Smart V4 Strategies

South Poland Cleantech Cluster participates in a newly started Visegrad project together with partners – Czech Smart City Cluster, Slovak Smart City Cluster and Digitalis Jolet nonprofit from Hungary. The project “Smart V4 Strategies” was awarded financing support from the Visegrad Fund.

The aim of the project is to connect relevant partners in the given area of SMART strategies and prepare procedures for classification of SMART strategies in V4 countries into one complex database portal. The project offers V4 partners international cooperation in unifying SMART strategies to GreenDeal/SDG rules. The vision is to strengthen the unity and effectiveness in implementation of SMART strategies in all V4 countries.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

is the initiator of the krk UrbanHub project - a sustainable CEE (Central- and Eastern European) urbanization hub
krakowurbanhub is a partner in the urbanhub europe consortium of European cities consisting of BLOXHUB in Copenhagen, KIRAHub in Helsinki, Munich Urban Colab, FACTORY Hammerbrooklyn Hamburg, FAKTORY Berlin, Urban Resilience Hub Barcelona
krk UrbanHub is a national and international meeting place that engages people in architecture, design and sustainable urban development. This is done through exhibitions, debates, events, business development and new partnerships.
krk UrbaHhub is an ecosystem for creating cities of the future, and at the same time a space to share ideas, skills and strategies for designing buildings and urban development based on a people-centered approach and high standards of sustainable development, and a membership-based community combining urban development, architecture, design, design, construction, circular economy and digitization.
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South Poland Cleantech Cluster

SPCleantech is co-founder of European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments (ICEI Alliance) consisting of European clusters and universities. During 2020-2021 there have been held meetings to prepare the establishment of the European Alliance for Cross- Industrial Circular Economy Investments, hosted by the Circular Economy Centre at Digipolis, Kemi, Finland.

The ICEI Alliance has for ambition to make Europe the global industrial circular economy platform to accelerate the deployment of world-class circular economy solutions to industry. It acts as a pipeline of business-led circular economy investment projects. Alliance members support businesses with the structuring of their investment cases as well as with accessing funding and financing streams.
More information on ICEI Alliance

SPCleantech as Pre-Accelerator Point for Polish startups organized on 27.06.2016 the third workshop “Find your customer first !!!” of the series of 6 workshops and 2 conferences. The aim of the workshop was to provide experiences of Polish and Scandinavian mentors to Polish start-ups and coaches. SPCleantech is working with a group of experienced mentors from Denmark, Finland and Sweden.

“The goal of a start-up is to figure out the right thing to build – the thing customers want and will pay for – as quickly as possible.” – Eric Ries,  “If you’ve invnted something new but you haven’t invented an effective way to sell it, you have a bad business – no matter how good the product.” – Peter Thiel

You might think your idea or innovation is great, but if you want to start a business, it doesn’t matter what you think. What matters is what the customer think.

During this workshop our mentors presented a new customer-centric model of working with start-ups and told about:

  • Different sales & revenue models
  • Sales manager – his responsibilities and skills profile
  • Direct and indirect sales channels
  • Diagnosing clients needs and satisfaction
  • Building sales team
  • Pricing models for different target groups and products (from success fee to monthly subscription to unit price)
  • Building long term relationships with key clients
  • Sales proposition – its structure, message and layout

There was limited number of places. Workshop was in English.

Special guests during the workshop were Rafał Szczepanik (PL) and Magnus Lüttkens (S).

Rafał Szczepanik-CV                   CV-Magnus Lüttkens.se                 3. workshop

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