DIGITAL REGIONS project partners from CIEBI - Business and Innovation Centre of Beira Interior will organise an online session with one of the Portuguese stakeholders, the City Council of Fundão, which will present the 'Business and Shared Services Centre of Fundão' good practice.
This practice won a RegioStars 2018 award in Category 1 – «Supporting smart industrial transition.», and was developed as part of the response to the exodus of young people from city of Fundão due to the lack of job prospects and high unemployment.
The project aims to combat the demographic and economic decline by supplying IT and infrastructural competences to enterprises and start-ups. It is an innovative Digital Transformation Technologies initiative. In the first four years, the project boosted the development of an integrated ecosystem that has generated 68 start-ups and supported over 200 private funding projects, investing in R&D, pioneering initiatives of professional retraining and digital skills.
