The European Commission officially launched the newly established "European Strategic Cluster Partnerships - Going International" (ESCP-4i) following the call for proposals "Cluster Go International" and organised a major partnering event for the different cluster organisations involved in these partnerships.

In total, 24 Cluster Partnerships were selected:

• 15 co-funded projects resulting from the call "Clusters Go International",
• 9 additional voluntary partnerships that were on the reserve list of the call and accepted to keep working on joint cooperation agenda without EC direct co-funding.

All together, the ESCP-4i Cluster Partnerships gather about 140 cluster organisations across 23 European countries active in various industrial and cross-sectoral areas including health, aerospace, mobility and logistics, food, energy, marine and environment, materials, photonics, ICT, micro/nano-electronics, rail, construction and sports.

The partnerships will be targeting cooperation with third countries' economies, of which the main ones include Brazil, China, India, Japan and USA. Together, they represent a potential to support more than 17,000 European SMEs in accessing global value chains and taking a leading position globally.

The names of the successful co-funded Partnerships actively involved:

In the preparation phase (strand 1) aimed to prepare a joint internationalization strategy and an implementation roadmap:

• AdPack  - Future Materials and Products for Advanced Smart Packaging
• ECCA - European Circular Construction Alliance
• EnW – Energy in Water
• LASER-GO – European Strategic Cluster Partnership in Photonics on Health
• MobiGoln - Mobility Goes International
• MOVE - Moving the Future
• New Frontier in Food - New Frontiers for Emerging Industries in Food
• SmartCityTech - Internationalisation of cross-domain Smart City Solutions powered by ICT
• SPACE2ID - Space Clusters International Industrial Diversification

In the implementation phase (strand 2) aimed to develop and implement collaboration activities with international partners:

• EACP ABROAD - Activities and Businesses from Real Opportunities for Aerospace Developments (European Aerospace Cluster Partnership)
• bioXclusters plus – European Strategic Cluster Partnership on Personalised Healthcare
• EU4SPORTSCLUSTERALL – EU4Sports Clusters Alliance
• NATUREEF - Natural Resources Efficiency European Strategic Cluster Partnership
• REINA PLUS - Renewable Energy Internationalisation European Strategic Cluster Partnership project for European SMEs
• Silicon Europe Worldwide – European Semiconductor Cluster Internationalisation Project

Other Partnerships labelled as ESCP-4i on a voluntary basis, but without direct EC funding, are:

• 3BI - European Intercluster for Bioeconomy and Bio-based Innovation
• CROSSCUT – European strategic Cluster Partnership on Sustainable Construction
• DECISION - Delivering Cluster International Strategies into Overseas Networks
• EU4FOOD - Global Alliance for the development of international food bio-based clusters
• FoodPackLab - Photonics-Packaging Partnership for Food Innovation
• GIVE - Green ICT development
• PERES - Promoting European Railway Excellence Outside EU
• SeaMICI - Seabed Mining Clusters for SMEs Internationalisation
• WIINTECH 2020 - Worldwide Intercluster Initiative for New Materials and Processes focused on Clean Technologies

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