Capitalisation is a process to profit or benefit from an already existing “capital”. This capital comes from existing practices and lessons learned in other European projects. Within the frame of the ENI CBC Med Programme, RESET aims at making results and knowledge available across the Mediterranean area, building effective and tangible synergies with other initiatives, increasing the visibility of the Programme with policy-makers and other stakeholders and supporting evidence-based policy development.

RESET has identified 19 innovative EU-funded projects navigated by best practices to support sustainable and green entrepreneurs and start-ups. This knowledge generated by the projects will generate an effective impact across the Mediterranean region, but beforehand, it needs to be better understood, shared and applied.

The project partners from the Mediterranean region have gathered in a consortium meeting with project managers from the targeted EU projects, to kick off the knowledge capitalisation activity. The meeting aimed at introducing RESET project, its general objectives, and more specifically, the purpose of the 19 projects that are being capitalised, and their expected involvement.

RESET consortium is currently in the process of engaging with the targeted EU projects one at a time, to get an in-depth understanding of their findings, best practices in supporting green businesses and knowledge produced.

What type of knowledge is RESET going to extract? How it is going to do that? These are the questions to be answered in the Capitalisation Framework, that will set up the main guidelines to identify and disseminate best practices in green economy and positive results of the key projects. Given that point, here you can get to know the 19 EU-funded projects through a short description for each one of them:

1: GIMED aims at boosting the development of eco-innovative ventures in order to create employment and drive the green and circular economy in the Mediterranean.

2. IPMED aims at bringing Intellectual Property Rights closer to Small and Medium Enterprises to improve their competitiveness.

3. MEDSTARTS aims at boosting ideas of Mediterranean young entrepreneurs through microfinance.

4. MEDGENERATION aims at developing Mediterranean economic diasporas by supporting local and national authorities in the implementation of public policies.

5. Generation Entrepreneur aims at supporting and developing an entrepreneurial ecosystem at multiple levels, by offering business education, incubation and seed funding to the youth, university students and start-ups.

6. Aller aims at helping young people to build their work through the creation of new knowledge-intensive businesses.

7. Switchmed II aims at achieving a circular economy in the Southern Mediterranean by supporting sustainable consumption and production practices. The initiative provides tools and services directly to the private sector.

8. MEDUP! aims at promoting social entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean region. It seeks enabling environment in the Southern Mediterranean partner countries for the development of the social entrepreneurship sector as a driver for inclusive growth and job creation.

9. EMBRACE aims at promoting eco-innovation and circular economy for Small & Medium Businesses Models in the field of wine and agro-food through an online tool-kit.

10. U-SOLVE aims at creating an urban development model based on innovative entrepreneurship by boosting urban business ecosystems and contributing to policy making.

11. SEED EURO-MED aims at fostering greater sustainability and inclusivity of social entrepreneurs to increase knowledge and skills of entrepreneurs.

12. EBSOMED aims at strengthening of the capacity building of Business Support Organisations (BSOs) in the Southern Neighbourhood countries.

13. GRASPINNO aims at improving public authorities ‘ capacity to move towards nearly zero energy building and encourage SMEs to enter the green energy market.

14. CREACT4MED aims at boosting entrepreneurship through the cultural and creative industries for youth and women.

15. GRESS aims at promoting a shift towards a low-carbon economy by supporting formation of sustainable and competitive start-ups.

16. STAND Up! aims at fostering circular business models in the textile and clothing sector by accelerating the transition towards an innovative entrepreneurship.

17. HELIOS aims at enhancing the social inclusion of NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) by focusing on the blue and circular economy, identified as economic sectors with great potential for regenerative economic growth.

18. INVESTMED aims at addressing both economic and environmental challenges, supporting new, sustainable business opportunities for young people and women.

19. SIRCLES aims at providing new employment opportunities for NEETs and women by applying circular economy models in the bio-waste sector.