The Centre of Competence for Smart Cities (CEKOM) is the result of a joint application and elaboration of six research-developmental projects by 20 partners based on the call Support for the Development of Centres of Competence within the 2014-2020 Operational Program Competitiveness and Cohesion.
Since one of the key Croatian problems is the lack of cooperation between the economy and the scientific-research community on specific projects, i.e. a small amount of commercial projects that are the result of such cooperation, CEKOM was established based on the Ministry of Economy’s public call according to which CEKOM is an innovation cluster that encourages cooperation between entrepreneurs and organizations for research and dissemination of knowledge on research-developmental projects. The relations between partners are regulated by the Agreement on the Community of Applicants, which aims to define and establish effective cooperation on research and development projects within CEKOM, aimed at the development and applied research and commercialization of the results.