 (alleged March 2015) recognized as a fully independent company and has assigned the coordinating role for the entire agri-food regional cluster. The services provided: • Analysis of the needs and requirements of the EMS. Identification of possible solutions to support the competitive growth of local businesses by developing new methods of management of the production process. • Ex-ante business evaluation using SWOT technique applied to agro-food business and food processing industrial models. • Set-up of new products/process with identification of validation procedures regarding technical hygienic needs. The process is able to facilitate the business development increasing market opportunities for the SMEs • Help on the creation of local networking between SMEs giving them the possibility to increase their business volumes and reach new markets. The process is carried-out taking care of quality, sustainability and safety of their productions

Employed at Local Business Center Cetinje established in October 15, 2002 by the National Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Development, as integral part of similar bodies throughout the country. In June 2011, the center has been overtaken by Municipality of Cetinje getting status of local administration expert body responsible directly to the city mayor. As Business Center Cetinje consultant, I perform the following affairs: • SME analysis and statistics; • Entrepreneurs and SME models of business registration advising; • Designing of business and investment plans; • Marketing, management, company diagnosis, organization, intermediation between SME and consulting agencies, as well as other relevant information provision.

Our Real Estate Agency, specializing in luxury properties, is introducing innovative services in the field of the Real Estate . With our project "Casa Bella" we intend to present a new system to sell houses in the italian market, in a faster time and at a better price,using a new marketig called Home Staging. Further we are providing with new digital instruments including social media to promote our business all over the world. CHANGING AND INNOVATING TO SURVIVE!

Perfom is a family owned and operated company with extensive experience in perforation,punching and metalforming. We have developed over 70 years experience and tradition in metalforming and processing.Over the years ,the company has combined the latest cad-cam technologies with the best craftsmen tradtion. Our skills and Capabilities are: -Perforation,punching and metalforming (cutting,bending,rolling,welding) -production of standard and custom made products according to drawing -production of small and medium size series -In house develoment and tool workshop department -New products development We are driven by quality,responsibility and flexibility in production and cooperation.

Personal Genomics srl, is the leading company in providing genomic services based on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) for the Italian market. It carries out genomic analysis and interpretation both for the clinical, consumer, and research markets by offering the best tools applicable to personalized medicine and to pharmacogenomics. Personal Genomics aims to eliminate the gap between the explosive scientific and technological progress developed in the research laboratories and its applications in the field of health care and preventive medicine in order to improve people’s life. Personal Genomics promotes the innovative concept of personalized medicine based on the approach of individualized treatment and prevention of diseases considering each one’s genetic background.

PHASE srl is an innovative start up which develops production data collection systems for manufacturing companies.

PIM Laboratories – centre of advanced services for start ups and business ideas. Co working space. Laboratory of digital fabrication and rapid prototyping. Inside these spaces aggregation is generating prototyping not only of new products, but new fi-border and new organisations, adequately supported, could can engage elements of innovation in the business regionally. Services offered: Co-working; Events for business and educational; Business strategy & business plan; Fast prototyping; Advisory on public funding.

POLINS is a company that conducts strategic assistance. It was founded in 2008 by initiative of the University of Venice Ca’ Foscari and City of Portogruaro to contribute to the development of strategic innovation ability of SMEs. Through activities of strategic analysis and creation of new models of business, it helps the entrepreneurs launching new start ups or reworking their business strategies. POLINS supports entrepreneurs in the development of ideas and business plans, including in particular assistance in the conception of innovative business models and in the implementation of strategic plans for the launch of new start ups or re-start up businesses. POLINS organizes workshops and training courses about topics and tools of strategic innovation for entrepreneurs, managers and students, in order to develop innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship skills. POLINS manages and coordinates activities in European and local research projects. The activities purpose is to test methodologies which enhance innovation in SMEs business models and stimulate the creation of new start ups.

PRAKSIS (PROGRAMS OF DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL SUPPORT AND MEDICAL COOPERATION) is an independent Non Governmental Organization whose main goal is the design, application and implementation of humanitarian programs and medical interventions. Our goals Our main goal is the elimination of social and economic exclusion of vulnerable social groups and the defense of their personal and social rights.

PROGETTO ARIA srl aims to research and develop new patentable solutions for perspiration in the following sectors: health orthopaedics, personal hygiene, disability, veterinary, shoes and accessorizes, sport, hand bike.

QUANTITAS is an innovative start up born in 2014 with the objective of developing support systems to decisions in complex contexts, creating tools and implementing methodologies of collection, analysis and dissemination of information.

QuinoaMarche is a business idea born from the passion of three siblings, Oriana, Samuele and Emanuele Zannini, for the outstanding properties of this "super grain", the Quinoa. Their aim is to introduce and broaden the area of cultivation and processing of quinoa in the Marche region, to meet the healthy dietary needs of society in ways that are economically, socially, and environmentally viable, now and into the future.

The Agency was founded in 2001 as non-profit limited liability joint stock Company. The founding members of the Agency are 23 among the most prominent institutions and organizations of AP Vojvodina. Mission of the Agency is to create conditions, opportunities and facilities for full and adequate accessing the formal economic circuit by the SME sector and other disadvantaged social strata of the local population in the Region, which will, through the integrated development of local resources and potentials and concentrated efforts of local actors, promote the sustainable economic development of the Region. According to its Business plan, the business objectives of Alma Mons are structured in the following way: • Availability of business services, information and support to SMEs • Provision of services to local authorities and other actors in the process of economic development planning • Provision of services to potential foreign/international institutions and organizations.

ARTI is the Regional Agency of Technology and Innovation of Apulia. It is established with Regional Law 1/7.12004. It is an operational body Apulia Region, that came into full operation in 2005, following the Deliberations 1172-6/8/2005 and 1297-20/9/05. The activity performed by ARTI-based on the fundamental role played by R&I to achieve economic growth and social cohesion-is part of a more comprehensive strategy of economic development pursued by Apulia Region and it's addressed to promote, stimulate and meet the needs for innovation and retraining of human resources, local enterprises and production systems. The Agency was established for promoting and consolidating the SIR (System of Regional Innovation), i.e. the networking of public and private players implementing common strategies.

The Chamber is an interest-based, independent, professional, business-expert association of companies, entrepreneurs and other organisations performing activities on the territories of the 10 municipalities in Zlatiborski District, which are connected by mutual business interests. The RCC Užice, as an interest economic association, represents a place for gathering and discussion, harmonisation of interests & activities of the enterprises, establishing mutual standpoints, exchange of experience & establishing mutual business connections. The Chamber assists companies in promoting marketing, linking science & economy, modernising personnel knowledge, creating development strategies & improving the infrastructure. The Chamber closely cooperates with the Chamber of Commerce of Serbia and other regional chamber of commerce, Zlatibor district, municipalities, republic ministries and representatives of foreign chambers of commerce in our country,scientific-research institutions&universities.

The Agency was established on 17.06.2013 as a result of the previously signed Protocol of Cooperation among Bogatic, Krupanj, Mali Zvornik, Ose?ina, Ljubovija & Loznica municipalities for the establishment of regional development agencies in the territory of Western Serbia. The establishing contract was signed by 5 local governments & 5 entrepreneurs associations. The agency is registered in the Business Registers Agency since 08.22.2013. In the area covered there are around 150.000 inhabitants. Local governments are in Ma?va District (Kolubara District). On 28.01.2014 the Agency received accreditation from the National Agency for Regional Development, acquiring the qualification to perform delegated tasks/implement development projects&activities funded by the state budget&other sources in accordance with the Law on Regional Development. Other activities are: preparation&implementation of professional development programs for enterprises, infrastructure&institutions development, ecc.

Regional Development Agency Green Karst, Ltd. acts as institution on regional level with the aim of enhancing development in all aspects of working and living in Primorsko-notranjska region. It performs as regional co-ordinator of interests on local as well as national level in fields of regional development, economy, human resources, environment and natural resources management and rural development. RDA Green Karst is a non-profit organization, directed to developing, enhancing and sustaining regional development. It offers development, organizational, technical and professional support for the development of the region through: • coordination and communication for enhancing participation of regional stakeholders, • project development and management, including financial management, • consulting and other business services, • training for public and private sector, • information, communication and promotion activities. RDA also has been actively involved in numerous international projects.

The Zlatibor Regional Development Agency is a non-profit regional development institution founded in 2002 by 9 municipalities from Zlatibor County. Since 2011, it is accredited by the National Agency for Regional Development of the Republic of Serbia and authorized to implement national programmes for regional development. ZRDA implements its activities through 6 regional boards consisted of private, public and civil sector representatives, experienced in the following fields: environment protection, economy and SMEs development, social issues, rural development, spatial planning and infrastructure, management and finance. The main objective of Zlatibor RDA is to contribute to the regional sustainable development through activities in economic, social and environment sector. Main services for SMEs are: information, trainings, mentoring and promotion, as well as implementation of specialized programmes for increasing competitiveness and innovations of SMEs through the field work.

RDC Koper acts as an institution on regional level with the aim of promoting business and economy development in our region. It performs the role of regional co-ordinator of interests on local as well as national level in the fields of regional development, economy, human resources and environment protection. In 2001 RDC Koper gained the status of leading organization of the Regional Development Agency South Primorska (hereafter RDA) for municipalities of Diva?a, Hrpelje-Kozina, Ilirska Bistrica, Izola, Komen, Koper, Piran, Ankaran and Sežana. RDC Koper is a permanent representative of ministries, governmental organizations, chambers of commerce and craft, companies and other institutions. RDC has a wide experience in national and international projects on fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. It performs different services for SME (one-stop-shop and consultancy services, training, seminars etc.), from 1999 it manages a guarantee scheme for SME loans.

Regional Energy Agency Kvarner Ltd. (Regionalna energetska agencija Kvarner d.o.o.) has been established by the County of Primorje Gorski Kotar as a non-profit public owned enterprise, a single organization and institutionalized framework for more rational use of existing energy resources, as well as stimulating energy production from renewable and alternative sources in the County. The main objective and the role of the Agency is to promote and encourage sustainable regional development in the field of energy through the use of renewable energy sources and introducing energy efficiency. Special goals of the Agency are drafting of energy balance sheets, energy action plans, facilitating of energy efficiency plans implementation, stimulating use of renewable energy sources, support to everyone and especially to economic subjects in the County territory, providing energy efficiency and renewable energy sources related information and advices.

FOCUS is an SMEs network (D.L. 5/2009) focused on ICT: cloud, connectivity, system security, application development and web.

The Chamber of Commerce of Rimini was founded in the first half of the nineties, on the occasion of the establishment of the new province of Rimini. It is a public autonomous entity that takes care of the overall interest of the companies -for this reason each company of the province pays every year a fee, decided by the central Government- and promotes the economic development of the province. In particular the Chamber of Commerce carries out important tasks such as: • keeping the Business Register, (Registro Imprese), which is an actual official record of all the enterprises located in the province; • ensuring correct relationship between companies and consumers (function of market regulation); • promoting and supporting the internationalization of companies, offering business information and organising promotional activities aimed at expanding the local economy abroad.

The Social Center Rojc is a unique place in Croatia (Pula) that gathers civil society organizations and encourages their development. It is situated in an impressive building built by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1870 for its Naval School. The Center today hosts 110 associations from various fields (culture, sports, psychosocial care and health services, activities for children and young people, care for persons with special needs, envirnmental protection, technical culture, national minorities etc.) work under a common roof in a place of revived cultural heritage and numerous social events. On a weekly basis thousands of Rojc inhabitants and their visitors pass through its painted hallways and stairways – the “streets” of Rojc. The Social Center Rojc organizes education on social innovations, social entrepreneurship, workshops and discussions on Ethical financing, cooperatives and green economy, all related to Adriatic – Ionian Macroregional Strategy.

RuahCrea Srl is a society deals with innovative design and sustainable construction. It was born recently thanks to the will of two young italian Engineers and Architects Agnese & Caterina Pirani and works in various fields from residential to commercial, school and hospital constructions, religious sector, urban planning, renovations and building refur¬bishment. Its motto is “living in a better place and way” so it works with advanced and no pollution materials; it is very at¬tentive to the natural context , the microclimatic conditions, the local resources, the characteristics of the terrain, the culture and the memory of the place where the construction will born. It creates buildings with Ethical and Social responsibilities in the respect of security and comfort of the people who live the space, making a strong dialogue between interior and exterior environment of a building in a dense game of relationships between man and land. Men are collocated in the center of any design and construction choice. The society is working, at this time, in different part of UE and extra UE countries; in the following future it hopes to enlarge further its working perspectives.

Education - Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration – Marketing Name and address of employer - Directorate for Development of SMEs, Rimski Trg 46, 81000Podgorica Type of business or sector - Enterprise Europe Network –EIIC Montenegro Consortium 2010- present Main activities and responsibilities o International affairs (Conferences, Round tables, Workshops…etc.) o Economic and social affairs (analysis, research…) o Projects (development, implementation and monitoring) o Institutional support (advisory services/needs analysis/education) • Regional/local business centers network (11 centers) • Business incubators network (3 incubators) o Mentoring -Certificate as a Mentor - financial management, marketing, enterprise diagnosis, production management, and business plan drafting - Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

SERDA was established in 2003 by Sarajevo Canton, City of Sarajevo, City of East Sarajevo and 32 municipalities from Federation BiH and Republika Srpska. The role of SERDA is to support development and strengthen business environment by providing financial support, education, business infrastructure development, strengthening of human resources, information and consulting, services to foreign investors and implementation of inter-regional and international projects. The strategic objectives of SERDA: regional economic development, creating a positive business environment, human resources development, strengthening of regional competitiveness. The mission of SERDA is to create positive environment for sustainable economic development and improvement, strengthening and development promotion by using available resources. In the past, SERDA has proven itself as a leader of regional economic development agencies in BiH through projects, dynamics, innovative approach and professionalism.

School centre Postojna, Higher vocational college offers three study programmes: Business Administrator, Mechanical Engineering and Forestry and Hunting. These programmes are evaluated with 120 ECTS points and last two years and are designed to offer the state-of-the art knowledge in the specific areas of interest. School centre Postojna, Higher vocational college is opened to entrepreneurship and innovation initiatives, mostly related to diminishing the gap between knowledge institutions and companies.

The School of Architecture and Design “Eduardo Vittoria” is a research and training organization of the University of Camerino, founded in 1993 located in Ascoli Piceno, Marche - Italy. The scientific activity of the School is directed to develop cultural action and research program aimed to direct and indirect transformation of the natural and artificial environment. The School collects the contribution of several subjects but its mission is the “design culture” applied to architecture projects, landscape design, design of everyday objects and visual design. The School is at the service of the territory and the businesses trough research activity addressed to them and regulated by conventions and MoUs. In addition to relations with the territory, the School maintains relationships, exchange agreements and collaborations whit other national and foreign Universities. National assessment organizations put this School among the first ones in Italy.

SeguiLeOrme is a web portal where the user will be able to search for pet's professional services. The user will find also information about the world of animals in general, the voluntary sector and the vegan world. With SeguiLeOrme, the user will find in a few clicks services he is looking for: veterinarians clinics, groomers, voluntary associations, pet stores, dog parks and all information he needs. Each company will have a personal page where the users will be able to leave comments to create a network of experiences, then we'll join lots of services. Each service wil be create to satisfy companies, pet's owners and associations needs.

SEPVE is a private non-profit organization based in Thessaloniki. From its foundation on April 1994 until the present day it has been the only collective body representing the interests and concerns of the information technology businesses active in Northern Greece. Today, SEPVE numbers more than 250 member enterprises. Its goal is to promote, through specific initiatives and projects, an enhanced status for the regional ICT businesses, thus making a positive contribution to Greece’s advance into the Information Society. For that reason, over the past 17 years the Association has been organizing a significant number of events, training seminars, conferences and forums, while taking part in an even larger number of such events organized by other associations and agencies. SEPVE also creates the necessary framework for contact, communication and collaboration of its members among each other, the public sector and other business sectors.

National association for the development of organic production "Serbia Organica" was established in May 2009 at the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture as an umbrella organization with the aim to support the development of organic agriculture and promote organic farming in Serbia. Serbia Organica brings together the entire sector of organic agriculture in Serbia and is a strategic partner to national and international institutions which deal with the development of organic agriculture. Serbia Organica is an independent, non-profit civil organization. It is a member of the international organizations: IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements), AVALON (Foundation for the promotion of sustainable rural development in Central and Eastern Europe) and ISOFAR (International Society for research in organic agriculture).

We are a web agency that does everything a web agency should be doing in 2015: we create Websites – visible and usable from smartphones and tablets –, E-Commerce Sites and Cloud Applications; we draw up efficient and personalized Communication and Marketing Strategies; for our clients we use platforms like Online Advertising, Social Networks, Newsletters; we monitor results for all activities in the works. We work with micro-enterprises and SMEs Our work is focused around reacting to the needs of micro-enterprises – freelancers and craftsmen, we’re talking to you! – as well as SMEs. Alongside these companies we deal with Digital Marketing Communication, implementing a perspective of integrated strategy

SILTEA srl is a spin off of the University of Padua working on diagnostic analysis for restoration and nanotechnology protections for surfaces. These products have a silica basis and have been adapted for the civil-industrial sector.

Sinel Ltd. was established in 1992. Its main activities are as follows: · Industrial automation - Production and service of the machine tools and special machines for industrial automation · Telecommunications - Installation and service of both telecommunications and computer equipment · Retail of spare parts and equipment for industrial automation machines and telecommunication devices. We cover the territory of Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro and other countries in the area. Over the years we have developed a high quality service and have took up the manufacturing of both machines and devices for the control of industrial processes. We offer full or partial automation of production processes, modification of production lines, making robotic applications and robotic cells for different purposes. We cover almost all types of industries, from automotive industry, metal processing, shipbuilding, machine building, paper and other kinds of industries. We are a member of AD Cluster - association of Croatian automotive manufacturers, parts, accessories and equipment manufacturers for the automotive industry.

SISSA, founded in 1978, is a science centre of excellence on both the Italian and international academic scene. SISSA’s value is guaranteed by the highest number of European grants, international prizes & awards and by the membership of its scientists in prestigious academia. About 70 professors, 120 post-docs, 250 PhD students & 90 technical-administrative staff are based on the School’s campus located in Trieste, which extends over 25 acres of parkland. SISSA’s research & education activity focuses on three main areas: Mathematics, Neuroscience & Physics. The 12 School’s PhD courses offer an original & innovative postgraduate programme and represent an international reference model, in addition to specialized courses organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of SISSA (Master in High Performance Computing, Master in Science Communication & Master in Complex Actions). Transfer of the results of scientific research to society and to the business sector is one of the institutional tasks carried out by SISSA.

Solwa srl was born on 12 January 2012. In 2013 the company is awarded as innovative Start Up in the “Green Technology” sector. The research and development of new products induces Solwa srl to find innovative environmentally friendly solutions, thus reducing energy consumption. The Solw technology is innovative, efficient and powered only by renewable energies. Our projects have been recognised at international and scientific level, allowing Solwa srl to interact with international organisation and companies. Products: DRYWA Innovative integrated system for drying sewage sludge DIGEWA Innovative integrated system for drying digestate IRRIWA innovative integrated system of farming and irrigation in barren areas FOODWA Innovative system for drying food with solar energy SOLWA Innovative system to treat polluted or sea water with solar energy

We are a company specializing in the manufacturing of sports courts based on acrylic resins, artificial grass, rubber, PVC, tartan. We are advising on how get sports club out of financial problems and beginning of a profitable activity. Our mission: Enable all top athletes, children, recreational athletes the optimum exercise conditions in all sports branches and sports grounds, at the same time, minimizing the investment and maintenance costs of the infrastructure. Our activities: 1. Consulting in the field of sports infrastructures 2. Execution works in the field of sports infrastructures 3. Sports infrastructure maintenance Our vision for the next 10 years is to become: 1. a more visible entity in the wider area of the Balkans and Adriatic region for advice, construction and maintenance of sports courts. 2. a more visible entity in the wider area of the Balkans and Adriatic region for advising how these courts would meet the economic benefit and maintenance.

Web agency: websites creation, app mobile, web marketing, design and development of software web-based, video and photo shoots realization, beacon technology, augmented reality, cloud services, hosting and housing.

Students Entrepreneurial Incubator at Juraj Dobrila University of Pula was opened in March 2013 at the initaitive Faculty of Economics and Tourism „Dr. Mijo Mirković“ of University. Its main premise was to be the generator of entrepreneurial climate, help in realizing entrepreneurial ideas and education for entrepreneurship, primarily oriented towards all the students from Pula University. Mission of the Incubator is to create and encourage entrepreneurial culture, innovation and awareness of the necesity ofinterdisciplinary connection of all components of the University, economy and public administration (from local to national level), with the aim of achieving Triple Helix Model. The Faculty of Economics and Tourism has applied this project to public call of „Entrepreneurial Impulse“ – Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Crafts's program for ecouraging entrepreneurship.

In 2002, the Rotunda Centre, the Social Centre of Primorska, was established in Koper, which acts as a non-governmental, non-profit, non-political organization. The Rotunda Centre was established to implement its programmes with a view to the needs, problems and distresses of the region. We are located in the centre of Koper, namely at the address Destradijev trg 11. From the very beginning we are working as a regional promoter in the field of education information and counseling to improve the quality of democracy and strengthening civil society in the region. One of our priorities is the support and integration of NGOs and Social entrepreneurship in Obalno-kraška region in order to strengthen mutual cooperation and sustainable development. The work of Rotunda focuses also on the areas of youth and family.

Start-up Association was founded in order to promote and advance the entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture among young people, and encourage their self-employment and employment. Our intention is to use high-quality programs to encourage young people to take up entrepreneurship and help them in their employment. We strive to awake the entrepreneurial spirit among young people, encourage their entrepreneurial thinking, and connect students and young unemployed people with the employers. Our projects are based on creativity and volunteerism. In addition to basic services, such as organizing seminars, workshops, round tables, etc., we are also connecting young people and the entrepreneurs who are interested in working together.

StartUpGreece is a digital information, networking and collaboration space, aimed at creating a new generation of entrepreneurs in Greece. It is supported by the Ministry for Development and the Greek Government in collaboration with communities of young entrepreneurs. It provides entrepreneurs with the information necessary to start their own business (motivation, funding, legal framework, research material) and utilizes social media to bring together people, ideas, corporations, universities, organizations, and create partnerships and investment opportunities. StartUpGreece combines an online entrepreneurship community with knowledge and information database specialized in the field of doing business.

The Strategic Plan Agency was founded in 2013 with the task of assisting operationally the Rimini Forum Venture and other institutions for the implementation of projects progressively identified. The Strategic Plan agency is specifically concerned with the realization of projects identified by the Forum about strategic areas of the city, such as tourism, urban regeneration and territorial mobility, social cohesion, welfare, housing and living spaces, enhancement of cultural and historical heritage, landscape and typicality, entrepreneurship and innovation.

The public grants and the State Aids wants to support the investment programmes of the private companies. In this panorama it is important to know what is request and the timetable to built a correct and full fish investment programmes. Studio BRC is specialized to support the enterprises and with more than 500 good practices it is always able to find the right solution obtaining public grants. Studio BRC is a Company that carries out feasibility studies of projects dealing with economic growth and environmental improvement. In particular, Studio BRC supplies a wide range of services, including studies, research and assistance activities also in the fields of training and local development. Our work is very often related to the approval of public and private investment programmes and for these, besides technical, management, legal, economical and administrative assistance, Studio BRC carries out feasibility studies, project financing, and cost/benefit analyses.

Studio Synthesis is a marketing & communication agency specialized in providing support to small businesses and freelance who want to start or expand their business. In particular, the company works on 3 main areas: Events; Marketing and communications; Tourism marketing; Training and business consulting. We always provide customized solutions and we pay a particular attention to every detail in order to satisfy each customer needs. Moreover, we work with trusted suppliers that complement our services in order to ensure professional and customized solutions at competitive costs. Since October 2014 Studio Synthesis has opened a Coworking space: a workspace shared between freelances and SMEs in order to reduce costs related to the management of an office. However Coworking Urbino is above all a new work philosophy, which focuses on opportunities that can be generated by the interaction, the networking & the synergies that could be created when several freelances with specific skills meet each other.

t2i Technology Transfer and Innovation is the innovation agency promoted by the Treviso and Rovigo chambers of commerce and set up in 2014 to integrate the activities, projects, human resources and infrastructures of Treviso Tecnologia and Polesine Innovazione. t2i supports companies in defining and developing innovative pathways through the establishment of networks for technology transfer and the deployment of value-added services for industries and organisations also by means of co-funding programmes at local and european level. The aim of t2i is to support companies in making innovation an on-going corporate process that will make them regain competitiveness in the market. t2i is a reliable and consolidated research partner whose work with an extensive network of local, national and international centres of excellence (such as the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany) allows the creation of “tailor-made” multidisciplinary work groups to meet clients’ needs.

TALENT GARDEN is a community that accelerates and celebrates digital innovation, where talented individuals, entrepreneurs, investors, companies and creators are welcomed. Talent Garden provides the space, the community and the service needed to succeed in the communication, web and digital market. In 2012 40 entrepreneurs form Veneto decided to start the Talent Garden in Padova, the first in the North East of Italy and the third at national level. At the moment, the co-working space hosts more than 500 professionals in the nine Italian offices, 3 in Europe and one in New York and organises more than 350 events per years.

For over 10 years I provide advice to businesses and public institutions to projects financed with EU funds, nationally or regionally, mainly in material of innovation, research and development. I work also with public institutions and private entities for the financial management and reporting of European cooperation projects. The consulting services to businesses (especially SMEs) mainly concerns the research and the management of public grants for internationalization, research and development, patenting, energy conservation and renewable energy.

Dr Nicolas-Alexander Tatlas received his engineering degree in 2001 and his Ph.D. degree in 2006, both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. His research focused on acoustics, digital multimedia delivery over PANs and WLANs, digital audio amplification, and direct digital electroacoustic transduction. Since 2001 he has been working as a freelance engineer, involved in a number of international and national research and development projects focused on the development of infotainment systems, novel audiovisual platforms, embedded systems for portable applications and DSP architectures for sensor networks. In 2010 he was appointed Lecturer at the department of Electronics, TEI of Piraeus, in the scientific area of radio and television systems. He has authored and presented more than 25 papers in scientific journals and international conferences, receiving more than 15 citations.

TAXEVENTS is the sole collector of fiscal events organised in Italy and foreign. Through an accurate data analysis, contacts with academics, professionals and citizens, the company indexes, organises and disseminate all conferences, workshops, masters and other events focusing on taxes. The mission of TaxEvents is to contribute to the development of a tax system culture among professionals of the sector, companies, professionals and citizens.

The technology incubator acts as a business incubator with more than 500 m2 of office space and helps small businesses in the realization of their entrepreneurial initiatives in the initial stage of growth and development. The main objective of the project is to upgrade the existing infrastructure for innovative research and development of the economy of the Istrian Region in order to provide quality support to the establishment of small innovative start up businesses around the existing Research Centre for Materials METRIS. The technology incubator consists of 10 modular offices that can be customized to user needs. In addition to the office space the tenants can use the meeting room for meetings and presentations and the IT cabinet.

CCE aims to strengthen the cooperation of the research sphere with the economy and the commercialisation of research achievements as well as researchers' knowledge through joint projects and other forms of cooperation. Cooperation is enhanced in the form of various services available to researchers and enterprises. Services As a member of Enterprise Europe Network it offers informational, consulting and support services to Slovenian SMEs; it is also focused and specialised in consulting, supporting and assisting researchers who are involved in research and development projects of EU programmes and for connecting the members of UP members in consortiums with Slovenian enterprises when applying for national tenders or EU tenders for applied research and development projects. One of the main activities of the Enterprise Europe Network is also to perform technology transfer services from the scientific and research spheres to the business or entrepreneurial sector.

The Cube is a startup cluster and innovation space, hosting Athens’ innovators in the technology and making space. Its aim is to provide high quality facilities and tools to work with; creating an active community anyone can build his network and find different ways to turn his ideas into reality. It is bolstered by its core management team, its partnerships with technology training institutes, an investment fund, technology user groups and the maker movement. The Cube is located at the centre of Athens, inside a 5-floor building (plus two basement floors), providing to its members 22 rooms for project teams and startups that require office space, 3 fully equipped meeting rooms available to members and drop-in customers, a range of event rooms and 3 classroom areas. Additionally, The Cube hosts individuals and teams throughout the facility in the common, open plan areas. These are divided in quiet zones, active zones and facilities to cater for all types of initiatives.

The Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas shares the vision of its constituent partners, summarized in the following Mission statement: • To boost competitiveness in Greek enterprises (especially SMEs); • To support the development of the less-favoured regions in the country; • To promote and facilitate innovation in enterprises as well as entrepreneurship in RTOs; • To strengthen the links between research, business, finance; • To foster economic and environmentally sustainable growth and employment; • To enhance European interaction in business, technological, economic & political terms. Enterprise Europe Network - Hellas is the largest network of integrated business support in Greece, providing international business cooperation services, information on European policies, innovation and technology transfer services as well as services for encouraging Small and Medium Sized Enterprises' (SME) participation to the European programs for Research and Technology.

Taxibeat is a successful Startup amid the Greek Crisis. Taxibeat is a mobile application that helps a consumer easily locate nearby taxis and choose the best available taxi based on the feedback that previous passengers have given. We introduce a reputation mechanism in the taxi industry, which is something that didn’t exist. The first country after Greece was Brazil with the help of two Greek entrepreneurs who lived there. Its main investors are people from the Greek shipping business. The shipping sector is the only one in Greece that is famous for being successful internationally, starting from Onassis. It’s no accident

TravelPlanet24, www.travelplanet24.com, is a real success story of a Greek-German businessman who sees his company to operate in 39 markets across the globe. The reason Philipp Brinkman, CO Founder & CEO of TravelPlanet24, one of the 10 largest e-commerce companies in Greece. He achieved the largest ever financing of JEREMIE funds amounting to € 3,5 million from the investment vehicles Elikonos Jeremie and Odyssey Jeremie Partners. He achieved the largest ever financing of JEREMIE funds amounting to € 3,5 million. From the investment vehicles Elikonos Jeremie and Odyssey Jeremie Partners. Providing and developing high quality online ticket booking systems and innovative web applications, TravelPlanet24 aims to establish a leading role in the field of global tourism industry. The company has offices in Athens, Bucharest and Sao Paulo and is among the three largest online travel agencies in South eastern Europe and among the 10 largest in Europe.

WhiteLab Srl is an innovative Web Agency who aims to create astonishment and emotion in the users who use daily their services, trying to bring the digital world to the physical reality. It is a timeless mission that has economic and social implications. In summary they want every of their customer feel emotions using their design and techonology innovative services.

Theta Microelectronics is a leading provider of RFIC design services and related Intellectual Property (IP) circuit blocks focused on the development of advanced OFDM Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC transceivers) for mobile and fixed wireless connectivity and video applications. Today, Theta's extensive intellectual property portfolio of proven circuit designs, coupled with its talented engineering team provides its clients with competitive RFIC solutions and reference designs for the following markets: • mobile computing • mobile imaging • mobile multimedia • mobile communications.

The Tourist Board of Pula is a legal entity created by the City of Pula to promote and improve tourism & economic interests of legal and natural persons that provide catering and other tourist services or perform other activities directly related to tourism in the city of Pula. Tourist board performs the following tasks: promoting tourist destinations (fairs,presentations,advertising, etc), management of tourism infrastructure, defining the objectives and policies of tourism development at the destination level, the coordination of public and private sector, development of strategic and development plans of tourism at the destination level, encouraging and participating in the arrangement destination in order to improve the conditions of stay of tourists, collect and update data on tourist offer and other information required for the stay and travel of tourists, the issue of tourism promotional materials, conducting informational activities on tourism offer, promotion & organization, ecc.

The Union has a system of gathering and help innovators through the core of the association to ensure the use of counseling services on inventive work, production of advertising materials,video&photo documentation of all exhibitions in which innovators present their innovations.It promotes innovation&new products via mass media,especially tv shows. Tasks: 1)Gather associations,innovators&creators with other developed creative abilities and the will to organized influence on advancement of science techniques, technology and work organization&cut costs in all areas, 2) Protect the interests of its members in front of other legal entities, 3)Enhance indicates phenomena that hinder the creative initiatives of innovators, 4)Oppose appropriation/concealment of copyright belonging to real authors, 5)Propose to authors innovation awards&honors, 6)Facilitate innovation authors under more favorable conditions to participate in various programs, 7)Provide help for intellectual property protection&more.

The University of Bari, is a public institution, founded in October 1924 with approximately 60.000 students. It offers various courses for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students. The University is presently constituted by 24 Departments covering all fields of research.

The Faculty is an institution of national importance and is the basis of development of mechanical science and industry in Serbia. It performs teaching educational&research activities aimed at improving science and collaboration with industry&other organizations to solve basic, applied scientific problems, studies, expertise & other professional and scientific. The basis of the up-to-date development of production engineering at the Faculty is built up on scientific–research work realized through scientific-research projects based on long-term programs but throughout a continuous process. Programs are created based on science&production engineering development in the world, primarily of developed countries, own research results and, lastly, development programs of our metal processing industry. Activities:creation of complex teams of experts,transfer&diffusion of results into industrial conditions, recruitment&development of young researchers, teaching programs.

The University of Rijeka Faculty of Medicine (MEDRI) was established in 1955. It is the largest faculty within the University of Rijeka, which offers undergraduate studies, postgraduate education and life-long learning, and conducts research in the area of biomedicine and health. It has 42 departments and the Center for Proteomics, comprising in total 400 researchers (professors, postdoctoral fellows and PhD students) and 170 technical and administrative personnel. MEDRI is tightly linked to the Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, as well as to the Technology Transfer Office (TTO Ri) and the Science and Technology Park (STeP Ri) of the University of Rijeka.

As a predominant scientific and teaching institution in the region, the University of Split has expanded during the course of the past 30 years to include eleven Faculties, one Academy of Arts and four University Departments. There are about 24,000 students enrolled in the University's undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate programs. Technology Transfer Office mission is to lead to innovations and increase its commercialisation at the University of Split. TTO has competences and know-how to support both researchers and entrepreneurs in preparing and implementing research and development projects and collaborations, protecting and exploiting IPR, creating innovative business models, access to funding and internationalisation. Through trainings, workshops and individual coaching and mentoring UniSt is advising, assisting and encouraging creation of added value products and services and turning knowledge into new, commercialised products and services.

The University of Udine was founded in 1978 as part of the reconstruction plan of Friuli after the earthquake in 1976. Its aim was to provide the Friulian community with an independent centre for advanced training in cultural and scientific studies. The University currently has the following degree programmes in: Agriculture, Economics, Engineering, Law, Modern Languages, Communication and Training, Humanities, Medicine and Surgery and Mathematics, Computer Science and Multimedia. The University is actively involved in student and staff exchange projects with universities within the EU and is currently engaged in close collaboration with several universities from Eastern Europe and other non-EU countries. Moreover the University participates in many research projects at national and international level. The present number of students enrolled at the University is approx. 17000.

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VERONA INNOVAZIONE is the Special Agency of the Chamber of Commerce of Verona. The Agency pursues objectives of public aims and is included in the scope of economic dissemination of the Chamber of Commerce. The Agency, autonomous from the management point of view, has the following aims: Information through the organisation of workshops, meetings, other events on the present challenges; Research for in-depth analysis on business economy, new entrepreneurship, quality, technological innovation, environment; Services for production increase and for the better competitiveness in all economic sectors; Entrepreneurship promotion through training opportunities for entrepreneurs and their colleagues, information opportunities offered by regional, national and European funds, research and presentation of services offered to companies;Services and interventions for economic development, through the organisation of initiatives focused on local economic growth.

We believe that Innovation&Tradition coexist in a complementary relation. We give producers a new tool to reward the art & quality of their work, providing customers with a compelling experience. Producers are the arms, know-how, Made in Italy. Customers are the “eyes”, curiosity, inspiration. A continuum relation that creates awareness about the product and makes everyone feel part of the process, while learning and sharing information about the agricultural know-how. Our dream? Contribute to the global improvement of the agricultural industry. Why?-Vineaway is a project of smart agriculture. We don’t change the process, but the way to manage it. Vineaway bears from our passion for nature & raw materials we want to preserve. We trust in technology & its different way to be applied in a sustainable way. Partners-We have been promoted by public institutions&investors, firstly the association Bollenti Spiriti, sponsored by Apulia Region, that rewarded VineAway as innovative business idea.

Development, production and sales of motor vehicles and control subsystem. They develop electric motorcycle and intelligent divre support system and infotainment. The product under development is a " fun bike ", a bike with an integral Electric traction wit an output of approximately 12 kW and a breakdown of the electronic torque required to front and rear axles.

Vojvodina ICT Cluster is a business association founded through a bottom-up initiative of ICT companies and several supporting institutions. It is a fast-growing organization, strongest in its field in Serbia. Over 90% of of the members’ businesses are tied to foreign markets – EU, North America and Middle East. The companies from this cluster exhibited strong growth in recent years. Serbian IT companies in general made a noticeable breakthrough on world markets, putting Serbia on the map as a very interesting alternative location for development of sophisticated software. Vojvodina ICT Cluster gives institutional support to this trend, mobilizing players from the triple helix business–education–government. Strong support from the University of Novi Sad adds to the strength of the cluster. Strategic objective of Vojvodina ICT Cluster is to increase visibility of Serbian ICT and put Novi Sad on the regional and European map as the hotbed for ICT in this part of the world.

Patras Science Park (PSP) is one of the six Science and Technology Parks (STPs) established in Greece back in the early 90s under the auspices of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT). Patras Science Park was established according to the model of “Incubator” for New Technology Based Firms (NTBFs). The main scope is to provide high quality infrastructure as well as co-shape the appropriate financial and social conditions that will support and promote the creation, operation and development of innovative firms through spin-off/spin-out processes and the co?operation among the University, Research Centers and the Industry.

XCONNECTION designs and realises Dynamic Enterprise Publishing (DEP) solutions for marketing and the management of commercial processes. Specifically it offers the following services: Business advices and training on management systems of commercial processes and sales; analysis on marketing activities and supporting products, design and realisation of the company visual identity; design and production of price lists and catalogues; operative and managerial training.

Alfa Albona has created strategical plan for the period of three years with a goal of definining specific guidelines for Association development, harmonized with the society and individuals needs and Istrian County, which take in consideration the most significant social, economic and political issues on local, national and global level. The strategy was created for the period from 2014 to 2017 and consists of strategies and goals that will help to position Alfa Albona as a key organization for young and development of social entrepreneuriship in the Istrian County.

The community is working to promote the activities of technical culture in the City of Pula. Taking care of development of technical culture, to implement the program of public needs of Pula in technical culture and harmonize the activities of techinical culture. The realization of the program develops our ability to create, knowledge and skills and the innovation, especially in talented children and children with special needs. Raises the ability for the protection of natural, technological and other accidetns, as well as the help of members of associations in humanitarian, ecological and other actions.

Step Ri was established in 2008 by Rijeka University to become the premier science and technology hub, facilitating the commercialization of R&D and foster cooperation between the Academia and the business sector. Step Ri provides first class consulting services based on global up-to-date best practices. In 2014 it consulted 153 companies, scientists&business startups, organized 37 events&workshops for more than 800 participants. Its mailing list consists of 6000 contacts. It has defined consulting programs&advising processes for the establishment of startups, new product & service development, scaling-up of existing businesses, IPR protection support, needs assessment & commercialization strategies for SMEs&scientists that want to become entrepreneurs & EU funds advising. It is a widely recognized centre for innovative&entrepreneurial support infrastructure of the ministries of Economy and Entrepreneurship and Crafts in Croatia, has close cooperation with regional and municipal authorities&local development agencies.

ZULU MEDICAL produces software and hardware to be used in the sector of the digital medical science. The products have been patented and have obtained the EU label – medical.

ZUM organization is a NGO aimed to empower youth in Istria. Since 2006 we are conducting a Youth Centre with wide range of activities: workshop in media literacy, self-estimation, gaining job seeking skills, leisure time activities. Also, we produce youth magazine “3ska!!!”

„Business Women“ – Business Women Association of Montenegro is NGO, founded in 2009, with the support of Montenegrin Employers’ Federation (UPCG) and German Tehnical Cooperation (GTZ), by 12 female owners, directors and managers of Montenegrin companies and UPCG. “Business woman“ objective is provide networking of business women at local, national, regional and international level, towards development of personal business, presenting development opportunities and needs, exchange of ideas, knowledge and experience, as well as realization of common projects. In this way, its intention is to help future position of women in society, business and management, and to whole Montenegrin economy. Business Women Association of Montenegro „Busines Woman“ is a member of UPCG, Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen – AFAEMME (since 2010), FCEM (since 2014) and UN Global Compact (since 2011).