Last update date 2 December 2022
The Rapid Response Centers (RRC) are a programme launched by the Ukrainian Cluster Alliance (UCA). Its main beneficiaries are SMEs, critical industries, and the export sector. The RCCs have three main tasks. First and foremost, they should support the restoration of value chains, the substitution of products previously sourced from Russia and Belarus, and the connection to European value chains. Second, they support the relocation of firms and clusters from the war zone into more secure regions. Finally, they help to sustain firms and clusters operating in industries which are critical for the supply of both the population (food, textile, medicine, utilities) and of the military to sustain the war efforts. In the latter regard, it is its explicit "military-political" mission to "mobilise appropriate clusters ... to quickly achieve victory in the war."