Skills

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CBC Clusters - Enabling Development of Sustainable Cross-Border Clusters

The main challenge of the CBC Clusters project is to jointly address shortage of skilled labor in SMEs working in cross-border areas’ dominant industries: paper and mechanical engineering in Belišće and agriculture in Sombor. To address these challenges, the project will set up a Quadruple Helix...

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Expanding Education and Job Opportunities for Indigenous Youth

To help ensure the expanding plant-based food sector has access to skilled talent to help fill job vacancies, the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) and Whitecap Dakota First Nation, with a co-investment from Protein Industries Canada, are collaborating to create a new micro...

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Transformation Leadership

The Transformation Leadership program was launched by the Next Generation Manufacturing (NGen) supercluster. It provides management training to better steer change processes and the integration of digital technologies.

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Call for establishment and operation of Cooperative transformation and innovation consortia

The strategic goal of the call is to transform and increase the added value of entire industries or their parts through the support of close cooperation between actors in the field of research and innovation in Slovakia, in cooperation with excellent research and innovation partners from abroad. The...

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Call for clusters aimed at supporting networking of business entities

The aim of call is to support the activities of cluster organization aimed at fulfilling the tasks and goals arising from the document Strategy for the development of the cluster organization valid during the period of implementation of the main activity of the project, with an emphasis on...

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StartUP Portugal - National Strategy for Entrepreneurship

StartUP Portugal - National Strategy for Entrepreneurship was launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Economy with the aim of extending the current dynamics of the Portuguese entrepreneurial ecosystem, one of the most active at European level, to the entire country and to all sectors of activity...

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JOINING TECHNOLOGIES CLUSTER

The collaboration project "Joining Technologies cluster" between Morocco and Germany aims at providing knowledge for the innovation and competitiveness of manufacturers in Morocco. To boost the skill development, top companies in the industry and educational institutions from Morocco and Germany are...

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MIPYMESMX

Platform that offers business tools, valuable content, events and programs aimed at developing and strengthening the capabilities and skills, both business and digital, of entrepreneurs and SMEs.

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Competence Atlas Tyrol

With the Competence Atlas, all cluster members of Tyrolean clusters are shown on a Tyrolean map with a detailed description of the respective company activity, special competences and specialisations as well as the cluster affiliation. Cluster members thus not only receive additional visibility, but...

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Blue Economy Development Project

The project is part of Albania's Smart Specialisation process and funded by the World Bank. It aims to support capacities for sustainable management of maritime and coastal resources and "transform the general Albanian coastline, including territories, regions and related industries, into an engine...

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Training Program for activity sectors that are represented by Competitiveness Clusters

In 2021, the Portuguese Government created a pilot initiative aimed to training the assets of companies - entrepreneurs, managers and technicians - in pursuit of the strategies related to the training of human resources defined by five Clusters (i) Footwear and Fashion Cluster, (ii) Automotive...

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Cluster policy in Poland

Funding - support planned for the years 2021-2027: Development of the potential of growing clusters - support to cluster management organisations Support for the supra-regional growing clusters, aspiring to obtain the status of National Key Clusters - strengthening the professionalization of...