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European Alliance Against Coronavirus focus on women as a key competitiveness factor in innovation clusters and ecosystems

On 22 June, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus had their third session about gender balance in clusters and industries. Dana Puia Morel from DG GROW, the European Commission​, presented the European Entrepreneurship Competence Framework which can support programmes that want to foster...
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THE PENELOPE-PROJECT GENDER EQUALITY TRAINING HANDBOOK IS OUT

A premiere in the cluster community!🚀 As the first milestone, we focused our work over the past year on developing a practical handbook following these objectives: 👉 To identify good practices among EU clusters and policy makers at regional, national and EU level related to gender equality and...
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The PENELOPE-PROJECT at the EU Clusters Talks

On January 10, 2024, we were present at the EU Clusters Talks session addressing the topic of gender equality for SME competitiveness and sustainability. It was a great opportunity to not only introduce our activities, but also engage in a dialogue with cluster policy makers and cluster management...
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Outcomes from a panel discussion on clusters and gender equality

The 9th Congress of Polish Clusters took place on November 9th 2023 in Gdansk. One highlight of the program was the panel Clusters as Creators of New Business Models Considering Inclusiveness and Gender Equality, that was implemented as part of the DEBUTING project, covering also benefits for...
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High level speakers and good practices on clusters and improving gender equality - DEBUTING meeting in Strasbourg was a great learning experience!

The third in-person interregional DEBUTING meeting took place 10-11 October in Strasbourg, France, where altogether more than 40 people - representing DEBUTING project partners, stakeholders, and the Grand Est region - met to discuss improving gender equality and inclusiveness and to learn from each...
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DEBUTING - what is it all about?

DEBUTING is a project co-funded by the Interreg Europe programme, starting on 1 March 2023 and ending in May 2027. Ten European regions are represented in the project by policy authorities and public actors aiming to work together on making SMEs more sustainable and competitive by supporting them to...
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Raising the curtain on the PENELOPE-PROJECT on the ECCP!

On 22 November 2022 the PENELOPE Project - Innovative and pioneer cluster-based approach to foster and integrate gender mainstreaming strategies in European Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ programme was kicked-off in Aix-Les-Bains, France. What...

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Mainstreaming Gender in Cluster Development

Acknowledging the importance of gender equality and the empowerment of women to the vision of the 2030 Agenda for achieving inclusive and sustainable growth around the world, UNIDO strives to systematically adopt a gender perspective throughout the planning and implementation phases of its...
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Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion in innovation: Roundtable summary report

In Gender equality, diversity, and inclusion: Roundtable summary report, The Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity presents the challenges of incorporating gender equality, diversity, and inclusion into clusters in Canada, particularly into the five Superclusters, as well as a number of...
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Innovation & Gender

Published by the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems VINNOVA and authored by Inger Danilda and Jennie Granat Thorslund (eds.), the book tackles questions such as "Why does GENDER DIVERSITY matter when it comes to product and service innovation? What has RESEARCH shown? And what does...