The Pole 1 “Innovative ecosystem for SMEs” Capitalization Workshop together with EUSDR Priority Area 8 “Competitiveness of enterprises” took place on 17th of October 2018 in Sofia, Bulgaria. During the workshop, the 11 projects of Pole 1 participated as well as the coordinators of Pole 2 and 3 were present.

Ms. Mária Baracsi, project coordinator of Danube Chance2.0 presented the overall framework, goals and achievements of the project. Communication Leader of Danube Chance2.0 also attended the event.

After the presentations of the projects the participants divided in 4 working groups. Within this working groups the members of the group answered the following questions like:

How can the results of transnational cooperation be more accessible and longer usable to SMEs?
What are the obstacles of an efficient and effective capitalization and exploitation of synergies?
Which PA8 Working Group do you like to work with?
How does your Pole 1 Working Group contribute to achieve the objectives of Priority Area 8?

At the end of the Workshop each group presented their ideas about the above mentioned questions.