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Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs ( DG GROW) has commended the actions of CEN and CENELEC for adopting technical guidance for fabric masks and making it freely available. The close collaboration between CEN and CENELEC was consolidated at the start of 2010...

Summary of the European Alliance Against Coronavirus Daily Webinar on 16 June 2020 Karel Vanderpoorten from DG Grow and Alessandro Rancati from EU Policy Lab introduced the Social Economy Canvas as a new tool to evaluate and analyze in detail social impacts. The model is designed for entrepreneurs...

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) has announced that it is still working to mitigate the socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Commission has been tasked with many responsibilities during the...

Since the very first hours of the Covid-19 crisis, European industrial clusters have shown an extraordinary capacity to spot the needs, adapt and react to address this extraordinary challenge. Thanks to their collaboration, solutions were found to address supply chain disruptions. Also following a...

In October 2018, during the concluding event of the European Social Economy Regions pilot, a group of policy makers and practitioners asked for more clarity on what should be considered “ Social Economy”. As a response, the Social Economy Unit at DG GROW and the EU Policy Lab at DG JRC initiated a...

The conference “ Responsible Industry Leading the Sustainable Development on the example of Industry Clusters Connecting Circular Economy”, organized by the Regional Council of Lapland in cooperation with European Commission (GROW.F2), Digipolis Oy (circular economy cluster) and City of Kemi...

A session on industrial ecosystems and open innovation took place last Thursday, 12 December 2019 during the COP25 Climate Summit in Madrid, Spain, where the example of business clusters was showcased as a driver for innovation and growth. The session was open by Ms. Eva Revilla, from the European...

A meeting with 50 managers of Gold-Label Clusters from 17 European countries was organised by DG GROW on December 4th in Brussels. It gathered about half of all Gold-label cluster organisations across in Europe. They together represent more than 6500 SMEs from across Europa, covering many sectors –...