Friuli-Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region

An autonomous public territorial body, with a special statute, legal, executive and regulatory powers, and administrative functions, according to the principles set forth by the Constitution. The regional PA is in charge of programming, managing, supporting, coordinating and controlling the initiatives and services addressed to all citizens, enterprises, public bodies and local autonomies in the territory of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

It is formed by the Regional Council and by the Regional Committee, which represent the regional community, with executive and regulatory functions, respectively. The Regional Council drafts the Regional plans and financial statements, coordinates the activity of the regional offices and manages the region’s assets. The Regional Committee has regulatory functions and controls the Council’s activities; in addition, it holds any other function assigned to it by constitutional, statutory, state and regional laws, controlling the implementation of the same and assessing the effects of regional policies. With the budget plan, it approves the Stability Law, the law related to the budget plan, and the budget of forecast, the adjustment and general accounts, including the income statement and balance sheet of the Region; furthermore, it approves the Region’s consolidated financial statements, representing the PA’s economic, financial and asset result.

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Veneto Region

It is the Veneto Region PA body, which is in charge of managing, supporting, coordinating and controlling the initiatives and services addressed to all the citizens of the Veneto Region, the companies located within the territory, and public and local bodies. It is formed by the Regional Council and by the Regional Committee, which represent the regional community. The Regional Council drafts the Regional plans and financial statements, coordinates the activity of the regional offices and manages the region’s assets. The Regional Committee has regulatory functions and controls the Council’s activities; in addition, it holds any other function assigned to it by constitutional, statutory, state and regional laws, controlling the implementation of the same and assessing the effects of regional policies. It approves the budget of forecast, the adjustment and the final account of the Region.
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Autonomous Province of Trento

The Autonomous Province of Trento (PAT) is located in the North-Eastern part of Italy, in the heart of the Dolomites, a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site. With its 545,000 residents and its solid economic background, it is one of the territories with the highest welfare, innovation and quality of life, in Italy and in Europe.

The Special Autonomy Statute – valid since 1948 – allows the Autonomous Province of Trento to manage legal, administrative and financial competences, in fields such as education, healthcare, economy, transportation, university and tourism, and to administer the majority of the resources collected in the province. 9/10 of the tax revenue generated in the Region remains locally available, thanks to the Statute.

The financial and legislative autonomy has promoted long-term investments and strategic projects on crucial area for local development.

Efficiency, responsibility and reliability are the key cultural attributes of this territory.

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Finest S.p.a.

Finest S.p.a. is a finance firm established in 1991 through a State law (19/1991), in order to promote the development of international economic and cooperation activities in this territory; it specializes in the internationalization of North-Eastern Italian companies. It actively supports North-East companies, by acquiring minority interests in the share capital of foreign Joint Ventures promoted by it, and developing direct international loans to promote the companies. Finest complements its financial role with its 30-year experience of foreign markets, by providing its know-how and its network of international experts, and thus acting also as business generator.
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SPRINT F.V.G.

The SPRINT FVG – Sportello Unico per l’internazionalizzazione delle imprese della Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia – reunites the stakeholders of the Italian System for Internationalization into a single point of access to the national and regional institutions working in the corporate internationalization field. It supports the regional enterprises and economic system in using the financial, insurance, promotional and technical support instruments of the Italian and regional Systems necessary to create internationalization projects, and search for new development, export and investment opportunities.
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UNIONCAMERE Veneto

Unioncamere Veneto is the structure that combines the Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Handicraft and Agriculture of the Veneto Region.

Unioncamere Veneto supports, promotes and coordinates the relationship between the Veneto Region and the representation of local Bodies. Its actions are targeted at simplifying the relationship between companies and PA, by promoting initiatives, researches and studies that foster economic development and the internationalization of Regional companies.

The main functions of Unioncamere Veneto are aimed at:

  • Supporting and promoting the general interests of the economic system, by enhancing corporate internationalization and competitiveness initiatives;
  • Undertaking monitoring actions on the regional economy;
  • Promoting a streamedlined relationship between companies and PA;
  • Undertaking coordination activities in favour of the member Chambers of Commerce, with common policies and by identifying strategies and guidelines to develop shared objectives.
  • Favouring and incrementing the use of EU programs and funds, in partnership with corporate representation organizations;
  • Activating information, training, orientation, research and technological development, promotion, and management initiatives for services shared by Chambers of Commerce and other public and private institutions.

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Serbian Chamber of Commerce

The Serbian Chamber of Commerce in Italy is the field association for Serbian companies and entrepreneurs. Through its representation in Italy, it is a constant point of reference for Italian and Serbian entrepreneurs interested in establishing solid partnerships and launching fruitful enterprises on the Serbian and Italian market. The actions of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce in Italy include:

  • Offering international support
  • Connecting national and international companies
  • Providing consultancy services to spread commercial information
  • Providing contact info to local and foreign companies
  • Providing detailed analysis of the economic context for entrepreneurial initiatives
  • Providing legal support services

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Istrian Region Chamber of Handicrafts

The Croatian Chamber of Handicrafts – Istrian Region Chamber of Handicrafts is an independent professional entrepreneurial organization of traders and artisans, founded with the goal of promoting, coordinating and representing the common interests of trade and handicrafts. Its actions are aimed at:

  • Promoting trades and handicrafts.
  • Representing the interests of traders and artisans before state authorities, and providing training on economic policies.
  • Holding a registry of traders and artisans.
  • Supporting traders and artisans in the creation and management of a commercial/artisan enterprise.

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Chamber of Commerce of Venice-Rovigo

The Chamber of Commerce of Venice-Rovigo is a Public Body dealing with administrative and economic matters concerning companies. It promotes the development of companies in the two reference provinces, and it supports them on essential topics, such as:

  • Internationalization;
  • Double ecological-digital transition;
  • Training and labour orientation for young people;
  • Training of companies and economic categories;
    Preventing business crisis;
  • Developing infrastructures;
  • Economic operators’ transparency and reliability;
  • Governing the market as public trust guarantor;
  • Protecting consumers.

The Chamber of Commerce of Venice-Rovigo was founded on 20 July 2015 by the merging of two different Chambers (Chamber of Commerce of Venice and Chamber of Commerce of Rovigo), both with over 200 years of history behind them. In order to provide access to services by local companies, it has operating branches in Venice, Rovigo, Mestre, Marghera and San Donà.

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Venicepromex, Agency for the Veneto Chamber system’s internationalization

Venicepromex is the internationalization Agency born out of the aggregation and rationalization between three Chambers of Commerce: Padova, Treviso- Belluno, Venezia-Rovigo. It is an in-house Chamber system consortium, cooperating with the Veneto Region, field Associations, and local Bodies and Institutions. Venicepromex’ mission is supporting companies in their internationalization processes, through a team whose purpose is to create a single unit of the Veneto territories. The goal is promoting local enterprises in their venture abroad, as a synthesis of Veneto’s local excellence, by enhancing their specificity.

Our activities in the service of regional economy:

  • Providing a basic economic information and support in solving day-to-day issues linked to international operations;
  • Organizing meetings with selected foreign counter-parts;
  • Promoting digitalization of corporate internationalization processes
  • Holding specialized and personalized training events;
  • Creating and developing integrated local promotional events to promote Venetian excellences to foreign operators and spread the image of an international region worldwide;
  • Supporting the tourism sector – in partnership with local institutions – in planning and programming new organizational models to attract international tourists.

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Trentino sviluppo

Since 1986, Trentino Sviluppo Spa, a company controlled by the Autonomous Province of Trento, is a reference point on the territory for business location, attraction of companies and investments, development of strategic supply chains and clusters, corporate innovation, internationalization projects, and real-estate/financial “system” events. It is the “Single Window” supporting the companies interested in placing themselves in Trentino, by offering production spaces and properties, consultancy and follow-up services with a high-tech content. Its assets include about 2 million square meters of industrial sites and production areas. Through the subsidiary Trentino Marketing, it promotes the territory from a tourist standpoint – a crucial field for this Province, with over 5 million visitors every year. Through the Trentino Film Commission, it promotes and supports cinema and TV productions, by offering international visibility occasions to the local environmental, cultural and historical heritage. Trentino Sviluppo in figures:

  • 047 billion euro of assets managed
  • 25 million euro of production value
  • 183 employees
  • 2 Technological Poles (Polo Meccatronica, Progetto Manifattura) and 4 business incubators, for a total of 193 companies
  • 2 business projects analysed and assessed every day
  • 200 kg of cableway installations owned
  • 539 start-ups supported since 2006 to this day (2023), through the D2T Award, Trentino Start-up Valley follow-up programs and the FESR tenders

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