Plant InterCluster Network
PIC
France: Loire Region
Nicolas FEGEANT
Nicolas FEGEANT
Profile:
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Overview
Type of Network
Sectorial
Legal form of the cluster network
No Legal Form
Date of establishment
01 September 2009
Languages spoken
Danish - Dutch - English - French - Italian - Polish - Portuguese - Romanian - Spanish
Resource efficiency support services
Awareness raising
Resource efficiency expertise
Carbon / climate
Digitalization expertise
Scouting digital services/innovations
About us
Our focus:
Nowadays, agriculture is facing the global challenge to feed the world. Climate changes, reduction of pesticides, sustainable use of resources are strongly impacting our sector and particularly plant industry. To overpass these barriers, several plant clusters decided to join their effort and facilitate the linkage between innovative projects.
The Plant InterCluster has almost 10 years and built a strong international network with clusters around those sectors: cider, cereals, fruit and vegetables, ornamental horticulture, medicinal plants, mushrooms, seeds and winegrowing.This international and sectorial network works thanks to a common vision and motivation from its stakeholders.After 10 years of existence, back in 2018, the PIC founders decided to open up the steering committee to 5 others European clusters. In December 2020, the 10 european clusters signed a common MoU. This commitment ensures a sustainable action between clusters with clear objectives and roadmap.
Our objectives are:
- Exchanges of best practices in innovation governance,
- Support of technological cooperation and partnerships for innovation
- Identification of complementary international skills in order to remove technological bottlenecks
- International business opportunities (prospection and commercial values).
Who is part of the Plant InterCluster Network ?
| Name | Country | Contact |
| VEGEPOLYS VALLEY | FRANCE | nicolas.fegeant [at] vegepolys-valley.eu |
| Agri Sud Ouest Innovation | FRANCE | isabelle.guichard [at] agrisudouest.com |
| Innov’alliance | FRANCE | clement.diot [at] pole-innovalliance.com ([email protected])clement.diot [at] pole-innovalliance.com (innovalliance.com) |
| Greenport West-Holland | NETHERLANDS | MGMVintges [at] GemeenteWestland.nl |
| Clust-ER | ITALY | celia.gavaud [at] agrifood.clust-er.it |
| FEMAC | SPAIN | international [at] femac.org |
| AgroClusterRibatejo | PORTUGAL | claudia.rodrigues [at] agrocluster.com |
| CTA | SPAIN | nathalie.chavrier [at] corporaciontecnologica.com |
| Biovegen | SPAIN | dlapuente [at] invegen.org |
| UNIMOS | POLAND | kkowalska [at] unimosalliance.com |
| Food & Bio Cluster | DENMARK | cm [at] foodbiocluster.dk |
| Ind.Agro.Pol | ROMANIA | indagropol1 [at] gmail.com |
Services offered
Services offered
How to join us?
Your cluster works in plant industry or related to plants?
Your members want to get a contact in one of those sectors? Plant Breeding, Plant and seeds health, AgTech, Preservation of fresh and processed fruit and vegetables, innovating growing methods…
We are glad to receive you in our network, write to [email protected] to received news from us!
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral industries
Agriculture, forestry and fishing:A01 Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities
Cross-sectoral industries
Environmental Industries
Industrial Alliances and Ecosystems
Ecosystems:Agri-food
Technology fields
A\: Human necessities:Agriculture; forestry; animal husbandry; hunting; trapping; fishing
S3 EU priority areas
Sustainable innovation:Sustainable land & water use
Areas of specialisation not covered above
Our actions:
- Monthly online meeting: This regular meeting aims to get a better understanding of our respective ecosystem, identify potential collaboration for EU projects (interclustering or for our members), discuss about new services or events for clusters.
- PIC Meeting: Since 2011, the PIC network organizes a 2-days event with: conferences, thematic workshops, B2B and fields visits. It has been held in France every two years but also, in the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal.
- PIC 2021: https://pic-2021.b2match.io/
- PIC 2020: https://picweek-2020.b2match.io/
- PIC 2019 : https://greenportwestholland.nl/pic-2019/
- PIC 2018: https://pic2018.b2match.io/
- EU projects : Several projects came out from PIC network and PIC meeting. The discussion allows to anticipate better the future calls for proposals and identify the consortium in advance (COSME, Innosup, Erasmus+…).
Members
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| Clust-ER Agroalimentare Emilia-Romagna |
Italy
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| FEMAC |
Spain
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| CTA Agrifood |
Spain
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| Greenport West-Holland |
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| INNOV'ALLIANCE - FOOD, WELLNESS, NATURAL PRODUCTS |
France
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| BIOVEGEN - Spanish Technology Platform for Plant Biotechnology |
Spain
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| IND-AGRO-POL |
Romania
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| VEGEPOLYS VALLEY |
France
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| Agri Sud-Ouest Innovation |
France
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| Animaforum - Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Agro-Industria |
Portugal
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