EXCELLENCE 1/2010 cluster executive magazine has been published!
EPROCA TO CO-HOST 7TH INSME ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING IN HELSINKI, FINLAND MAY 23 – 26, 2011: "Competitiveness, Culture and Cross-Border Co-operation – assisting SMEs to grow, innovate and reach international markets"
Read further information here! OR Visit the INSME website!
The official website of the event will be opened in September.
Cultivate the European clustering culture with us
Among the 48 European nations composed of hundreds of regions, we speak more than 20 languages. Thus, the European ProClusters Association, EPROCA, has its foundations on a rich variety of local cultures. It is also a recognised associate member of the European Cluster Alliance, ECA, kicked off originally by the European Commission. 
The members of EPROCA, who naturally build their joint activities on multicultural and pluridisciplinary cooperation, are committed to integrate the European cluster culture.
Having its foundations on a national-level analysis in 2004 on the need to train innovation and clustering-oriented entrepreneurs, and having been kicked off by a small strategy consultancy in 2005, the European ProClusters Association – EPROCA – included as its founding members the first ever certified ProCluster® facilitators.
Since then, the Association has taken giant leaps, and today, also non-certified ProCluster® facilitators can apply EPROCA membership - we’re always interested in hearing from additional skills and networks to feed the Association’s operations - challenge us by starting from here!
The mission of the Association, shared by its members:
- we foster and enhance the energetic European cluster culture
- we build up competencies of cluster facilitators
- we strengthen up executive skills of cluster practitioners
To reinforce its intercultural networking effects, since early 2010, EPROCA's actions are based on decisions of people coming from 13 countries, many of them also members of The Competitiveness Institute, TCI and Europa InterCluster.
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Please feel free to navigate around this virtual reach of our Association and contact us with further questions, comments, requests...
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EPROCA's activities are supported by
City of Helsinki/Finland
Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
SITRA - Finnish Innovation Fund/Finland
British&Commonwealth Chamber of Commerce in Finland
LEGISTUM Ltd - Our Partner in International Business Law/Finland
TIS Innovation Center/Italy
University of Toledo/Urban Affairs Center/Ohio, USA
Suomen Yrittäjäopisto - Finnish Institute of Enterprise Management
LAKES - Lahti Regional Development Agency/Finland
