CrossRoads Vlaanderen-Nederland
CrossRoads Flanders-The Netherlands supports cross-border cooperation between SMEs in Flanders and the southern Netherlands (Zeeland, North Brabant, Limburg, and South Holland). The project helps companies find partners across the border and subsidizes product or process innovations with a focus on sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainable energy, Industry 4.0, and health.
About
Unfortunately, the network of small and medium-sized entrepreneurs still too often stops at the border. When an entrepreneur wants to innovate and looks for complementary partners, opportunities across the border are often missed. With CrossRoads, Interreg Flanders-The Netherlands, VLAIO Team Bedrijfstrajecten, Economische Impuls Zeeland, REWIN, the Brabant Development Agency, LIOF, and InnovationQuarter aim to give the existing potential in the border region a significant boost by supporting SMEs in their search for the perfect partner across the border and subsidizing their joint innovations.
CrossRoads Flanders-Netherlands builds on the success of its predecessors CrossRoads, CrossRoads2, and CrossRoads2 Sustainable Energy. Through these projects, dozens of innovations were realized by Flemish and Dutch companies. In CrossRoads2 (2016-2020) alone, in which 202 companies participated in 118 innovation projects, the total investment of €7 million in subsidies led to an estimated economic added value of €16 million per year! CrossRoads2 Sustainable Energy delivered an estimated CO2 reduction of 375,000 tons of CO2 for the period 2023-2027.
Please visit the Dutch-language website for more information.