Clusters Meet Regions Cluj Napoca 2025

1–2 Jul 2025 | Cluj Napoca, Romania

Costin Lianu

president of EDIH WallachiaeHub & Inter-Bio

WALLACHIA e - HUB

Bucharest, Romania

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We are facilitators of Bio Danubius Living Lab in the Danube region and we accelerate twin transition through in agroeecology and rural development

My organisation

WALLACHIA e - HUB

WALLACHIA e - HUB

Business Support Organisation

Bucharest, Romania

Wallachia eHub is a European Digital Innovation Hub (EDIH) based in South Muntenia, Romania. Its mission is to drive digital transformation and green innovation for SMEs, startups, and public institutions. The hub provides advanced technological solutions, including AI, cybersecurity, robotics, mobility, GIS, and Building Information Modelling (BIM). Wallachia eHub is part of a regional consortium with 17 partners, working to enhance precision agriculture, smart cities, urban planning, and logistics engineering. It also offers training programs to support digitalization across industries like manufacturing, tourism, energy, automotive, and healthcare
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About me

Coordinator of Wallachia eHub, European digital transformation centre. President of Inter-Bio, Romania, umbrella association for organic products (www.inter-bio.ro), affiliated internationally to IFOAM EU and TP Organics. President of ACEX, Association of Export Centers (www.acex.ro) affiliated to ITC Geneva Trade support network. Associate professor in innovation management, economic diplomacy, international trade, market access and branding  and researcher in Horizon Europe programs for organic farming and agro-ecology.  Former personal councilor of the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania during 2016. Manager of Business Network Connect  community of practice, an ecosystem of innovation and internationalization, comprising business incubators and accelerators, a technological transfer center and several clusters in manufacturing, IT&C, organic products, creative industries, medical services,dual use industries. Member of ECCP cluster Collaboration Platform and  coordinator or facilitator for several Romanian clusters and founding member of “Clustero”, Romanian cluster association.

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Skills

  • innovation hub amd living labs facilitator
  • orchestrator

Interests

  • consortium building
  • digital innovation and transformation
  • twin transition , agroecology and environment

Speaker sessions (1)

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

14:30 - 15:30

Breakout Session 3: Clusters Driving Innovation and Digital Transformation within EDIHs

Location:Radisson Blu Cluj

Panel discussion on the role of clusters in catalysing European Digital Innovation Hubs