Building COMpetencies for COMpetitive COMpanies (Q4295791)
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Project Q4295791 in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway
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English | Building COMpetencies for COMpetitive COMpanies |
Project Q4295791 in Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway |
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1,841,890.0 Euro
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4,203,832.0 Euro
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43.81 percent
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1 July 2019
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30 June 2023
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Intermunicipal Association Leiedal
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COM³ is a change of mind-set with a focus on the mediatory role of local & regional authorities for improving the tech-readiness of rural businesses and exploiting local potentials for rural innovation and smarter growth. COM³ gives rise to tech-enabled and tech-branded rural areas built on their local environmental, socio-economic and cultural assets. The vulnerability of rural businesses and their uncertainty to the rapid technological changes along with shortages in infrastructure and competencies keep them often unable to effectively adopt fast evolving technologies. To overcome this, COM³ provides a unique model for local and regional authorities and enables them to create a dynamic environment for rural businesses in utilizing basic and advanced digital techs. The COM³ training & coaching model, connected hubs and matchmaking & mapping initiatives combined with a comprehendible set of regulatory, finance and security guiding measures & training will provide the structures needed to protect vulnerable small businesses and to create 9 tech-enabled and tech-branded rural areas in the NSR. COM³ partners test the jointly developed solutions in 9 regions from 7 NSR countries. They create a NSR roadmap and platform for digitalization of rural businesses and build a cross-border community around it. This will result in a 15% increase of tech adoption for rural businesses followed by an increase of the share of ICT in the local/regional GDPs in the pilot regions. Information added on 2020-06-25, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): SMEs are strongly affected by Covid-19 because they typically lack the resources to tackle long-term lock-down and economic recession. Fast digital transformation can mitigate the negative effects by increasing their competitive power. As part of its work to equip public authorities to support rural SMEs, COM³ is testing public digital platforms for local products and services, connecting producers and service providers with local costumers and integrating smart logistic solutions. (English)
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