COSMETIC VALLEY (COSMETIC VALLEY)
France: Centre-Val de Loire
Ségolène LELOUTRE
Overview
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About us
The main activities of Cosmetic Valley for the development and the support of its members are:
- Connecting know-how: Cosmetic Valley is committed to supporting SMEs in their development and to promoting the profile of their expertise with business accelerator (meetings and business diner, business opportunities …), promoting French expertise and the Made in France (“La Pivoine” Magazine, hard-copy and online directory), information meetings and working group…
- Dynamizing research and innovation: to kick-start projects, find partners or boost innovativeness with dedicated platforms, as the Beauty Hub (Startup accelerator program). Since 2006, around 400 collaborative research programs have emerged within Cosmetic Valley members.
- Organizing congresses to develop expertise: congresses contribute to the training of personnel and the development of innovative project. These congresses are organized in partnership with local authorities, on topics from the science to marketing.
- International dynamic: thanks to its international network, Cosmetic Valley has created in 2016, the international metacluster the Global Cosmetics Cluster which gather 25 members from 15 countries. GCC members want to commit into international cooperation and set up special partnerships for business and innovation. Moreover, Cosmetic Valley helps to promote French businesses internationally with the organization of French pavilion at the biggest professional trade fairs.
- Cosmetic 360: every year in October, Cosmetic Valley organises the global showcase for innovation in the fragrance and cosmetics industry. This major event joins together international decision makers from the entire industry (raw materials, formulation, packaging, retail, test, equipment, etc.).
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
- Competence development
- Mentoring
Cluster composition
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565Cluster Members
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460SME's
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55Large Companies
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25Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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25Other Ecosystem Actors
Management team
Masson
Christophe
Cluster Manager
Leloutre
Ségolène
Internationalisation Responsible
Goubert
Amandine
Project Manager
Hegon
Justine
Project Manager
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Administrative and support service activities:N82 Office administrative, office support and other business support activities
Technology fields
A\: Human necessities:Medical or veterinary science; hygiene
S3 EU priority areas
Cross-sectoral industries
Advanced Packaging
Services
Support services provided
Access to finance: Public funding
Facilitation of collaboration between members (within the cluster)
Facilitation of external collaboration (beyond cluster) such as matchmaking
Support of Research, Development and Innovation
Development of human resources, such as staff mobility, access to training
Support services for upskilling and reskilling of companies workforce
Competence development -
Mentoring
Support programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
FP7
H2020
CIP/COSME
INTERREG
Name & description
Project name
Cosmetic4Wellbeing - ESCP 4i: C4W - "A driver to international weelbeing industry"
PeReRe: Peptide Research Network of Excellence (Interreg)
FreeFOAM : Novel PUR foaming manufacturing process with reduced isocyanate content (FP7)
AgriwasteValue (Interreg NWE)
Ves4US (FET-Open Call of the Horizon2020)
Magninficient (BBI Project) - Advisory Board
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
United Arab Emirates
Republic of Korea (South Korea)
United States
Mexico
India
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Italy
Portugal
Romania
Spain
Turkey
Transnational support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsFurther information
Development of Business opportunities between Cosmetic Valley and international clusters
- Qualified BtoB meetings
- Participation to congresses and fairs
Development of R&D collaborative programs
- Invited research scientists
- “The Cosmetic Victories” Competition www.thecosmeticvictories.com
Collaboration on COSMETOPEA
- Promote and support the memory preservation of traditional knowledge and know-how of cosmetics
- Promote and support the preservation of the biodiversity and the protection of plants involved in the cosmetopea
- Promote and support the economic development of the countries carrying this memory, source of innovation
- Promote and support the creation of innovation of these countries with regards to raw materials and active ingredients for the cosmetics industry
Coordinator of the Cosmetic Cluster International Network (CCIN), founded at the initiative of Cosmetic Valley in 2016, with the support of France Clusters.
The first international network of clusters dedicated to innovation in cosmetics www.cosmeticsclusters.com • The CCIN is wishing to share good practices in cosmetics, and work on common projects : • joint operations to back the international commercial actions of our member businesses; • partnerships to innovate together with the financial backing of international funding; • Initiatives increasing the visibility of and promoting general policies ever more supportive of innovative and responsible cosmetics industry…
Partnership convention with:
The Japan Cosmetic Center (Japan), The Beauty Cluster Barcelona (Spain), Colombian clusters: BioIntropic and Andi, Québec International (Canada), Polo de la Cosmesi (Italy), BioEconomy Corporation (Malaysia), Center of Expertise for Plants Compounds (Netherlands), Guandong Light Association (China), Oriental Beauty Valley (China), Taiwan Beauty Valley (taiwan), TCELS (Thailand), etc.
Link with:
Jeju in South Korea
Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan
Thailand center of excellence for life sciences
Cosmetic Newspaper, Cosmetic Observer, Guangdong Light Industry Association in China…
Etc…
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