Employing more than 12 million people in the EU, 80% of whom work in SMEs, the creative and cultural industries (CCIs) are an important but often overlooked sector of the EU economy. EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) will enhance the Canadian consumer’s access to the EU’s creative and cultural goods, while not only benefiting the business of creative Europeans, but also the protection of their creativity.
In Canada, GI protection is available to specific categories of products. For over twenty years, Canada has maintained a system to protect GIs for wines and spirits. As a result of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”), Canada expanded its GI protection to 24 categories of food and agricultural products and over 170 new agricultural GIs on 21 September 2017.
Ceipiemonte, with the support of France Clusters organized the second Benchmarking Visits & Training last week in Piedmont (Italy).
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The textile industry alone produces around 20 million kilogrammes of textile waste annually. Of total municipal waste in Finland, textile waste represents 5-8 %.
The European Cluster Collaboration Platform organised a major Cluster Matchmaking Event in Toronto, Canada, between the 5th and 7th of June 2019. The event was supported by the European Commission, Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), the Department of Industry of Canada and notably the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Department (ISED) responsible for the Superclusters Initiative.
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Condition Based Maintenance service (CBM) is based on the remote monitoring of key parameters and operational data to predict the state of equipment. A custom-made report is provided to the customer including, for example, engine health overview, equipment diagnostics, trending and predictions, maintenance advice, statistics of production and load profiles. The analytics are also useful for product development and can help further improve the lifetime of the equipment.
EU-TEXTILE2030, the European Advanced Textile Materials cluster, was in Colombia last year from July 23rd to 27th in its first business mission coordinated by the Catalan Technical Textiles' cluster, AEI Tèxtils. During the mission, EU-TEXTILE2030 representatives meet with several major stakeholders from the Colombian textile sector including clusters, business associations, research centers, and related government initiatives.
The National Centre for Science and Engineering Statistics’ (NCF’s) and the National Patterns of R&D Resources series (NCSES) are US primary providers of statistical data on the U.S. science and engineering enterprise. They enable to map the situation of science and engineering in the US.