Network action plan

The open DOORS project established the "MedShare Network", aiming to design information, advise and services to be offered from local to transnational level engaging different actors (companies, decision makers, other users), starting from the communities of partners involved in the project, and extending them in a "MedShare Network". The action plan is a living tool and defines a roadmap for including actions that the "MedShare Network" with its members will carry out for designing information, advise and services to be offered after the end of the project, based on the study and the analyses done within the project (Needs analysis, SWOT analyses, Benchmarking and comparative analyses) and using the database of stakeholders and laws, engaging organisations and people who will participate in future projects, improving the social dimension of the collaborative and sharing economy. Therefore, this action plan includes searching for new opportunities that will enable to test the theoretical study already carried out in Open DOORS. These opportunities are related to submit new project proposals answering to specific calls, enlarging the MedShare network. Indeed, this plan is at the basis of a set of innovative local, national and transnational services to be tested in subsequent activities, that can be specific project initiatives (e.g. possible M2 med projects, or H2020 initiatives or other calls) addressed to creative enterprises, organisations acting for social innovation, scientific institutions, public institutions and civil society in the different territories of the MED area, in order to promote and develop the SE as a pillar for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, by stimulating a new individual and collective awareness on the opportunities that offers. The action plan aims to support the sustainability of the Open DOORS project and its tools (the network the forum, the databases of platforms, stakeholders and documents). The deliverable D 3.4.1, titled Intervention Strategy of "MedShare network" in the Mediterranean Region underlines that "What has changed when comparing sharing economy with the existing economy as we have known it for years, is not only the concept of sharing economy but the way it manifests itself with the purpose to deliver services, produce changes of culture, economy, technology and infrastructure. This is in the revolutionary nature of the sharing economy itself. The message we want to convey is that the "MedShare Network" provides transnational services for developing the sharing economy that is tailor-made for the territorial needs. Furthermore, it is open for new transnational providers of services and will establish a network of actors (companies, decision makers, and other users), starting from the communities of partners involved in the project, and extending them in a "MedShare Network". In this perspective, three main issues characterise the action plan: .....