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Karelia ePro Micro (KA1014)
Funded by Karelia CBC 2014-2020

Objective of the project

Identifying bottlenecks, barriers and obstacles for cross-border economic interaction and trade

Main activities

• developing and implementing attractive e-commerce schemas • accomplishing required studies, including prefeasibility studies, surveys, literature review • identifying status quo, including bottlenecks, barriers and obstacles of e-commerce trade between Finland and Russia in the Karelia and North Finland regions; • developing recommendations that will remove the bottlenecks, barriers and obstacles of e-commerce trade between Finland and Russia in the Karelia and North Finland regions; to start networking

Achievements

Potential companies ready for exports were listed down. This can be used for further study and networking purposes. Understanding of the difficulties in and barriers towards doing cross-border e-commerce was achieved. Recommendations were provided for the companies about how to develop their e-commerce, for the officials about what policies and measures are the best to support the e-commerce and for the educational institutions about what studies and research projects are needed for developing Russia-Finland cross-border e-commerce.



Basic information


Acronym

eProMicro

Duration

2018-11-01 - 2019-06-30

Total Budget / Programme funding

50 000 € / 45 000 €


Lead partner

Oulu University of Applied Sciences
Lead partner web-site

Partners

Lapland University of Applied Sciences
Petrozavodsk State University