One of the tasks of each cluster organization is to make the internal supply chain "hook" to the global chain, thus offering qualitatively new growth factors to its members. That is why CSKC pays serious attention to every opportunity that arises to create new partnerships and to encourage internationalization. It is for this reason that on November 4, 2022, we held a meeting with Mr. Shane Tsai - Director of the Taiwan Trade Center Sofia - Bulgaria, one of a total of over 60 centers worldwide of the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA). TAITRA is Taiwan's largest trade promotion organization, established in 1970 with the aim of assisting Taiwanese businesses to address the challenges they face in overseas markets.
CSKC started new project Digiskill-retail - 2022-1-DE02-KA220-VET-000089396, ERASMUS+.
The project has a budget of 250 Th. EUR, incl. 45.6 Th. EUR for CSKC. It will be implemented by 4 partners from 4 European countries and will end in 2024. The project aims to establish a program and materials for diveloping digital competences for employees and trainers in the retail sector. On 14 October 2022, the kick-off meeting for the Erasmus + project „Digiskill-retail“ took place with all partners face-to-face in Berlin. The meeting was hosted by the coordinator ZBB (Zentralstelle für Berufsbildung im Handel e.V.)
On November 3rd a cooperation agreement (MoU) was signed between the Cluster Sofia Knowledge City and the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI).
ITRI is a world-leading applied technology research institute with more than 6,000 outstanding employees and around $ 1 billion in R&D revenue. Founded in 1973, it pioneered in IC development and started to nurture new tech ventures and deliver its R&D results to industries.
The mission of ITRI is to drive industrial development, create economic value, and enhance social well-being through technology R&D. ITRI has been nominated in 2020 among the world's top 100 innovators and in 2022 it has won three from the R&D 100 Awards, often referred to as “the Oscars of Innovation”.
Mission Singapore! Thus we called our business visit to Singapore on 16-20 October 2022, which our Smart City Tech Partnership has been hard at organizing for the past 2-3 months.
Being responsible for the implementation of this task, laid down in the Project eT4S Cluster Sofia city of knowledge together with its partners managed to provide a combined program, which in the end was successfully implemented and with good results, which our members and partners can benefit. The mission included:
- Participation in Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC (ITAP) - a spectacular technological exhibition with forums, which demonstrates to us the Industry 4.0 progress of the companies.
