Natureef project wishes to better understand its target third country ecosystems with focus on the applicability of four Natural Resources Efficiency priorities. This knowledge will enable participating clusters to promote natural resources efficiency business in South America, Asia and ASEAN Countries for enterprises based in Natureef cluster consortium countries. The first study visit went to Latin America, Colombia. The main objectives were to have a general overview of 1.) natural resources in Colombia and 2.) the agricultural sector in Colombia with focus on flowers and plant industry (fruits, vegetables etc.) During the visit, Mr. Pierre Petronelli was also presented...

Natureef Clusters have started a common walk to come out globally with a better natural resource efficiency First press release have been published. You can check it on: Press release Szczecin Business Portal – in Polish FEMAC webpage – in Spanish...

Innoskart was invited to make the first Natureef promotional workshop in Hungary on 23rd March as part of a Visegrad Fund project final conference. Some good examples of naturel resource products from Spain, France and Hungary were presented. It was also underlined how the European Commission through Natureef initiative help smes with their efforts to go international: to Latin American, ASAEN countries and China. Innoskart also showed its practice of building international network and partnership which can be a good practice for other Hungarian clusters as...

Green Synergy Cluster, one of the members of NATUREEF consortium, widely promoted the project around the region. A detailed description appears in the 2016 Plovdiv’s region business yearbook. It has been largely disseminated through companies and within the webpage of the Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce. You fill find the full document in the Plovdiv Chamber of Commerce Natureef project you will find it in page 45   See the...

The goal of the Foresight Workshop on 23rd January in Berlin was to define the most promising and dynamic areas of future change in industrial transformation and cluster-development, collaboration and value creation. It will help to identify hypotheses and key variables for the subsequent in-depth analysis, which will form the basis for different scenarios about cluster futures.using the innovative Visual Road-Mapping Technique (link to additional information ), to outline possible development paths for cross-cluster collaboration.The workshop where 15 countries were represented, was organised by the European Cluster Observatory and VDI/VDE-IT. Enric Pèdrós, Cluster Manager at FEMAC took part on...

  Last 20th October, 6 members of NATUREEF consortium meet each other in the European Cluster Conference. CREA Hydro&Energy, Vegepolys,Agrocluster, Green Chemistry, INNOSKART and FEMAC They had the chance to talk about the new incoming call for ESCPs under COSME programme “Clusters Go International” where a Joint International Strategy will be defined in order to avoid conflicts between the partners and to give the project a clear focus on areas where cooperation and share interests are the strongest for all the members in the consortium The call is expected by December...

On Tuesday 4. March Liyana Adjarova and Ivanka Bogunska representing the Green Synergy Cluster from Bulgaria visited The Innovation Network for Biomass (INBIOM) in Denmark represented by Jacob Mogensen and Knud Tybirk.  The aim of the meeting between the 2 clusters was to discuss joint cluster collaborative projects with the aim of internationalization of their members. Also on the agenda was the deliberation of project ideas for future European Projects within the framework of Horizon 2020. It was a very productive meeting which also included a guided tour on the Aarhus University in Foulum including the impressive biogas testing...

Last 18th February Dr. Akuma Saningong, Cluster Manger of BIOMASTEC, met Miss Elisabeth Molina, project manager of FEMAC i the Wallonia Mission of growth in La Louvière, Belgique. They could exchange their impressions regarding the NATUREEF consortium and they went further on in the proposal, which will be presented during this April or...

Biomastec (www.biomastec.com), an innovation and technology network of EurA Consult was visited by representatives of the Green Synergy Cluster from Bulgaria (www.greensynergycluster.eu/en). Green Synergy Cluster (GSC) is a concentration of interconnected companies and institutions in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies in Plovdiv Region. The mission of GSC is to promote, support and stimulate the implementation of innovative energy efficiency projects, renewable energy sources, energy and “green” projects in real and competitive market within the region of Plovdiv. GSC is made of up of 14 partners from industry and academia and it is managed by a three-membered...