As we move ever more into a digital world in order to keep connected and collaborating, we are planning our first virtual meeting of the Cluster Evaluation Working Group.

This will be held on Monday 27th April 2020 from 3pm – 5pm CET (check your local time here).

The focus of the workshop will be Evidencing the Wider Impact of Clusters, exploring how policy makers and practitioners are capturing the system level impacts in regions, and showing the value of clusters beyond economic competitiveness.

Clusters are increasingly being asked to contribute not only to the economic performance of their sector and region, but also to play a role in transforming their territories across many aspects beyond purely financial measures, including shared value approaches, contributing to SDGs, playing a role in Smart Specialisation Strategies or other National Performance Frameworks.

As ever we will be drawing on the specific experience of some of our participants, and so presenters from Spain, Sweden and Lombardy will describe how they are approaching this challenge.

Even though this session is virtual we are keen to continue it being a working group allowing all participants to share experiences and develop knowledge. Therefore, as well as a few short presentations, we are keen to gather experiences from across participants and so will be sending out a short survey to understand strategies to address this challenge.

Register for this virtual meeting by clicking on the Register button.