On 20 January, EACN organised the network’s General Assembly.
This was a great opportunity to review what happened in 2025. It was a year full of events and activities:
- NOHAC (Hungary) and FTD LT (Lithuania) joined the network
- Members organised various European events, on their own and in collaboration with ECCP and the European Commission
- Internal exchanges strengthened cluster excellence and lead to joint documents and position papers,
- and, especially, EACN members have been very successful in acquiring new Euroclusters and I3 projects, ensuring access to European cascade funding for SMEs from the automotive sector.
Read the full Activity Report here:
The General Assembly has been completed with an interesting round table about challenges on regional/national automotive stakeholders with the participation of Tuulia Haveri from VAMOS Ecosystem (Finland), Bartosz Mielecki from the Polish Automotive Group, Tanja Mohorič from GIZ AC Slovenia, and Josep Nadal from CIAC (Spain) highlighting challenges such as uncertainty and unpredictability, increased international competition, esp. from China, high (energy) costs and taxes, lack of skilled talents and others. The main outcome was, that despite being different countries with different traditions, challenges are very similar.
