Project Safe Smart Food consortia representative participates in the event “Clusters Driving the Green and Digital transitions”

Manager of Food Products Quality Cluster Armands Lejas-Krumins participated in the event “Clusters Driving the Green and Digital transitions”, organized by the EISMEA, the European Commission and the Ile de France Region took place on 22-23 November 2021 in Saint-Ouen, France. The event focused on the role clusters, regions, and cities play in supporting these transitions and brought together the members of the EU Expert Group on Clusters, cluster organizations and policymakers from the EU Member States.

On the 2^nd day of the event “Partnering-side event for ESCP-4x” was organised where all ESCP-4x Consortia representing their projects, achievements and main takeaways from the past two years of the ESCP-4x programme and attended a training on “Bold strategies for cluster collaboration in changing times”, moderated by Ms Bianca Dragomir (AVAESEN cluster, Founder of the CAP – Cluster Acceleration Programme). Event was very important for the learning knowhow and improvement of the projects in the future.

Project Safe Smart Food was represented by Food Products Quality Cluster’s manager Armands Lejas-Krumins. The aims of the project Safe Smart Food are strengthen the collaboration between clusters and improve their management capacity to create conditions of a favourable ecosystem in the agri-food sector to boost innovation, competitiveness and internationalisation of SMEs and to offer to the cluster’s SMES an integrated program of services based on excellence.