Members
An expanded network: the Fibres-Energivie Cluster now has 200 members.
Number of new members to date: 17
The projects portfolio
340 R&D projects have been endorsed by the Cluster's label since 2006
129 projects, which amounted to a research investment of 360 million euro, have received a total of 133 million euro from public funding
Close-up on 2015
27 R&D projects were endorsed by the Cluster's label
- for a total investment of 67.5 million euro
- 17.7 million euro of which from public funding requests
A lot of major industrial projects…
Three quarters of the R&D projects endorsed by the Cluster's label (i.e. 85%) can be rapidly transferred to the market as they take fewer than 5 years to reach the marketing phase. This is proof that the Cluster is a vehicle for economic development in the country !
( Source : Fibres Competitiveness Cluster 2014 )
Jobs in R&D projects
In the period 2005-2013, R&D projects endorsed by the Cluster's label and duly funded led to the creation or continuation of 1,024 jobs in the firms of the project partners according to the official statements of those partners
(Source: Fibres Competitiveness Cluster 2014).