NF4 recieves ESCP-i label

Submitted by Jeroen Wouters on 09 March 2018

On 20th February 2018, DG GROWTH of the European Commission officially awarded the NF4-project with the ESCP-i label. The label was handed out during the award ceremony at the kick-off meeting in Brussels.  The NF4 project is an internationalization fast track accelerator for innovation-intensive food SMEs, powered by a 5-partner food clusters alliance: Clusaga (ES); Food Valley (NL); Valorial (FR); Vitagora (FR) and Wagralim (BE). The activities are  specialized on 3 food industry value chains: processed foods, health&nutritional food products and connected food. These value chains provide a full package of acceleration services, aiming at boosting international collaboration and business development of a cohort of European food SMEs. Within the project 4 overseas target markets are selected in which the consortium is already strongly connected: Canada, USA, China and Brazil.

In total to 23 "European Strategic Cluster Partnerships - Going International" (ESCP-4i) initiatives recieved the award.  The DG GROWTH supports the establishment and further development of ESCP-4i. The main goal of all Partnerships is to cooperate for joint internationalisation strategies and better support the access of SME to global value chains and markets in Europe and beyond.

Cluster organisation
Share this Article