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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On 26.01.2017 SPCleantech organized in cooperation with NordicHouse, INTECH PH, KIC InnoEnergy and Consulates of Denmark, Finland and Sweden  a conference for Start-ups “Unleash your creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship – create a Start-up!”

The conference took place at the Cracow University of Technology, Conference and Exhibition Pavilion “Kotłownia”, ul. Warszawska 24, Building 10-06 (hours10.00 – 15.30)

You are creative, innovative and entrepreneurial, you have an idea for a start-up, but do not know how to realize it?

On our conference you could learn what is a Start-up, how to initiate your business and succeed. We showed that, in this process as a beginning entrepreneur you are not alone. We presented individuals, organizations and institutions to which you can turn to in this difficult and risky process of creating a repeatable, scalable and profitable business model.

Conference programme:

09.30 – 10.00  Registration 

10.00 – 10.10  Opening of the conference

10.10 – 10.45 “You have an idea – what next? From an idea to a Start-up”, NordicHouse, South Poland Cleantech Cluster – Janusz Kahl

10.45 – 11.00  KIC InnoEnergy, Tomasz Jastrzębski

11.00 – 11.15 “INTECH PK’s proposal for young entrepreneurs”, INTECH PK – Cracow University of Technology’s special purpose company, Krzysztof Oleksy

11.15 – 11.45 “Start-up – funding at different levels of development. VC or business’s angels?’ Venture Capital Fund, Piotr Przewrocki

11.45 – 12.15  “Motorway of innovation – from an idea to an industry. Possibilities of gaining support from EU for receiving and leading a bussines activity”, Cracow University of Economics, Zofia Gródek-Szostak

1215 – 12.35 “Cooperation – the key to innovative projects”, Ogrody Przedsiębiorczości, coach, facilitator, Roman Warkocz

12.35 – 13.00  Coffee break

13.00 – 13.30 “Ready for a happiness” – how to animate and foster your own creativity”, Fundacja Laboratorium Innowacji i Kreatywności, Mirosława Długosz

13.30 – 14.00  “How does it happen that from nothing arises something? How does it happen that procedures and tools, though they are the most perfect, have not made the biggest commercial success yet? What differ logicians from creators? How to create your own history which will change the world?”, Jacek Kubrak

14.00 – 14.30  “First step in business – from what start planning development your own company and a few words about innovativeness”, Cracow University of Economics, Marek Makowiec

14.30 – 15.00  “Creative society – contemporary trade workshop”, Wytwórnia Kraków, Katarzyna Dulińska-Bochonko

15.00 – 15.30  “Pre-acceleration as a way of cooperation of scientists with business”, Kraków – miasto Start-upów, Michał Adamczyk

15.30                 End of the conference