ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0

ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0

AIDA CCI promotes the ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0 project, which runs from January 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026, with activities in the NUTS II North and Centre regions.

ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0

The ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0 project, promoted by AIDA CCI, aims primarily to qualify SMEs in the Aveiro District, focusing on innovation, financial literacy, and ESG criteria, covering the sectors of metalworking, habitat, blue economy, automotive, and TICE. It adopts an innovative approach based on an ecosystem culture, fostering cooperation with NPMEs and the development of new management models.
Region of Intervention: NUTS II North and Centre

Beneficiary Entity: AIDA CCI – Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Aveiro District

Start Date: 01-01-2025

End Date: 31-12-2026

ECOSYSTEM QUALIFY 5.0 has the following strategic objectives:

  1. Raise awareness and empower SMEs by providing them with tools to adopt innovative practices, strengthen access to financing, and comply with ESG criteria.
  2. Provide information and tools to compete globally and innovate, promoting the association of SMEs with a modern and competitive industrial fabric, focusing on digital and environmental transition, through the study “Mapping of Competencies, Resources, and Critical Success Factors.”
  3. Continuously develop employees’ skills and strengthen connections between SMEs, multinationals, and investors through training sessions in innovation, financial literacy, and ESG practices.
  4. Encourage the adoption of ESG practices as a condition for SME success, through awareness actions and training programs.
  5. Reduce business information asymmetries by promoting the dissemination of project actions, knowledge, and results through the ECOSYSTEM PLATFORM HUB, journalistic supplements, guidelines for SMEs, and the Final EQ 5.0 Report.

Performance and Outcome Indicators

  • Sectors covered: Metalworking, Habitat, Blue Economy, Automotive, TICE
  • Regions of intervention: NUTS II North and Centre
  • Tools and studies provided: “Mapping of Competencies, Resources, and Critical Success Factors”
  • Management platform: ECOSYSTEM PLATFORM HUB
  • Regular publications: Journalistic supplements, Guidelines for SMEs, Final EQ 5.0 Report
Project Sheet
COMPETE2030-Barra-Assinaturas-Financiamento

More information:DAT – Technical Support Department

Susana Carvalho – s.carvalho@aida.pt

Ana Manuela – a.ferreira@aida.pt

T.: 234 302 492

Project Activities

The project is structured in 7 activities, as follows:

  1. AVEIRO 5.0 ECOSYSTEM
    • 1.1 Study for the internationalization of the “Aveiro 5.0 Ecosystem”
    • 1.2 Open Days (5 events)
    • 1.3 Think Tanks for the internationalization of the Aveiro 5.0 Ecosystem (4 meetings: 2 in the North region and 2 in the South of the district)
  2. ESG IN THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF THE AVEIRO 5.0 ECOSYSTEM
    • 2.1 ESG awareness sessions (2 sessions)
    • 2.2 ESG criteria application diagnostic
    • 2.3 Guidelines on ESG criteria application across 5 sectors
  3. COOPERATION/PROSPECTING IN CONSOLIDATED MARKETS – France and USA
    • 3.1 Prospecting visits in consolidated markets, in 2025
    • 3.2 Institutional inward missions, in 2026 (France and USA)
    • 3.3 Institutional presence in consolidated markets, in 2026
  4. COOPERATION/PROSPECTING IN NEW MARKETS – Poland, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, and Slovakia
    • 4.1 Prospecting in Central and Eastern European markets, in 2025
    • 4.2 Institutional presence in Central and Eastern European markets, in 2026
    • 4.3 Institutional inward missions, in 2025
  5. COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESSES FOR KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND CAPACITY BUILDING ON FOREIGN MARKETS
    • 5.1 Industrial Guide Books for each market
    • 5.2 Participation in the Osaka 2025 World Expo
    • 5.3 International Market e.Talks for each market
    • 5.4 Meetings with Embassies in Portugal and Bilateral Chambers of Commerce and Industry
  6. DISSEMINATION AND COMMUNICATION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES AND RESULTS
    • 6.1 to 6.8 – Communication plan, media relations, social media, landing page, final seminar, among others
  7. MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING
    • 7.1 ROC
    • 7.2 Project support equipment