DG Growth

High-Tech Skills Industry Report

In the framework of the Skills Agenda for Europe innitiative, the European Commission (DG GROW) with the support of its Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), launched an initiative to develop an integrated Digital Capability Reference Framework for enterprises to strengthen capabilities to digitally transform businesses. The initiative ran between January 2017 and January 2019,...Read more

Jul 10, 2019
alina danielescu
EU Skills Agenda, Digital transformation, digital skills, talent gap, EASME, DG Growth, report, Digital Capability Reference Framework

Cluster managers shared their experiences in making the cross-sectorial collaborations work

Clusters in Europe are increasingly becoming a very relevant and ubiquitous form of organizing the involvement of SMEs in internationalization and cross-sectorial activities helping to create new business opportunities across the different regions within the EU and beyond. It is, generally speaking, a bottom-up process which connects in a cost-effective way individual capabilities of firms within a highly-...Read more

Mar 10, 2019
alina danielescu
EU Industry Day 2019, Clusterization, cross-sectorial, Cluster initiatives, new global value chains, high-tech, medical technologies, IPR, innosup, DG Growth

Save the date! European Cluster Conference 14-16 May 2019: "Connecting Ecosystems: Bridge. Inspire. Change"

Save the date for the 6 th edition of the European Cluster Conference that will take place in Bucharest, Romania, from 14 to 16 May. It will bring together 400 cluster policy-makers, cluster managers, practitioners and other stakeholders. The event is organised by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs together with Romania, under the Romanian...Read more

Feb 14, 2019
alina danielescu
European Cluster Conference, European Commission, DG Growth, Bucharest

European Cluster Excellence Programme: Webinar

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) and the Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME) are organising an information webinar on the new European Cluster Excellence Programme call for proposals that was published on the 8th January 2019 on the Funding and Tenders Portal . The webinar will take place on 12th...Read more

Feb 12, 2019
alina danielescu
DG Growth, EASME, Webinar, European Cluster Excellence Programme, Call for proposals

European Industry Day Conference live!

On Tuesday 28 February, key industry players, trend shapers and EU policymakers will meet in the first EU Industry Day to take stock of what the EU's industrial policy has achieved and debate on the future of European industry. The European Industry Day conference is organized by the European Commission - DG Growth. The conference is fully booked (more than 800 registrations). If you haven't registered to...Read more

Feb 27, 2017
alina danielescu
EU industrial policy, DG Growth

European Industry Day

The nature of industry is changing, driven by rapid technological change. The evolution of industrial activity is characterised by digitalisation, clean and circular technologies, and a higher reliance on services. The European Commission - DG Growth fully supports its industry and makes a strong contribution to jobs and growth in Europe, by establishing industrial competitiveness into all our major policy...Read more