Success stories

Ricardo Fortuoso, president of AEICE, and Beatriz Alonso, manager of the Duero Douro- Heritage for Development initiative, collected the award for the Best Local Development Initiative of Castile and León in its modality of economic development. It was granted by the Association of Local Development Professionals of Castilla y León (ADELCYL), that highlighted the quality of the Duero Douro 2015...

According to a Study by the European Investment Bank (EIB), Technology clusters such as Silicon Saxony, Minalogic or DSP Valley are key supporting players for the photonics and semiconductor sectors, which are essential Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) and represent important building blocks of the next digital revolution. The study study provides an insightful view of the key issues and...

An interview with Bianca Dragomir, cluster manager of AVAESEN and European Cluster Manager of the Year 2016-2018. ECCP: Bianca, you are the cluster manager of AVAESEN and also elected as the European Cluster Manager of the Year 2016-2018. I remember how you succeeded to convince a crowded audience of several hundred people that AVAESEN reinvented the cluster concept. What do you mean by that? B.D...

iTech Transilvania Cluster by ARIES T is very proud to announce officially becaming a Living Lab, under the name of Transilvania Living Lab. The cluster's efforts to create an innovative ecosystem that places the needs of the citizens in the core of the decision-making processes, using as main tools digitalisation and innovation through collaborative and design thinking processes, were recognized...

The CEEC awarded prizes to the best projects developed by start-ups in the efficient energy sector in Catalonia. The cluster honoured the Fuel Poverty Group for its work in the fight against energy poverty. Miriam Santamaría, geographer and journalist, has been awarded the 2018 Communication Prize. Barcelona, 21st June 2018 – The Cosmocaixa Auditorium hosted the sixth edition of the Efficiency...

The European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) and the Eurochile Business Foundation, on Friday 18th of May 2018 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), establishing a formal cooperation initiative between EARSC, responsible for promoting the use of Earth Observation (EO) technology and supporting companies in Europe which offer EO-related products and services, and Eurochile...

In direct dialogue with cluster organizations, ECCP interviewed Anne Jouvenceau, Deputy Director of the French Genopole cluster. Why Genopole? We learned about their efforts and focus to supporting entrepreneurship and want to share their future-oriented - and very successful! - approach with our cluster community L.S./ECCP: Anne, please introduce to us in a few sentences the Genopole cluster...

INNO-DROP partner from the Czech Republic, Nanoprogress, has recently been awarded with the Gold Label of Cluster Excellence,awareded within the framework of the European Cluster Excellence Initiative (ECEI). The audit was conducted in December 2017, after two years of preparation. This certification supports Nanoprogress positioning among the "group of excellence" in the European cluster...

March, 6th 2018 On the occasion of the coming of Quebec Prime Minister Philippe Couillard and of the Secretary of State to the Ministry of Economy and Finance Delphine Gény-Stephann to Toulouse, an agreement has been signed on March, 6th 2018, by the competitiveness cluster Aerospace Valley (aeronautics, space, embedded systems) and the Quebec aerospace group Aéro Montréal. This agreement aims at...

Proposing the candidates for AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS who contributed the most to the development of entrepreneurship in the Central and South-Eastern Europe was carried out in six categories during the period from August 2017 to March 2018. In the past 6 months, 169 proponents submitted names of 491 candidates from 10 countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Croatia, Italy...