Five for Cross-industry Value Chain Excellence (5FOREXCELLENCE)

Title	Five for Cross-industry Value Chain Excellence
Abbreviation	5FOREXCELLENCE
Programme	EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) – “COSME”

1. Latvian IT Cluster (Latvia) (Lead partner)
2. NetPort Karlshamn AB Science park (Sweden)
3. Latvian Logistics Association (Latvia)
4. Vidzeme Planning Region (Latvia)
5. Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (Estonia)

Project objectives

1. To strengthen management excellence of involved clusters.
2. To improve management and performance practices of involved clusters.
3. To enable clusters to provide more professional business services to SME’s`.
4. To develop capacities necessary for cross-sectoral and international collaboration.
5. To raise awareness of other local cluster organizations and business networks of benefits of the cluster management excellence approach.

Activities

1. Benchmarking and cluster management excellence certification accordingly to European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI) methodology.
2. Training aimed to strengthen and improve management excellence of involved clusters.
3. Identification and planning of services to be provided to SME’s, to be developed and offered by involved clusters.
4. Dissemination and follow up activities.

Results

1. Enhanced performance management excellence of involved clusters.
2. More Professional business services developed within the involved clusters.
3. Involved clusters benchmarked for ECEI management excellence labels.

Budget

Total budget: 249 415 EUR

VPR budget: 44 769 EUR

Implementation period

01.01.2015. – 30.06.2017.

Contacts

Kristaps Ročāns
Phone: +371 29753011
E-mail: kristaps.rocans@vidzeme.lv