France Italy online to increase the competitiveness of SMEs
This project stems from an understanding of the need of SMEs in the cooperation area to be supported in their first years of activity with high value added services, allowing them to remain on the market.
 The experience developed as part of the Fr.I.Net2 project shows that micro enterprises and SMEs feel the need for more services in areas that are fundamental for their survival, such as positioning on foreign markets and the ability to generate innovation.
 The project aims to structure a specialised technical assistance service for SMEs/scale-ups/gazelles in the cross-border area, that operate in the priority supply chains of the Maritime Programme; this assistance service is based on the experience and skills developed as part of the previous “Frinet” and “Frinet2” projects.
 The project aims to create a cross-border network of experts and organisations that are able to offer advanced technology and services for the aforementioned types of company operating in the priority supply chains of the Programme. The idea of this network is to increase companies’ ability to generate innovation and to consolidate their position on foreign markets.
 Specialised assistance will be focused on key aspects linked to these specialist areas, such as: IPR, digitalisation and ICT use, smart manufacturing, risk finance, identification of foreign markets/customers.
 The project aims to enhance the results achieved by the Fr.I.Net2 project, in particular: 
1. the selected group of experts (which will be updated through a new call for applications).
2. the methodology to establish the Cross-border Centre of Expertise and the related range of services.
 However, the project also innovates the previous project experience by working with new partners (PACA regional chamber) and by including cross-border innovation hubs and research centres and foreign investors among its service providers.