Offshore Center Danmark receives praise
OFFSHORE: Offshore Center Danmark, has been awarded a gold medal in accordance with the standard ‘Cluster Management Excellence Labels Gold,’ which is the highest level a cluster organisation can reach in the EU
“The recognition we’ve been given here is very distinguished, and we’ve been competing with many other European cluster organisations. The recognition underlines our significance as a bridge-builder between the players in the offshore sector and our ability to keep launching new projects and initiatives and so contribute to Danish companies’ continued growth”, says Offshore Center Danmark director Peter Blach.
The centre competed with 350 networking and cluster organisations from all over Europe to win the medal, and Offshore Center Danmark is only the 4. organisation to be acknowledged in this way.
“The fact that the EU has recognised our efforts in this way will open many doors for us. We’re obviously proud of the medal, and we ‘ll make use of it in future to communicate even more with foreign partners than we’re already doing and become a partner in international projects in this way. All experience shows that companies enhance their exports by being involved in cluster collaboration, and Offshore Center Danmark’s objective is to ensure Danish participation in projects abroad”, Peter Blach says.
Offshore Center Danmark is one of the 22 innovation networks that the Danish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Higher Education is supporting in order to help especially small and medium-size companies enhance their innovative efforts and their use of new knowledge from universities and other knowledge institutions.
The Cluster Management Excellence scheme was brought about on the initiative of the EU with the aim of generating collaboration in sectors and clusters that can use the scheme as a springboard to entering new fields of business. Over the years, Offshore Center Danmark has launched a series of initiatives that are to ensure Danish companies play a role on the international market and, each year, the centre organises well visited B2B events where Danish and foreign companies meet and present themselves to one another with a view to collaboration or exchange of experience.
Offshore Center Danmark and the other 350 organisations were assessed in 31 fields ranging from the number of networking events they had organised and the number of participants at these events to their ability to plan and coordinate large development projects. Offshore Center Danmark scored 134 points out of 150, which is the highest number of points ever achieved.
Source: Offshore Center Danmark
