the electrical, construction and the environmental technology industry. Experts from both countries report on opportunities in the neighbouring country. While Dutch and German participants will be informed first in separate groups, time to the common networks is then”in an informal atmosphere. Four company visits companies on the program who are already successful in the neighbouring country are also from February. On 11 February a visit in the area of food is offered, on 3 March the participants can get a picture of an operation of the metal industry, on 31 March, a visit to a company from the electrical sector follows. The visit of a logistics company concludes on April 7. Here, too, experts will report on market opportunities and their experiences.
After the company visits the participants come to a get together”together, where they can make cross-border business contacts. A Euregional network event is planned for the April 17. To do this, companies are alike invited authorities, associations and politicians. In addition to a balance sheet look is also forward. How can be fostered initiatives continued and implemented conditional contacts in specific projects? Individual support in addition to the series of events the portal project provides individual subsidies for companies that want to be active in the neighbouring country. Until April 2008 interested entrepreneurs for this step can have individual advice to legal and tax aspects, for example, or in sales and marketing issues.
The costs incurred for this external experts be promoted up to 70 per cent (the maximum amount per company is 5,000 euros). Generally have 30 to 40 companies from the area of the Euregio Rhine-Waal the chance to apply for such funding. For this purpose several companies have already signed up, but both Dutch and German companies can seize their chance. The portal project the portal project aims for small and facilitate the step on the market of the neighbouring medium-sized enterprises in the border region. This project is an initiative of the Kamer van Koophandel Centraal Gelderland, the industry and lower Rhine in Duisburg, as well as the Handwerkskammer Dusseldorf Chamber of Commerce. The project is co-financed by the EU program INTERREG IIIA of the Euregio Rhine-Waal, the ministries of economy of the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia and the province of Gelderland.