EU Project COSME AdPack²

EU project “Future materials and products for advanced smart packaging (AdPack)”

The purpose of this project is to foster cross-sectoral cooperation between the European clusters in the partnership and their SME members, as well as to support their SME members in going international and positioning them in the advanced smart packaging global value chain. This will be done through the establishment of an ESCP formed by 6 European clusters which bring together different competencies to apply a cross-sectoral approach for the development of the advanced smart packaging global value chain. In this regard, the partnership brings together clusters involved with the final product (packaging), the application market (food), cross-cutting technology clusters (nanotechnologies, microelectronics, software, telecommunications and plasma technologies) and new materials (plastics, polymers and biopolymers). The partnership clusters aim to cooperate in order to implement their joint internationalisation strategy towards defined target third countries (Canada, China and United States) and support AdPack2 SME members in establishing cooperation with relevant counterparts in the target countries.

Therefore, the project includes the following activities:

• Training and knowledge sharing actions to prepare SMEs to go international
• Activities fostering cooperation between partnership SMEs contributing to decrease sectoral boundaries
• Establishment of cooperation agreements with international business and research intermediaries in target countries
• Implementation of fact-finding and business internationalisation missions
• Establishment of ambassadors in target markets, to provide high added value services to AdPack2 SMEs
• Support the establishment of business partnership agreements to develop joint collaborative projects between the Partnership SME members and business and other relevant stakeholders from third countries
• Developing the exit strategy in order to continue internationalization support activities after the project lifetime

Project Partner

Nanoprogress – Coordinator and WP 1 leader

BalticNet-PlasmaTec – WP 2 leader

Packaging Cluster – WP 3 leader

Plastiwin – WP 4 leader

Pole SCS – WP 5 leader

InovCluster – WP 6 leader

AdPack² Work Packages (WP)

WP 1 – Project management
WP 2 – Dissemination, communication and monitoring
WP 3 – SME engagement and preparation to go international
WP 4 – Cooperation building to go international
WP 5 – SME internalisation support
WP 6 – Development of long-term joint exit strategy

Objectives

Objective 1: To prepare AdPack2 SMEs to go international through training and knowledge sharing actions

Objective 2: To foster cooperation between partnership SME members; thus, contributing to decrease sectoral boundaries

Objective 3: To establish cooperation agreements with international business and research intermediaries in each target country

Objective 4: To establish an internationalisation ambassador in each target country

Objective 5: To support the establishment of business partnership agreements to develop joint collaborative projects between the Partnership SME members and business and other relevant stakeholders from third countries

Objective 6: To develop a long-term exit strategy that ensures the sustainability of the internationalisation support services after the end of AdPack2 project

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