To be part of a European project brings about important advantages, which will be detailed below, but as counterpart it requires to sign and respect the necessary efforts to participate to the project phases that involve the SMEs beneficiaries. Transparency in the actions and correctness of the information provided are fundamental to the good outcome of the project. Moreover, NEP-AL IT just because it is about the creation of a EU-Asian network on ICT, it needs even more synergy among all the actors involved.

The small and medium enterprises that are interest in participating to the project are asked to fill in a specific form where they will have to insert their characteristics that would fit the selection criteria cited above. This first informal exchange of documents will be followed by a direct contact with the project team where the company representatives will show the firm and will be friendly interviewed. In this occasion will be probably be asked to bring additional documentation or original copies in order to certify some specific issues.

However, the meeting’s first purpose will be to know the company better, solving the last doubts about the projects in order of being willing to sign a declaration of intents that will commit the organisation to share the project goals and values. Finally, some operative agreements will follow: the company’s referent for the project, the contact procedures, a plan of specific activities and contacts to be developed, etc.