Solutions and best practice examples

The Romanian health and bioeconomy cluster ROHEALTH Association has launched an organised, centralised and transparent fundraising campaign to gather protective materials to protect medical staff of ROHEALTH-affiliated hospitals against a COVID-19 infection (e.g. COVID-tests, protection glasses, gowns, masks, etc.). All donations and the allocation of funds from these donations will be made public...

The Irish engineering firm Combilift has leveraged their innovation skills to solve the global shortage of ventilators. It is committed to join the fight against COVID-19 and has, therefore, developed Combi-Ventilate, a splitter device that turns one ventilator into multiple ventilator stations. This device supports a much higher level of care for patients than previous attempts to split...

ARIES Oltenia is the cluster association of electronics and software companies located in Oltenia Region, the City of Craiova, in the South-West region of Romania. It aims at promoting and protecting the Romanian IT and electronic business environment, as well as the professional and commercial interests of its members. Being the trade and professional association of electronic and software...

The Romanian Executive Unit for the Financing of Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation (UEFISCDI), a Romanian Innovation Agency has set up BrokerMap, a virtual platform for all those willing to share ideas and resources in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative is installed within the BrainMap Open Platform and aims to recreate a secure and efficient space for...

ID4CAR, the French Smart Manufacturing and Digital Mobility Innovation Hub, has launched the Post-Containment Mobility Programme in the face of the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. In France, the prospect of a gradual deconfinement starting on the 11th of May 2020 has opened a series of questions about mobility in the territory. The programme is designed to facilitate the convergence of problems and...

The Enterprise Europe Network of Flanders powered by Flanders' Care has created a European Platform entitled 'Care & Industry together against COVID-19'. The goal of the platform is to match the different needs of the healthcare sector and their offers for local companies and researchers. It reserves a place for governments to register in the platform and virtually publish relevant information via...

Immense number of clusters have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic at a global scale. Thus, a handful of Danish Clusters have been rethinking their strategies and taken action to mitigate the sudden changes which many cluster member companies are experiencing at the moment Some of their services and activities have been changed, replaced or discarded. At a series of virtual knowledge-sharing...

The Silesian Aviation Cluster aims to create conditions for continuous cooperation between aviation sector companies and institutions in Europe. Their mission is to have a direct and indirect impact on the development of the aviation industry, business enviroment institutions, financial institutions as well as Science and R&D institutions. The aviation industry is one of the worst affected by the...

The members of the Thematic Group for Clusters of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN), the world’s largest support network for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with international ambitions, are holding virtual meetings twice a month to discuss ways of supporting client SMEs to face the mid- and long-term challenges of the current COVID-19 crisis. One previously held meetings was dedicated...

The project Romanian Economic Impact Monitor has been delivered by Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. The project is useful for various kinds of analysts and consultants and includes the daily publication of data on the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic in Romania. The purpose is to offer support to Romanian economic and policy decision-makers through the project website by...