GO Furniture | Networking platform

About FGOI

Online, , Cluj-Napoca

01/01/2025

31/12/2025

GO Furniture was established following the completion of the Furniture Go International (FGOI) project.
Furniture Go International (FGOI) was a project with solid basis and ambitious goals, starting mid september 2021 and lasting 3 years. It was driven by eight clusters from six European countries.

GO Furniture aims to drive innovation, sustainability, and international expansion while supporting European SMEs in the furniture industry.

Vision and Mission

The vision is to establish a strong meta-cluster that expands collaboration beyond traditional boundaries.

The mission is to unite and empower the furniture industry across Europe to drive innovation, growth, and sustainability through enhanced collaboration and market expansion efforts, working together for internationalization abroad, for the benefit of represented members, especially European SMEs.

Objectives of the “GO Furniture” META-CLUSTER

GO Furniture’s main goal is to be recognised as the leading platform for supporting the internationalization of European furniture SMEs.

Specific objectives include:

To develop cross-sectoral partnerships with focus on areas like design, technology, and market expansion.
To incorporate digitization, green practices and circular economy principles for innovation and sustainable growth.
To attract new young professionals and contribute to upskilling the current professionals.

Join us in the creation of long-term international alliances for the furniture industry and beyond!

Calendar of events

Jul

02

GO Furniture GENERAL ASSEMBLY | July 2

Hybrid format – Physical & Online Participation

The GO Furniture META-Cluster invites all members and partners to its upcoming General Assembly, a key moment to align our strategic direction. The agenda includes:

Welcoming new members of the META-Cluster, further strengthening our European and international collaboration.
Approval of submission of the new project proposal under the HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-03 call: “Beautiful, sustainable and inclusive street furniture for the transformation of neighbourhoods”.
Formalisation of the S3 Thematic Partnership agreement, reinforcing our commitment to smart specialisation and innovation-driven growth. MoUs signature;
A dedicated feedback session on the CMR event, with insights and key takeaways for the cluster.
International market outlooks from our GO Furniture Ambassadors who will provide strategic presentations on market opportunities and challenges: Helen Emanuelsson and Daniel Sandu
Presentation of the upcoming GO Furniture event in Sweden by Susanne, which will take place on September 18, 2025, at the EFG Headquarters in Tranås, Sweden

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17:00

Project Partners

Other

AMBIT - Furnishing cluster

AMBIT - Furnishing cluster is a business association with a legal and non-profit nature whose main objective is to promote and contribute to the competitiveness of the entire chain of value of the habitat sector in Catalonia.

HCB works transversally with companies in the sector to innovate, we help in the evolution of business and focus on shared strategic challenges. BRONZE labelled cluster with 55 members with the following distribution 46 SMEs, 5 largecompanies and 4 research centres. Member of Catalan Cluster Network

BAGOLY Milkós-Levente

BAGOLY Milkós-Levente 2

BARTHA Levente

Bulgarian Furniture Cluster

The Bulgarian Furniture Cluster is a dynamic non-profit association registered in 2009 that holds an ESCA Label – Bronze. The organization urges its members, from furniture design to manufacturing, to be competitive on the local markets, but partners on the international stage, collaboratively building a “brand name” of innovation, quality, and reliability for the Bulgarian furniture industry at international markets.

Chuck Heckman

CLUSTER OF CZECH FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS

Cluster of Czech Furniture Manufacturers, the largest cluster focusing on furniture and woodworking industry, interior design and leader of cluster initiatives in the Czech Republic, is an open organization into which any Czech furniture maker who identifies with its goals and vision can join.

CZINE Zsolt-Attila

DÉNES Levente

HABIC BASQUE HABITAT, WOOD, OFFICE & HOSPITALITY C

Habic is the cluster association of habitat, wood, hospitality and design industry of the Basque Country. We group together near to 100 hundred members, including about 80 industrial companies, most of the SMEs.

Our mission is to improve industry competitiveness through collaborative projects and shared knowledge that lead to new sustainable competitive advantages to the companies.

Interior Cluster Sweden

Interior Cluster Sweden is a non-profit organisation, a geographic concentration of 105 furniture producers, sub suppliers, institutions and municipalities in the furniture and interior design industry.

It has the potential to affect competition by increasing the productivity of the companies in the cluster, driving innovation, and stimulating new businesses and growth.

Our goal is to represent, support and promote the Swedish furniture industry when in dialogue with our national and international partners.

KÁDÁR Rezső

Kinga KRISTO

Ovidiu Irimie

PRO WOOD Regional Wood Cluster

Simona NEGOIȚĂ

TESTY

Transylvanian Furniture Cluster

Transylvanian Furniture Cluster was established in 2012 at the initiative of several legal entities, through their association, to support the furniture industry in its quest for competitiveness, both on the national and international market. Besides the validation from more than 80 current members (mostly SMEs), the management team of the cluster is Gold Label certified by ESCA – European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis. Transylvanian Furniture Cluster is a founding member of the Northern Transylvania Clusters Consortium, is part of the Clusters Association in Romania – CLUSTERO and is active in multiple national and international networks and platforms, such as ECCP – European Cluster Collaboration Platform and FWCP – The Furniture and Woodworking Cluster partnership.

Wood Industry Cluster Slovenia

The Wood Industry Cluster, Slovenia (WIC) is a non-profit private association that was founded in 1999 by woodworking companies, along with state institutions. Today the WIC is comprised of 90 companies and institutions including Slovenian wood processors and producers of furniture (about one third of the Slovenian wood sector). The staff of the WIC office has more than 30 years of experience, especially in the field of clustering, networking, development, project coordination and management, participation in EU projects, transfer of knowledge, as well as in training and internationalisation.