Name of the project

"Bench Learning in cluster management for the automotive sector in European regions"

Programme

FP6-2004-INNOV-6

Schedule

From the 17th of October 2005 to April 2008.
Project's duration: 30 months

Entities taking part

Coordinating entity
Wirtschaftsförderung Region Stuttgart GmbH /Stuttgart Region Development Corporation (WRS) - Stuttgart (Germany)

Partner entities

• East England Development Agency (EEDA) - East England (UK)
• Clusterland Oberösterreich GmbH - North Austria (Austria)
• Centro Lombardo per lo Sviluppo Tecnologico e Produttivo dell'Artigianato e delle Piccole Impreses (CESTEC) - Lombardy (Italy)
• Centre d'Innovació i Desenvolupament Empresarial (CIDEM) - Catalonia (Spain)
• West-Transdanubian Regional Development Agency - Pannon Automotive Cluster Division (PANAC) - West Pannon (Hungary)
• Logotech S.A. - Greece 
• Cranfield University - East England (UK) 

Objective 

Belcar will establish and control the operation of a European platform to improve organizational innovation in products and processes and between regional automotive clusters. The main objective of Belcar's activities is to improve the actions and innovative capacities of automotive clusters in Europe. To achieve so, a network of regional clusters will be created in order to strengthen the regional innovation systems and to use synergies. Belcar's results will immediately be used to apply advanced structures and tools for the management of clusters.

Results 

1. SWOT report of participating clusters
2. Benchmarking report
3. Exchange of good practices
4. 3 annual events on networking beyond Belcar
5. Organization of 9 visits to European clusters
6. Organization of 6 events to boost new innovative projects among automotive clusters
7. Report on the needs of different agents by policies
8. Report on recommendations of different agents by policies    

Budget

987.840 € 

Role of the CIDEM in the project 

The CIDEM leads theWP 7 "Dissemination and exploitation" and collaborates in all the other activities. WP 7 entails creating Belcar's Web Page, managing its contents, preparing articles and information for the media and organizing the final conference of Belcar.

Web site of the project 

www.europe-innova.org/BeLCAR

Person of the CIDEM in charge of the project 

Mrs. Alba Sánchez
asanchezna@cidem.gencat.net