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June 15, 2018 Last month the Foundation, in association with IESE Business School, held its Competitiveness Summer School, the annual agora for policy makers and senior practitioners in economic development. The training week went fast and it was a great experience to see the engagement level...

In May 2018 the Nazarbayev University School of Public Administration in Astana was once again host to the final training week of the SME Competitiveness programme in Kazakhstan. Funded by the Ministry of National Economy (MNE) of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the 12-month training aimed at capacity...

What is the difference between branding and marketing? What are the challenges of branding and marketing a cluster? How to cut through the noise and catch the attention of your target groups in an increasingly saturated communications environment? These are some of the questions discussed in the...

POSITION YOUR CLUSTER IN A EUROPEAN DIMENSION AND LEARN HOW TO GRASP NEW OPPORTUNITIES! The training workshop has the general goals to teach participants how to grasp the opportunities Europe has to offer for clusters and competitiveness pôles and will address topics such as: - How to develop a...

Key action 3: Support for policy reform Social inclusion and common values: the contribution in the field of education, training and youth (2018/C 106/08) The submission deadline is: 22 May 2018 — 13.00 (Brussels time). This call for proposals will support transnational cooperation projects in the...

1st Joint training in TRACE-KEI, was held on 28-29 of June in Bari, Italy where more than 14 cluster managers were involved in the training. The training aimed at giving the TRACE-KEI cluster managers a deeper knowledge on Industry analysis, Market Segmentation and Value chain analysis. The training...

10 Clusters belonging to two different COSME programmes including CLUSGRID and INNO-DROP participated in a 4 day training workshop in Berlin from April 25 to April 28. There were 4 experienced and professional trainers responsible for the program, who seeked to strengthen cluster management and...

Brussels, 25-26 September At the end of 2016 France Clusters organized a web conference to help you, clusters, to figure out which call for projects you can apply for at European level. Marc Pattinson, Managing Director of Inno TSD, expert on clusters and European issues, and coordinator of the...

For EU managers working in manufacturing companies. Participate in the 5-day "World Class Manufacturing" training mission in Japan! The EU-Japan Centre is currently inviting applications for the next training missions in Japan financed by the European Commission and hope it will be of your interest...

Publication reference: CLUSTEM/TRAINING/02/2016 Programme: COSME Countries: Turkey, Italy, Spain United Kingdom Duration and timing: 4 months in total, January 2017 – April 2017. A public call for applicants is open for the task indicated in the subject. The attached Term of Reference provide...

A complete range of free training courses provided by the European Commission to discover how design-driven innovation can become the key to improve European SMEs competitiveness, efficiency and sustainability. The European Commission launched Design for Enterprises, or #Design4Enterprises, a three...

Catalonia was a pioneer country in terms of cluster policy, starting at 1992. Since then, there’s been a continuous cluster policy for more than 2 decades. One of the main takeaways of this long cluster experience is that cluster managers are a key success factor in a cluster initiative. It’s not...