Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Date of latest update: 2023-11-16

Description

Description (EN):

This project will develop tools to enhance capacity of manufacturing companies in the NPA region to adapt and embrace new technologies and innovation. The toolbox developed will consist of subsets such as Digital manufacturing (robotics and simulation), New ideas and thinking (human centered and environmental thinking, competitiveness), Business models and modern Product innovation.

Website: http://www.interreg-npa.eu/

Expected Results (EN): Degree of collaborations between SMEs and R&D

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project is contributing to the programme results sought under Priority Axis 1 - Using Innovation to Maintain and Develop Robust and Competitive Communities and Specific Objective 1.1: Increased innovation and transfer of new technology to SMEs in remote sparsely populated areas. The main results that the project aims to achieve are: The project will address the identified challenges and barriers faced by indigenous manufacturing companies located in the NPA region. It will share and transfer existing innovation and technology support components that have been developed and tested by the partners in their own regions for their manufacturing industries. Through the transnational partnership all of the different manufacturing innovation supports developed by each partner shall be: • Tested, implemented and refined across each partner region, • New manufacturing and product innovation services for SMEs developed through the learning from the pilot testing stage, • A full suite of manufacturing innovation supports (service toolbox) compiled by the transnational partnership.

Thematic information

New products and services SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: Increased innovation and transfer of new technology to SMEs in remote sparsely populated areas

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: South West College

Department: Technology Department

Address: Mountjoy Road 2, BT79 7AH Omagh Co.Tyrone,, United Kingdom

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.swc.ac.uk

Total budget: EUR 530 816.00

ERDF budget: EUR 345 030.40

Narvik University College

Name: Narvik University College

Department: Faculty of Engineering

Address: Lodve Langes gate 2, 8505 Narvik, Norway

Legal status: public

Website: https://nuc.hin.no/

Total budget: EUR 399 405.00

Háskóli Íslands

Name: Háskóli Íslands

Department: School of Engineering and Natural Sciences

Address: Hjarðarhagi 2-6,, 107 Reykjavík,, Iceland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hi.is

Total budget: EUR 79 999.00

Cavan Innovation & Technology Centre

Name: Cavan Innovation & Technology Centre

Department: Local Enterprise Office Cavan

Address: Dublin RoadCavan, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.cavanitc.ie

Total budget: EUR 197 319.00

ERDF budget: EUR 128 257.35

Local Enterprise Office Sligo

Name: Local Enterprise Office Sligo

Address: City Hall, Quay Street,Sligo, Ireland

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.localenterprise.ie/Sligo/

Total budget: EUR 20 618.00

ERDF budget: EUR 13 399.64

Luleå tekniska universitet

Name: Luleå tekniska universitet

Department: Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences

Address: Universitetsområdet, Porsön, 971 87 Luleå, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.ltu.se

Total budget: EUR 399 531.00

ERDF budget: EUR 259 695.15

Centria University of Applied Sciences

Name: Centria University of Applied Sciences

Department: Centria research and development

Address: Talonpojankatu 2, 67100 Kokkola, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.centria.fi

Total budget: EUR 400 198.00

ERDF budget: EUR 260 128.70

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Narvik University College

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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University of Iceland

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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Cavan Innovation & Technology Centre

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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Local Enterprise Office Sligo

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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Luleå University of Technology

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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Centria University of Applied Sciences

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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South West College

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

Lead partner

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Summary

Project name (EN): Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

Project acronym: TARGET

Project start date: 2015-05-01

Project end date: 2018-04-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 027 886.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 006 511.24

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 65.00%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 006 511.24.

Third-country contribution: Iceland: EUR 39 999.50 (ERDF equivalent only); Norway: EUR 199 702.50 (ERDF equivalent only)

Documents

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Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

Link to toolbox

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: http://www.targetproject.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment link: http://www.targetproject.eu/tools/

Reports

Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: http://www.targetproject.eu

Publication date: 2020-01-27

Document date: 2018-04-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Northern Periphery and Arctic

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-11-02

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

152 / 152 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

779 / 779 (100%)

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Making Regional Manufacturing Globally Competitive and Innovative

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