The development of organizational structures for the initiative, which was joined by more than ten new members, was co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF). As part of the research project, a competitiveness analysis of the Silesian Voivodeship was undertaken to determine its likely potential for creating a clean coal technologies cluster, especially when compared with selected domestic and foreign regions. The analysis identified factors that would facilitate the location of a cluster in the Silesia region, and would stimulate its development as well as identify other regions that might be suitable for cluster development [40]. The factors used in the analysis were generally based on Porter's methodology [29], which argues that the successful initiation and development of a cluster in a region depends on four groups of location factors (see Table 1), although some modifications of the method resulting from the specificity of the ISCCCT were applied.