SEE-INNOVATION - Facilitating innovation to ICT SMEs in South Eastern Europe

SEE-Innovation is a Specific Support Action aiming to assist SMEs from candidate and third countries from the region of South Eastern Europe (SEE) to participate actively in EU-funded research in the field of Information Society Technologies.

The specific aims of SEE-Innovation are to: (a) map the capacities and needs of SMEs operating in the ICT sector in the countries of South Eastern Europe in order to identify those companies that have the potential and the strong interest to participate in RTD-related activities; (b) provide training on opportunities offered by the RTD Framework Programmes of the European Union for innovative ICT SMEs; (c) support the ICT SMEs in the elaboration of ideas and the preparation of research proposals; and (d) facilitate the development of networks between SMEs in the region of South Eastern Europe in order to exchange ideas and pursue joint research collaboration as well as between SMEs and EU organisations, as this is the key to getting involved in joint project activities

Project sites : Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, and Turkey.

Project duration: 24 months.

Project partners : Planet S.A. (Greece) – lead partner; Universität für Bodenkultur –CSI (Austria); Technical Support for European Organisations SPRL – TESEO (Belgium); Association of Information Technology Companies of Northern Greece - SEPVE (Greece); Bulgarian Association of Software Companies – BASSCOM (Bulgaria); Romanian Association for Electronic Industry and Software – ARIES (Romania); Yugoslav Association for Informational Systems and Computer Networks - YUINFO(Serbia & Montenegro); Albanian Studies and Education Institute in Information Technology – ISSETI (Albania); Macedonian Association of Information Technology – MASIT (FYR Macedonia); The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey – TUBITAK (Turkey); ZaMirNET (Croatia).