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.
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SPCleantech as Pre-Accelarator Point for Polish start-ups organized on 15.12.2016 the sixth workshop “How to build a successful Start-up” 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.

Once you have a set of customers and a business model to test, you begin the testing process by discovering the customer’s needs, wants and pains (problems), and how important they are for them, showing the customer a prototype version of your solution (MVP) and measuring their reaction.

As an entrepreneur, it’s hard to resist the urge to make the best version of your product before you show it to customers – but it’s an urge you must resist to be successful. Otherwise, you’ll spend unnecessary time and money building something that might be perfect, but that nobody wants to buy.

To make your startup lean you can use Business Model Canvas to map out the way you intend to make money. It is made up of 9 parts, which illustrates how the 9 aspects of the business interact with each other – the startup’s business model. In order to create a profitable business, you need to think about and plan each part of the Canvas, not just your solution.

At some point, every entrepreneur is faced with a major decision: “Do we continue with what we’re doing, or do we make a major change in our business model?”

  • A startup is not a smaller version of a large company
  • You don’t need a business plan, you need a business model
  • Don’t waste time and money building something nobody wants
  • Successful startups don’t build products, they solve problems
  • A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value
  • A great product will fail without a good business model
  • Startups exist to create and test hypotheses until they find a working business model
  • A minimum viable product (MVP) helps startups run experiments quickly and effectively
  • Every startup must decide whether to pivot or proceed

Our mentors: Arne Grove (DK) and Janusz Kahl

Pictures from the workshop