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EASY FINANCE
Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2012 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Easy Finance is aimed at reinforcing innovative assistance services for enterprises in order to increase their access to financing through a transnational system of intensive use of innovation and knowledge technologies. In the pursuit of creating new innovative enterprises and of injecting capital in growth enterprises, the project will create new methodologies and will propose a shared space of resources between business development and innovation centres in the Mediterranean. Achievements: State of the art of project implementation since the project startActions achieved: 1. Easy Finance Platform. 2. Common methodology (Toolkit) to explain how to get the most adequate access to finance. 3. Analysis of Finance Sources in each territory. 4. Access to Finance training to 120 enterprises (20 per partner). 5. Selection of Best Cases on Innovation and Competitiveness. Main result: to implement an access to finance culture and to facilitate that information to public and private entities in order to growth and to create employment. Through this project many SMEs and new entrepreneurs have realized about all the possibilities they have on financing. This allows companies to continue their business and not die the first years of life. Specific results and products: - Easy Finance Platform. - Easy Finance Toolkit. - Guides on Financing for each territory participating in the project. - Easy Finance Innovation Stardard and Easy Finance Services Standard. - 120 SMEs and entrepreneurs trained on access to finance. - Guide for Best Cases.Latest project activities and outputsThis period has been focused on the component number 5, in particular, in the selection of 20 companies and the related training and inclusion as a company with the quality brand Easy Finance. Actions: - Selection and Training of 20 SMEs and new entrepreneurs in each project partner territory (in total 120). - 20 Innovation Test in each project partner territory, in total 120. - Guide for Funding in each territory. - Guide for Best Cases, with the best examples of innovative companies extracted from the training sessions. - Capitalisation Plan, common for all partners. Results and outputs: - 120 Innovation Test. - 120 SMEs and entrepreneurs detected and trained. - 6 Guide for Funding from Spain (2), France, Italy (2) and Slovenia. - 1 Guide for Best Cases. - 1 Capitalisation Plan for next projects, stratregies and maintenance of the Easy Finance Platform.Next key steps for the projectTo complete the Final PR and Expenditures Certification. To update the project website with more news and events, more links interesting for project partners and target groups, more publications (press release) in order to disseminate the project results. To update the final version of the Capitalisation Plan. To communicate project outputs to more audience. To participate in events related to the objectives of the project. To propose new ways of cooperation: new projects, new strategies...

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