EACC Florida is delighted to welcome as a new Corporate Member the European Railway Clusters Initiative – ERCI.
As the rail sector’s largest dedicated B2B networking organisation, ERCI (European Railway Clusters Initiative) connects entities and ideas and brings together customers, suppliers and supply chain opportunities. Today ERCI is a metacluster grouping together 17 clusters of 16 European countries.
ERCI helps develop partnerships as a means to promote the needs of the rail transportation sector as well as mobility, logistics and intermodality while supporting competitiveness in the transport sector through innovation and other means. ERCI is based in Brussels (Belgium).
The specific objectives of ERCI are:
- Facilitate Internationalisation of all the members;
- Share best management practices between partners: governance, organization, processes, funding schemes, planning and execution of roadmaps;
- Develop joint Research Development and Innovation projects in coherence with the individual strategy of the members;
- Optimize access to funding possibilities at Regional, National, European and International levels for both operation and project costs;
- Implement joint communication programmes as support for the above-mentioned objectives;
- Implement Task Forces and other working groups on topics with high innovation potential as support for the Small&Medium Enterprise members of the ERCI network to meet and work collaboratively;
- Support each other in developing business opportunities between member companies;
- Promote innovation through an annual ERCI Innovation award competition;
- Organise and/or support bilateral Workshops;
- Enhance Railway Related activities on a global scale.
For details: https://www.eurailclusters.com/