Five for Cross-industry Value Chain Excellence

2026-07-22

5 partners from Sweden, Estonia and Latvia, representing 5 clusters working in 3 industrial sectors: information technologies, logistics, and food production and processing have submitted the proposal. Overall objective: To strengthen management excellence of involved clusters. Specific objectives: 1. To improve management and performance practices of involved clusters. 2. To enable clusters to provide more professional business services to SMEs. 3. To develop capacities necessary for cross-sectoral and international collaboration. 4. To raise awareness of other local cluster organizations and business networks of benefits of the cluster management excellence approach. Work packages: WP1 Management, which aims to ensure effective management and coordination of the project. WP2 Benchmarking planned for empowering involved clusters with tools necessary for improvement of their management process, thus increasing their excellence and advancing to become world-class clusters. WP3 Training aimed to strengthen and to increase involved clusters' management and performance excellence. WP4 Identification and planning of services to be provided to SMEs planned for identification and definition of specific services necessary for SMEs, to be developed and offered by clusters. WP5 Dissemination and follow up activities aimed to disseminate project results and to develop a strategy and plan for ensuring sustainability of project's results and promotion of management excellence of involved partners. Anticipated results and impact: 1. Enhanced performance excellence of 5 clusters. 2. More professional business support services provided to at least 227 companies (current participants of clusters) and about 1000 SMEs (participants of partnering clusters). EU added value: about 1227 more competitive and sustainable SMEs in at least 18 EU Member States. Improved SMEs

Latvia, Sweden, Estonia

2026-01-15