In addition to partial meetings, he presented the experience of the NCA and the CEDEG at a conference on the development of the Slovak cluster environment and the joint coordination of the work of Slovak clusters in communication with regional governments and central institutions in Slovakia. 

The NCA and CEDEG aimed to support colleagues from the management of Slovak cluster organisations with experience from the Czech Republic. The Slovak clusters are in a more difficult situation compared to the Czech ones. So far, they have not been very successful in being perceived as relevant expert partners of regions and ministries in their strategic decision-making and funding issues of regional innovation ecosystems.

On the other hand, the National Cluster Association of the Czech Republic has managed to become a relevant expert partner of central institutions as well as regional authorities and regional innovation centres within its area of expertise, i.e. in the field of support and development of the cluster environment. The NCA can offer this experience to other regions beyond the borders of the Czech Republic.

The topic of the additional meetings with Slovak cluster organisations was related to, e.g. the issue of strengthening cooperation of cluster environments of the V4 countries (regardless of external political conditions), methodology of quality assessment of cluster organisations, identification of fields and topics for the cooperation of companies operating in selected industries, collaboration within the Czech and Slovak European Digital Innovation HUBs, entry of some selected companies and organisations into the Central European CEDEG grouping or, for example, join strategy and preparation of topics for the Cluster meet Regions conference, which takes place on 29. - 30. March 2023, in Košice, Slovakia, where the NCA is helping with the organisation.