Corallia has received distinctions of strategic importance
Corallia "A national "Best Practice"Within the framework of the Operational Program "Competitiveness" of the Hellenic Ministry of Development, two Corallia "best practices" were selected: a) The establishment of the Microelectronics Innovation Centre (μIC) in Athens and, b) The design and implementation of the "Career Days" in Greece. |
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Corallia among 40 european best practices for 2008!At European level, Corallia was hailed as a "Best Practice" by DG Enterprise & Industry, within the framework of the European Charter for Small Enterprises 2008 (p.46) - Best Practice Selection among 151 cases from all over Europe in 2008, in the category "Strengthening the technological capacity of small enterprises". In his visit at Corallia's premises on June 2007, Mr. Checchi Lang, Director at the E.C. Directorate General for Regional Policy, "... recognized [Corallia] as an innovative and remarkable effort, with a model for the formation of clusters that can become a benchmark for similar undertakings in Europe". |
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Corallia short-listed at RegioStars 2009 awardsWithin DG REGIO's RegioStars 2009 Awards, Corallia has been short-listed among the final classification (finalists) in the category "Research, Technological Development and Innovation". On the subject of Corallia's participation in RegioStars, Danuta HÜBNER, the European Commissioner responsible for Regional policy, in her speech "Towards third generation of regional innovation policy", pointed out that "Corallia Clusters Initiative is a thriving microelectronics cluster, which is showing impressive early results. "Over the last 2 years, participating companies have increased their revenues (60%) and exports (110%), while jobs almost doubled (93%) and the number of patents filed is 138% higher." For more information, view the conference proceedings for the 2009 Regions for Economic Change conference "Networking for results" which took place 16-17 February 2009 in Brussels. |
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Awards for Corallia's Public Relations & Communications Programme
Corallia's communications program which was designed and implemented for the period January - December ‘07 was granted the European Excellence Award |
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Corallia in the National Reform ProgramThe National Innovation policy, incorporating the main principles of Lisbon Strategy for «More research, development and innovation», has introduced the Microelectronics thematic area, the cluster policy and the Corallia Clusters Initiative-as the entity of promoting the national clustering policy-within the following programs: National Reform Program for Growth and Jobs 2005-2008 and National Reform Program 2008-2010, respectively. |
