Collaborations
Collaborations
WestBIC support and participate in the following projects
Overview
Initiatives
WestBIC participates in collaborative projects to share skills, develop knowledge and continuously provide an improved service. By leveraging international collaboration and innovation, new business opportunities are born within the region.
Projects
Collaborations
Data2Sustain
Data2Sustain, a European Digital Innovation Hub in Ireland’s North and West, specialises in advancing digitalisation and data innovation for businesses and public bodies.
CreaSus
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Digital Rural
The Digital Rural Interreg Europe Project aims to strengthen digital infrastructure and capabilities in rural areas across Europe. The initiative seeks to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural regions.
BEAP-MAR
Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies
AQUAFISH0.0
AQUAFISH0.0 is about producing marine food in an innovative and sustainable way.
Blue Shuttle
Blue Shuttle aims to speed up the use of digital technology in the blue bioeconomy sector in the Atlantic Area. Partners plan to do this by creating a Blue Innovation Network that involves a Quadruple Helix approach.
Start'Ship
Start’Ship main goals are to promote, develop and strengthen the entrepreneurial skills of higher education students through practical activities and an interactive training programme.
ST3ER
Scaling Twin Transition in Tourism by harnessing the Experience Economy for greater Resilience
Unicorn Quest
An interregional cooperation project for improving SME competitiveness policies. Unicorn Quest aims to build entrepreneurial ecosystems by promoting, attracting and retaining to-be unicorns thriving under EU principles and values.
LOTTI
An Interregional cooperation project for improving skills for smart specialisation and industrial transition policies.
ENTRUST
To research and support challenges facing entrepreneurs aged 50+ for sustainability in Rural Areas.
i2i
The i2i (ideas to impact) project aims to develop entrepreneurship capital and aptitude for driving innovation, building on the strengths and weaknesses of each partner identified through the HEInnovate self-assessment.
Boost4Health
Expand your network and business abroad. Boost4Health offers you the opportunity and support to explore the knowledge, facilities and markets North-West Europe has to offer
Codex4SMEs
The aim is to improve healthcare by enhanced adoption of Personalized Medicine in North-West Europe, by establishing a network, which supports SMEs along the value chain of Companion diagnostics (Cdx) development.
Access2Sea
Area aquaculture production in a sustainable way which is the main goal of Access2Sea as only 10% of Atlantic shore seafood is aquaculture-sourced there is great opportunity for raising Atlantic
Digi2Market
A collaborative online space for regional businesses to access knowledge and information which will enable them to scale and grow.
BIC4SMEs
BIC4SMEs created training programmes customised to the needs of SMEs and their trainers.
W-Power
W-Power aims for equal growth and an increase in the contribution of women to regional economies in sparsely populated Northern and Arctic communities.
CAST
The main objective CAST is to support the creation, business development and scaling-up of companies in the tourism sector through incubators and accelerators integrating creativity, art and design skills.
Inside-T
Promotes intergenerational learning, the development of professional skills in young unemployed adults (especially women), and social sustainability tourism in low density territories.
Ruritage Heritage for Rural Regeneration
RURITAGE turns rural areas into laboratories to demonstrate Cultural and Natural Heritage as an engine of regeneration.
Atlantic Digital Startup Academy
Atlantic Digital Startup Academy (ADSA) helps digital startups develop and launch their offer in international markets.
GET UP
A useful and practical instrument for promoting self-employment and restoring the confidence of young, unemployed people by utilizing the resources available in their respective countries.
BEEHIVE
Building Entrepreneurial Ecosystems to Enhance Higher Education Value-Added for Better Graduate Employability
ESIL
Linking the leading investors across Europe, with an emphasis on strengthening and expanding the angel investing and crowdfunding sector in Europe, as well as encouraging cross-border investment across European countries.
Powderblade
Powderblade will change the way large wind turbine blades are manufactured, transported and installed, by bringing stronger, lighter, and more structurally efficient carbon/glass hybrid wind blades to market.
I See You
The aim is to promote entrepreneurship education among unemployed youth, especially in countries with a high youth unemployment rates.
Trinno
The TRINNO Project aims to establish a dynamic business support system, helping enterprises and spiring entrepreneurs to apply benefits of digital innovation (digital manufacturing, Internet of things, big data, etc) to traditional sectors
RaiSE - Interreg Europe
Enhancing social enterprises competitiveness through improved business support policies
SOCIAL CHALLENGES INNOVATION PLATFORM
A platform aiming at creating a marketplace where actual social challenges can meet powerful and innovative solutions. A space where a challenge is transformed into a new business opportunity.
ACE Project
The ACE program is dedicated to providing targeted cross-border services to highly innovative ICT entrepreneurs, start-ups, and SMEs with the potential to rapidly expand their enterprises in international markets.
Supporting SMEs
The Supporting SMEs Online Tool is a cross-governmental guide to help small businesses know which Government supports could fit their business.
GREAT
The objective is to encourage communities and SMEs to develop and/or engage technological solutions for Smart Grid, Renewable Energy and Distributive Generation.
CINEW
Creative Industries Network European Window aims to encourage small and medium-sized businesses in the creative industries to innovate.
Rural Innovation & Business Systems
The project's goal was to assist SMEs in rural areas of Scotland, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Ireland in dealing with the effects of the economic crisis while also boosting their competitiveness and growth potential.
In-eur
The overarching goal of the project was to employ interregional collaboration to improve the quality of local innovation policy by sharing, integrating, and transferring approaches for measuring innovation.
Transition
The objective of the Transnational Network for Social Innovation Incubation Project is to develop a network of incubators to bring together partners from social innovation and innovation based incubation.
Atlantic Blue Tech
The Atlantic Blue Tech project focused on promoting and developing the ocean as a resource at a regional level. The project partners identified the major obstacles to the sector's development and devised solutions.
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