Description
The European Cluster Collaboration Platform, in collaboration with the French Association of Pôles de Compétitivité (AFPC), organised the latest edition of the Cluster Collaboration Labs in Strasbourg, France, on 25-26 September 2024. The C2Lab is a workshop-style event where you will have the opportunity to meet new partners, discuss your project ideas, and initiate collaboration – for example to apply together for a European call. Participants could either join with a concrete project proposal or offer their expertise and knowledge by joining others.
📑Read more info on the Input Paper
📑 Download the slide deck from the event
Who could attend?
The C2Lab is for companies, cluster organisations, research organisations, actors from the civil society, and other interested entities who want to join European project consortia. It is open to participants from the European Union and the SMP/COSME countries.
What were the topics of the C2Lab?
As a starting point for the joint project creation, we have defined the following challenges:
- Meta clustering: Start the formation of cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary, and trans-European meta clusters to build resilience and accelerate the transition to green and digital economy
- Interregional investments: Collaboration to improve the capacity of public authorities and innovation intermediaries to support the industry in identifying investment opportunities at an interregional scale as well as to develop business cases for interregional innovation projects
- Mobility: Support the shift to towards low- and zero-emission means of mobility and develop recommendations to incentivise the uptake of sustainable mobility choices
- Health: Develop an EU-wide network to enhance pandemic preparedness by better connecting existing infrastructures, innovation agendas, scientific evidence and policymaking mechanisms and agreed data standards
- Construction: Support the development of innovative workflows for deep renovation of buildings to meet long-term climate and energy targets as well as help the transition to circularity in construction
- Your own project idea: You bring and present my own project
Each participant chose one of these challenges to work on with their fellow peers during the C2Lab.
How does the C2Lab work?
The C2Lab is a co-creation space and counts on your active participation. The aim is to mature project ideas for the indicated challenges in discussions with the other participants and build a proposal together. The work initiated at the C2Lab should be further implemented after the lab itself. For the work at the lab, we will provide you with a project canvas and facilitators to help and guide the process.
- Register, choose a challenge, and set up your profile
When registering for the event on the B2Match platform, participants chose a challenge which they wanted to work on. Alternatively, they could present their own project idea and pitch it to the other participants.
- Share your offers in the marketplace
Participants could indicate what kind of what ideas and capabilities they can offer for new projects and what kind of projects they are looking for. These can be published in the marketplace where all participants could browse what the others bring to the table.
- Request meetings (“Long Term Matchmaking”)
Attendees could invite other participants to preparatory meetings to speak about collaboration opportunities, further explored at the C2Lab. These meetings took place online on the B2Match platform between registration and the in-person workshop.
- Join the online pitching session
At the beginning of September, an online pitching session was held where to participants could introduce themselves personally to the other participants. This is an additional opportunity to meet prospective project partners.
- In-person C2Lab
Participants met in Strasbourg on 25-26 September 2024. Based on challenge selection, participants joined the respective working group to initiate their project ideas with peers. Each working group was be guided by a facilitator. Within the groups, a participants developed their project proposals by discussing the main elements of every project:
- Common goals
- Objectives and scope of the project
- Target groups
- Activities, deliverables and milestones
- Risks and assumptions
The goal was to have a project roadmap at the end of the C2Lab that the teams could further implement and bring to a public call or alternative funding opportunities. At the end of the discussions, next steps for collaboration were defined.
Read out more about how the event went here!
Agenda
📑 Check out the agenda.
Location
CIARUS
3 Rue Finkmatt
67000 Strasbourg, France
Info Session
The ECCP team hosted an info session on 11 July 2024 to explain the event format and give details about the agenda and the opportunities for the participants. Watch the recording:
C2Lab Discussion Group
We invite you to join the C2Lab discussion group on LinkedIn to stay up to date with the latest info on the C2Lab, get in touch with a larger group of people looking for collaboration, and discuss topics close to your heart.