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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Goals for the next 5 years

  • continues introduction of new cleantech technologies and services
  • creation of 500 new jobs
  • introduction of 25 foreign companies to the cluster
  • facilitation of 35 new research and innovation projects between companies and research institutions, for example start-ups or joint research applications/projects
  • starting collaborations with 15 international cleantech clusters
  • establishing of a financially independent and self supporting organization with minimum 250 members
  • helping minimum 50 entrepreneurs in developing their business
  • organizing a minimum of 100 events

The overall objective of the cluster is the realization of the state and the regions policy by providing a faster growth in the regions cleantech companies, creating new and attracting foreign companies, investment and talent.

South Poland Cleantech Cluster implements these objectives by stimulating the demand of companies for innovation and scientific research, including:

  • projects “from concept to market”
  • supporting the creation and development of R & D infrastructure in enterprises
  • supporting the implementation of results of R & D
  • preparing enterprises to participate in international programs
  • internationalization of innovative companies
  • mediation in dealing with joint venture funds, business angels and seed capital funds