Origins - EPROCA

We wish you all Happy New Year 2012!

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Be a member of EPROCA! Join to the inspiring network of cluster experts!

We are European Growth Promoters - the decisive drop that makes the change!

EPROCA members rafting at the Tornio River in June 2008.

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EPROCA strongly involved in European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) 2012 activities. The EU Committee of the Regions has labelled Helsinki-Uusimaa as the European Entrepreneurial Region (EER) 2012. Several high level training, seminars, workshops and events will be conducted during the year and first events start already in September 2011. Join with us!

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EXCELLENCE cluster executive magazine is reflecting fascinating clustering news around the world. If you are interested in to send an article or make an advertisement, please contact the editorial board here.

Feel free to take a short glance at earlier year's magazines!

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EPROCA CO-HOSTED 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"

We express our great gratitudes to all of you from 39 countries, who were involved in our summer event! It was a pleasure to serve you! Please visit the website and save the presentations!

Greetings from EPROCA event team

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EPROCA - cultivating the clustering culture

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!

EPROCA Association fosters and enhances the energetic European cluster culture, builds up competencies of cluster facilitators and strengthens up executive skills of cluster practitioners.

EPROCA's Mission is: to promote prosperity by cultivating collaborative culture.

According to our vision, we will become an internationally recognized gateway of choice to knowledge, expertise, and practices in cluster-based economic development, highlighting the impact of culture.

Our quality statement "through our unique gateway, we strive to provide customized solutions that exceed our stakeholders’ expectations" guides us constantly challenge ourselves in order to improve our activtities and provide to our members and partners a high quality services.

We are highly committed to our values, which are the cornerstone of all our provide services. EPROCA values are not just an abbreviation:

E – encouraging ethics. We encourage executives to base their efficiency an enthusiastic to long lasting ethic behaviour observing evolution impact.

P – promoting prosperity. We promote prosperity with positive passion and mutual trust, when working with partners and alliances.

R – respecting relationships. We encourage executives to trust partners and other stakeholders with reviving, right-minded and renewable thoughts and attitudes.

O – opening opportunities. We encourage executives to open their heard for optimistic and objective change, in order to gain more opportunities and new options.

C – cultivating culture. We contribute into cultivating coherent and connective culture.

A – appreciating authenticity. We support authentic, adaptive and accountable approaches in all activities.

We at EPROCA are: "the decisive drop that makes the change".