The European Union and international partners are hosting an international pledging marathon which started on Monday 4 May 2020 and will run until the end of May 2020. The aim is to gather significant funding to ensure the collaborative development and universal deployment of diagnostics, treatments and vaccines against the Coronavirus. 

This pledging event has already brought together more than 50 world leaders, CEO’s and representatives of international organisations with one goal to defeat COVID-19.

Designed for cluster managers, cluster boards, national cluster programs policy makers, and ecosystem developers, the Global Cluster Leadership Program helps you build capacity for cluster management.

In 2019, Strategy Tools’ published the report “Building Innovation Superclusters”, which was downloaded by thousands of cluster leaders, ecosystem builders and policymakers. The tools shared in the report have been used by cluster programs from Australia to Mexico, from Germany to South Africa.

On May 5th Lombardy Region has officially approved The Lombardy Roadmap for Research and Innovation on Circular Economy which is providing a framework for the development of a sustainable, low carbon, resource efficient and competitive strategy for the transition to a more circular economy in the Lombardy Region, under a smart specialization perspective.

China is the fastest growing market for wind and nuclear power generation, and is investing heavily in exploring alternative, renewable means of addressing its immense energy needs. With a large potential cleantech market, and strong government support for the development and adoption of new clean technologies, China presents great opportunities for European cleantech SMEs.

As a result of the quarantine announced in the wake of the COVID-19 epidemic, business restrictions, changing consumer habits and market demand, various industries have begun to adapt their production processes. Lithuanian industrial clusters placed big efforts to turn the challenges that came along with lockdown-imposed restrictions into new opportunities. 

The European Union has acted quickly to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences. Showing considerable flexibility, EU institutions have organised a package of measures (some already decided, others proposed or requested), to counter the COVID-19 crisis, drawing both on the EU budget and a wider economic package.

Webinar: Maximising the impact of Horizon 2020 projects for post-COVID economic recovery

Submitted by Tedora Aibu on 26 May 2020.

Research and innovation will be key drivers of economic recovery after the COVID-19 crisis. In this context, the EU IP Helpdesk is organising a webinar about the exploitation of IP rights in H2020 projects. The webinar will give an overall view of the creation and development of IP rights both during and after the duration of the current H2020 programme. The webinar will take place virtually on...

With over 40 billion Euros of exports per year, Canada is a major market for European goods. The CETA Market Access Programme will be hosting its second webinar of a series, geared towards supporting EU business access into the Canadian market under the framework of CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement), enhancing free trade between the EU and Canada since its recent provisional implementation.

Join Ms. Pernille Fischer, CEO & Founder of Kisserup International Trade Roots, as she presents:

The Green Deal call will mobilise research and innovation to foster a just and sustainable societal transition aiming at ‘leaving nobody behind’. Projects are expected to deliver tangible and visible results relatively quickly and show how research and innovation can provide concrete solutions for the Green Deal main priorities.

This is why the call will support