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 17.12.2019 another meeting of members and partners of the “Bioeconomy and Circulation Economy” platform was held.

Since the last meeting, many initiatives and projects related to circular economy have been created. The purpose of the meeting was to familiarize with current projects and initiatives, and the leading topic was the subject of “Cities and municipalities in a circular economy”.

The special guest of the meeting was a representative of a member of SPCleantech, the Małopolska Regional Development Agency (MARR), Barbara Grodowska, director of the Department of Innovation and Business Development and Roman Toft responsible, among others for financing of MARR initiatives.
 
During the meeting, director Grodowska presented initiatives and plans for next year regarding circular economy in Małopolska and “Financing opportunities for Małopolska entrepreneurs”.
 
SPCleantech presented its latest initiatives “Circular City – Circular economy in Construction” and “Industrial Symbiosis” joint project with LifeScience Cluster.
 
This time, Małopolskas municipalities, members of the Krakow Metropolis were invited to the meeting. The meeting was also attended by the director of the Department of Municipal Economy of Krakow, Wacław Skubida and Agnieszka Wadowska, head of the Team Implementation of the Spin Project of the Malopolska Marshal’s Office.