The Enterprise Europe Network "Normandie-Picardie" consortium is composed of the 5 following partners: • CCI Basse-Normandie • CCI Haute-Normandie • CCI Picardie • MIRIADE (regional agency for innovation in Basse-Normandie) • SEINARI (regional agency for innovation in Haute-Normandie) To act complementarily with the COSME Enterprise Europe Network "Normandie-Picardie" project, the consortium will set up a Horizon 2020 action called “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs”. This action should help companies of the Normandy-Picardy area to organise their innovation strategy in order to overcome the barriers to the emergence of innovative projects. This specific action will be divided into two main activities (Work packages). The first one called “Key Account Management” (KAM) will target the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument. The Key Account Managers (innovation experts of the consortium) will ensure that the beneficiaries receive the most appropriate services to underscore the successful and profitable exploitation of their innovation project. They will be in charge of helping SMEs to select their coach and will ensure there is no conflict between the coach and the SMEs all along the coaching phase. The second one called “enhancing SME innovation management capacity” (EIMC) will target SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential of internationalization. The consortium advisors will deliver a quality management assessment and support service to conduct innovation processes in a more effective way. They will be in charge of assessing innovation management capacity of the company and to develop an action plan with the support of an appropriate diagnostic tool. Both activities of the consortium should complement each other’s and offer the best integrated support to SMEs on two different growth factors: innovation and internationalization. The consortium plans to deliver both services to a total number of 51 companies in 2015-2016.

Implementation of the H2020 EEN activities in the geographical area covered by the the EEN TOPIC Consortium.

Implementation of KAM and EIMC activities in the EEN TOPIC geographical area for the 2017-2018 period.

On January 1st, 2016, the French regions experienced a territorial reform which led to the merger of several French regions. On the Normandie-Picardie consortium territory, the Upper and Lower Normandy regions are reunited to form the Normandie region and Picardie region is attached to the Nord de France region. In parallel, on January 1st, 2016, the CCI of Haute-Normandie and the CCI of Basse Normandie merged and became CCI Normandie. On July 1st, 2016, the two Norman regional agencies for innovation are grouped into a single structure named Agence de Développement pour la Normandie (AD Normandie). For the 2017-2018 period, CCI Picardie decided to harmonize the territorial map of the EEN consortium with the new French regions. Thereby, on January 1st, 2017, CCI Picardie will withdraw from the consortium Normandie-Picardie.The new Normandie consortium succeeds the Normandie-Picardie consortium. It fully pursues its activities to support innovation and internationalization. The new Norman consortium ensures the continuity of all EEN COSME and H2020 services, especially the action called “Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs”. This specific action will be divided into two main Work packages. The first one called “Key Account Management” (KAM) will target the beneficiaries of the SME Instrument. The Key Account Managers will ensure that the beneficiaries receive the most appropriate services to underscore the successful and profitable exploitation of their innovation project. The second one called “enhancing SME innovation management capacity” (EIMC) will target SMEs with significant innovation activities and a high potential of internationalization. The consortium advisors will deliver a quality management assessment and support services to conduct innovation processes in a more effective way. They will be in charge of assessing innovation management capacity of the company and to develop an action plan with the support of an diagnostic tool.

Implementation of the H2020 EEN activities in the geographical area covered by the the EEN TOPIC Consortium.