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CORA guide to rural digital transformation
The CORA guide to rural digital transformation outlines the steps for your digital journey and leads you to the tools that you will need on the way. All compressed into one short guide with links to training modules and inspirational stories! We invite local...
Cooperation brings results and is fun: impressions from the final COM³ and CORA conference
After many years of joint journey, the projects CORA and COM³, supported by the North Sea Region Interreg Programme, are coming to a closure. Together partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom and Germany, developed measures,...
COM³ Success: COM³ Support Model Launches, Empowering Small Companies on Their Digital Transformation Journey
After four years of dedicated hard work, the COM³ project is thrilled to announce that the COM³ Support Model is officially live! The online tool aims to revolutionize the support provided to small companies as they embark on their transformative digital journeys. The...
COM³ Success: How Municipalities, Regions and Business Support Organisations Drive Digital Transformation in Rural Businesses
After four active years of efforts and collaboration to building competencies for competitive companies, the COM³ project is happy to release its latest policy brief outlining the successes of its digital support initiatives for rural businesses. In a significant...
COM³ Paper: The Power of Business Networks to Underpin Regional Digital Strategies
COM³ partners at CIAM – Cluster on Industrial Asset Management - University of Stavanger, just published a new paper titled "Establishing Effective Business/ Stakeholder Networks to Underpin Regional Digital Strategies". Jan Frick, professor at the University of...
COM³ Pilot: A CIAM Lunch & Learn Event on Advanced Testing and Digital Twinning of Large-scale Composite Structures
COM³ partners at CIAM – Cluster on Industrial Asset Management – organise on 30 May 2022 a Lunch & Learn Webinar on Advanced Testing and Digital Twinning of Large-scale Composite Structures. Xiao Chen from the Technical University of Denmark will present the...
COM³ Training Solution: Reaching the ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Entrepreneurs
COM³ partners are thrilled to announce the publication of a new e-learning course titled "Reaching the ‘Hard-to-Reach’ Entrepreneurs in Processes of Innovation and Digitalisation". This course has been designed to help municipalities, regions, and business support...
COM³ Good Practice: Leveraging the Power of Data in Leiedal, Belgium
The region of South-West Flanders is well-known for product design. With their regional pilot, COM³ partners Intercommunale Leiedal and Designregio Kortrijk stimulate innovation through the power of data and design. Leiedal is the regional public partner for 13...
Alexanderson Institute Shares COM³ Project Results and Quick-Win Strategies with International Network in Halland
The Alexanderson Institute, a partner of the Interreg North Sea project COM³, recently shared its experiences and insights in front of the international network of Halland, Sweden. The Institute shared the results and lessons learned from the COM³ project and also...
COM³ Pilot: Join the UoL 4.0 Challenge Project 2023 Awards Ceremony
COM³ Partners at the University of Lincoln, United Kingdom, will be hosting on 2 May 2022 at 5 pm GMT the UoL 4.0 Challenge Virtual Awards Ceremony 2023! Please join the virtual ceremony and support students' engagement with local SMEs. The UoL 4.0 Challenge is a COM³...
Register for the Joint final conference of Interreg COM³ and CORA projects, 21 June 2023
Join us on Wednesday, 21 June 2023, 10:30 – 15:00 CET for the online “Joint final conference of Interreg COM³ and CORA projects”. We will exchange experiences from our project activities and will look into future opportunities. This is our chance to discuss findings...
COM³ Training Solution: New Look for “How to organize successful business matchmaking events”
COM³ partners at the Alexanderson Institute, Sweden, have created a short training solution for local and regional authorities, and business support organisations who want to organise business matchmaking events. In a new and appealing design, the e-learning course...
COM³ Quick-Win Strategy: Be Cyber aware, Stay Safe!
COM³ partners have developed a series of five quick-win strategies to help municipalities, regions and business support organisations accompany small companies on their digital transformation. As the number of attacks across diverse digital infrastructures is...
COM³ Training Solution: COM³ Launches New E-Learning Course to Help Rural Businesses Thrive in the Digital Age
Staff and developers in municipalities, regions, and business support organisations work hard to make their regions attractive places to live, work, and invest in. Local businesses – as providers of services and goods, as employers, or as clients – contribute to the...
COM³ Quick-Win Strategy: Supporting Small Businesses in their Digital Transformation
In this fast-paced world where globalisation and digitalisation are ever-growing, digital skills have become an inevitable prerequisite for enterprises no matter size or business sector. COM³ partners have developed a series of five quick-win strategies to help...
COM³ Training Solution: When Students Boost Small Companies
Small companies, big ideas! When students bring their innovative minds to the table, the possibilities for growth and success are endless. The COM³ partners show how student-based projects benefit not only students who gain new experience, but also companies....
COM³ Training Solution: Data Breach and Privacy Leak Awareness
COM³ has developed a training solution that raises awareness about the impact of data leaks and the risks of having a privacy leak. Small companies, like any other organisations, are also vulnerable to these risks and should have the right tools to protect themselves....
COM³ Pilot: More than 700 students scan the digitalisation landscape in Rogaland
How visible is my company online?" "What can people learn about my business from publicly available sources?" - These questions are key for entrepreneurs. 142 companies from the Rogaland region, in Norway, had the chance to get meaningful answers. Over the last...
COM³ Pilot: Recruitment and Competency Building on the Agenda at Business Support Meeting in Vinje
How can local and regional authorities help businesses get access to the workforce and competencies they need? This was the main topic of discussion at Vinje municipality’s latest business support meeting. One of the main outcomes of Vinje and USN’s COM³ pilot is a...
COM³ Training Solution: Public Data Platforms as Drivers of Economic Development
COM³ has developed a training solution that raises awareness about the potential of open data for employees and developers in communities and regions. The training module provides suggestions and recommendations on how to approach working with data together with and...
Main take-aways and messages from the CORA workshop series on digital transformation in rural areas
Check the summaries of the CORA workshops on digital transformation in rural areas for main take-aways and messages. The workshops covered topics of integrated strategy, KPIs and funding, digital skills for employees, stakeholder and citizen participation as well as...