Europe

20-21 October 2008, Leipzig, Central Germany
The Industrial Initiative for Central Germany, with the support of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) together with TCI Network is organizing a German Cluster Conference for 20-21 October 2008 in Leipzig. This conference will be a warm-up for the 12th TCI Annual Global Conference 2009, that will also take place in Leipzig.

The "EU-Japan Regional Cluster Forum" will take place on the December 2-3, 2008 and forms part of the "Annual Cluster Japan 2008" event. It will consist of symposia and a large exhibition of all officially supported Japanese Knowledge and Industrial Clusters.

10-11 July 2008, University of Deusto, San Sebastian, Spain
Orkestra-Basque Institute of Competitiveness and the Department of Trade, Industry and Tourism of the Basque Government, in collaboration with TCI (The Competitiveness Institute) brought together nearly 30 European government experts on competitiveness at the San Sebastian campus of Deusto University on 10th and 11th of July 2008.

Clusterland OÖ GmbH
Linz, Austria. 17-19 June, 2008
How to build up and manage successfully cluster-initiatives – based on 10 years experience in Upper Austria.

4th Competitiveness Forum
9-10 June, Tornio-Haparanda, Finland
TCI-The Competitiveness Institute, Kemi-Tornio University and Prodemic Consulting Group collaborated in the 4th Competitiveness Forum with focus on Creative Clusters and Crossborder Collaborations.

2nd International Conference on Clusters
Opatija (Croatia), 28 April 2008
The Ministry of the Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship, under the auspices of the Government of the Republic of Croatia, organizes the Second International Conference on Clusters.
The aim of the conference is to exchange experiences on cluster development policies, networking of the already existing and establishment of new clusters in the area of South Eastern Europe.

Warsaw-Poland, 22-23 April 2008
INNO-LEARNING PLATFORM - A targeted action to support trans-national policy learning and policy cooperation on Innovation.
The event is organised by the European Commission, DG ENTR, under the framework of the INNO-Learning Platform initiative, in cooperation with the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PAED), the Mazowieckie Region and the Ministry of Economy of Poland.

Debrecen, Hungary. 24 April 2008
The main aim of the conference is to promote the advantages of intercompany cooperation within the industry. Organized by the IT Cluster of Észak-alföldi Region, the conference is entirely practical oriented, supplying the participants with real life examples of successful and unsuccessful cluster and partner initiatives.

A symposium on innovation policy
Brussels, 15-16 April 2008

Barcelona, 7 February 2008
The Urban Cluster Day in Barcelona is coming to its second edition. The very successful first conference in 2007 is promising an interesting repetition this year. 22@ is a close partner of TCI in Barcelona.