The European Cluster Collaboration Platform is an open community. It is a service facility aiming to provide cluster organisations with modern tools.

These tools allow to:

• make efficient use of networking instruments (search/find potential partners and  opportunities)
• develop collaboration trans-nationally (within Europe) and internationally (beyond Europe)
• support the emergence of new value chains through cross-sectorial cooperation
• access the latest quality information on cluster development
• improve their performance and increase their – as well as their members’ - competitiveness.

The services include:

• a dynamic mapping of more than 800 profiled cluster organisations worldwide 
• the largest information hub for clusters offering latest news/events/open calls to a broad community via the ECCP Weekly Digest
• matchmaking events supporting the development of cooperation between clusters in Europe and beyond
• a unique database on regional, national, international and sectoral cluster networks
• detailed information on the European Strategic Cluster Partnerships
• a partner search facility, where cluster organisations can exchange their offers and demands
• dedicated pages supporting international cooperation including profiles of selected countries of strategic interest and related European international support services
• a unique database of profiled cluster-related projects developed under various European programmes.

The ECCP addresses primarily the needs of cluster managements, but its rich content is useful for both the SME cluster members and for the cluster policy makers at regional, national or international level.Although the European cluster organisations, by their number and long history of development, make an important part of the platform, ECCP is open and connected to the whole world, with a special focus on certain specific third countries of strategic interest (see “International Cooperation”).

Being at the service of cluster organisations, with a unique offer of facilities and tools to create a favourable environment for collaboration to emerge and develop, ECCP aims to become the leading European hub for international cluster cooperation, building cluster bridges between Europe and the world.