Capitalization Initiative for the Innovation and Internationalization of the MED economic and knowledge system
The Citek project involves relevant innovation stakeholders of the MED and IPA area coming from 6 countries (Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia) as well as external relevant partners. The project aims at fostering the setting up of transnational and trans-local system of Innovation in the MED area capitalizing the guidelines, strategies, working methodology and web-based tools produced by financed MED projects (ICS, IKTIMED and R&D Industry), developing synergies with outputs and tools developed in the scope of project funded by other EU Programs and transferring knowledge and experiences to the IPA partner area. The MED projects involved in the CITEK capitalization proposal are members of the MED Program Cluster -Web-based platforms for knowledge and technology transfers-�. The project objectives are: - to promote the improvement of the smart specialization strategies' governance system of the MED territories; - to promote the analysis, exchange and transfer of best practices on the Smart Specialization Strategies issue among MED and IPA project partners; - to promote the setting up of a formalized MED system of knowledge and innovation transfer and sharing to contribute to the strengthening of the international dimension of MED SMEs and cooperatives improving their networking and clusterization capabilities; - to support the implementation of a pilot open linked data system. Particular attention is dedicated by the project to the involvement of cooperatives and social economy actors in the promotion of MED innovation and internationalization strategies. The main project activities are: Med smart specialization strategies' implementation observatory, trans-national knowledge based innovation network platform and online tools, transnational online business community, scouting and analysis of the internationalization potentialities of the project area, pilot project for the setting up of open linked data capitalization system.