European Projects
  
ABC Network benchmarking study on line:
"Benchmarking study of agro-biotech clusters"
Detect It 2
Title: DETECT-IT 2
Objective: to prepare the BIC Network (industrial
incubators and SME's), to the first calls of FP7, via the support of
FP7 Experts and via sectorial databases that give visibility to the
actors and allow them to propose and identify interesting partner searches.
Partners:
- Agrobiopôle wallon (Belgium)
- Area Trieste Science Park (Italy)
- Barcelona Activa (Spain)
- BIC Lazio (Italy)
- BIC Ostrava (Czech Republic)
- BIC Twente (Netherlands)
- BIC Warsaw (Poland)
- Brussels Entreprise Agency (Belgium)
- Centre de recherche Henri Tudor (Luxembourg)
- CICOM (France)
- CIMARK (Switzerland)
- Coventry BIC (UK)
- CRIC (Spain)
- EBN (Belgium) - Coordinator
- EurExcel (UK)
- Fraunhofer TEG (Germany)
- Hermia (Finland)
- Innostart (Hungary)
- Institute of Fundamental Technological Research (Poland)
- Nantes Atlanpole (France)
- PERA (UK)
- PROTON Europe (Belgium)
- South West Business technology Center (Ireland)
- Tallinn Technopol (Estonia)
- Technologie Zentrum Ludwigshafen am Rhein GmbH (Germany)
- ZUPA (Italy)
Duration: 30 months (from 01/01/2006 to 30/06/2008)
For more info, visit the official Website of the project or contact Agrobiopôle wallon ( - tel.: +32 81/713.450)
Results already achieved and "success stories"
Six month after the first FP7 calls, Detect-it 2 has already facilitated the submission of some 64 FP7 proposals, which resulted in the involvement of some 205 SMEs in the project consortia.
Among these proposals, you can find the DECanBio project: "a novel way to identify biomarkers in the cancer area", addressed a call Health 2007.
One of the mains problems was the identification of the right partners. Experience showed that such projects have to master the whole value chain from research to market. Now, usually scientists have contact all over the world in their field but very often do not have access to industrial networks.
The Detect-it tool responded perfectly well with this need of networking.
More details and other success stories here.
ABC Network
Title: ABC-Network, Network of European agro-bio
clusters
Objective: Developing an in-depth co-operation between
clusters focused on agro-biotechnologies applied to the agro-food sector,
for strengthening the clustering process and networking between actors
within already established clusters and supporting a clustering process
in less advanced regions, through a shared analysis of the critical
success factors and best practices.
Partners:
- Agrobiopôle wallon (Belgium)
- Agropolis Montpellier (France)
- Alimentec (France)
- Finlombarda (Italy)
- Lacave Allemand & Associés (France)
- Oslo Teknopol (Norway)
- Parco Tecnologico Padano (Italy) - Coordinator
- South Great Plain Regional Development Agency (Hungary)
Duration: 30 months (from 15/12/2005 to 15/06/2008)
For more info, visit Europe Innova Website or contact Agrobiopôle wallon ( - tel.: +32 81/713.450).
Oslo Teknopol distributes a newsletter covering the activities in the life science cluster in the Oslo region. To read.
BIOREFINERY EUROVIEW
Title: BIOREFINERY EUROVIEW
Objective: The BIOREFINERY EUROVIEW project aims at
preparing for future EU research and technological development activities,
including monitoring, assessment activities in the field of biorefineries,
and the implications for agriculture and forestry policy. The project
is designed to support European policy (agriculture, forestry, energy
and research policies in particular) and to strengthen the European
Research Area, in order to increase the competitiveness of European
territorial systems in the biorefinery field.
Partners:
- Agrobiopôle wallon (Belgium)
- Competitiveness Cluster "Industrie and Agroressources" (France) - Coordinator
- Confederation of Paper Industries (Belgium)
- European Association for Bioindustries (Belgium)
- Europol'Agro (France)
- Ghent University (Belgium)
- Regional Development Agency in the North Great Plain (Hungary)
- Technical Research Centre (Finland)
Duration: 24 months (from 01/03/2007 to 28/02/2009)
For more info, visit the official website
of the project or contact Agrobiopôle wallon (
- tel. : +32 81/713.450). 
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