FITT-NESS aims to reinforce and support the SMEs in the furniture sector to identify investment portfolios at an interregional scale, by building the capacity of innovation intermediaries (clusters) and SMEs of 2 less developed regional innovation ecosystems (North, in Portugal and Murcia, in Spain) and an EU outermost region, Sicily in innovative areas such as smart homes, age-friendly environments and green/eco-houses, while promoting their twin transition.