General information
Very small enterprises in peripheral and rural areas, often consisting of just one person, have great difficulty in applying the potentials offered by digitisation for various reasons, among which are: lack of knowledge and awareness, distance from research centres, difficulty in exchanging experiences with other enterprises, a daily routine already full of business activities. The project intends to tackle this problem by mapping available knowledge, collecting good practices and developing new approaches to connect actors in the Alpine area.
The planned activities are:
- mapping the state of the art and needs in order to produce a report on how digitisation can improve the value chain, identifying both the difficulties and the key enablers for adopting digital technologies;
- collection of existing good practices and tools also outside the Alpine area in cooperation with development agencies, universities, local authorities;
- realisation of pilot cases in the natural fibres sector;
- introduction of results into policy paths and construction of a sustainable network to facilitate the transfer of knowledge on digitalisation from research centres to small enterprises.
Goals
The project aims to transfer knowledge on the potential offered by digitisation to small and medium-sized enterprises, with a special focus on those located in peripheral and rural areas that have difficult access to the most innovative technologies.
The project will have a thematic focus on the natural fibre value chain and will demonstrate precise measures for sustainable transformation and the role offered by digital, technical and non-technical remedies as facilitators to overcome existing barriers.
Start date
01/08/2019
End date
31/05/2021