The Agency ICE announces the full operation of a new and important instrument reserved for four o'clock Convergence Regions (Calabria, Campania, Puglia and Sicily) to promote exports, and called "South Export Plan".
The objective of the Plan is to allow the Convergence Regions to recover export quotas, lost during the crisis period, especially in the area of Mediterranean and to increase its presence in the countries BRICS.
This plan will have a large catchment area users., which will not only be small and medium-sized enterprises, but also start-ups, university and technology parks and business consortia or networks. The promotion of exports will take place mainly in two ways: with the supply of training services predominantly free, and with the organization of promotional initiatives.
The financing of this plan will come from the financial envelope of the Action Plan for Cohesion with a total of50 million euro structured in three Annual Programmes.
The first of the three programs envisages the organization of 77 events by February 2015 divided by category and focused on priority sectors such as: agro-food, fashion, mobility, furniture and construction, high technology and energy. As far as training activities are concerned, the most important novelty concerns the pilot project ICE Export Lab which will ensure personalized assistance to SMEs and start-ups for commercial internationalization actions.
Other initiatives included in the Plan are: Exchange of Innovation and High Technology to promote the commercialization of patents and innovations: the pilot project "Towards the Mediterranean" to encourage forms of cooperation in the management of water and environmental resources: the Italian Wine Week, a formula that makes it possible to enhance the presence of wine companies in the United States through targeted action on the intermediation network of distributors and importers; The international partnership Aeroforum, dedicated to the aerospace sector to support subcontractors in the sector.
For more information see: http://www.ice.gov.it/export_sud/export_sud.htm
