CEBBIS is a network of 11 partners from the Central European region with a common interest in trans-regional, branch based, demand-led solutions to improve technology transfer to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Based on this idea, the network has submitted the project into the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme. The goal of the CEBBIS project is to raise SMEs' competitiveness on the international market by offering industry specific innovation support based on new ICT applications.

CEBBIS aims at removing bottlenecks in the diffusion and application of innovations to ensure a more efficient access to knowledge, transmitted by key players in the program area, by:

• Creating a transnational concept of transfer of research results and new technologies to SMEs
• Active cooperation between the regional partners, intermediaries and SMEs.
•  Improvement of  framework conditions for effective innovation support to SMEs
• Professionalization and further taining of staff from intermediaries

The project will result in innovative and more competitive SMEs that are able to employ more staff.

CEBBIS partners from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Slovenia represent regional and national decision makers, intermediaries like technology parks, competence centres and business organizations with experience in transnational projects. Most of them have been coordinators or partners in projects financed by EU Programmes.