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Competence Research Centres in Europe

COMPERA is targeted towards the creation of a sustainable network of programmes that are funding Competence Research Centres. It should lead to a strategic decision-making of programme owners and managers at pan-European level with regard to Competence Research Centres. These centres aim to bridge the gap between technological and economic innovation by providing a collective environment for academics and industry and sufficient critical mass. Their activities are multiple: pooling of knowledge, creation of new knowledge by performing different types of research, training and dissemination of knowledge.

COMPERA is funded under the ERA-NET scheme of the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme
 News
VINNMER: Qualification for female researchers
VINNOVA launches a new programme aimed at women in industry, academia or research institutes who have a PhD. The programme is open for candidates from abroad that want to go to Sweden or vice versa.
International conference on Competence Research Centre Programmes and Policies
On Tuesday 3 February 2009 COMPERA will organize a conference on Competence Research Centre programmes and policies in Düsseldorf (Germany). The conference will be organised in cooperation with the CREST working group on industry-led CRCs.
EU-Japan Regional Cluster Forum (2-3 December 2008, Japan)
The objective of the EU-Japan Regional Cluster Forum is to stimulate and facilitate global outreach of European and Japanese clusters through: a) increasing mutual awareness on cluster policies, development methods and management practices, and; b) fostering cooperation between research and innovation regional clusters in Europe and in Japan.
Joint tender for study on international co-operation between CRCs
The COMPERA consortium will start soon a new joint activity. Nine COMPERA partners: Austria, Basque Country, Estonia, Flanders, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Slovenia, Sweden and Valencia have agreed to co-fund a study that should identify the state of the art, needs and perspectives regarding the international co-operation of Competence Research Centres.
Evaluation of COMPERA Website completed
The core content of the COMPERA website addresses the core needs of the CRCs represented in COMPERA. CRCs are mainly interested in finding new partners, becoming more visible and getting to know the CRC-landscape in their field of innovation. This is the main outcome of the COMPERA website evaluation that took place in July and August this year. 61 CRCs sent us completely filled-in questionnaires - an impressive response rate regarding the vacation period during which the evaluation took place.

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