Regione Liguria, together with IRE (its dependent agency for energy, infrastructure and urban renovation) conceived this proposal which could allow for preparing feasibility studies with the final aim to launch a tender for investments to be made by ESCos through an Energy Performance Contract (EPC). The EPC will enable the implementation of investments without or with limited public capital funding. EnerSHIFT project is based on the wish of the regional government to improve the quality of social housing buildings through retrofitting for the sake of low income people and to decrease energy consumption and related emissions while in the meantime boosting the local economy. The main concept underpinning the project is that economic shortages and public spending review do not currently make it possible to find budget for design and for investment. One good solution is the use of innovative financial schemes such as Energy Performance Contracting for the first time in whole Liguria. Besides, the success of this financial scheme can form the basis for other such investment programs, in Liguria, in other sectors or locations. Important to consider is that tenants do not own their homes but pay the bills – while the buildings are owned by SHOs which do not pay the bills. Therefore, any investment programme has to combine the objectives of both players. SHOs cannot implement measures without tenants approval, on the other hand, if tenants want to spend less and live better, they depend on the SHOs. One major point of the project is indeed the combination of these two interests with the help of the tenants syndicates who will involve tenants throughout the project. Therefore the EnerSHIFT project has energy, social and economic aims.

The project, whose geographical coverage will be North-West Italy (3 regions : Piemonte Liguria and Valle d’Aosta) aims at providing and upgrading a specific framework service for supporting SMEs in the innovation management capacity . The service will be directed to SMEs with international growth potential via product, process service and or business model innovation- with gaps regarding innovation management. In particular, the action will focus on the following specific objectives: 1. Fine tuning of a Key Account Management based customised service provision directed to: a. SMEs /Scale ups international growth, including participation to European programs b. SMEs Innovation capacity enhancement and innovation projects implementation, job creation and new market access c. SMEs Innovation results exploitation 4. Integration of the service within local business innovation support delivered, EEN specific service official embedding within the regional innovation ecosystem 5. Advisory skill enhancement: ALPS EEN personnel, assisting the experts in this Action, will increase expertise and competences, providing high level advisory on innovation management 6. Upgrading a EU shared support methodology for EEN staff, which could be adopted for profitably supporting other local SMEs 7. Contribution to the enhancement of a visible and well identified Coach/EEN experts community at EU level 8. Updating the operational internal manual/chart for a harmonized service within the EEN ALPS Consortium and contribution to definition of a common EEN operational manual

The project, whose geographical coverage will be North-West Italy (3 regions : Piemonte Liguria and Valle d’Aosta) aims at providing and upgrading a specific framework service for supporting SMEs in the innovation management capacity . The service will be directed to SMEs with international growth potential via product, process service and or business model innovation- with gaps regarding innovation management. In particular, the action will focus on the following specific objectives: 1. Fine tuning of a Key Account Management based customised service provision directed to: a. SMEs /Scale ups international growth, including participation to European programs b. SMEs Innovation capacity enhancement and innovation projects implementation, job creation and new market access c. SMEs Innovation results exploitation 4. Integration of the service within local business innovation support delivered, EEN specific service official embedding within the regional innovation ecosystem 5. Advisory skill enhancement: ALPS EEN personnel, assisting the experts in this Action, will increase expertise and competences, providing high level advisory on innovation management 6. Upgrading a EU shared support methodology for EEN staff, which could be adopted for profitably supporting other local SMEs 7. Contribution to the enhancement of a visible and well identified Coach/EEN experts community at EU level 8. Updating the operational internal manual/chart for a harmonized service within the EEN ALPS Consortium and contribution to definition of a common EEN operational manual

The project aims to promote innovation and improvement of the Ligurian education and training system in the nautical and logistics sector.Its aim is to respond to the need to develop a new strategic vision to connect production chains and training supply chains organically, through new ways of working in schools and training, encouraging interaction between institutions, the territory, the business world and the professions. The key theme of the project is the Blue Economy, which represents the economy of the future: it focuses on creativity, through which innovations and new economic models are developed, promotes a strong idea of ​​recovery of values fundamental ethics and sustainable development, especially in the transport and logistics sectors.The project partners are eight and belong to different European countries: having different backgrounds and characteristics, they have allowed to interact in the project with different points of view and experiences.The project coordinator is the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Liguria, the partners are: the University of Turku in Finland which is a European reference point for naval research, the Lycée Professionnel Germaine Poinso Chapuis of Marseille, the GOETHE -INSTITUT which deals with the training and dissemination of the German language in the world, the consortium of Ligurian schools 'CONSORZIO DIRBEC' which groups nautical, technical and professional schools, the ALFA Genovese agency that deals with research, monitoring and training activities professional for the Liguria Region, the educational office of REGIONE LIGURIA and the 'MAGELLAN' association of Porto which has already developed important European projects in the transport sector.The project did not have substantial changes from to the initial plant.Targets and deadlines have been respected, as indicated in the Interim Report approved by the Agency.The main activies carried out during the project are:- identification of the emerging and most significant professional figures in the nautical and logistics sectors, describing their evolutionary trends, also in terms of employability;- comparison of the skills for employability that characterize the outgoing profiles of the various education and training paths by the Partner countries' regulations ;- the different education and training paths were analyzed and correlated;- a certification model implemented by all the partners was implemented;- quality actions, tools and experiences were shared to support the mobility of skills and students in Europe;- a transferable model of good practices was built through the involvement of poles, networks, consortia of schools operating in the Blue Economy training chain;- a platform has been implemented that facilitates the connection between supply and demand of school-work alternation experiences in Italy and in Europe.A whole week of training has been organized in Hamburg on the subject of traning on the job in particular in the nautical and logistic sector.The usability of the material and the contributions produced during the project is guaranteed by the multilingual platform related to the subject in question OnTheMosWay (http://www.onthemosway.eu/) subject of Output 4.The project was widely disseminated as it was presented at three important exhibitions: in Ramua (Finland), in Porto and in Genoa.Furthermore, all the documentation is collected in a dedicated area on the site of the Ufficio Scolastico Regionale per la Liguria.

The project, whose geographical coverage will be North-West Italy (3 regions : Piemonte Liguria and Valle d’Aosta) aims at implementing a specific framework service for supporting SMEs in the innovation management capacity . The service, delivered through provision of 96 individual companies’ service packages, will be directed to SMEs with international growth potential via product, process service and or business model innovation- with gaps regarding innovation management. In particular, the action will focus on the following specific objectives: 1. SMEs international growth, including participation to European programs 2. SMEs Innovation capacity enhancement and innovation projects implementation, job creation and new market access 3. SMEs Innovation results exploitation and innovation spill over enhancement at local level 4. Significant value creation for the SMEs through the intervention on ate least 1of the main innovation drivers (offer, process, distribution, customer relations) 5. Deep understanding of local business innovation support needs: mapping and understanding the context within which the service is placed 6. EEN specific service positioning within the regional innovation ecosystem 7. Advisory skill enhancement: ALPS EEN personnel, assisting the experts in this Action, will increase expertise and competences, providing high level advisory on innovation management 8. Fine tuning of a EU shared support methodology for EEN staff, which could be adopted for profitably supporting other local SMEs 9. Contribution to the creation of a visible and well identified Coach/EEN experts community at EU level (through the participation t o the specific pilot and or Working Groups and activating dedicated awareness raising campaigns ) 10. Editing of an operational internal manual/chart for a harmonized service within the EEN ALPS Consortium (for years 2015 on), and contribution to definition of an common, EU-level EEN operational manual