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Action 3: Elaborazione di un modello gestionale di cluster
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model for Cluster - Acronym: ECO-CLUSTER
Action 3: Elaboration of a cluster managing model
Environmental Managing Guidelines
Eco Cluster: instructive synthesis
Comune di Collagna
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Action 3: Elaborazione di un modello gestionale di cluster
Delta Ecologia Applicata Institute ltd. - Action Supervisor
Dr. Cristina Barbieri (Project supervisor)
Dr. Flavio Bruno (Project technical representative)
Dr. Gionata Tani (technician)
Martina Puzzo: Thesis Developer
For information:
tel. 0532/977085
email: [email protected]
Appennino Tosco Emiliano National Park – Project coordinator grantee
Giuseppe Vignali – Project supervisor
Collagna City Council (RE) – Associate grantee
Ferretti Monica – Project supervisor
Cerreto Laghi 2004 Ltd. , replaced with CCFS – associate grantee
Project supervisor
Certiquality – Associate grantee
Stefano Aldini – Project supervisor
Filippo Lenzerini (Punto3 Ltd.) - Chief Executive of the ECO-Cluster project
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Action 3: Elaborazione di un modello gestionale di cluster
The Eco-cluster Model is a managing solution that enhances the control of a territory on the global
environmental services through the jointed efforts of all the organizations (private and public
ones) that are enclosed in the cluster.
The Eco-Cluster Model is based on the concept of cluster which has been developed by the
American scholar and economist Michael Eugene Porter and by the environmental managing tools
that have been spread and experimented in Italy and Europe during the last decades: ISO 140011,
EMAS2, Ecolabel3, Acquisti Verdi, ecc.
A territory that gives its best in the implementation of the Eco-cluster model finds support in the
creation of synergies among those involved in the cluster for several opportunities such as:
Increase of competitiveness:
Systematic guarantee of legislative conformity: assistance for companies on the observance of
environmental laws.
- Rationalization of the resources employment (cost savings) for the management of
environmental aspects such as: wastes, energy, water consumption, reuse of materials.
- Facilities for the adhesion to voluntary certifications: standardisation of procedures, normative
updates, staff training etc.
- Development of synergies between the Authorities and the private companies with
complementary expertise on the same territory.
Facilitation towards innovation:
- Facilities/ orientation for regional, national and European funding
- Innovation of the communication channels with an improvement of the image (credibility,
visibility, satisfaction of the “visible” customer.)
- Development and promotion of the territory (value)in an interconnected and coordinated way.
- Design and promotion of the territory based on typicality and uniqueness: local typicality
supporting tourism.
Optimized management of territorial problems:
- Improvement of the global environmental services of the territory
monitoring and rapid intervention for emergencies
- Constant improvement of environmental services and of the environmental quality of the
territory
- Improvement of dialogue/cooperation with a large range of the social actors
- Coordination of programmatic tools: PTCP, PSC, Plans..
- Participation of those who are interested for management decisions: local network for
development
The implementation of the Eco-Cluster model is made by taking connected steps which are
outlined and which indicate the roles of the subjects that are involved.
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Single Organizations
Management committee
Elements that typify the cluster: the establishment of the
territorial boundaries of the cluster, depending on the
peculiarities of the territory and of the economic and
productive conditions, through the identification of the actors
who have a role in the cluster management and development.
Cluster Management committee: to get a cluster management
organization which would have its own functions and would
provide a coordination system for all the actors of the cluster.
The management committee must properly declare its
composition, the representation of the various actors inside
the committee, the internal functioning and coordination
mechanisms.
Environmental cluster policy: to state an environmental cluster
policy and the mechanisms for its activation.
Environmental cluster analysis: to identify the environmental
elements depending on the peculiarities of the territory and of
the cluster economical branch for the identification of the
environmental impact.
Environmental Normative fulfilment analysis: to identify the
applicable legal prescriptions and the mechanisms that must be
considered inside the cluster.
Evaluation of the cluster environmental aspects: to evaluate
the environmental aspects depending on a standardised
methodology which includes the stakeholders' perspective.
Cluster environmental programme: to identify the cluster
environmental priorities and to state the reachable
environmental purposes.
Cluster environmental management system: to define a
structure and a system for the management of the cluster
depending on the environmental policies and the purposes
which have been arranged.
Cluster environmental communication: Constant and political
communication of the purposes and results of the cluster
addressed both to the subject inside the cluster and to those
outside the cluster.
Responsibility
Engagement