Welcome to the in-person matchmaking on "Boosting talent as a key driver for future sustainable competitiveness”
The next ECCP in-person matchmaking event will be held in the context of Cluster Meet Regions event "Boosting talent as a key driver for future sustainable competitiveness" on Thursday 15th December 2022 in Barcelona, Spain.
Participation in the “Boosting talent as a key driver for future sustainable competitiveness” Matchmaking Event will be free of charge.
Priority Areas
Talent is one of the main pillars of the Catalonia Clusters programme and it translates in providing specific flagship programmes training and capacity building to cluster teams. Food, Energy and Mobility are also among Catalonia’s RIS3 priorities and together these industries directly involve more than half of Catalan clusters.
Food - Agri-food industry is one the main engines of the Catalan economy with over 33Bn € of aggregate turnover. In addition to its relevant economic value, this sector has a strong impact on the society and the environment. The sustainable transition in this domain includes challenges along the complex food value chain like the digitalization of agriculture, the way in which food is produced following circular economy criteria or reducing the impact of food-packaging and natural resource optimization.
In Catalonia, there are five clusters specifically related to food.
Energy - The energy ecosystem is at the centre of the transformation of the entire productive model world-wide and Catalonia is not an exception. The challenges generated by value-chain decarbonization and the transition towards an ideal neutral emission industry require the involvement of multiple actors and a clear bet for clean-tech industry. This sector, which has an aggregate direct value of over 16 bn €, has multiple actors in Catalonia and three main clusters in the programme (Efficient Energy, Biomass and Water management).
Mobility - Mobility is the means for people to access what they need be it the workplace, markets, education, or social interaction and, as such, it has the potential to improve people’s everyday lives.
The Catalan mobility ecosystem is particularly comprehensive including more than 400 companies and a great variety of other related stakeholders and its aggregate turnover amounts to some 30bn € (including automotive, light mobility and railway industries) and three main clusters: the automotive, railway and light mobility clusters.
Who can participate
The Matchmaking event will bring together cluster organisations, business network organisations, companies, scaling-up support organisations, and investors from the EU (and non-EU COSME), countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) and countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) - with the exception of Belarus that is not eligible to participate.
The in-person matchmaking event will be followed by the Clusters meet Regions workshop. More information could be found on the Clusters Meet Regions event page.
Event activities
The event will consist of several activities, that will take place in following dates:
- 7th Dec 2022 (09h30 - 10h30 CET) An online preparatory webinar will be held to provide guidance on how to successfully participate in the planned event and to familiarize future participants with the theme and business environment. This session will be held online it will be an occasion to obtain also technical guidance on how to successfully participate in the Matchmaking event.
- 15th Dec 2022 (08h45 – 09h45 CET). One in-person matchmaking breakfast.
More information can be found in the Agenda and Webinar section.
