Hervé Floch, EUCLES President, participated in the last edition of the C2Lab (Cluster Collaboration Labs) event, held in Strasbourg, France, on 25-26 September 2024, co-organised by ECCP and AFPC. C2Lab is an interactive workshop-style event for companies, cluster organisations, financial providers, actors from civil society, and other interested entities to establish new collaborations and to develop project roadmaps.
Herve Floch at C2Lab
The C2Lab is the place to meet potential partners, discuss project ideas, and initiate collaboration or join with a concrete project proposal.
EUCLES team and AFPC actively involved in the C2Lab event organisation
On this occasion, AFPC team, on behalf of the CAFEIN projects partners, presented the latest outcomes of the project that ended last August. CAFEIN has drafted a Joint Action Plan (JAP) to facilitate the twin transitions, green and digital, for SMEs, and to strengthen links within the EU’s innovation ecosystems and facilitate cross-border cooperation to address global challenges such as climate change. This JAP, signed by all CAFEIN partners from the 5 countries concerned (Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden) and their corresponding national/regional innovation agencies, was also signed during the C2Lab in person by Bpifrance, and joined on the same day by other national/regional networks of clusters present on site (Lithuania and Romania). The CAFEIN team is always interested in attracting new JAP signatories (national/regional cluster associations and innovation agencies from all over Europe…).
Bpifrance signing the JAP agreement
Lithuanian and Romanian national/regional networks of clusters joining the CAFEIN movement
A CAFEIN strategical workshop was also organized, where 3 clusters participated including representatives from Greece, Finland and France, and one of the outcomes was the importance of the labelling knowledge transfer to be addressed in a coming CAFEIN’s Think-Tank…
The “CAFEIN and beyond” working group at the C2Lab
The “CAFEIN and beyond” working group outcomes
EUCLES was positioned in the strategy planning as a key recognition axe, with the objective to continually update the indicators (as for instance after the Draghi report).
