Bioeconomy Cluster
BEC
Slovakia: West Slovakia
Katarina Blicklingova
Profile:
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Overview
About us
Bioeconomy Cluster creates an innovation ecosystem for the knowledge and technology transfer between research and agri-food industry (SMEs) including relevant policies through mutual cooperation. The mission of BEC is to ensure economically and environmentally efficient use and protection of natural resources by promoting innovation and cooperation between various actors in bioeconomy.
BEC was established in 2015 as a result of bottom-up networking pressure of agri-food and other bio-based stakeholders in Slovakia. It is actively engaged in European and national policies in agricultural innovation, in supporting and networking of SMEs, as well as in connecting the entities of knowledge triangle. The members of BEC are SMEs operating mainly in the agri-food sector, with horizontal focus on bioeconomy and bio-based solutions. Strategic members are represented by agricultural university, agri-food research centre and education.
BEC facilitates a good interconnection of different partners in the area of bioeconomy at national level and it is strong in agri-food and bioeconomy policy research, rural development research, cluster development and value chain development.
Established - 16 December 2015
Staff in the management team - 1-5
Cluster composition
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18Cluster Members
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14SME's
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1Large Companies
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2Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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1Other Ecosystem Actors
- BEC prepared and pilot tested its own grant scheme to support innovations in SMEs
- BEC elaborated a study on the contribution of bioeconomy to the CAP Strategic Plan of the Slovak Republic for the period 2021 - 2027,
- Experts of BEC contributed to the establishment of the Transfer Centre at the AgroBioTech Research Centre of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra,
- BEC contributed to the establishment of EIT Food Hub at the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra.
Legal form of the cluster organisation
Non-Profit
Languages spoken
Czech
English
French
Slovak
Management team
Katarina
Blicklingova
Cluster Manager
Daniel
Acs
Project Manager
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral industries
Professional, scientific and technical activities:M74 Other professional, scientific and technical activities
Sectoral Industries (NACE 4 digit)
Cross-sectoral industries
Environmental Industries
Industrial Alliances and Ecosystems
Ecosystems:Agri-food
Technology fields
A\: Human necessities:Agriculture; forestry; animal husbandry; hunting; trapping; fishing -
A\: Human necessities:Foods or foodstuffs; their treatment, not covered by other classes
S3 EU priority areas
Sustainable innovation:Bioeconomy -
Sustainable innovation:Sustainable agriculture
Key members
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| PROUNION a.s. |
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| Projektové služby, s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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| Pivovar Trogár, s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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| Slovenská poľnohospodárska univerzita v Nitre |
Slovakia
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| Národné poľnohospodárske a potravinárske centrum |
Slovakia
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| Agroinštitút Nitra, štátny podnik |
Slovakia
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| KONDOR EU, s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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| KEĽO A SYNOVIA s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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| KORO, s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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| FRUCTOP s.r.o. |
Slovakia
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Services
Support services provided
Access to finance: Public funding
Advisory Services
Facilitation of collaboration between members (within the cluster)
Support programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
H2020
CIP/COSME
INTERREG
Name & description
Project name
CO-FRESH - Co-creating sustainable and competitive fruits and vegetables´ value chains in Europe (https://co-fresh.eu/)
F2F Health Matters - International development of innovative European healthy food, and sustainable bio-based techno-functional ingredients and solutions, and bio-solutions in new global markets (COSME)
GoDanuBio - Participative ecosystems for fostering the revitalization of rural-urban cooperation through governing Danube circular bioeconomy (https://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/godanubio)
Danube S3 Cluster - Transnational Cluster Cooperation active on Agro-food, based on Smart Specialization Approach in Danube region (http://www.interreg-danube.eu/approved-projects/danube-s3-cluster)
CHAIN REACTIONS - Driving smart industrial growth through value chain innovation (https://www.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/CHAIN-REACTIONS.html)
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
Japan
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
United Arab Emirates
Canada
Viet Nam
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Austria
Czech Republic
Germany
Hungary
Romania
Transnational support activites
Support to collaborative activities/etc.
International support activites
Support to collaborative activities/etc.Further information
Bioeconomy Cluster is engaged in the implementation of projects with the partners mainly from the countries of Danube Region using various funding schemes. Moreover, BEC promotes the members in various events, disseminate the information about funding opportunities, conferences and support them in internationalization activities.
Connection to cluster organisation(s)
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| HEMP CLUSTER |
Slovakia
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Membership in cluster networks, meta clusters and national associations of clusters
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| Union of Slovak Clusters |
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| Bioeconomy Cluster |
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| National Platform AgroBioFood Nitra |
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