CNA Emilia Romagna CNA is the national and unitary system of general representation of the Italian enterprise and more specifically of Crafts and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and other related associations. In Emilia Romagna Region, Cna associates over 72.000 companies and numbers 226 territorial.

Regione Lombardia ( Department of Crafts and services ) is the Italian region with the highest number of SME enterprises.

Enterprise Ireland, is the government organization responsible for the development and growth of Irish enterprises in world markets. They work in partnership with Irish enterprises to help them start, grow, innovate and win export sales on global markets.

LEK Consulting, is an international strategy consulting firm that provides business strategy, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and shareholder value consulting services.

Clotex, is a representative organization of the SMME sector of the South African clothing and textile industries and is known for its active role as a facilitator in the growth of these industries, which includes primarily strengthening the sustainable competitive positioning of these SMME manufacturers.

Winning Moves is a business improvement consultancy, specialized in economic development of the enterprises.

IPK Fraunhofer is a German institute that undertakes applied research of direct utility to private and public enterprise and of wide benefit to society. By developing technological innovations and novel systems solutions for their customers, the Fraunhofer Institutes help to reinforce the competitive strength of the economy in their local region.

IAPMEI , the Institute for the Support of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises is a Portuguese government agency operating under the aegis of the Ministry of Economy. Its mission is to design and carry out policies that support and enable companies to expand.

ESBN is a European-wide network among Benchmarking Centres to foster benchmarking and promote best practice sharing, especially for SMEs.

Comparison International, highly valuable service provider that facilitates and enables enterprise’s needs for competitiveness and performance improvement.