Broaden your horizons !

Valorial has built its international strategy on 4 main goals to achieve a shared ambition: to enhance business competitiveness through innovation!

• Identify and organise networks of scientific and technological skills
• Boost worldwide visibility of the cluster and its members, contribute to the business gains of supported projects
• Promote project conception and set up collaborative projects, establish scientific and technological cooperation
• Make the cluster a territorial marketing tool to enhance the regions’ attractiveness

• Make the cluster a territorial marketing tool to enhance the regions’ attractiveness

Draw on our network

> Learning expeditions abroad

• These trips, with prior assessment of visits, offer the opportunity to create international ties, but also local ties with fellow participants. In certain cases, specific funding is available (Business France/Direction Générale des Entreprises, regional council’s international department…).

> Project detection and partner identification

• Through our European and international networks (ANIA, CLUB SULLY, AFPC, HUB EUROPE Pays de la Loire, Réseau Noé, EEN, …).
• Partnering Opportunities Database (offers & requests/Research & Technology & Sales), 6,000 opportunities across all sectors of activity, from all 66 countries covered by the Enterprise Europe Network).

> Access to networking platforms/B2B events

• CFIA, VITAFOODS and other international trade shows in partnership with our network of international clusters, EEN…

Put your know-how in the spotlight!

> Hosting foreign delegations

• Unprecedented opportunities to communicate about your services and products
• Organised in partnership with our ecosystem: Regions, development agencies, Bretagne Commerce International, Food Loire, AREA, …

> Facilitated access to trade shows abroad

• Assistance with booking, special offers (booths, books, etc.)
• Participation in pitching sessions
• Access to funding: European projects, partnerships with organisers

> Joint promotion

• Through Valorial’s presence at trade shows, conferences, congresses, etc.: specialised communication, development of local networks…
• Through Valorial’s involvement in European and international projects

Spot good opportunities!

> Information flow collected through projects and the network

• International focus in our newsletter “Live by Valorial”
• Dissemination of developments through European R&D projects…

> Reminder of European calls for proposals

• Horizon 2020
• EUREKA
• INSTRUMENT PME
• Fast Track to Innovation
• …

> Information meetings and working groups

• Aim: to boost expertise through European projects

Get involved in European projects

> Qualification and guidance by our teams

> Search for qualified partners

• Through interclustering and networks

> Support from our teams

• Reviewing, setting up, seeking competent private and public partners

> Lobbying

• Through our networks of clusters, National Contact Points in Europe (NCPs), National Working Groups (NWGs), partnerships with regions…