COS-CLUSTER-2018-03-02: European Cluster Excellence Programme Important notice “The corrigendum of the Call for Proposals (COS-CLUSTER-2018-03-02) was published on 31 January 2019. Please see the details of the corrigendum on page 2 of the Call document.” The overall objective of this action is to strengthen cluster management excellence and facilitate exchanges and strategic partnering between clusters and specialised eco-systems across Europe, including through implementing a new “ClusterXchange” pilot scheme. As high quality cluster management and strategic connections between clusters are...

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The European Commission will launch the very first edition of the 'EU Cluster Weeks 2018-2019' between November 2018 and April 2019. This initiative promotes national, regional and local cluster events under the 'EU Cluster Weeks’ brand and at the European Cluster Collaboration Platform. Submissions of expressions of interests are now possible. Why? The EU Cluster Weeks are an opportunity to encourage European participation and partnering at national, regional and local cluster events; team up to increase awareness on the role of clusters and the results they achieve; and jointly collect...

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Call identifier: COS-CLUSINT-2017-03-6 With a total budget for projects' co-financing estimated at EUR 800,000, this action aims at establishing the first European Strategic Cluster Partnerships-Going International in the defence and security sector, supporting European defence and security-related clusters and business network organisations to intensify collaboration across borders with other non-defence industrial clusters and to develop and implement joint strategies in the areas of dual use technologies, products and services towards non-EU countries. Scene Setter: This action builds upon...

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The main objective of the action COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01: Cluster Go International is to intensify cluster and business network collaboration across European countries and also across sectoral boundaries and to support the establishment of European Strategic Cluster Partnerships to lead international cluster cooperation in fields of strategic interest towards third countries beyond Europe and notably in support of the development of emerging industries. This action focuses on the promotion of cluster internationalisation where interested consortia have the opportunity to develop and implement a...

• Read more about COS-CLUSINT-2016-03-01: Cluster Go International Call opened

This call covers the following schemes of the Culture Sub-programme: EACEA 45/2016 – Support for European cooperation projects The Culture Sub-programme seeks to support projects mainly working on: A. transnational mobility B. audience development C.1. capacity building – digitisation C.2. capacity building - new business models C.3. capacity building - education and training. Supported projects shall therefore include a substantiated strategy and detailed description of how they plan to implement one or more of these programme priorities. When submitting their applications, applicants must...

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The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs invites cluster organisations, other business network organisations, technology centres and science parks interested to team up around specific industrial thematic areas, in the context of industrial modernisation. Through a dedicated call for the expression of interest, the aim is to mobilise European Strategic Cluster Partnerships for smart specialisation investments (ESCP-S3). This call is linked to the establishment of the Smart Specialisation Platform on Industrial Modernisation and...

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