1. Softland in Mediterranean Kristina Ober, Technology Park Ljubljana Concrete Opportunities of future collaboration: Business matchmaking, Economic observatory 26.3.2015

2. WHO are we? internationally recognized business support organisation

3. What defines us? internationally recognized business support organisation First Slovene public-private partnership Leading entity & key national stakeholder 20 years of experience First Slovene public-private partnership Leading entity & key national stakeholder 20 years of experience

4. What defines us? 281 companies (94 startups) more than 1.500 employees Main clusters : ICT, Cleantech, Industrial Technologies, Life Science, Creative Industries, Automatization & Production, Health and Medicine, New Materials

5. Programmes and activities

6. Gateway to Business Excellence Technology Park Ljubljana Talent activation Students Young researchers Inovators Teams Freelancers SGH Coworking spaces Start:up weekends Incubation Spin-out Spin-off Start-up SGH business accelator SK50 ERASMUS for young Entrepernurs Growth & Internationalization Companies with potential for growth and global market penetration GG business acceletrator SK200 GoGlobal Slovenia Softlanding

7. Business Landing Softlanding in the Mediterranean

8. OBJECTIVES Accelerate the growth of Med SMEs through transnational support tools and services addressing three of the main obstacles faced by them: 1. Improve their access to funding, by bridging the gap between enterprises and investors 2.Strengthen internationalization strategies, through the development of a favorable ecosystem of softlanding services 3.Foster growth potential through the deployment of an acceleration programme.

9. Barcelona Activa Barcelona, Catalonia (ES) (Lead Partner) ANIMA Investment Network Marseille, Province Alpes –Côte d’Azur (FR) Technology Park Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia (SL) PROMOS – Special Agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce for International Activities Milan, Lombardy (IT) EC Business and Innovation Centre of Attika Athens, Greece (GR) ASTER Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (IT)

10. INTERNATIONALIZATION Objective:  Strengthen internationalization strategies, through the development of a favourable ecosystem of soft-landing services.  Promoting the access of SMEs to other international markets within the Mediterranean. Action: Organization of 3 transnational workshops for the definition of soft-landing services  15 Business support service providers participating  Open to South Med countries

11. Programmes and activities a) Region b) Institutions c) Enterprises

12. Let‘s Softland in Mediterranean

20. Memorandum of Understanding Cooperation in terms of crosslanding services of enterprises and business projects. Open for new members Recruiting new members and assisting them to submit their application to the network Application form Formal procedure

21. Testimonial „The Business Landing in Mediterranean programme delivered by Technology Park Ljubljana is exactly what I have needed in order to start doing business in Slovenia!“ Nikos Kopsias Business Development & Marketing Director Oxygen Broadband s.a., Greece

22. Barcelona Activa Barcelona, Catalonia (ES) (Lead Partner) ANIMA Investment Network Marseille, Province Alpes –Côte d’Azur (FR) Technology Park Ljubljana Ljubljana, Slovenia (SL) PROMOS – Special Agency of the Milan Chamber of Commerce for International Activities Milan, Lombardy (IT) EC Business and Innovation Centre of Attika Athens, Greece (GR) ASTER Bologna, Emilia-Romagna (IT)

23. Let‘s Connect & Collaborate Kristina Ober Project Manager, PR and Marketing Technology Park Ljubljana 00 386 1 620 34 05 kristina.ober@tp-lj.si kristina.ober@tp-lj.si ACCELMED Project Partners