4 projects
All four KAM2CentralPoland projects (2015-2021) focused on enhancing innovation management capacity of SMEs through Key Account Manager methodology.
Organization
WOLNA PRZEDSIEBIORCZOSC ODDZIAL TERENOWY W GDANDK
Polish business support NGO coaching SMEs on innovation management and EU funding access through the Enterprise Europe Network.
NGO / AssociationsocietyPLNo active H2020 projectsThin data (2/5)
H2020 projects
4
As coordinator
0
Total EC funding
€61K
Unique partners
5
What they do
Their core work
Free Entrepreneurship Gdansk is a Polish business support association that helps SMEs improve their innovation management capabilities. Operating as a regional node within the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), they deploy Key Account Managers who work directly with small and medium enterprises to assess innovation capacity, identify growth barriers, and connect companies with EU funding and technology transfer opportunities. Their core work is hands-on SME coaching — not research, but bridging the gap between EU innovation programs and Polish businesses that need them.
Core expertise
What they specialise in
2 projects
KAM2CentralPoland-3 and KAM2CentralPoland-4 explicitly reference EEN, indicating deeper integration with the network from 2019 onward.
EIC and EU funding navigation for SMEsemerging
1 project
KAM2CentralPoland-4 references EIC Pilot, suggesting expansion into helping SMEs access European Innovation Council instruments.
Evolution & trajectory
How they've shifted over time
Early focus
SME innovation capacity building
Recent focus
EU funding access brokering
Their trajectory shows a steady deepening rather than a pivot. Early projects (2015-2018) focused on building basic innovation capacity assessment for SMEs in Central Poland — the keywords center on 'innovation capacity management' and the KAM methodology itself. From 2019 onward, the focus shifted to connecting SMEs with specific EU instruments: Enterprise Europe Network appears as a keyword, and EIC Pilot enters the picture by 2020. They evolved from teaching SMEs what innovation management is, to actively brokering their access to European funding channels.
Moving toward becoming a more active intermediary connecting Polish SMEs with specific EU innovation instruments like EIC, suggesting future projects may focus on technology transfer facilitation.
Collaboration profile
How they like to work
Role: active_partnerReach: regional1 countries collaborated
They are exclusively a participant — never a coordinator — working in what appears to be the same or similar consortium across all four sequential KAM projects. With only 5 unique partners all within a single country, this is a tight, loyal partnership rather than a broad network. Working with them means joining a well-established Polish consortium where roles and relationships are already defined; they contribute regional SME access and on-the-ground coaching capacity.
Very compact network: 5 consortium partners operating exclusively within Poland. This reflects their role as a regional EEN node — their value is deep local SME access in the Gdansk/Pomerania region, not pan-European reach.
Why partner with them
What sets them apart
Their differentiator is sustained, ground-level experience with Polish SMEs over six years through the KAM methodology — they know which companies need what and have built trust in the Gdansk business community. For anyone needing a reliable partner to reach SMEs in northern Poland, particularly for innovation uptake or technology adoption activities, this organization has a proven track record of exactly that kind of engagement. They are not a research organization; their value is access and facilitation.
Notable projects
Highlights from their portfolio
- KAM2CentralPoland-4Their largest funded project (EUR 22,986) and most mature iteration, incorporating EIC Pilot and EEN dimensions beyond basic innovation coaching.
- KAM2CentralPolandThe original 2015 project that established the KAM methodology template repeated successfully three more times — rare consistency in H2020.
Cross-sector capabilities
SME business support and coachingEnergy sector SME outreachTechnology transfer facilitationRegional innovation ecosystem development
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