Northern Periphery and
Arctic Region
Programme
Project “TARGET”
Ideation to Wealth
Creation
• South West College is leading a project under the Northern
Periphery and Arctic programme for the development and
piloting of a diagnostic app leading to a suite of tools to
assist SMEs in the northern regions improve
competitiveness in manufacturing
• This project will integrate the business chain through the
medium of the digital data generated at each stage, with
design data being used to inform and plan manufacturing,
and to support marketing and business management;
manufacturing data being used to manage processes and as
a management information tool, and marketing data being
fed back to inform the design and manufacturing process.
The Project Partners
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Narvik University College
Centria University of Applied Sciences
Luleå University of Technology
University of Iceland
Cavan/Sligo LEO
South West College
Project Elements
Applications and implementation of new technologies in
developing and piloting:
• Diagnostic tool for identifying the best “Tool” for a
firms needs
• Creativity, design and product development tools
• Production process improvement tools
• Supply chain management tools
• Business model innovation tools
• Piloting the diagnostic tool
Partner Skills
• ideas generation, design, (Lulea University, Sweden )
• advanced digital manufacturing, (CAM, 3D scanning and reverse
engineering, remote and mobile monitoring and control of
processes, (Centria University, Finland),
• environmental management of manufacturing, robotics,
FEA/FEM, automation, (Narvik University, Norway)
• 3D motion capture, data visualisation and analysis, 3D animation
of production processes, (South West College, Northern Ireland)
• e Commerce, stimulation of entrepreneurship through digital
fabrication (University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Cavan ITC, RoI)
• communications (Cavan ITC).
Thus the model will draw from expertise and facilities across the
Northern region to identify the most effective tools to direct SMEs
towards. A partner in one country may assist a firm in another, if
most appropriate.
Delivery and
Dissemination
• Firms in each region will be surveyed and invited to apply
to take part in the project – they will receive assistance in
the form of knowledge transfer, to a predetermined value,
and the results of the interventions will form part of the
evaluation and dissemination of the project to all interested
firms in the region.
• Any firm applying for participation will be required to
agree to this, and to sign a declaration to the effect that the
nominal financial value of the aid they receive will not
breach De Minimus State Aid regulations.
• Results and Tools will be made available on an open source
basis through a managed dissemination process.