IND-AGRO-POL competitiveness pole

ROMANIA, Bucharest, 013813, Ion Ionescu de la Brad blv, no. 6, sector 1, room 57, floor 1 (INMA Central Pavilion Buiding)

Tel. +40742226193; Email: indagropol1@gmail.com; cornelia.muraru.ionel@gmail.com;

http:\\www.inma.ro/indagropol; http://www.clustercollaboration.eu/web/indagro-pol

INDAGRO

Results phase 3/2020:

v Development plan of the Technological Information Center (CIT IND-AGRO-POL), accredited by the Ministry of Education and Research according to HG 406/2003;

v Technical assistance provided by the project team to the members of the cluster from the South Muntenia Region, in order to elaborate their transnational collaboration profiles (technological / business / research), to be promoted on the foreign market and to identify external partners. 9 transnational collaboration profiles have been developed and are published / in process of publication, on the specialized European platform;

v Common areas of transnational interest and valorification of the potential of international cooperation with RDI components were identified, as follows:

- an international network with RDI component to which the IND-AGRO-POL cluster joined in 2020: the “Plant InterCluster” network, composed of several European clusters in the field of “Plant industry” and coordinated by VEGEPOLYS VALLEY cluster, France.

- The IND-AGRO-POL Association submitted in 2020, as a partner, 3 project offers within the European Horizon 2020 Program:

Ø „IDDU_4_AGRI - International Due Diligence Union for agricultural knowledge and innovation systems” project offer which was submitted within H2020, topic: RUR-15-2018-2019-2020, Proposal number: 101000804, on 23.01.2020 (consortium consisting of partners from Belgium, England, Italy, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania - coordinated by partner from Romania);

Ø "ROADMAP - Rural Area Opportunities and Attractiveness based on Digital, More Advanced services Platform" project offer which was submitted on 17.06.2020 within H2020, topic: DT-ICT-09-2020 "Boost rural economies through cross-sector digital service platforms ”(consortium of 25 partners from Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania - coordinated by partner from Finland);

Ø "eSos4Rural - Digital EcoSystem-of-Systems for Boosting Rural Economies through cross-sector digital service platforms interoperability" project offer which was submitted on 17.06.2020 within H2020, topic: DT-ICT-09-2020 "Rural Boost economies through cross-sector digital service platforms ” (consortium of 30 partners from France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania - coordinated by partner form France).

v Cluster strategy for expansion on internal markets (Romanian market);

v Cluster strategy for penetration on international markets;

v Members of the cluster participated / were represented by the members of the project team, in 3 international brokerage events, as follows:

- “Brokerage event during the Stakeholder Workshop on Horizon Europe (2021-2027) Implementation” organised on 22.01.2020 in Ruse, Bulgaria - 10 meetings with entities from Bulgaria;

- “Cluster-to-Cluster Meeting & Innovat & Match Brokerage Event 2020” organised online between 10-12.06.2020 - 11 meetings with entities from UK, France, Spain and Italy;

- Plant Inter Cluster (PIC) Week - Digital edition - Conferences & Brokerage event” organised online between 22-26.06.2020 - 1 meeting with an entity from Belgium;

v Large-scale dissemination of project results:

a) The results of the project were presented at the conference "Recovery and adjusting of business models for a green economy", organised between 24.07.2020-25.07.2020 in Sf. Gheorghe-Covasna, with representative participants at national / international level;

b) The information on the cluster website, the section dedicated to the project, was updated in Romanian (http://www.inma.ro/indagropol/index_files_ro/proiecte.htm) and in English (http: //www.inma .com / indagropol / proiecte.htm);

c) Over 100 flyers of the project were disseminated, in Romanian and English, both at the event mentioned in point a. and by e-mail;

d) The article entitled “INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS AGAINST LATE SPRING FROST AFFECTING FRUIT TREES”, ANNALS of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara - International Journal of Engineering, Volume XVIII [2020], Issue 1, page 157-161, indexed BDI.