In the face of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Bulgarian Furniture Cluster has designed and startedy producing Plexiglas Clear Screens. These innovative transparent screens can be placed in different kinds of work stations, including banks, offices, shops, etc. to protect both employees as well as the customers/clientsbfrom COVID-19 infection. The screens have an easy to install feature and can only...

The Spanish cluster network invites all Spanish manufacturers and suppliers to register and map the supply capacities of sanitary material to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This network consists of the FENAEIC - The National Federation of Innovative Business Groups and Clusters that joined forces with the Spanish Logistics Centre ( Centro Español de Logística) and the social organisation...

Researchers from the Telematic Engineering Department Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain have started a project that aims to provide contact-tracing solution with high privacy provisions using readily available data from large tech-companies. There is an increasing demand for digital solutions that allow realizing proximity-tracing in order to detect people that have been in contact...

Researchers from Univesidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain have launched a study to develop a prediction model that is able to mimic the spread of the disease along time and space. With the aim of understanding risk factors related to the spread and prevalence of COVID-19, such a model will incorporate supposed risk factors and provide different results depending on the conditions of spread...

At the start of the crisis, Orkestra created the COVID-19 Regional Competitiveness Observatory with the intention of providing analysis and reflections to support responses to the socioeconomic impacts that COVID-19 is generating in all regions. The observatory includes two main sections: A more analytical section where you can find specific reports on the impacts of COVID-19 . The first in this...

The New York Times has launched a booklet with answers to pressing questions about the Coronavirus: symptoms, social distancing and more. It is based on the contributions of hundreds of reporters and editors working around the clock and on multiple continents to understand and explain the coronavirus outbreak and its effects. Written from a journalist perspective, the booklet gives an overview on...

The INTERREG project CHAIN REACTIONS that aims on “Driving smart industrial growth through value chain innovation”, will adjust its activities in order to reflect the current COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impacts on industrial value chains in the Central Europe region. The project deals with five key sectors based on their embedding in regional smart specialization strategies. These include...

The German biotech companies BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. have announced that the German regulatory authority, the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, has approved the Phase 1/2 clinical trial for BioNTech’s BNT162 vaccine program to prevent COVID-19 infection. The trial is the first clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate to start in Germany, and is part of a global development programme. The company...

France Clusters has published new newsletters that aim to capitalisate initiatives and to enable readers to draw lessons at the end of the Covid-19 crisis. The newsletters is called PROJET SIMAC ( Suivi des Initiatives, Mesures, Actualités liées à la crise COVID19). To read edition 5 of this newsletter (in French) please click here. To read more newsletters and gain access to France Clusters...

The PropTech Bulgaria report on the effect of the pandemic has revealed that 38.5% of Bulgarian property technology (PropTech) companies have not encountered any decrease in demand for their services. For a part of these companies the corona crisis has even influenced the demand favourably. They are experiencing a considerable increase for services due to a number of decisive advantages, namely...