SMARD – European Support Framework on Networked Media R&D for SMEs, is a support action project, funded by the FP7 Theme ICT, within the Networked Media Systems cluster. Four partners, SFRG-Salzburg Research (Austria), iMinds (Flanders, Belgium), CSP-Innovazione nelle ICT(Piemonte, Italy), led by MFG Baden-Württemberg – Innovation Agency for ICT and Media(Germany), gathered into a consortium to help  small and medium sized enterprises in the digital media and internet sector to implement and make use of research and development activities in the networked media field. SMARD aims to facilitate access to research findings and support technology commercialisation, to increase SMEs participation in EU-funded research programmes, to establish goal-oriented processes and services for technology transfer. Visit project website http://www.smard-project.eufor further information.