This section presents projects co-funded by the European Union with at least three EACN members participating in the consortium.
RESIST – REsilience through Sustainable processes and production for the European automotive InduSTry
RESIST brings together 5 clusters: 3 Automotive Transport Mobility clusters: CEAGA from Spain, Autoklastr from Czech Republic and Pôle véhicule du Futur from France and 2 manufacturing and digital clusters: iDiA from Spain and Biz-up from Austria. RESIST is a euro cluster which aims at helping more than 100 SMEs in their effort to become more sustainable and resilient, through co-funding for innovation projects, coaching and mentoring services, networking, training, and internationalisation services.
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EVOLUTE – wE striVe fOr cLUsTer Excellence in the Automotive and Land Machine Industry
EVOLUTE consisting of 6 clusters from Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Serbia, and Spain aims at building high performance clusters in the Automotive and Land Machinery Industry. Existing industry-relevant data will be analysed, future outcomes will be discussed with (industry-) partners to gain comprehensive knowledge to underline strategic decisions.
The results are intended to 1. sustainably raise the clusters to a new level of quality and 2. help companies and employees to be prepared for future challenges (e.g. disruptive developments, digital & green transformation, challenges due to Covid-19) through new offers and services.
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Duration | 02.2022 – 01.2024 |
Grant agreement | 101037932 |
Budget | 500.000 € |
Coordinator | Wirtschaftsförderung Raum Heilbronn GmbH, Germany |
![]() | Co-funded by the COSME programme of the European Union |
Website | https://project-evolute.eu/ |
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EACN for joint industrial modernisation investments
The European Automotive Cluster Network is an European project that aimed at strengthening Cluster-to-Cluster cooperation via a common collaboration strategy and joint cluster actions; at boosting competitiveness of cluster members, especially SMEs, via business creation, the initiation of collaborative research projects and of joint investments in industrial modernisation in the field of Industry of the Future; and at building a strategic interregional collaboration and strong industry cooperation focused on four pillars:
– Virtualisation for planning processes (simulation and modelling)
– Robotics & Artificial Intelligence in production processes
– Elasticity of production processes in SMEs
– Skills and competences of people
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Duration | 10.2018 – 01.2021 |
Grant agreement | 821989 |
Budget | 475.000 € |
Coordinator | Pôle Véhicule du Futur, France |
![]() | Co-funded by the COSME programme of the European Union |
![]() | The project has been labelled ESCP-S3 project. |
Website | EACN project website (static backup) |