Success stories

Mabbett is an environmental consultancy that identifies, designs and implements solutions for environmental, health and safety issues. Over the past months, they have collaborated with the ECCP on two circular economy cluster projects through the ECCP’s Towards Green Transition Facility. Geraldine Boylan, Director of Environment at Mabbett, and Alexandre Fintoni, Project Manager and Environmental...

The Wood Industry Cluster of Slovenia is a non-profit organisation founded in 1999 by Slovenian woodworking companies and institutions. It now comprises one-third of employees in the Slovenian wood sector and the country’s most important research institution. The cluster works on various projects to support the needs of their member companies. Erika Valentinčič explains that through the Towards...

INDESCAT (the Catalan sports cluster) is a cluster that brings together companies and organisations from the Catalan sport industry to develop actions to improve their competitiveness and environmental sustainability. Currently, INDESCAT represents more than 100 businesses and has a turnover of almost €2.4 million. INDESCAT was selected as one of 25 clusters to receive help from the ECCP’s Towards...

Primarily based in the Veneto Region in Italy, LUCE IN VENETO is a cluster that consists of over 50 SMEs in the smart lighting sector. It connects companies and their specific expertise to generate synergies and new business opportunities. Following its selection by the European Commission and the ECCP to receive support from the Towards Green Transition Facility, LUCE IN VENETO is focussing on...

Cluster IDiA - Asociación Investigación, Desarrollo e Innovación en Aragón - is one of 25 clusters that was selected to receive training under the Towards Green Transition Facility. Discussing the facility, Project Manager Nina Hoppmann explains that the cluster has an ecosystem of 70,000 employees of which 16,000 are ICT professionals. The cluster is very active in Spain and Europe. To help their...

Cluster Energy Technology Berlin-Brandenburg’s key goal is to initiate and facilitate joint research and innovation projects in the Berlin region. Cluster Energy Technology was selected in May as one of 25 clusters to receive support from the Towards Green Transition Facility. Thanks to the facility, the cluster has already successfully implemented 2 activities. Speaking of the activities the...

Unfair rules or decisions and discriminatory red tape can make it hard for companies in the European Union (EU) to do business in another EU country. Such issues are a particular problem for small and medium sized enterprises, which may not have the regulatory knowledge and experience or the resources to seek legal advice and representation in these circumstances. SOLVIT is a European Commission...