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  • European Union Offshore Renewable Energy Strategy

European Commission unveils offshore renewable energy strategy

The European Commission has unveiled the European Union (EU) Strategy on Offshore Renewable Energy as it steps up efforts to make the Union climate neutral by 2050. The Strategy proposes to increase Europe's offshore wind capacity from its current level of 12 GW to at least 60 GW by 2030 and to 300 GW by 2050. The Commission aims to complement this with 40 GW of ocean energy and other emerging technologies...Read more
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Collaboration already starting after Intra-European Cluster Matchmaking Event hosts 230 meetings

The European Union-funded European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) organised an Intra-European Cluster Matchmaking Event within the context of the 7th edition of the European Cluster Conference 2020. The matchmaking event was held as a European Cluster Conference post-event on the 11 and 12 November and was the ECCP’s first virtual matchmaking event. Some 112 cluster organisations and business...Read more
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  • European Cluster Conference 2020

Awards recognise European cluster excellence in 2020

European Clusters Alliance president Antonio Novo Guerrero has been honoured with a special award at the European Cluster Conference 2020. Mr Novo, who is manager of Cluster IDiA in Spain, received a Special Award for EU Cluster Mobilisation for his work during the COVID-19 pandemic, which included setting up the European Alliance Against Coronavirus . During one of the highlights of the two-day event,...Read more
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Trade fairs in China: steps to protect your IPR

Trade fairs are an excellent opportunity for a business to showcase new products and scout business partners for manufacturing, promotion, and distribution. Unfortunately, in China, these exhibitions are a common prowling grounds for intellectual property rights infringers, so it is important to ensure necessary precautions are taken. It is not sufficient to merely gain intellectual property rights for a...Read more
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  • European Cluster Conference 2020

‘Make clusters stronger to make Europe greener, more digital and resilient’ says Commissioner Breton at European Cluster Conference 2020

Key stakeholders from across Europe have gathered online for the first ever fully virtual European Cluster Conference. The European Commission’s flagship annual cluster event brought together cluster managers, cluster organisations, associations and partnerships and their members to debate and shape the future of cluster policy in Europe. The event was open to 1,000 people attending and taking part over...Read more
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  • Pact for Skills, European Commission

European Commission launches Pact for Skills

The European Commission has officially launched the Pact for Skills , a central element of the European Skills Agenda . The first European skills partnerships in key industrial ecosystems - automotive, microelectronics, and aerospace and defence industries - were also announced at the launch, during European Vocational Skills Week 2020. The Pact for Skills promotes joint action to maximise the impact of...Read more
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  • European flags in front of headquarters of the European Commission, Brussels

Agreement reached on €1.8 trillion EU budget

The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have reached agreement on the Union's largest ever long-term financial package. Both bodies must still ratify the deal but, once adopted, it will see a total of €1.8 trillion made available between 2021 and 2027 to help rebuild a post-COVID-19 Europe, which aims to be greener, more digital and more resilient. European Commission President Ursula...Read more
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  • SMEs technology

€5m call aims to help SMEs adopt new technologies

The European Commission has launched a €5 million call for strategic alliances to help the European Union’s small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) maximise their use of new technologies. Two pilot projects will be supported focused on creating collaboration among SMEs, through industrial cluster organisations, to promote increased adoption of advanced technology in specific industrial ecosystems...Read more
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  • Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market

Clusters have key role to play in European recovery, says Commissioner Breton

European Commissioner Thierry Breton has hailed the response of clusters to the COVID-19 crisis and stressed the key role they must play in creating greener, digital, and more resilient industrial ecosystems across the continent. The Commissioner for the Internal Market was speaking at the start of the two-day European Cluster Conference , organised by the European Commission and the German Federal...Read more
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More than 300 applications for share of €1 billion clean tech funding

More than 300 applications have been received in response to the €1 billion first call for large-scale projects of the Innovation Fund , the European Commission's funding programme to support the development of low-carbon technologies and innovative clean technology. A total of 311 submissions have been received with 58 in the renewable energy sector; 204 for energy-intensive industries (of which 56 are in...Read more
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