Combined report on Industrial User Experience, Pilot Activity Impact and Open data
Baltic TRAM Brochure
The Brochure summarizes the project's main outputs, success stories, lessons learnt and recommendations.
Introduce Challenge
The Industrial Research Centres (IReCs) are business-support units that assist companies in reaching out to research
Baltic TRAM in short
Baltic TRAM strengthens the relationship between analytical research institutions and businesses.
Baltic TRAM ended – What are the results?
The project has established a network of universities and research institutes that improves cooperation with industry. 11 of 14 partners (plus one associated partner) want to continue working together on the network and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding.The pilot activities within the project, with 68 applications for industrial measurements, have shown a need for an expansion of industrial services at research institutes and universities. Especially SMEs - with a share of 94 % - have used the offer.
70 per cent of all measurements were done within one country. However, with 30% transnational measurements, a great need for international exchange was also demonstrated. The international exchange of measurements has been balanced between East and West. This may reduce brain drain of scientists from East to West if they execute scientific services in their home places.
The project
• stimulated innovation and research intensity across the local, regional and national research and business landscapes through guiding companies to RPOs.
• enabled knowledge transfer on a transnational and transregional scale by “tapping” international expertise.
• supported the aspirations of the European Research Area and strengthens the Baltic Sea Region.
Research vouchers for SMEs could address the need of SMEs to get access to state-of-the-art scientific services through government programs and support SMEs' access to research institutes and universities. The idea of introducing a system of research vouchers is supported by most of the flagship projects in PA Innovation. PA Innovation will start a Greenfield initiative for further discussion of this idea with responsible stakeholders.
Lessons learned
The Baltic TRAM project has been a great learning experience for experts interested in the European governance, macro-regional collaboration and smart specialisation. For Zane Šime, Communication & Research Coordinator at the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Secretariat, and the Baltic TRAM Work Package 3 Leader, it has been an opportunity to explore the transnational traits of a myriad of smart specialisation related processes.
Baltic TRAM Open Call
The Baltic TRAM project has carried out three calls for proposals and offered free access to state-of-the-art analytical research facilities across the Baltic Sea Region, providing technical and scientific expertise.
Company cases
Companies selected for support were provided with consultations and measurements of materials samples at an analytical research facility.
Open Data Portal
Portal is a library of company cases and a database of the experiments conducted during the Baltic TRAM open calls