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S3: Growth and competitiveness of SMEs

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 9 September 2020 In this webinar, the EAAC looked at the role of clusters for the resilience of SMEs and the implementation of the smart specialisation strategies with examples from Slovakia and Romania. Giving the introduction...
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S3: Digitalisation for citizens, companies and governments

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 8 September 2020 In this morning session, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus looked at examples of how the digitalisation for citizens, companies and governments can be pushed forward through regional initiatives and...
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Partnerships of Industrial Modernisation Platforms

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 4 September 2020 This session was dedicated to the relationship between clusters and S3 Thematic Platforms. Fernando Mérida Martin, Isabelle Seigneur​ from the Joint Research Centre outlined the concept of smart specialisation and...
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S3: Enhancing Research and Innovation Capacities

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 7 September 2020 As the regional dimension will play an important role in the economic recovery in Europe, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus dedicates a week of our daily morning sessions to the smart specialisation...
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Industrial Ecosystem: Construction

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 3 September 2020 Antonio Parapella from DG GROW opened the session with an explanation of the concept of industrial ecosystems. They go beyond the traditional view of value chains and take the interdependences of stakeholders and...
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Clusters in the European Recovery Plans

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 2 September 2020 In this daily webinar, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus welcomed Beata Lubos from the Polish Ministry of Economic Development, and Jordi Llinares from the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce and...
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Fostering the European Recovery through Industrial Clusters: state of play

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 1 September 2020. In the first webinar in the September series, Ulla Engelmann, DG GROW, stated clearly that now the main goal is to answer the questions how industrial clusters can foster the recovery process, which are the...
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The role of clusters in the European Recovery Plans

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 31 July 2020. In the last session of the first cycle of the EAAC daily webinars, the group looked at the Smart Specialization Strategies (S3s) and their role for the recovery with contributions from Italy and Romania and a final...
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The role of clusters in the Recovery Plans

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 30 July 2020. The last two sessions before the summer break are dedicated to the role of clusters in the recovery plans through the examples on national level. Ulla Engelmann from DG GROW opened the daily session recalling the...
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Changes in the Cosmetic Value Chains

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 29 July 2020. This morning’s session was dedicated to changes in the value chain of cosmetic sector. Matteo Locatelli, Vice President of Cosmetica Italy, the association that contains 95% of cosmetic companies in Italy...
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General review of the disruptions and received proposals during the last months

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 28 July 2020. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the European Clusters Alliance has organized over 130 daily sessions and has formed the European Alliance Against Coronavirus, an open high-level expert group to exchange about...
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Overview of the EAAC activities and next steps

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 27 July 2020. This morning’s session, which opened the last week of meetings before the summer break, focused on the summary of the activities carried out by EACC in the last months and next steps. Ilaria Massari, general manager...