In Turin, Italy, over eighty companies, public and private institutions have formed an alliance to strengthen the local ecosystem and to improve the quality of doing business and finance by pursuing economic goals along with social impact objectives. It has been a very good example of how profit and non-profit, public, and private entities can join forces to achieve a common goal. They joined the...

In Romania, the main organisers of Transylvanian festivals and economic stakeholders as well as some public institutions, have created a joint endeavour, to access funding, logistic expertise, production, local and international connections to cover the needs for equipment, hygiene, social support and information of the hospitals and social carers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Un Singur Cluj (One...

The Spanish Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI, Spain's School of Industrial Organisation) is a public educational body of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism. It provides support programmes for Spanish SMEs that are taking extraordinary measures to tackle the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The services provided by EOI include individual consulting for financial and legal matters in...

The Portuguese online platform Tech4COVID19 has just implemented a new service called Teachers4Covid. The platforms that brings together more than 5,000 specialists and experts (e.g. engineers, designers, marketers, health professionals) has evolved into a technological community that fights the COVID-19 pandemic in unity. The Teachers4Covid project has been created to help families deal with...

The Polish Neotech Cluster which specialises in the design and manufacturing of machines and devices is currently in search of materials for testing the production of protective masks on an automatic machine. The materials used for the protective masks are: One pack of outer layer; One pack of inner protective layer; One pack of inner layer; and One pack of Aluminum sheet for stiffeners. The...

The exceptional situation generated by the COVID-19 Pandemic has caused great concern about its negative impact on the health of individuals and companies. The confinement through self-isolation stage has been marked by great interrogations that governments and citizens are responding to as the weeks go by; however, the business world needs anticipation, vision, and planning to succeed in the face...

The Romanian health and bioeconomy cluster ROHEALTH Association has launched an organised, centralised and transparent fundraising campaign to gather protective materials to protect medical staff of ROHEALTH-affiliated hospitals against a COVID-19 infection (e.g. COVID-tests, protection glasses, gowns, masks, etc.). All donations and the allocation of funds from these donations will be made public...

The Irish engineering firm Combilift has leveraged their innovation skills to solve the global shortage of ventilators. It is committed to join the fight against COVID-19 and has, therefore, developed Combi-Ventilate, a splitter device that turns one ventilator into multiple ventilator stations. This device supports a much higher level of care for patients than previous attempts to split...

ARIES Oltenia is the cluster association of electronics and software companies located in Oltenia Region, the City of Craiova, in the South-West region of Romania. It aims at promoting and protecting the Romanian IT and electronic business environment, as well as the professional and commercial interests of its members. Being the trade and professional association of electronic and software...

The Romanian Executive Unit for the Financing of Higher Education, Research, Development, and Innovation (UEFISCDI), a Romanian Innovation Agency has set up BrokerMap, a virtual platform for all those willing to share ideas and resources in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. This initiative is installed within the BrainMap Open Platform and aims to recreate a secure and efficient space for...