Europe INNOVA - Partnerships for better innovation support

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• To describe the specific sector needs for innovative services in a 15-year perspective;
• To collect and adapt a sector-specific technical and business support toolbox;
• To reach and recruit potential voucher applicant SMEs through a series of innovation training workshops for 375 SMEs in Norway, France, Germany, UK and Finland;
• To specify and implement an innovation voucher scheme for access to technical and business expertise for SME innovators;
• To promote the widest use and market uptake of sustainability and innovation-enabling standards;
• To investigate and promote the use of Structural and Cohesion Funds for voucher-based innovation support platforms;
• To establish a European accelerator in the field of sustainable construction innovative services.

GreenConServe further establishes a “LIONS”-group of influential players in the construction sector (large companies and public procurers) and associates them to the activities in view of access to first-users for innovative services to come out of the support.