Commission launches 24 European Strategic Cluster Partnerships to boost SME internationalisation | Brussels, 8 th March 2016

On 8th March, DG GROW (European Commission Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and EASME (Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises), launched an event “Clusters go international, which integrate 24 European Strategic Cluster Partnerships to boost SME internationalisation, as a result of the COSME call “Cluster Go International”. As also was launched the new European Cluster Collaboration Platform.

Materialix´s Consortium members integrates the ESCP-4i called WIINTECH 2020 (Worldwide Intercluster Initiative for New Materials and Processes focused on Clean Technologies) that accepted to keep working on the joint cooperation agenda without direct co-funding from the Commission. This partnership involve 7 european Clusters/business network: Plastipólis (coordinator), Pool-Net (Portugal), AVEP (Spain), PROPLAST (Italy), BUSINESS UPPER AUSTRIA Ltd (Austria), CCIS (Slovenia), VENETO NANOTECH (Italy).

The main objetive of this partnership is to support the internationalisation of their SME members towards third countries beyond Europe, and to contribute to boosting growth, jobs and investment in Europe.