Trust is at the core of industrial and economic development: « It is simply too easily forgotten that when it comes to economic activities, one of the greatest virtues of a country or community can have is a culture of tolerance. When tolerance is the norm, everyone flourishes because tolerance breeds trust, and trust is the foundation of innovation and entrepreneurship. Increase the level of trust in any group, company, or society, and only good things happen.” (Thomas L Friedman, The World is Flat)

The COAST faciliatator’s community objective is to create trust environment between all the actors, big main companies which are completely internationalized, local SMEs sub-contractors which have to become international; the other local institutions. In this context, the facilitator community has to be a real trust platform. Through this function, the facilitator community can help the clusters in bringing them right contacts in right organisation and in establishing trust relationships. This is the trust building function

In this context, the trust relationships established through CoastSharing platform will open the path to better synergies between heterogeneous organisations (industrial associations, SMEs, big companies, Universities, Technological Centres, Public Administration, Political Institutions, and so on…), and in particular, between private and public sectors across the Atlantic Area. This is a key observation relatively to the requirements for all actors of being more an more competitive in a globalized world. Indeed, around a specific industry which can be considered as one of the essential industrial spin of European Union, CoastSharing platform could contribute to a better “task sharing” between all these organisations and demonstrate the efficiency of public-private cooperation.