The BBCEI has been successfully launched in August. More than 25 Cluster Initiatives of the 8 DanuBioValNet partners’ regions have expressed their interest. Thus, it is the largest Cluster Benchmarking Initiative since 2011. Although the initiative is still ongoing, clusters from Romania, Montenegro, Baden-Württemberg, and Slovakia have already been successfully benchmarked and received the European Label for Cluster Management Excellence. It is expected that BBCEI can be successfully finished by the end of this year. Valuable insights on size, structure, financial models and main objectives of BioEconomy cluster initiatives have been found. In the context of this initiative, many cluster managers already received ideas and recommendations how to strengthening the cluster organization in order to better support the competitiveness of their SME members.