{"id":9947,"date":"2014-01-08T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/logisticsinwallonia-2023.staging03.globulebleu.com\/actualites\/mission-growth-wallonia-february-2014-0\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T13:19:53","slug":"mission-growth-wallonia-february-2014-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/actualites\/mission-growth-wallonia-february-2014-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission for Growth in Wallonia, February 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">A Mission for Growth, led by Vice-President Antonio Tajani, will be organised in Wallonia, Belgium, on February 18 and 19, 2014. <\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Wallonia is strategically located between Germanic, Romance and Anglo-Saxon regions. It has outstanding infrastructures in terms of transport links, including European road and rail networks. Paris, Cologne, Frankfurt and Amsterdam are less than 300 km away. In addition, several waterways connect Wallonia to the main seaports in the area, such as Antwerp, Zeebrugge, Amsterdam and Dunkirk. The region also has two international airports (Li\u00e8ge and Charleroi) for freight and passenger transport. The Walloon leading innovative industries are grouped in clusters (click here for further information). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">This mission targets the following industry sectors, corresponding to the main regional clusters: <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Transport and Logistics <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Spatial and Aerospace <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Mechanical engineering <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;\">industries <\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;\">Biotech \/ pharmaceuticals \/ life sciences <\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<span style=\"font-family: tahoma, geneva, sans-serif;\">Cultural and Creative industries (Wallonia has been recently labeled European Creative District) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The Mission aims at connecting Walloon SMEs to European companies active in the same or complementary sectors by participating in networking and B2B events. It will take place in the town of la Louvi\u00e8re (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.louvexpo.be\/acces\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more information here<\/a>). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Additionally to the B2B which will take place on Tuesday, February 18 (pm), in order to allow foreign companies and associated EEN partners to discover Wallonia activities in the targeted sectors, dedicated thematic visits will be organized on Wednesday, February 19 (am). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Interested companies should register both for the mission and for the B2B event by Friday, January 31st. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The agenda and the links to the DG Enterprise &#038; Industry website (for the event registration) and to the b2Match website (for the match-making event) will be published ASAP in January. For more information, please contact your local Enterprise Europe Network branch. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">See more details <a href=\"http:\/\/een.ec.europa.eu\/events\/mission-growth-wallonia-february-2014#sthash.A8rUbvMj.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Mission for Growth, led by Vice-President Antonio Tajani, will be organised in Wallonia, Belgium, on February 18 and 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"class_list":["post-9947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.logisticsinwallonia.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}