In order to support the efforts of industrial clusters to address the challenges posed by the COVID-19 epidemic in Europe, the COVID-19 industrial clusters response portal has been created, and is available at the following link: https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/coronavirus

This portal wants to facilitate the interaction of the industrial cluster community to allow fast and direct responses within the community itself too. Its objective is twofold:

• Serve as a one-stop shop where reliable information for industry, and especially industrial clusters, can be found on actions and decisions of the European Commission and the EU Member States impacting on the functioning of the Internal Market.
• Support an open discussion forum where actors can share their experiences, solutions, requests and questions

Over 1100 offers from companies were already channeled to the European Commission via clusters with the support from the European Cluster Alliance.

Demand from public authorities can be channeled to industrial actors through cluster organisations across the EU and beyond. Public authorities in need can send an e-mail to: covid19response@clustercollaboration.eu.

See: https://www.clustercollaboration.eu/coronavirus#covid-calls