SMEs

ECCP News

Call for experts on Green Transition

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) is looking for experts to support European clusters as part of the ''Towards Green Transition'' Facility. This new initiative will enable ECCP clusters to promote green transition skills amongst their members through technical advisory support by...
ECCP News

Supporting ECCP clusters to go green

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform will launch in 2021 the new ''Towards Green Transition'' Facility to enable ECCP clusters to promote green transition skills amongst their members through technical advisory support by resource efficiency advisors. In this Facility, selected clusters will...
Calls

LEVIATAD Open call "Supporting the innovation and internationalisation of European small and medium-sized enterprises in the defence sector"

About LEVIATAD project The project “Level 1 Accelerator for Defence Sector” (hereinafter LEVIATAD) aims at creating the 1st Eurocluster of excellence on naval defence. The plan to achieve such an ambitious result consists of three steps. Obtain a mapping of the naval and aero-naval defence sector’s...
Community News

One-stop-shop portal for digitalising business and working practices of SMEs in the construction sector

The DCSME-website which is specifically designed for SMEs in the construction industry offers the following services: - A digital maturity scan, available in two versions (quick and in-depth) to help construction SMEs evaluate their digitalisation level; - A handbook which includes next steps and...
Community News

Approved the five projects that the Packaging Cluster presented in the line of aid to the AEI

27 companies, clusters and knowledge centers will participate in the 5 approved projects, of which 11 are member companies of the Packaging Cluster A budget of more than 1.2 million euros has been allocated for the digital transformation of SMEs, with aid approved by the Ministry of Industry of €947...
Support programme

Micro Grants for SMEs from KET4CleanProduction

This programme is an SME financial support instrument managed under the KET4CleanProduction initiative of the European Commission. Micro Grants are offered for transnational cooperation projects between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and minimum 2 KET technology centres (KET TCs), which...
Community News

Ministry of Industry allocates EUR 20 million to finance projects in support of recovery, digitalisation and green transition

Recently published in the BOE the new aid package of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism for the application to the Innovative Business Groupings for the improvement of the associated SMEs The Packaging Cluster explained days before the operation of the line and examples of success stories...
Community News

Packaging Cluster promotes 5 strategic projects aimed at incorporating Industry 4.0 in small and medium-sized companies

The Packaging Cluster has presented 5 project proposals to the AEI in the call for aid from the Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo in 2021, established to improve the competitiveness of SMEs The proposals group an estimated budget of € 1,000,000, bringing together 5 relevant sectors and 20...
Community News

10 proposals for initiatives in support of Industry 4.0 in the workshop held by the Packaging Cluster for the call for grants to AEI

On March 11, the call for grants to Agrupaciones Empresariales Innovadoras of the Ministerio de Industria, Comercio y Turismo for 2021 was published In anticipation of this publication, the Packaging Cluster held a workshop with its associates to prepare proposals for pilot projects for the call. On...
Community News

Developing an RDI cluster service model for SMEs through piloting

The Arctic Development Environments cluster provides businesses in Finnish Lapland a one-stop-shop access point to the expertise and services of its member organisations: universities and research organisations in the region. The cluster supports businesses by helping to improve their processes...
ECCP News

PITCCH call for SMEs and start-ups now open

The Pan-European Open Innovation Network for Corporate Challenges in Advanced Technologies (PITCCH) aims to promote an open innovation network where technology centres and other innovation agents act as intermediaries to facilitate structured collaboration between big corporations (as technology...
ECCP News

Protecting your intellectual property at trade fairs

With increasingly integrated global-value chains and the continuous drive to innovate, trade fairs have become one of the most important and most efficient instruments for accessing new markets worldwide. The Latin America IP SME Helpdesk has published a guide for European SMEs which provides an...