After two days of meetings in Teknopark Istanbul, the STrategic Alliances boosting Railway SmEs (STARS) consortium is ready to start with the project activities together with the #SMEs!

During these days we have been working on technical and business assistance activities that the SMEs of the sector will receive for implementing Advanced Technologies.

In addition to the Hackathon events, solutions to traditional SMEs problems will be sought.

The outcomes from this intensive 2-day session were:

• Hack&Match event rules set up and validation
• Technical assistance methodology validation
• Approval of business support activities delivered by clusters and other organizations to STARS SMEs
• Determination of the most suitable communication, inspiration, and dissemination tools for the first period of activities.