DINNOCAP was a transnational project on digital collaboration between industry associations, government agencies, and knowledge institutions in eight countries in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). DINNOCAP was co-funded by the EU Interreg Programme for the BSR and ran from Jan to Dec 2021.

The aim of DINNOCAP was to advance the digital economy in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) by

• promoting increased ICT uptake in industrial SMEs;

• promoting transnational interoperability via innovative public cross-border e-services;

• supporting institutional capacity building in the public and the private sector to sustain these developments.

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DINNOCAP was an extension project of DIGINNO which was a digital collaboration project for the BSR carried out 2017-2020: https://www.diginnobsr.eu/. DINNOCAP supported the implementation of innovative ICT tools, cross-border e-services solutions, and policy recommendations developed in DIGINNO.

These were:

1. Business needs assessment of ICT in SMEs in BSR

2. SME Digital Maturity Recommender Tool

3. Digital Assessment Toolkit for SME’s

4. Four show-case models of G2B cross-border e-service

5. DIGINNO Policy White Paper​

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DINNOCAP sought to implement these tools and solutions at the practical level together with companies and industry associations in the partner countries. In parallel, the project discussed with government institutions how the policy level can support these developments. The overall output of DINNOCAP was a set of innovative digital transformation instruments to support capacity enhancement among SMEs, industry associations, and policymakers.