SmartSports4GoodLife

Description

Start Date: February 1st, 2020
End Date: January 31st, 2022
Duration: 24 months
Budget: €359,992
Funding: COSME

Description

Project Summary

The project aims to continue the cooperation and collaboration among the sports clusters to provide and create new business opportunities for SMEs, strengthen Clusters management capacities to transfer knowledge to SMEs. The project will improve cross-sectoral cooperation, especially with technology, energy, tourism and health sectorsto address the main challenges the sector is facing in Europe and advance in the digitalisation process and the provision of low carbon products and services.

Project Objectives

  • Develop and implement a common vision and strategy road map to face global sports industry challenges for the next years, such as digitalization, sustainability (low carbon solutions, circular economy), etc.
  • Improve SMEs competitiveness and innovation capacity to give answer to the main challenges of the Sports sector previously identified.
  • Establish alliances and shared projects between clusters and their SMEs in the different sports sector value chains.
  • Improve and strengthen clusters management capacities and skills towards excellence to provide better services to SMEs.
  • Enhance the positioning of clusters as an effective tool for industry competitiveness and interregional cooperation and innovation, creating a favourable ecosystem that facilitates new business opportunities for SMEs.

Consortium

  • INDESCAT – Catalan Sports Cluster (INDESCAT) – ES
  • Cluster Sports and Technology – NL
  • European Platform for Sport Innovation (EPSI) – BE
  • Cluster Montagne – FR
  • Hungarian Sport- and Lifestyle Development Cluster (MSE) – HU

Materials And Publications