Description
The European Commission (EC) organised the EU – Canada Matchmaking Event in the context of the ALL IN Event which was held between 11-12 September 2024.
The EU – Canada Matchmaking Event took place on-site in Montreal, Canada 10-12 September 2024.
The event was jointly organised by the European Cluster Collaboration Platform on behalf of the European Commission, in collaboration with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Government of Canada, Scale AI, and Enterprise Europe Network (EEN).
The EU – Canada Matchmaking Event brought together cluster organisations and SMEs from the European Union (EU), non-EU countries participating in the Single Market Programme/COSME Strand and Canada. It provided participants with an excellent opportunity to promote Cluster to Cluster (C2C), Cluster to Business (C2B), and Business to Business (B2B) collaborations.
Check out the:
🗓️ Final Agenda | ALL IN Presentation | Participants' Booklet | Info Pack |
📸 Photo Album | 🎥 Highlights Video | 📝 Event Summary
Objectives
- Strengthening EU-Canada cluster cooperation for the benefit of their members, including a seminar, a cluster matchmaking event, and site visits.
- Identifying potential areas of common interest for cooperation and synergies, in terms of the sectoral, value chain, and market focus of their SMEs and other companies.
- Improving, through clusters, the EU-Canada industry and academia-industry collaboration in research, development, and innovation. For its members, the clusters will identify possible areas of RDI collaboration (academia, research organisations, industries…).
Agenda and Activities
The EU – Canada Matchmaking Event included the following activities:
- Inspirational Webinar – a pre-event Webinar where all attendees received more information about the overall concept of the EU-Canada Matchmaking Event and why to attend (6 June 2024). The recording and used materials can be found below.
- Technical Webinar – a pre-event Technical webinar was held to help future participants of the matchmaking event to make the most of their profiling in the B2Match tool and explain the procedures to optimise the booking of meetings. (20 August 2024). The recording and used materials can be found below.
- Site visits (10 September 2024)
- Seminar on knowledge exchange to foster EU- Canada cooperation. (10 September 2024)
- Pitching and Matchmaking meetings between cluster organisations and SMEs from EU (and non-EU countries participating in SMP/COSME Strand) countries and Canada Countries. (10 September 2024)
- Debriefing session to collect feedback and testimonials from cluster participants. (10 September 2024)
- Participation at the ALL IN Event – 11 – 12 September 2024
Focus areas
- Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced manufacturing
- Digital Technology
- Quantum Technology
Presentations delivered in the frame of the onsite matchmaking event
Presentation during the side visits on 10 September - download presentation
Testimonials from European and Canadian organisations with existing collaboration on 10 September
Gisela Sanchez, Finnance Innovacion, France - download presentation
Nancy Andrews, Canada's Ocean Supercluster - download presentation
Pedro Rocha, PRODUTECH Cluster, Portugal - download presentation
Pitching Session
Marie-Elaine Roy, Vooban, Canada - download presentation
Mohamed Sabri, Rocket Science, Canada - download presentation
Kristina Eskenazi, AI Cluster, Bulgaria - download presentation
Anthony Kez, ArchEnerg Renewable Energy Cluster, Hungary - download presentation
Anne Sormunen, Biocluster, Finland - download presentation
Quentin Fabre, Digital 113, France - download presentation
Dimitar Dimitrov, Health & Life Science Cluster, Bulgaria - download presentation
Kristina Ananiciene, Laser & Engineering Technologies Cluster LITEK, Lithuania - download presentation
Leonardo Marcheti, Tuscany Fashion Cluster, Italy - download presentation
Balasz Csirke, SouthWest Hungarian Cluster, Hungary - download presentation
Bianca Muntean, Transilvania IT Cluster, Romania - download presentation
Video Message from Jakub Boratynski, Director for Networks and Governance at DG GROW, European Commission
Technical Webinar the EU-Canada Matchmaking Event - 20 August 2024
A Technical Webinar was held on 20 August 2024. Find the final Agenda of the webinar here.
The presentations: from the webinar are available:
- Tech Webinar Montréal Matchmaking_Master Slide deck - Download presentation
- Dr. Jan-Philipp Kramer, Team Leader ‘Data & Policy’, Prognos/ECCP - Download presentation
- Philippe Ferland, Market Associate, Europe at Invest in Canada - Download presentation
- Isabelle Turcotte, Founder, ALL IN - Download presentation
- Daniel Cosnita, ECCP Team Member - Download presentation
Inspirational Webinar the EU-Canada Matchmaking Event - 6 June 2024
An inspirational Webinar, themed Explore EU-Canada Matchmaking Event: Forge Cooperation in Technology was held on 6 June 2024. The presentation from the webinar is available here.
Looking back at past missions to Canada
The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP) organised the EU-Canada Cluster Matchmaking Event in 2019 in cooperation with the Canadian Superclusters initiative in Toronto, Canada. The overall objective of the event was to foster collaboration between European and Canadian clusters for the benefit of their SME members. This event was designed as a follow-up of the High-Level Cluster Event organised in April 2019 at the Hannover fair, where cooperation between European and Canadian clusters have been initiated.
The highlight of the event took place on 6th of June 2019 with the signing of an administrative arrangement between Canada and the EU to facilitate trans-Atlantic cluster collaboration. The signature was witnessed by Elżbieta Bieńkowska, EU Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises and the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development. Under the arrangement, cluster organisations and firms in the European Union will have more opportunities to form strategic business partnerships and linkages notably with Canada’s five innovation superclusters. The matchmaking sessions allowed for fruitful exchanges between European and Canadian delegates and over 100 meetings were scheduled on the afternoon of the event between European and Canadian counterparts.
The main EU delegation was composed of some 27 clusters along with some companies covering 16 European countries from the EU and countries participating in the COSME programme (Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Ukraine) along with several representatives of the five Canadian Superclusters (Protein Industries, Ocean Industries, Digital Technology, Advanced Manufacturing and SCALE.AI) and a dozen other Canadian clusters, chambers and business networks and local economic development agencies. A total of almost 100 attended the morning session of the event. Read more information here.