Objective
The BIOCLUS objective is to boost the regional competitiveness and growth in five European cluster regions: Wielkopolska (Poland), Slovakia, Western Macedonia (Greece), Navarre (Spain) and Central Finland. The project promotes collaboration and integration and supports the sustainable development of research related communities by • Promoting expertise competence at the cluster and consortium level • Developing collaboration capabilities within each cluster and at the consortium level • Improving business environment innovation through mutual learning and mentoring The BIOCLUS clusters are located in rural regions and all possess great biomass resources such as forests, industrial and agricultural by-products, field crops and municipal wastes. The biomasses are challenging raw material and utilisation chains require special technical and practical competence and applications. However, the global trend is that renewable resources should replace non-renewable ones and resource use should be efficient and sustainable. Therefore, the clusters aim to improve the RTD activities and innovation system development. Furthermore, biomass related activities can not be totally outsourced. This means that biomass resources offer great possibility to BIOCLUS regions in promoting regional prosperity in economical and social terms. The project implementation is supported by advantageous Quality Management system and proper Communication Management. Besides, it is ensured with appropriate Conflict Management and Risk Management. In the areas of expertise and experience with biomass related activities and innovation system development, the Dissemination Strategy ensures proper interaction and information dissemination with stakeholders and the public.
Fields of science
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-REGIONS-2009-1
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Funding Scheme
CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actionsCoordinator
40200 Jyvaskyla
Finland
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Participants (19)
40100 Jyväskylä
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40100 Jyvaskyla
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02044 VTT ESPOO
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40100 Jyväskylä
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31621 Sarriguren
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31002 Pamplona
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31400 Sangüesa
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
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501 00 Kozani
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51100 Grevena
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501 00 KOZANI
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960 01 Zvolen
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97566 Banska Bystrica
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984 01 LUCENEC
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811 03 Bratislava
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61 714 POZNAN
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63-300 Pleszew
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40101 Jyväskylä
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05-090 FALENTY
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