A live webinar about the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Energy Efficiency Market will be held on the 12 th of May 2020 at 13:00 EEST (12:00 CEST). The hosts include Enterprise Ireland, Clean Energy Business Council, and the International Energy Agency. The speakers will be: Head of Energy Efficiency at the International Energy Agency (IEA), Brian Motherway. Executive Director at Dubai...

French clusters have been mobilising their teams and networks to contribute and develop innovative solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Many cosmetic, agri-food and textile clusters are diversifying their activities in order to produce medical equipment such as masks and hydroalcoholic gels or implementing platforms to draw up an inventory of companies and hospitals' needs. Digital clusters...

Danish clusters have always been very active in the globalisation of SMEs even before the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the clusters were active in more than 60 countries supporting 1,000s of SMEs to internationalise every year. In the recent online session hosted by Cluster Excellence Denmark, 15 internationalisation specialists from 15 Danish cluster organisations discussed the changes...

In Turin, Italy, over eighty companies, public and private institutions have formed an alliance to strengthen the local ecosystem and to improve the quality of doing business and finance by pursuing economic goals along with social impact objectives. It has been a very good example of how profit and non-profit, public, and private entities can join forces to achieve a common goal. They joined the...

In Romania, the main organisers of Transylvanian festivals and economic stakeholders as well as some public institutions, have created a joint endeavour, to access funding, logistic expertise, production, local and international connections to cover the needs for equipment, hygiene, social support and information of the hospitals and social carers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Un Singur Cluj (One...

The Spanish Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI, Spain's School of Industrial Organisation) is a public educational body of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. It provides support programmes for Spanish SMEs that are taking extraordinary measures to tackle the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The services provided by EOI include individual consulting for financial and legal matters in...

The Portuguese online platform Tech4COVID19 has just implemented a new service called Teachers4Covid. The platforms that brings together more than 5,000 specialists and experts (e.g. engineers, designers, marketers, health professionals) has evolved into a technological community that fights the COVID-19 pandemic in unity. The Teachers4Covid project has been created to help families deal with...

The Polish Neotech Cluster which specialises in the design and manufacturing of machines and devices is currently in search of materials for testing the production of protective masks on an automatic machine. The materials used for the protective masks are: One pack of outer layer; One pack of inner protective layer; One pack of inner layer; and One pack of Aluminum sheet for stiffeners. The...

The exceptional situation generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic has caused great concern about its negative impact on the health of individuals and companies. The confinement through self-isolation stage has been marked by great interrogations that governments and citizens are responding to as the weeks go by; however, the business world needs anticipation, vision, and planning to succeed in the face...

The Romanian health and bioeconomy cluster ROHEALTH Association has launched an organised, centralised and transparent fundraising campaign to gather protective materials to protect medical staff of ROHEALTH-affiliated hospitals against a COVID-19 infection (e.g. COVID-tests, protection glasses, gowns, masks, etc.). All donations and the allocation of funds from these donations will be made public...