Central Baltic Region Smart City Solutions for Global Cities

ENDED. Cities play a significant role in our efforts to reduce the effects of global climate change. Smart cities and innovative urban environments will be the main target of investments in e.g. Africa, Asia and South-America within the next ten years. For the Central Baltic region to play a significant role in exporting the research and development and innovative solutions developed here the companies providing smart city solutions need to be supported. The SME2Go project focuses on improving the competitiveness of ca. 500 identified smart city solution providers in in Estonia, Finland and Sweden.

SME2Go focuses on improving the competitiveness of these smart city solution providers. The project brings together SMEs and their knowhow, trains them in sales and marketing skills, provides market intelligence and forms consortia out of these SMEs with readiness to enter new markets.

As a result, during the project 3-5 cross-border consortia of Central Baltic smart city SMEs are formed and 2-3 new sales in relevant target markets achieved either during or shortly (1-2 years) after the project implementation.