Strengthening the resilience of textile, aerospace, and construction SMEs to transition towards greener and more digital sectors with social and business innovation

In Transit aims to strengthen the resilience of textile, aerospace and construction SMEs towards greener and more digital sectors withsocial and business model, with a mixed support mechanism including individual assessment support and a lump sum and coachingto ensure their consolidation and sustainability.In Transit will provide an open online collaborative platform involving innovation actors from the aerospace, construction, and textilesectors that will serve as a space for sharing best practices and as a matchmaking system for new ideas for innovation and circulareconomy and new collaboration partnerships.Foster cross-regional and cross-sectoral links with dedicated learning visits in combination with innovation workshops andmatchmakings to establish the seed for collaboration among sectors by identifying potential partners for commercial and innovationcooperation that will ultimately generate growth opportunities for SMEsIncrease resilience of SMEs by supporting their transition to more sustainable business models financing of a feasibility study,prototyping, pilot testing, demonstrating, procurement of further specialized consultancy services and coaching services that cannotbe provided directly by the project partners, an adaptation of business processes, option to access to DIHs testing facilities, theintroduction of new IT solutions, and social innovation strategies.Scale-up support to leverage additional funds.

In Transit will connect successful SMEs with other initiatives for scaling up theinnovations.IN TRANSIT will allocate 4 M€ directly for SME support out of 5M€ (80% of total budget)In Transit partnership will allow to reach directly (as cluster members) 700 SMEs, 140 large companies and over 150 research facilitiesacross 7 EU-countries, and indirectly over 5.000 SMEs across 38+ countries though EU-wide networks and European Strategic ClusterPartnerships.