The European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP), on behalf of the European Commission, invites regional and local authorities, innovation agencies, and relevant public bodies to express their interest in hosting a Clusters Meet Regions workshop in the second half of 2025. This is a rare opportunity to bring a high-level European event to your region and position your ecosystems at the centre of industrial transformation, cluster collaboration, and innovation-driven growth. Only a limited number of hosting opportunities remain for 2025, ideally for the months of October or November. About...
FRIEND CCI: 2nd Open Call for project proposals dedicated to SMEs to reinforce innovation and internationalisation in Cultural and Creative Industries
The project FRIEND CCI aims at contributing to an improved resilience of the European Industrial Ecosystem of Creative and Cultural Industries (CCI) and to its green and digital transformation, by supporting the SMEs by offering them financial support in the form of grants, directed to the development and implementation of cross-sectoral projects aimed to bring innovation both at the level of products and at the level of processes/ technologies, with a specific eye on the needs linked to the twin transition. To this end, the support will entail mandatory training and upskilling/ reskilling...
Training/Services Open Call
This Training/Services Open call consist of three different strands: the two first ones will allow European SMEs to pursue trainings/services related to Green Transition and Internationalisation and the third one - the International mission support scheme - will help SMEs in attending the PIMAP4Sustainability Japan mission that will take place in June 2024. 1/ Any support services increasing the resilience and boosting the green transition - 5000€ : Eco-innovation consultancy Feasibility studies Design draft of equipment ICT consultancy APP’s development Technical, economic, and environmental...