In the short term the regional development institutions participating in the pilot actions and other involved institutions / SMEs can be seen as direct beneficiaries, since they are testing and evaluating the innovative approach of the project and are directly involved in the process of generating and fostering future interregional co-operations.

By working on the status quo survey, a large number of regional institutions and SMEs (approx. 1.000) will be involved in the phases of data collection, will receive recent information throughout the dissemination activities and can benefit from the findings published in the manual. In this sense all these organisations benefit from the project in the short, medium and longer term.

In the longer term, throughout follow up activities and jointly initiated learning processes the results shall also be adapted for other regions and be disseminated, transferred and applied also in other regions.