Project deliverables
A catalogue of PPs’ national and European business intermediaries and SME support organizations from target countries, and also relevant EU-funded projects, was developed to support the EXTRA LIGHT consortium internationalization goals and implementation strategy. The catalogue is public in order to be of support also for other clusters and stakeholders outside the partnership.
Report on 4 local knowledge-building workshops for clusters and their SMEs and on 2 international online webinars raising awareness on different types of public procurement, with particular focus on tenders for services, tenders for products, innovation procurement, circular procurement, and LCA – LCC approaches in public tenders.
Report on the activities executed within the EXTRA LIGHT Bidding Simulation Workrooms, organized locally by PPs for lighting and furniture SMEs on how to write a successful public bid with hands-on exercises, carried out by the public procurement experts and including analysis of real tenders published by public buyers in the USA, Canada, and Japan.
Activity report on building consortia for public procurement processes and relations with public buyers from target countries, performed during the planned B2B matchmaking events, including insights from the local focus groups held among SMEs from the same clusters, the project cross-cluster matchmaking events (face-to-face or virtual), among the partner clusters and their SMEs, and also the international bid matchmaking sessions organized beside key trade events.
Why invent the wheel again? Incorporating what others have learned is an important practice that EXTRA LIGHT partners put into effect adding also their own experiences that you can find in this Vademecum. Consortium has almost completed our procurement journey within the EXTRA LIGHT project and have collected and analysed the internationalisation best practices, hints and recommendations but also failure cases and bad examples to enhance the learning process of the European SMEs, not only from the lighting and furniture sectors, and to find additional stimulus for EXTRA LIGHT performance and follow up activities.