Resilience

The Finnish Maritime Cluster is a project by the Finnish Shipowners’ Association, the Finnish Marine Industries, the Finnish Port Association, and the Finnish Port Operators Association. The FMC was a part of the OP Finland, European Maritime and Fisheries Fund in 2019 and is a development project...

The subsidies provided by Ministry of Industry and Trade are used to support the costs of introducing innovation into companies, and target in particular personnel and operating costs, contract research, patents, as well as machinery and equipment. The purpose of the programme is to support product...

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...

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...

The HİSER project was launched in 2022 and modelled after UR-GE, and aiming to support exports in the IT sector. It requires the membership in a cooperation organisation with at least 10 member companies through which activities have to be organised. Activities can be supported for up to 3 years and...

The UR-GE project, initiated in 2010, supports the clustering of exporting companies in the manufacturing sector. It requires at least 10 companies to come together under a Collaboration Organisation and provides a package of services including needs analysis, training and consultancy activities...

The Construction Innovation hub draws in a myriad of different actors ranging from organisations, industry entities, policy-makers, practitioners and academics for collaborative projects. This is mainly directed at fostering innovation with and in the construction sector, with a shift to...

The 'Ambassadors of Industry4Ukraine' programme was launched by the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA) to enlist Ukrainian professionals in EU and other countries to create linkages with Ukrainian cluster organisations. Further target groups are professionals of other nationalities working in relevant...

The Rapid Response Centers (RRC) are a programme launched by the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA). Its main beneficiaries are SMEs, critical industries, and the export sector. The RCCs have three main tasks. First and foremost, they should support the restoration of value chains, the substitution of...

The Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA) was formed in March 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion. Building on previous efforts of cluster organisation starting in 2019, but now reinforced under the shock of the Russian military onslaught, the primary objective of the UCA is to help Ukrainian...

The project, supported by the European Union and the Government of Germany, aimed at supporting and developing 2 EAM (Engineering – Automation – Machinery) clusters in the regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv, and lasted from August 2020 to November 2021. The project plan was based on the principles...

A business development centre (İŞGEM) is a business support model that will assist and compel new entrepreneurs to start a business, minimising the risks they possibly face at start up by offering affordable job sites, shared coaching, consultancy and administrative services.