PARTNERSPARTNERS
CONTACTS
LEAD PARTNER
MARCHE REGIONAL AUTHORITY INTERNATIONALIZATION DEPARTMENTVia Tiziano, 44 60125 AnconaItalyPh. +39 071806 3976-3975 Fax. +39 071806 3082
MARCHE REGION Internationalization, Culture,
Tourism, Commerce and promotional activities
department
AnconaITALY
INSTITUTE PEDRO NUNES, ASSOCIATION FOR INNOVA-TION AND DEVELOPMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY – IPN
Coimbra PORTUGAL
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF ALENTEJO
Evora PORTUGAL
UAB RESEARCH PARK08193
Bellaterra SPAIN
CECOT INNOVATION FOUNDATION
Terrassa SPAIN
OXALIS SCOP S.A
Meythet FRANCE
CNA EMILIA ROMAGNA National Confederation of Crafts and SMEs
Bologna ITALY
ZADAR COUNTY
Zadar CROATIA
UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR
MariborSLOVENIA
PROJECT OVERVIEW
CITEK project -“Capitalization Initiative for the
Innovation and Internationalization of the
MED economic and knowledge system" is a
territorial cooperation project �nanced by the
Programme Med in the capitalization call for
proposal.
The main project objective is to promote the
setting up of innovation system in the MED
area involving public administration, research
centers, innovation drivers, categories' asso-
ciations and SMEs (the triangle of innovation)
capitalizing the results coming out by the
projects of the CITEK partnership previously
implemented (ICS, IKTIMED and R&D) and
setting up synergies and knowledge exchan-
ge with projects funded by other CTE
programs.
CITEK is a project that integrates both regio-
nal and transnational levels. It aims at foste-
ring the competitiveness of MED SMEs and
cooperatives promoting a new public-private
partnership to support innovation, based on
the integration with internationalization strate-
gies and a more open approach of knowledge
transfer.
PARTNERSHIP
The project partnership comprises 9 orga-
nizations from 6 different countries, toge-
ther with two external partners that will
support the implementation of the project
activities. The partnership was conceived to
activate a public-private and institutional-
technical co-operation both supporting the
transfer of innovative policies, guidelines,
strategies and web-based tools, and
identifying and establishing Mediterranean
innovation communities composed of
research centres, universities and clusters
with the aim of developing innovative
working programmes.
MAIN PROJECT ACTIVITIES Med smart specialization strategies'
implementation observatory;
Mutual integration and harmonization of
ICT based methodologies, tools and
services, able to improve the innovation
and internationalization potentials of
Med Area and SMEs/Cooperatives;
dissemination and capitalisation of
distinctive know-how, common methods
and operational tools, innovative mana-
gement system at a transnational level;
transnational elaboration and manage-
ment of speci�c mainstreaming activities,
useful to orient public policies;
pilot project for the setting up of Open
linked data capitalization system.
OBJECTIVESSTRATEGIC PLANNING AND PRO-GRAMMING
Promoting a monitoring system of the smart specialization’s implementation; Promoting the improvement of the MED smart specialization strategies’ gover-nance system;Promoting the involvement of social actors in the future MED Smart Speciali-zation stragies;
KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGIES
Improving and exploiting the already existing innovative trans-national knowledge based innovation network platform;Setting up Knowledge and Innovation Communities according the project partners’ interests;Involving the “triangle of Innovation” actors.
BUSINESS
Boosting market oriented innovation;Improving and exploiting the already existing trans-national online business community;Contributing to the strengthening of the international dimension of MED SMEs and cooperatives improving their networking and “clusterization” capabili-ties;
OPEN DATA
Promoting the implementation of a pilot action in relation to the Open data system.