CORALLIA

Partner name

Athena Research Center/Corallia Clusters Initiative Unit

Acronym

Corallia

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Country

Greece

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Website

https://www.corallia.org/en/

Description

Corallia was established in 2005 as a Unit of the Athena Research Centre with the vision of supporting Greece’s “sciences, innovation, entrepreneurship and culture to flourish” and specific goals to promote a “Joy of Creation” culture and support the development of state-of-the-art services and products with the imprint “Innovation Made in Greece”.

To achieve its visionary goals, Corallia acts as a facilitator for the organized and systematic development of innovation ecosystems (clusters), the management of business incubators and youth entrepreneurship programs, the technology transfer from academic/research actors to industry, and the implementation of regional development initiatives with emphasis on cutting-edge technology, knowledge-intensive, and export-oriented sectors.

Some of its achievements are: the successful egg-enter.grow.go business acceleration program, the STARTAB Programme in partnership with Prince’s Trust International, Hackathons, the ESA BIC Greece Program to support the incubation of Greek startups that are active in the development of solutions and services based on space and space-enabled technologies, the coordination of three highly specialized technology clusters in Greece, with more than 160 members, namely the gi-Cluster (Digital Creative Industries Technologies & Applications), mi-Cluster (Nano / Microelectronics Systems & Applications) and si-Cluster (Space Technologies & Applications) and has been awarded the Gold Label Certification of Excellence for their management. In addition, Corallia also manages the operation of the α2-innohub Business Innovation Center in Athens and has obtained the EU | BIC certification of excellence and is certified with ISO 9001: 2008, based on the TUV NORD CERT procedures, for its program management system, and has developed strong links with major European policy makers as well as international strategic partnerships.

Role in the project

Participation in all activities, leader of Task 2.4 – Support on Social Innovation and Human centricity and active involvement in the FSTP scheme based on previous experience.