Digital transition

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...

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...

The Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) are collaborative networks that include specific digital competence centres, with the aim of disseminating and adopting advanced digital technologies by companies, especially SMEs, through the development, testing and experimentation of these same technologies...

The Programme aims to address the “behind the first row” manufacturing companies and challenge them to make the leap to digitalisation. The program integrates regional and national ecosystems, including clusters, and also European Digital Innovation Hubs.

Manufacturing Academy of Denmark MADE was launched in 2014 to strengthen the Danish manufacturing ecosystem through applied research, development and innovation. MADE unites manufacturing companies, universities and Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) in an innovative collaboration that...

In order to retain and strengthen the manufacturing industry, the Government of Flanders is investing heavily in the transition to industry 4.0. This integrated approach is developing along five lines of action. 1) The creation of a central platform enables better consultation between the government...

The programme offers tailor-made financial products for SMEs members of cluster organisations.

Innovation clusters in Saxony: In 2017 the regional government of Saxony launched a competition for the forming of Innovation Clusters with the aim of developing and implementing new value chains in Saxony. The competing consortia of existing clusters, companies or research organisations had to set...

In Italy, Clusters of solidarity economy (DES Reggio Emilia, DES Brescia, DES Brianza, DES Altro Tirreno, DES Varese, DES Torino, DES Livorno) have as their primary objective the creation of economic spaces that are attentive to the local area, to the common good and to whatever else is needed to...

In 2019, the Portuguese Government and the Competitiveness Clusters signed the Sectoral Pacts for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (Pactos Setoriais para a Competitividade e Internacionalização) to increase the competitiveness, innovation and internationalisation of Portuguese businesses...

The Action Plan was approved in April 2020 One of the measures under the Action Plan is the establishment of an integrated Digital Innovation Hubs network in Portugal. This network will be part of the European DIHs network and aims to provide a set of services, such as finance advice, skills and...

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...