Inside Out EU

A project to foster the internationalisation of SMEs through collaboration inside and outside the regions.

Even if 90% of future global growth will happen outside Europe’s borders, few small businesses in Europe export beyond the EU. Increasing the internationalisation of SMEs and helping them access third markets is crucial for Europe Competitiviness.  In this context, Inside Out EU addresses the problems SMEs face when going international and will help them overcome these challenges reinforcing the so called virtuous triangle “collaboration-innovation-internationalisation”.  

Objectives 

• Improve existing support to SME inbternationalisation thanks to the use of European Structural Investment Funds to help them grow and expand and perform better in foreign markets.
• Enhance regional and international partnerships for business
• Develop innovative tools and services to overcome barriers to internationalisation
• Offer our SMEs a comprehensive and intgegrated support framework to perfor successfully when going international

Expected outputs 

Every region will build a wider network involving key agents in order to join and be part of the regional learning process. These networks are expected to contribute to the design of an Action Plan in every region which will be used to improve the regional policies addressing internationalisation, most of them included in the ERDF Operational Programmes.