ENG The second partnership meeting of the Interreg Europe CLAY project (Cross Sector support for Innovative and Competitive Artistic Ceramic SMEs) was held on February 6 and 7, 2019 in Limoges (France).
The partners, coming from Italy, Finland, France, Portugal, Romania and Spain gathered in Limoges for the second Interregional Learning Event (ILE) of the project, with the main purpose of discussing the sector analysis carried out by the partners themselves in Semester 1 (June - November 2018), consisting in an in-depth territorial study to understand the key features of the artistic ceramic sector. The meeting included also study visits to understand the link between tradition and innovation in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
The CLAY project, in fact, through the sharing of best practices and solutions among the partners in the artistic and craft ceramic sector, will lead to the development of policies and concrete actions to support and enhance the competitiveness of small and medium European ceramic enterprises. This process has started from a SWOT analysis, a first preparatory study of the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the ceramic sector, developed by each partner and coordinated by the Lead Partner (Umbria Region, Italy).
The second step of the project, in Semester 2 (December 2018 - May 2019) will see the partners analysing the needs of the sector, to understand what type of innovation can be promoted in ceramics (process, product, marketing) and which are the innovation needs to be met with the good practices and the policies selected for the project.
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