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News archive - Greece supports the creation and development of innovation clusters in thematic sectors

Greece supports the creation and development of innovation clusters in thematic sectors presenting existing or potential competitive advantage for the country.

Specifically, following an open call for proposals, the General Secretariat for Research & Technology of the Ministry of Education of Greece will finance a two-years pilot operation phase of 4 innovation clusters of 18.396,773 € total funding, in the following thematic sectors:

Information Technology, Telecommunications and Knowledge-Intensive Servicesà2 innovation clusters
Energy and Environmentà1 innovation cluster
Health and Biomedicineà1 innovation cluster

In particular, on the one hand, the cluster facilitator is funded for the co-ordination of the cluster, the supply of necessary services towards the participating enterprises, the development of common infrastructure and the coverage of the operational costs to the benefit of the cluster. On the other hand, 58 enterprises are funded for their innovative activities, such as development of prototypes, general and/or specific training, participation in fairs, promotion of products and eventually the relocation in a common infrastructure.

The four (4) innovation clusters are the following:

FACILITATOR	Sector	Project Title	Project Coordinator
CIVIL ENTERPRISE FOR B/T, BIOSCIENCES AND CULTURE	Health and Biomedicine	LIFE SCIENCES CLUSTER IN GREECE - BIONIAN	konto@biosbbc.org Vassilios Kontokolias
Corallia Clusters Initiative	Information Technology, Telecommunications and Knowledge-Intensive Services	Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster - si-Cluster	j.sanchez@corallia.org Jorge-A. Sanchez-P
Corallia Clusters Initiative	Information Technology, Telecommunications and Knowledge-Intensive Services	Innovative Gaming Technologies and Creative Content cluster - gi-Cluster	n.vogiatzis@corallia.org Nikos Vogiatzis
CERTH/CPERI/APTL	Energy and Environment	Chorus Cluster for Green Energy - CHORUS	agk@cperi.certh.gr Athanasios G. Konstandopoulos

Country

Greece

Geographical focus

General/no specific focus

Scientifc field / Thematic focus

Engineering and Technology
Medical and Health Sciences
Natural Sciences

Entry created by Desiree Pecarz on March 8, 2013
Modified on March 8, 2013

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