FITT-NESS aims to strengthen and support SMEs in the furniture sector across Europe by creating regional innovation ecosystems. It focuses on innovative areas like smart homes, age-friendly environments, and eco-houses, promoting the twin transition (digital and sustainable). Through interregional collaboration, the project seeks to enhance the capacity of SMEs and their intermediaries to develop investment portfolios and engage in European value chains. It includes less developed regions like Murcia (Spain) and Northern Portugal, with a pilot focus on Sicily, guided by Lombardy as a leading region.

Main Goal:

  1. Creation of an interregional network for innovation in the furniture sector.
  2. Strengthening digital and sustainable capabilities of SMEs in less developed areas.
  3. Development of joint investment plans and innovation support tools.
  4. Promotion of cooperation among quadruple-helix stakeholders (academia, businesses, governments, and society).
  5. Generation of new sustainable and collaborative business models.
  6. Implementation of pilot activities in Sicily to replicate results and expand the project’s scope.

2019-1-DK01-KA202-060224