Green transition

ClimateSync is a national collaboration on energy and climate, funded by the European Commission, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth and the Swedish Energy Agency. The purpose of ClimateSync is to achieve synergies, to avoid overlaps, enhance learning, cooperation and coordination...

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...

The SME Initiative has the objective to help SMEs in improving their energy efficiency and target their energy saving potential while at the same time ensuring their competitiveness. SMEs are considered important actors for the energy transition as they are pioneering and driving development...

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...

AS-Fabrik Alliance is an initiative for city-level collaboration to build a skills ecosystem for current and future workers in the knowledge-intensive business services sector in Bilbao (Spain). It is developed by an alliance comprising local government actors, university research centres and two...

ACCIÓ + R4S (supported by BLabSpain) contains the development of 6 pilot projects in Catalan clusters focused on identifying collaborative project with which create shared value.

Competitive intelligence and foresight initiatives developed by Basque Clusters with support from SPRI/Basque Government: Basque clusters support programme has considered competitive intelligence and foresight as an essential input for cluster organisations strategy building and a groundbase for...

The Spanish Federation of Clusters is now developing a mapping, On it, clusters report about their professional capacities, resources in term of classrooms, skilling programs, alliances with educational institutions and other clusters, participation on public programs at European level (i.e. Erasmus...

Collective research projects are R&D activities based on the mapping of the innovation needs of the cluster members, especially SMEs in the given sector or technology segment. The results of the joint cluster projects have to be pre-competitive, so that they can be exploited by a larger group of...

The main goal of the activity is to support the development of innovation networks - technology platforms as tools for increasing the intensity of joint research, development and innovation activities between business entities and the research sector. The technology platforms are networks bringing...

The state-aid program "Strengthening Value Added Chains - Clusters – Networking” was launched in 17 May 2021 by the General Secretariat of Industry and the Special Agency for Managing Co-funding Projects in the Sectors of Manufacturing, Commerce and Consumers’ Protection of the Hellenic Ministry for...