The FORESDA Final Conference will be organized in the beautiful City of Opatija (Croatia) on 4th of June!

FORESDA wants to show that it is possible to transform the forest-based industries (FBI) into attractive and sustainable industry sectors by developing innovative products and services that come as a result of the cooperation with another economy sectors, such as agriculture, construction, pharmaceutics, etc.

Join the FORESDA partners in Opatija if you are interested in forest-based industries and cross sectoral and transnational cooperation, networking and learning about what FORESDA has achieved!

FORESDA is an Interreg Danube Project, funded by the European Union, and CyberForum e.V. acts as lead partner. The project, which has started on 01.01.2017, is running for 30 months.

The 6th 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 Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The conference will feature high-level policy discussions, inspiring speeches and practical good practice examples about recent and future priorities for cluster policies and developments to support sustainable industrial modernisation and interregional cooperation.

The spotlight will be on building bridges among the different actors of the cluster community, and discussions will focus on topics such as digitisation and skills gap, circular economy, shared value and social impact. The conference will use an interactive approach, where participants will be invited to actively contribute, collaborate and co-create.

Find more information on http://www.eucluster2019.eu/.

Each year, the members of the Council of European BioRegions meet to discuss, network, receive and provide information on the past current and future state of clusters within the life science sector.

The conference takes place on the first day, with speakers from the public and private sector. It provides an opportunity for cluster managers to understand in more detail the local life science cluster ecosystem. In 2019, this will be the Athens vibrant scene.

Find more information about the event here.

The European Commission has the pleasure to announce the EU Cluster Weeks main Anchor event that will take place on 1-2 April 2019, in the Hanover Fair premises (Hanover, Germany), in cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), in the context of the German Cluster Week 2019 kick-off event.

The EU Cluster Weeks anchor event will notably promote cluster internationalisation opportunities, and more specifically with Canada, in close cooperation with the Canadian Innovation, Science and Economic Development Ministry (ISED)

This event will be opened with high-level keynote speeches and will offer several networking possibilities.

If you wish to be part of this unique opportunity, please save the date: a call for expression of interest, with reimbursement possibilities, can be submitted until 27.02.2019: more information can be found here.

To be part of the EU Cluster Weeks campaign, apply here !

On March 27, the event will be an opportunity to exchange information on the importance of intellectual property (IP) for European SMEs doing business in Latin America, China and Southeast Asia. If an SME goes international without protection, its brand is vulnerable to copycats, and its intellectual assets are exposed to risk. More specifically, the event will aim to:

• inform SME intermediaries on the SME instrument and the IP services offered by the Helpdesks (with live case studies from companies);