Andreea Toma
Internationalization Manager
Hygia
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
I'm a consultant at Hygia since 2019, specializing in the development and implementation of national and international projects, as well as strategic planning.
My organisation
About me
Since 2025, I’ve been leading our internal team focused on international initiatives and working closely on Hygia’s efforts to connect economic operators with research, development, and innovation providers. I’ve been directly involved in the accreditation of two key liaison offices: the Industry Liaison Office – OLI@HYGIA (accredited in 2021) and the Research Liaison Office – Connect@Hygia (OLC), which received a five-year accreditation in 2024.
I’ve managed two projects funded directly by the European Commission—Fostering Single EU Market, Grabbing Third Countries Markets – FGOI and EXCELLENT LIVING ENVIRONMENTS – EXCELIVING—both successfully completed. Building on FGOI’s outcomes, I helped shape GO Furniture META-CLUSTER, a follow-up initiative that expands cross-cluster collaboration in the European furniture sector.
Currently, I coordinate reBUILD – Fostering Ukraine-EU Cluster Partnerships for Strategy, Sustainable Development, and Innovation Alliance in Construction and Furniture Ecosystems, another direct EC-funded project, while continuing to lead the strategic direction of the GO Furniture META-CLUSTER.
Skills
- EU-funded project management
- Strategic planning
- Cluster internationalisation
- meta-cluster formation
- public-private partnerships
- Complex data analysis
Interests
- ClusterDevelopment
- EUProjects
- InnovationEcosystems
- FurnitureIndustry
- digitaltransformation
- RDI (Research, Development & Innovation)
- SmartSpecialisation
Speaker sessions (1)
Tuesday, 1 July 2025
15:45 - 17:15