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AER is happy to share with you an interesting project proposal that comes by one of our member regions, Catalonia (ES).

The proposal, that will be submitted within the Interreg Europe 4th call, is led by the Spanish company Mesadvocats which is looking for partners to complete the consortium.

The project titled “Supporting SMEs to take advantage of new IT breakthroughs to enhance internationalisation”, aims to improve response from public entities in the face on new electronic documents and digital processes related to import-export operations and intra-community goods transport.

Managing authorities and intermediate bodies that manage structural funds usually implement programmes and services that support SMEs internationalization. The project’s objective is to establish an exchange of knowledge between partners and relevant stakeholders which usually implement programmes and services that support SMEs’ internationalisation. In particular, the project aims at understanding how support programmes could be improved with new actions with regard to three digital innovation in order to reduce the administrative burden or simplify freight and transport information exchange and on the other side how managing authorities and intermediate bodes can also benefit from the new digital technologies.

The three selected digital innovations that will be targeted within the project are:

e-invoicing
open data and open sources of knowledge
blockchain

If you are a public authority or a private organisation interested to develop a project which will help SMEs to better benefit from and use digital innovation through cooperation between public and private sector, please come back to us before 15 June 2018 as the deadline to submit the project is 22 June 2018.