Clusters belonging to the EACN
partnership had the opportunity last Monday to meet three representatives from
the Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry,
Entrepreneurship and SMEs, in order to share with them our vision of the
automotive sector and evaluate possible future collaboration.
For this aim, we took the
opportunity to present them the results of the working groups which during the
last months analysed how to support the automotive industry to overcome the
current pandemic crisis and transform the challenges into an opportunity. The
collaborative effort was focused on three main topics:
- Future panorama of the European
automotive industry, led by Pôle Véhicule du Futur
- Cluster benchmark and services, led
by North East Automotive Alliance
- Financial and HR impacts led by
Automotive Cluster Serbia.
With these presentations, the
European Commission could understand better our network’s point of view regarding
the automotive industry situation and some of the actions we propose to carry
out at a cluster level.
On the other side, the EACN
partnership could have first-hand information about the EC industrial strategy,
their main priorities, as well as the financial support which will be available
at European level, included in the Recovery Plan already announced in May with
a total budget of €1.85 trillion. The specific help addressed to the automotive
industry will depend on the own Sector’s ambition, hence the importance of
being in contact and collaborating with the European Commission.
At the end of the meeting the EACN
partnership members participated in a brainstorming session, suggesting
possible actions to be carried out in the short, medium, and long term. These
initiatives will constitute our Roadmap of collaboration, which plans to be
ready in September 2020.
