Invitation to the FORESDA Kickoff Meeting in Ljubljana
On Tuesday, 07.03.2017, the public kickoff meeting of the FORESDA project will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia in the framework of the HOME Fair DOM (http://www.home-fair.si/)
We kindly invite SMEs, municipalities, research centres and public audience to join this event in order to get a first overview on the challenges that will be addressed by FORESDA.
You can register to the KOM HERE
FORESDA – ‘Forest-based cross sectoral value chains fostering innovation and competitiveness in the Danube Region’ was built-up in order to support the transformation of traditional forest-based industries towards digitalisation and to strengthen their competitiveness. Forest-based industries have the potential to become the engine for sustainable and competitive bio economy in the Danube Region. Unfortunately they suffer from significant disparities, low level of digitalisation and internationalization, lack of cooperation, weak innovation culture, etc.
Through its activities, FORESDA aims at transforming the traditional forest-based areas into innovative, modern areas, but also at developing innovation-friendly ecosystems to improve or reconfigure the existing value chains. In addition, FORESDA seeks to improve the innovation culture in SMEs and to strengthen collaboration in quadruple helix clusters by implementing new ways of collaboration in the Danube area. Its objectives will strongly support knowledge transfer, collaboration and innovation towards a more resource and energy efficient and environmentally sustainable Danube region.
If you´re interested in the above mentioned activities or even in getting involved as a stakeholder of the project, please join our kickoff meeting in Ljubljana! Preliminary agenda:
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09:30 – 10:00 |
REGISTRATION & COFFEE |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
WELCOME SPEECHES Mr Igor Milavec, director of CCIS – Wood Processing and Furniture Association Mr Miha Humar, dean of UL Biotechnical Faculty Mr Primož Simončič, director of Slovenian Forestry Institute |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
FORESDA: INCREASING INNOVATION POTENTIAL OF THE WOOD SECTOR Tamara Högler, Head of Innovation & International Affairs CyberForum e.V |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
The Hungarian Cluster Accreditation Model Peter Keller Hungarian Ministry of Economics |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
ERUDITE: Enhancing Rural and Urban Digital Innovation Territories through Open Innovation and Socio-Economic Return on Investment Processes dr. Emilija Stojmenova Duh, Docent / Assistant professor University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering |
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12:00 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 13:30 |
VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT Genoveva Christova, Managing Director, Ligna Group Bulgaria |
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13:30 – 14:00 |
WOOD PLASTICS COMPOSITES Anja Röllich, Scientific Officer RegioHOLZ, Regional Development Agency of Northern Black Forest, Germany |
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14:00 – 14:30 |
INNORENEW COE - Renewable Materials and Healthy Environments Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence Dr Andreja Kutnar, University of Primorska and InnoRenew CoE, Slovenia |
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14:30 – 14:45 |
Coffee Break |
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14:45 – 15:15 |
CCIS’S SUPPORT TO INNOVATION Simona Rataj, Advisor Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia |
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15:15 – 15:45 |
THE ACCELERATOR PROJECT Mojca Cvirn, Project management Technology Park Ljubljana Ltd |
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15:45 – 16:00 |
Q & A CLOSING REMARKS |
Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA)
