The annual ECRN Executive Board Meeting took place on 19th of October in Brussels, gathering all Executive Board members. The meeting was opened by ECRN President, Mr. Fabrizio Sala (Lombardy Vice-President) who recalled the importance of ECRN political commitment
On 28th September the regional governments of Flanders and North-Rhine Westphalia, and the state government of the Netherlands proudly presented the outcomes of their efforts to build a trilateral approach for improving the cross-border conditions for the chemical
The final conference of the European Sustainable Chemicals Support Service (ESCSS) took place in Brussels on 14 September 2017 at the European Chemical Regions Network (ECRN), with presentations from 6 EU ‘Model Regions’ and an introduction of the
The S3Chem Working Group meeting took place on 12th September in Liege, Belgium which was a good opportunity for the ECRN director to meet with several ECRN members, who participate in the project, and to join the site
The Joint Cefic-ECRN Position Paper on EU Industrial Policy has been officially issued. The paper highlights the constant growth of the chemical industry and its importance for the European economic wealth. Nevertheless, investments to sustain new production capacity
On 7th of June ECRN and Committee of the Regions jointly organized an event on Harnessing the bioeconomy potential of European regions. This was an afternoon full of knowledge-exchange and sharing of real-life experiences. The event was
The S3Chem Dissemination Conference took place on 17th of May in Milan and had a great success raising the awareness about policy and business approaches towards the circular economy. ECRN was proud to contribute to the conference by
In order to highlight the perspectives of the chemical regions in the context of the ongoing discussions in the European Parliament on Digitising European Industry, ECRN organized a thematic roundtable on “Digitising European Industry – Unlocking the potential
The ECRN President Fabrizio Sala (Lombardy) opened ECRN’s new year on 16 January with his first regional visit. The visit was hosted by the region of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf, where all the German ECRN member regions had
ECRN collaborated with the European Commission (DG GROW) on a workshop on “Gaseous Industrial Effluents as Non-Fossil Feedstock for Sustainable Chemicals Production” on 9 November 2016. During the workshop, we provided information and examples of different activities in
