Wood Industry Cluster Slovenia
WIC
Slovenia: West Slovenia
Igor Milavec
Overview
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About us
The mission of the Wood Industry Cluster Slovenia is promotion of the integration of companies and research institutions, aiming at improving the knowledge transfer into the companies, facilitating their participation in international development projects and implementing projects of common interest, resulting in knowledge-based competitiveness.
Cluster composition
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92Cluster Members
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85SME's
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3Large Companies
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2Research Organisations, Universities, Technology Centers
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2Other Ecosystem Actors
Achievements
The Wood Industry Cluster Slovenia (WIC) has managed the Competence centre of HR development in wood sector (www.kocles.si), which comprised 27 companies (with 2.470 employees) and 8 institutions. The Competence centre organized trainings for the companies with aim to help them at their products, processes and business models’ development. In years 2016-2018 we realized 898 trainings sessions with 97 different lecturers. Trainings attended 5.392 participants from companies. Final video HERE.
We encourage our SME members to participate in the FP7 and Horizon 2020 and to invest in RTD. Until now, we succeed to include several companies direct in the FP7 and H2020 project consortiums as partners. With such good practices, we accelerate development activities also in other SMEs.
With aim to strengthen and linked the existing capacities and competencies of the institutional actors in the Slovenian Forest-Based sector, in 2013, we initialize and arrange signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between 19 sector organizations. We act as a promotor of networking between institutional actors and SMEs and accelerator of knowledge transfer.
Management team
Igor
Milavec
Cluster Manager
Bernard
Likar
Internationalisation Responsible
Sectorial and industrial focus
Sectoral Industries
Manufacturing:C16 Manufacture of wood and of products of wood and cork, except furniture; manufacture of articles of straw and plaiting materials -
Manufacturing:C31 Manufacture of furniture
Technology fields
Y\: General tagging of new technological developments:Technologies or applications for mitigation or adaptation against climate change
S3 EU priority areas
Cultural & creative industries:Support to link cultural & creative industries with traditional industries -
Digital transformation:Artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, augmented and virtual reality, visualisation, simulation, gamification & interaction technologies -
Digital transformation:Digitising Industry (Industry 4.0, smart and additive manufacturing) -
Sustainable innovation:Sustainable production & consumption
Cross-sectoral industries
Creative Industries
Services
Support services provided
Internationalisation Support (access to third countries markets)
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 programmes
EU Programmes
European Programmes
FP7
H2020
CIP/COSME
INTERREG
Other
Name & description
Project name
H2020 ECO-SILENTWOOD, H2020 WINTHERWAX, H2020 FURNIT-SAVER, DTP FORESDA, IEE RENEW SCHOOL, Woowisdom Era-Net ReWoBioRef, SEE ID:WOOD, FP7 NEXT1KOAT, FP7 FREEFOAM, FP7 ECOVARN, FP7 SILENTWOOD
Cooperation activities
International cooperation
Targeted countries
United States
Canada
Transnational cooperation
Targeted countries
Austria
Croatia
France
Germany
Italy
Transnational support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairs
International support activites
Participation at missions/events/study visits/fairsConnection to cluster organisation(s)
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| HABIC BASQUE HABITAT, WOOD, OFFICE & HOSPITALITY CLUSTER |
Spain
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Membership in cluster networks, meta clusters and national associations of clusters
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| Furniture and Woodworking Cluster Partnership |
Czech Republic
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