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Clusters meet Regions in Milano, Italy, 26-27 March 2024

The European Cluster Collaboration Platform, on behalf of the European Commission, and in partnership with AFIL – Lombardy Intelligent Factory Association and the Lombardy Regional Authority, will be jointly organising the next 'Clusters Meet Regions' event in Milan, Italy, on the 26 and 27 March 2024. The event will focus on the Twin Transition and will address three main objectives:

• To analyse the policy effectiveness of central-level strategies and their implementation at the local level.
• To focus on the best practices and models by Italian and European regions, including supportive initiatives for the business, industry and research ecosystem, and provide some examples of their impact.
• To provide an opportunity to build networks and projects among participants.

The Clusters meet Regions event in Milan aims to bring together onsite over 200 representatives of European Clusters and companies, national and regional public authorities, business support organisations from Italy and other European regions, investors and other actors in industrial innovation.

The program will include: high-level plenary sessions, panel discussions, pitching sessions and a guided site visit to MIND – Milano Innovation District.