AURORA
AURORA

Summary and objectives

The overall objective of AURORA is to strengthen cluster management excellence and facilitate exchanges and strategic partnering between the 5 cluster partners, together with their respective ecosystems and main cities at regional level. The ultimate objective is to build a strong European Strategic Cluster Partnership on Food Quality strongly anchored in the Regions and widely open on Europe and beyond, at the benefit of the European SMEs. Reaching cluster excellence through this common strategy will be the necessary step towards a world-class union. As specific objectives, AURORA will more specifically

• Set-up a strategic framework of innovation, based on observation of respective territories and competencies, collaboration and exchange including stakeholder committee and policy makers and other EU communities around the Food Quality, Safety and Authenticity thematic, first it will serve the project and by the end the long-term strategy as a partnership

• Enhance the cluster management skills and reach excellence level through Peer2Peer and collective training on specific identified weaknesses (business model, innovation strategy, members’ services...) and services. Application to and possibly obtention of the new European Cluster Excellence Label will constitute a full objective of each partners,

• Set up of portfolio of new services to support cluster members, especially SME members by first benchmarking cross partnership and cross sectorial, consulting local, regional and EU stakeholders to secure relevance and foster impact, encourage replicability and include activities to strengthen interregional collaboration and partnership development across EU value chains while mobilising partners to contribute to upskilling and reskilling actions across industrial ecosystems in the light of the green and digital transitions;

• Enhance collaborations, twinning’s, threw networking and learning activities. activities by enhancing consultation on services cross regionally and implementation of a common cocreated service, by organising together cross-regional workshops, roadshows, and matrix to match our stakeholders

• Implement the “ClusterXchange” mobility scheme for the benefit of SMEs, Research and education organisation, Regions or Cities officers and partner clusters by support of joint activities and matrix to match our stakeholders relying on scheme and well-trained partners to support participants 

• Prepare a long-term partnership strategy on Food Quality and Safety, by aligning cluster individual strategies and partnership strategy, and EC meetings.