Over the past half a century, the group of technology and bioscience-based companies in and around Cambridge has become one of Europe's most successful and best-known clusters of its kind.
Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Crick and Watson, and Stephen Hawking are some of the most famous of Cambridge’s scientists whose ideas have changed the world. Nowadays, Cambridge researchers continue to make new discoveries and their work, once is commercialised, is behind much of Cambridge’s success and growth – and this is called the ‘Cambridge Phenomenon’.
On the 9th May, Cambridge Cleantech will be welcoming the Belgian business delegation focusing on cleantech during their official Belgian Trade Mission to the UK.
Cambridge Cleantech: Cambridge Cleantech connects innovators, corporates, academics, SMEs and investors for a smarter, more sustainable future. As a leading membership organisation, we are a powerful catalyst in the cleantech sector responding to global sustainability challenges.
Firmly at the heart of the Cambridge Phenomenon, we operate as a global hub for cleantech innovation and are linked to some of the most highly innovative centres both in the UK, including London and Oxford, and internationally through our global cluster partners.
Join us in Cambridge for a day of interactive talks, exchange of knowledge and experience focusing on Energy Transition, Smart Cities and Transport, with representatives of the Cambridge Cleantech Cluster (academics, corporates, innovators, smes’) and with Belgian SMEs and corporates.
More info about the mission:
The Belgian State-level mission is scheduled to visit the UK from the 8th to the 12th May 2022. The mission will visit Cambridge, London, and Cranfield. This is possibly the first high-profile mission of an EU Member State to the UK since Brexit, showing the significant political and commercial ties between the two countries. VIP Delegates will include HRH Princess Astrid, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sophie Wilmès as well the Ministers of Trade of the 3 Belgian regions HE Jan Jambon from Flanders, HE Willy Borsus from Wallonia and HE Pascal Smet from Brussels along with a considerable number of leading Belgian corporates’ CEOs. The mission is focused on 3 main axes: Cleantech, Lifesciences and Food which are the 3 key strategic trade areas between the two countries. There will be a total of 415 confirmed Belgian participants from 220 companies (not all will attend the Cambridge-based event).
