As the leading union of Ukrainian clusters, the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance contributes to the nation's economic resilience and to the future Ukrainian recovery with its own programmes and projects. The UCA believes in the power of clusters to build resilient and innovative value chains and thus heavily promotes the idea of integrated value chains and ecosystems between Ukraine and the European Union, and are the first in Ukraine to support this strategy at the level of clusters. 

The new strategic paper of the UCA proposes 7 big initiatives with regard to industrial innovative ecosystems, common for the majority of clusters. They cover such areas and directions as:

1. New multilateral programme of support of cluster movement in Ukraine.
2. Benchmarking programme and aligning with the best EU practices for industrial policy-makers of Ukraine.
3. Integration of Ukrainian DIHs and Industry 4.0 expertise centres to the EU DIH networks. 
4. Creation of an Eastern European network of certified experts of Industry 4.0-5.0 (SIRI based).
5. Creation of a Digital transformation roadmap for key industries in Ukraine, based on the best EU practices.
6. Set-up of joint initiatives in Circular Economy.
7. Development of the Professionals4Ukraine network.

These initiatives are addressed to the Ukrainian government, the European Commission, European clusters and to other international organizations and donors.

Another document that the UCA prepared for the ‘Clusters meet regions’ forum in Kosice at the end of March 2023, presents the projects of their Common Resource Centres in Agri-Food, Medicine, Engineering and Machinery, Dual-use and Smart City. You can find projects of these initiatives here.

 Download the paper ‘Building strong industrial ecosystems’.