ACCELMED - Acceleration for Mediterranean Companies (www.accelmed.eu) is a transnational project, co-funded by MED Programme. MAIN OBJECTIVE:
Building transnational support tools addressing main obstacles faced by Mediterranean SMEs: access to funding, access to international markets and access to acceleration programme fostering their growth. BACKGROUND:
Capitalising the results and lessons lea
rned from previous MED funded projects MED-KED (www.med-ked.eu), MACCBAM (www.macc-bam.net), 2inS (www.2insclusters.net), ACCELMED project is designed to support SMEs’ growth, improving their access to funding and internationalisation opportunities by:
- Organising seven transnational investment forums through a common transnational methodology taking into account the MED venture capital situation and using an on-line platform for exchange and feedback between investors and selected SMEs.
- Analysing the entrepreneurship ecosystems and internationalization support tools of MED Partners and establishing a network to support SMEs through cross-landing services to facilitate their internationalization.
- Developing an acceleration programme for SMEs with high growth potential for supporting them in defining the business strategy, access to funding and internationalization. A package of business support services will be set-up through tailor made actions. Common policy recommendations for the EU period 2014-2020 will be drafted. PROJECT PARTNERS:
The Project partnership is composed by six partners from five Mediterranean countries. Each partner plays a leading role in the field of innovation and business support services in its region and at international level:
- Barcelona Activa (lead partner) – Spain - www.barcelonactiva.cat
- Technology Park Ljubljana – Slovenia – www.tp-lj.si
- ASTER – Italy - www.aster.it
- PROMOS - Special Agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce for International Activities – Italy - www.promos-milano.it
- ANIMA - Investment Network – France - www.animaweb.org
- EC Business and Innovation Centre of Attika – Greece - www.bicofattika.gr
