i-LOG

The Activities

The project’s structure is based on six sets of activities:

three functionally related sets of activities, which define the project’s technical and content structure;
three horizontal/parallel sets of activities which ensure the best project’s implementation and its embeddedness in CADSES space.

The first set of activities aims at assessing, thanks to a common transnational analytical methodology, the transport and logistics state of art and perspectives within each local SMEs systems participating to the project. Local SMEs systems will be analysed in terms of economic and productive ripeness, development of transport infrastructures and ICT diffusion level. For this purpose the definition of common analysis indicators will allow the aggregation of local SMEs systems in comparable and homogenous groups (clusters) over a transport and socio-economic point of view.
The second set of activities aims at defining a “Regional logistic service pattern”. The logistic service patterns represent a planning instrument at transnational project level. It originates form the collection and comparison of the local states of the art and perspectives and it proposes a grid of leverages and services for promoting intermodal transportation, sustaining SMEs’ competitiveness and reducing transport environ-mental impact. Leverages will concern both goods transport and ICT/information flows.
The clusters of local SMEs systems and the related traits will be matched to a set of logistic and transport leverages and services in order to define the actions that may be implemented on local level. The output will be the identification of tailored solutions and actions for each Local SMEs system.
The third set of activities will operatively implement the proposed solutions in order to prove their efficiency and effectiveness and validate the proposed intervention model (benefits measurement and proof). The pilot project phase will involve logistic service providers, transport companies and production SMEs, and it will promote the demand and supply matching and the involvement of spatial planning authorities. The fourth set of activities will be implemented on local, national and transnational levels and it aims at diffusing a logistic culture within SMEs and within the transnational partnership. I-Log seminars, meetings and workshops will allow:

spatial planning institution getting in touch with private actors and fostering a public-private co-development of innovative services;
the creation of a “cooperation attitude” among SMEs which is a facilitator to the creation of integrated local logistic models;
the concrete utilization of the project’s proposed services by SMEs and the development of practical logistic skills within SMEs.

The fifth set of activities will promote the dissemination of results within the project’s transnational partnership, in order to make the project further rooted within CADSES, and the project’s marketing in EU to all interested actors. Privileged dissemination activities will be: meetings organisation and coordination, brochures and meeting papers creation, project’s web page set up and management, the creation of a “virtual logistic observatory”. The project’s results will also be spread outside the project’s network thanks to the creation of a logistic guide concerning the I-Log model and experience.
The sixth set of activities will ensure the reliable and consistent project’s implementation, merging the bottom-up project approach with the need to have a clear project’s responsibility. Transnational management activities will ensure:

the link between partners-local working groups and the interface among project’s bodies;
the continuous comparison of local experiences and the creation of a long term cooperation among partners;
a “democracy decision making process” within the project;
the creation of the final project’s framework for results evaluation; the reliable financial management of the project.