Clusters Meet Regions Cluj Napoca 2025

1–2 Jul 2025 | Cluj Napoca, Romania

Simone Hagenauer

Project Manager International Projects

ecoplus. The Business Agency of Lower Austria

St. Pölten, Austria

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ecoplus. The Business Agency of Lower Austria

ecoplus. The Business Agency of Lower Austria

Research Development and Innovation Organisation

St. Pölten, Austria

As economic hubs and innovation drivers for Lower Austrian companies, the ecoplus clusters connect in the future-oriented fields of plastics, mechatronics, sustainable construction and renovation as well as food. As a further service, we offer platforms on the cross-cutting topics of bioeconomy and health technology. Together with the technopols, the Lower Austrian Clusters & Platforms form the “Lower Austrian Innovation Ecosystem”, a project co-financed by the European Union. The focus of our work is on inter-company cooperation projects in which companies research, develop and learn from each other. Where it is not possible for an individual company to follow a current trend, explore the potential of a new technology or commission a renowned research institution, the network joins forces and develops innovations together.
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About me

Simone Hagenauer has been a project manager at ecoplus, the Lower Austrian business agency, since 2003 and is responsible for European research and innovation projects as well as cluster development projects for the Lower Austrian clusters, currently in the areas of green building, food, plastics and mechatronics.

She is currently working on the projects ARCADIA (Horizon Europe, Climate Change Adaptation Mission), ERA_FABRIC (Horizon Europe, Demonstrating ERA-Hubs), Data Spaces 4 Local Resources Management (DS4SSCC, piloting data spaces for municipalities) and I-CSI (Interreg Europe, improving policies for cross-sector innovation).

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Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

12:30 - 13:30

2nd Morning Plenary Session

Location:Radisson Blu Cluj

Role of clusters as dialogue partners for the development of regional development policy