The expected outcomes from NEP-AL IT project are the following:

• Improvement of business interaction capacity of Nepal and Pakistan's ICT markets with the EU ones. This will be possible thanks to the specific training that will be provided to Nepal and Karachi Chambers of Commerce. The intervention will have a medium/long-term impact since it will create figures such as experts, unique and specialised, in the EU market, who will be able to function as critical junctures between the SMEs interested in that market and the other intermediary organisations.

• Creation of a network among institutional partners of six European and Asian countries. In fact, European experts will visit the Asian Chambers of Commerce and they will be available to share their experience with the hosting institutions for the preparation of a business strategy to develop those services dedicated to the SMEs' internationalisation.

• Internal and external diffusion of the ICT sector in every participating country through the web portal especially created to support and favour during the whole project the creation of the network among the involved actors.

• Creation of real business contacts among 160 SMEs through the preparation and the diffusion of specific business studies together with the informative and training activities in preparation of the match-making event in Kathmandu, Nepal.

• Promotion of SMEs' penetration in their respective markets through the internationalisation process.

Realisation and testing of an IT platform to provide services and sign partnerships among the actors of the project with attention to their future sustainability.