UNIONE REGIONALE DELLE CAMERE DI COMMERCIO INDUSTRIA ARTIGIANATO E AGRICOLTURA DELLA BASILICATA ASSOCIAZIONE SENZA FINI DI LUCRO

Their core work

UnionBasilicata is the regional union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Crafts and Agriculture for the Basilicata region in Southern Italy. As a non-profit association, it supports local SMEs across manufacturing, crafts, and agriculture with innovation services, training, and access to European networks. Its role in EU projects has been to channel innovation management methodologies and Enterprise Europe Network-style support directly to small companies in a structurally lagging region of the Mediterranean.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Across 2015-2019 the organization worked almost exclusively on one continuous line of activity: the INCAME / INCAME-2 series, which carried innovation management support to SMEs in Southern Italy. The keyword profile barely shifts — "innovation management" and "enhancing SMEs capacities in Southern Italy" dominate both halves — so this is a case of deepening rather than pivoting. By 2019 the same themes remain, indicating a stable regional service role rather than a move into new scientific or technological domains.

Continued to reinforce its role as a regional delivery partner for SME innovation services in Basilicata rather than branching into new technology sectors.

How they like to work

UnionBasilicata always joins as a participant, never as coordinator, and operates inside a single stable consortium (13 partners in 1 country) that was renewed across successive INCAME-2 phases. This signals a loyal, long-term partnership style: they are the trusted local Basilicata node in an Italian-led network, not a hub assembling new consortia. Expect reliability within an existing frame rather than ambitious new consortium-building.

They collaborated with 13 partners, all within a single country (Italy), indicating a purely domestic Italian consortium focused on the Mezzogiorno. There is no evidence of cross-border collaboration in H2020.

What sets them apart

UnionBasilicata is one of the few organisations that can reach SMEs in Basilicata — one of Europe's less-developed regions — through the official Chamber of Commerce system. Partners who need ground-level access to small industrial, craft, and agri-food businesses in Southern Italy gain a trusted institutional channel that independent consultancies or universities cannot replicate. It is a distribution partner for innovation services, not a source of research or technology itself.

Highlights from their portfolio

• INCAME-2
  Their anchor project, delivering innovation management services directly to SMEs in Basilicata and the wider Mezzogiorno under the H2020 SME pillar.
• INCAME_2 (2017-2018)
  Continuation of the same support line, showing sustained commitment to SME capacity building rather than one-off participation.
• INCAME_2 (2019)
  Third consecutive INCAME-2 cycle — evidence that the Italian consortium viewed UnionBasilicata as a reliable regional delivery partner.