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Discover the Latest from the PENELOPE Project! Explore key milestones, upcoming tools, and impactful stories as the PENELOPE Project advances gender equality in European clusters and SMEs. In this issue: Bucharest Meeting Highlights: Recap of the 3rd Project Meeting and insights on the next steps...

Bucharest, October 2024 — The PENELOPE Project partners recently met for the third project meeting in Bucharest. Hosted by INCDTP (The Romanian National Research & Development Institute for Textile and Leather), member of the Romanian Textile Concept Cluster, the two-day event (October 10-11, 2024)...

It is important for us to keep you informed regularly about our activities and this is why we gather the “best-of” our activities over the last half a year in a new newsletter that we herewith invite you to read! Discover how our Gender Equality Training Handbook has become a reference for European...

A premiere in the cluster community!🚀 As the first milestone, we focused our work over the past year on developing a practical handbook following these objectives: 👉 To identify good practices among EU clusters and policy makers at regional, national and EU level related to gender equality and...

On January 10, 2024, we were present at the EU Clusters Talks session addressing the topic of gender equality for SME competitiveness and sustainability. It was a great opportunity to not only introduce our activities, but also engage in a dialogue with cluster policy makers and cluster management...

In our second newsletter, we are pleased to inform you about our work during the last six months, that was mainly focused on engaging the cluster community in a dialogue on gender equality, either through a large (possibly largest!) collection of good practices in relation to clusters and their...

The 9th Congress of Polish Clusters took place on November 9th 2023 in Gdansk. One highlight of the program was the panel Clusters as Creators of New Business Models Considering Inclusiveness and Gender Equality, that was implemented as part of the DEBUTING project, covering also benefits for...

The third in-person interregional DEBUTING meeting took place 10-11 October in Strasbourg, France, where altogether more than 40 people - representing DEBUTING project partners, stakeholders, and the Grand Est region - met to discuss improving gender equality and inclusiveness and to learn from each...

DEBUTING is a project co-funded by the Interreg Europe programme, starting on 1 March 2023 and ending in May 2027. Ten European regions are represented in the project by policy authorities and public actors aiming to work together on making SMEs more sustainable and competitive by supporting them to...

On 22 November 2022 the PENELOPE Project - Innovative and pioneer cluster-based approach to foster and integrate gender mainstreaming strategies in European Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) - funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ programme was kicked-off in Aix-Les-Bains, France. What...