“IInnovation services for enhancing SME innovation management capacities in Madrid Region- INNMADRIMASD 3” is a proposal addressing the topic ‘Enhancing SME innovation capacity by providing better innovation support “under Horizon 2020. INNMADRIMASD 3 will provide innovation services to SMEs in Madrid through the Enterprise Europe Network as a suitable structure to provide in depth support services to SMEs in the area of innovation management. Furthermore, beneficiaries of the SME Instrument under Horizon 2020 will be entitled to receive specific targeted support from the Enterprise Europe Network to support coaching assignments addressing specific innovation weaknesses for Madrid based SMEs.

“Innovation services for SMEs innovation capacities enhancement in Madrid Region- INNMADRIMASD 2” is a proposal addressing the topic ‘Enhancing SME innovation capacity by providing better innovation support “under Horizon 2020. INNMADRIMASD 2 will provide innovation services to SMEs in Madrid through the Enterprise Europe Network as a suitable structure to provide in depth support services to SMEs in the area of innovation management. Furthermore, beneficiaries of the SME Instrument under Horizon 2020 will be entitled to receive specific targeted support from the Enterprise Europe Network to support coaching assignments addressing specific innovation weaknesses for Madrid based SMEs.

e-icom project (E-Learning for International Commerce Digital Marketing) is conceived as an initiative to develop pedagogic resources on International Marketing to support initial and continuous VET courses in training cycles connected with Trade, Marketing and Advertising.It started as a cooperation between the lead partner in Spain, a VET provider, and the Chamber of Commerce of Madrid, who got inspired by the products of a previous Erasmus+ funded project on the same topic, M.IN.D (Marketing, Internationalization & Development). The i-com partnership gathers partners in Spain, Italy and Greece with a balanced composition of one VET provider and one relevant chamber of commerce in the three countries. Some of the partners in Italy and Greece come from the M.IN.D partnership.The project has the ultimate goal to facilitate the employment of young people in the Export sector and contribute to the competitiveness of the companies of the three represented countries, especially SMEs, by providing a higher qualification of their staff, having in mind the current diagnosis of the European institutions, which estimates that more than 30 million jobs in the EU depend on exports outside the EU and 90% of future global growth is predicted to happen outside Europe's borders (European Council, 2018).The main challenges of VET according to the recent publications of the European Centre for Development of Vocational Training relate to the cooperation between the education sector and the enterprises and it is in this area where the e-icom project wants to intervene.The partnership represents the interests of several hundreds of thousand companies of which only a fraction export at all. Through the training cycles implemented by the participating organisations, the partnership reaches directly some 2.500 trainees yearly in initial and continuous VET in the topics covered by the project.The main results to be developed in the project are a MOOC on International Marketing and a pedagogic and promotional audiovisual resource containing the lessons learnt in the implementation of the project. They will be produced in all the languages of the partnership with inputs from all partners. They will include specific sectorial examples and testimonials from all the participating countries to bring an international value to the final products.The partners count with the professional and technical resources to develop fully the intended products. A short-term staff mobility has been incorporated to the work plan to contribute to the exchange of practices and opinions in the conception and production of the main results. In order to maximise their quality, the products will be tested and validated in all countries incorporating suggestions of external stakeholders. Multipliers events are foreseen in all countries to promote the results and contribute to their sustainability.The two main results will be open to the public and directly accessible from the webpage of the project and electronic platforms best suiting their promotion, including the platform of results of the Erasmus + program.

The core objective of the project is to contribute to boost the full innovation potential of SMEs identifying weakness in their innovation capacities and in their innovation management capacities; this identification, and the proposed plan, will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation; and empower the SME to overcome those weakness. This services will be provide in the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network as support network. The network will provide the link to the regional innovation ecosystem. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives the proposed project will: a) Identify challenges to the creation of economic impact and innovation needs in SMEs beneficiaries of H2020 funding schemes SME Instrument (hereinafter referred to as SME-I), Fast Track to Innovation (hereinafter referred to as FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (hereinafter referred to as FET-Open). This service is called 'Key account management' (KAM). It is planned about 65 such services during the year 2019. b) Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European funds for research and innovation but would not have effective access to consulting services for innovation management. This service is called 'Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (EIMCS). The aim is to provide about 26 services of this kind. c) Create an active link between the SMEs and the Enterprise Europe Network; offering the beneficiaries of the above described services SMEs the EEN services.

The core objective of the project is to contribute to boost the full innovation potential of SMEs identifying weakness in their innovation capacities and in their innovation management capacities; this identification, and the proposed plan, will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of investments in research, development and innovation; and empower the SME to overcome those weakness. This services will be provide in the framework of the Enterprise Europe Network as support network. The network will provide the link to the regional innovation ecosystem. To achieve the above-mentioned objectives the proposed project will: a) Identify challenges to the creation of economic impact and innovation needs in SMEs beneficiaries of H2020 funding schemes SME Instrument (hereinafter referred to as SME-I), Fast Track to Innovation (hereinafter referred to as FTI) and Future and Emerging Technologies Open (hereinafter referred to as FET-Open). This service is called 'Key account management' (KAM). It is planned about 83 such services during the years 2020-21. b) Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of innovation processes in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) with significant innovation activities that could potentially become beneficiaries of European funds for research and innovation but would not have effective access to consulting services for innovation management. This service is called 'Enhancing the innovation management capacity of SMEs (EIMCS). The aim is to provide about 54 services of this kind. c) Create an active link between the SMEs and the Enterprise Europe Network, offering the beneficiaries of the above described services SMEs the EEN services.