ACTIS 2019

General Data: (Call/program/ reference/ concession date/ execution date)

Program: COSME
Convocatoria: COS-EEN-SGA3-2018-2-01
Ref. No.: 831338 – ACTIS 2019
Date of grant: 10/31/2018
Date of execution: 01/01/2019-31/12/2019

Presentation and objectives

The Enterprise Europe Network is a network promoted by the European Commission, currently under the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), and is funded by the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs Program (COSME).
The Enterprise Europe Network is the largest business support network established in Europe by the European Commission and is present in more than 50 countries worldwide. In Spain, more than 60 organizations grouped in 9 consortiums offer the Network’s services and provide support to companies.
The ACTIS consortium is one of these 9 Spanish consortia and offers its services in 5 Autonomous Communities: Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, La Rioja and Navarra. The network’s objectives include the following:

• To provide support services to companies (especially SMEs), technology centers, universities, etc., in areas such as European legislation, improving competitiveness, promoting innovation, internationalization, etc.
• Implement the “no wrong door” principle, which facilitates access by companies to the information and services made available to them through any network partner.

To achieve these objectives, the Enterprise Europe Network makes the following services available to companies:

• Innovation Support: to improve innovation management capabilities in SMEs and develop projects financed by EIC (European Innovation Council) programs.
• Business cooperation opportunities: identify and disseminate business opportunities among companies, provide advice on various topics related to the internationalization of business activities, organize business meetings to promote business cooperation agreements.
• Technology cooperation opportunities: identify and disseminate technology offers and demands, provide advice on issues directly related to technology transfer, organize technology transfer events to promote technology cooperation agreements.
• Opportunities for participation in European projects: organize seminars for the dissemination of European funding programs, organize specialized training seminars for participation in European funding programs, identify and disseminate searches for project partners for European program calls.
• Information on European regulations and policies, specialized training seminars on innovation and European topics to improve companies’ capabilities, etc.

Participating entities:

• ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF LA RIOJA (ADER),
• ASSOCIATION OF THE INDUSTRY OF NAVARRA (AIN),
• CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF TOLEDO (CCITOLEDO),
• CONFEDERACION DE EMPRESARIOS DE ARAGON (CREA),
• ALBACETE BUSINESSMEN’S CONFEDERATION (FEDA)
• FEDERATION OF COMPANIES OF LA RIOJA (FER),
• FUNDECYT FOUNDATION – PARQUE CIENTIFICO Y TECNOLOGICO DE
• EXTREMADURA (FUNDECYT-PCTEX)
• UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA – LA MANCHA (UCLM),
• UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA (UNAV),
• INSTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE ARAGON (ITAINNOVA)

Budget:

TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET: 850,205
TOTAL BUDGET ITAINNOVA: 120.986€.

Financing:

TOTAL PROJECT FINANCING: 510,123 €.
TOTAL FINANCING ITANNOVA: 72,592 €.

This project is funded by the European Commission through the COSME Program.

Project page:

http://www.infoactis.es