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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Matchmaking & B2B Networks

South Poland Cleantech Cluster connects through the process of matchmaking companies with complementary R&D, technology or business strengths that aim to explore opportunities for mutually beneficial R&D collaboration or business partnerships.

Our technology or business matchmaking events, activities and related initiatives provide innovators with the opportunity to gather and exchange information, network with and source potential partners, customers or prospective employees, promote their research, organization or innovation interests and discuss collaborative R&D or business projects.

If you own a small business, networking can be an inexpensive way to promote your business. Through networking, you can discover new opportunities, build your customer base and find new suppliers and staff. You may also find investors and business partners.

Networking options are broad and continually changing. South Poland Cleantech Cluster will show you how to research networking trends to work out which ones best suit your business.

Our matchmaking and network activities will contain:

  1. Conferences and events
    SPCleantech will help you in regular attending breakfasts, seminars, lectures and lunches that are held by various groups. These events are usually organized by our cluster or by our external partners that we cooperate with. You can invite others in your field or from your local area to attend as well.
  2. Business contacts
    SPCleantech will help you in focusing on developing relationships with relevant key people or people that face similar challenges and work out how you might be able to help each other.
  3. External partners
    SPCleantech will help you to join networking groups run through our external partners. Joining these groups will help you keep up to date with changes in your industry, and will get you invited to networking events.
  4. Networking groups
    Joining SPCleantech`s networking groups will give you a chance to meet people from a wide range of small- to medium-sized businesses.
  5. Personal contacts and social events
    Networking through other members of SPCleantech can be a great way to establish strong business relationships.

You might meet someone who could be useful for your business, or someone whose business you can help, at a social event organized by SPCleantech.