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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...

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...

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...

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...

​ "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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...