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The new Regulation for Market Surveillance is now in effect

DG GROW has announced that from 16 July, the new Regulation for Market Surveillance now fully applies. This Regulation ensures that market surveillance is protecting consumers and businesses across the EU in order for the Single Market to function seamlessly. It is part of DG GROW’s commitment to...
ECCP News

EU Coronavirus Response Webpage for Industry and SMEs

Find here the European Commission’s economic response to the coronavirus outbreak, ensuring the exchange of essential protective equipment on the internal market, increasing production of medical products as well as by helping affected industries in the mitigation of the effects. The Coronavirus...
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SUAVE - Stimulating SMEs in new Urban Agriculture Value Chain for sustainable growth in Europe

The SUAVE Euroclusters project for Stimulating SMEs in the new Urban Agriculture Value Chain for sustainable growth in Europe has received funding from the EU’s Single Market Programme under Grant Agreement 101074762 and started in September 2022. Total funding available: €1,050,000.00. SUAVE...
Community News

APPAU participated in the European Cluster Conference for the first time

On September 26-27, the Ukrainian Сluster Alliance (UCA) delegation consisting of 6 female participants from the APPAU clusters took part in the European Cluster Conference in Prague. APPAU delegated: Vinnytsia Instrumentation and Industrial Automation Cluster, Ivano-Frankivsk Business Association...
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METABUILDING "2nd GROW/HARVEST CALL" OPENS on March 1st, 2022

​ "Up to 60.000 € for innovation and collaboration projects of SMEs" 2nd GROW/HARVEST CALL: this 4th call of the METABUILDING project opens on March 1, 2022.1 The METABUILDING project aims at boosting SME innovation in the Construction sector, by encouraging cross-sectoral and cross-border...
ECCP News

Boost your profile by taking part in EU Industry Days 2021

The European Commission's Directorate for the Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship & SMEs (DG GROW) is looking for organisations and businesses to take part in the European Union's (EU) Industry Week and Industry Days activities next year. Applications are being sought from bodies that would...
ECCP News

Join the CircLean network to help implement and promote industrial symbiosis

Clusters, cluster networks and SMEs are among the bodies being sought to join the Circlean European Network of businesses and SMEs for Industrial Symbiosis. Technopolis Group, together with a consortium of partners composed of Trinomics, Industrial Synergies and Arctik, is implementing the CircLean...
ECCP News

Survey: SMEs need support to achieve digitalisation and sustainability

A European Commission survey on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has revealed that 62% of European Union (EU) SMEs confront barriers to digitalisation and 70% say they are facing at least one obstacle to becoming sustainable. The survey, commissioned by the Directorate-General for Internal...
ECCP News

ECCP Webinar - The Covid-19 industrial cluster response: the role of European clusters in recovery strategies

On 23 July 2020 the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) hosted a webinar which examined the role that clusters can play in strategies to help recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar was run by the European Commission with contributions from the European Clusters Alliance (ECA)...
ECCP News

CEN and CENELEC adopts technical guidance for fabric masks during the COVID-19 crisis

Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) has commended the actions of CEN and CENELEC for adopting technical guidance for fabric masks and making it freely available. The close collaboration between CEN and CENELEC was consolidated at the start of 2010...
ECCP News

Presentation of the Social Economy Canvas

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 16 June 2020 Karel Vanderpoorten from DG Grow and Alessandro Rancati from EU Policy Lab introduced the Social Economy Canvas as a new tool to evaluate and analyze in detail social impacts. The model is designed for entrepreneurs...
ECCP News

DG GROW's main COVID-19 response measures: the ECCP's COVID-19 Forum

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) has announced that it is still working to mitigate the socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Commission has been tasked with many responsibilities during the...