The COVID-19 outbreak is placing overwhelming pressure on healthcare infrastructures across the globe. Since early 2020, swiftly and on a massive scale, convention and exhibition centres have become part of the front line in fighting the disease, from serving as ICU hospitals to conducting thousands of tests a day. Many members of the International Association of Convention Centres (AIPC) and the...

Asociatia SMURD Galați is the management entity of the Innovative Health Cluster called Dunărea de Jos from the city of Galați in Romania. Asociatia SMURD Galati aims to develop the cluster and promote information and technology transfer to increase the performance of Smal and Medium Enterprises by collaborating with Research, Development, and Innovation entities (RDI). Asociatia supports the...

The Łukasiewicz-Institute of Aviation, a member of the Silesian Aviation Cluster, is currently offering research services of top quality. Following certified procedures, their highly qualified staff has been working intensively on the production of protective materials for hospitals amidst the global health crisis of COVID-19. In accredited laboratories t hey manufacture and produce protective...

A live webinar about the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on the Energy Efficiency Market will be held on the 12 th of May 2020 at 13:00 EEST (12:00 CEST). The hosts include Enterprise Ireland, Clean Energy Business Council, and the International Energy Agency. The speakers will be: Head of Energy Efficiency at the International Energy Agency (IEA), Brian Motherway. Executive Director at Dubai...

French clusters have been mobilising their teams and networks to contribute and develop innovative solutions to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Many cosmetic, agri-food and textile clusters are diversifying their activities in order to produce medical equipment such as masks and hydroalcoholic gels or implementing platforms to draw up an inventory of companies and hospitals' needs. Digital clusters...

Danish clusters have always been very active in the globalisation of SMEs even before the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Most of the clusters were active in more than 60 countries supporting 1,000s of SMEs to internationalise every year. In the recent online session hosted by Cluster Excellence Denmark, 15 internationalisation specialists from 15 Danish cluster organisations discussed the changes...

In Turin, Italy, over eighty companies, public and private institutions have formed an alliance to strengthen the local ecosystem and to improve the quality of doing business and finance by pursuing economic goals along with social impact objectives. It has been a very good example of how profit and non-profit, public, and private entities can join forces to achieve a common goal. They joined the...

In Romania, the main organisers of Transylvanian festivals and economic stakeholders as well as some public institutions, have created a joint endeavour, to access funding, logistic expertise, production, local and international connections to cover the needs for equipment, hygiene, social support and information of the hospitals and social carers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Un Singur Cluj (One...

The Spanish Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI, Spain's School of Industrial Organisation) is a public educational body of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. It provides support programmes for Spanish SMEs that are taking extraordinary measures to tackle the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The services provided by EOI include individual consulting for financial and legal matters in...

The Portuguese online platform Tech4COVID19 has just implemented a new service called Teachers4Covid. The platforms that brings together more than 5,000 specialists and experts (e.g. engineers, designers, marketers, health professionals) has evolved into a technological community that fights the COVID-19 pandemic in unity. The Teachers4Covid project has been created to help families deal with...