ARC FUND

Business mission of companies from Bulgaria, Serbia and Republic of Macedonia to Gothenburg, Sweden

As part of Enterprise Europe Network Applied Research and Communications Fund and Business Region Göteborg AB organize a business mission of companies from Bulgaria, Serbia and Republic of Macedonia to Gothenburg (Sweden) on 21-22 October 2015 . The mission is pre-event to the leading Swedish conference Lindholmen Software Development Day and is supported by the Embassy of Bulgaria in Sweden, the Embassy of Serbia in Sweden and Invest Macedonia (Foreign Investment Agency of the Republic of Macedonia). The participating companies will be able to expand their international network, explore new...

ICT Cluster & SME Company Mission to Japan

The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation, partner of Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) in Japan, and ARC Consulting, coordinator of the EEN – Bulgaria, organize business mission of clusters and companies in...

ETNA Plus Partner search system for H2020 “Smart, Green and Integrated Transport” calls for proposals

The NCP network for transport in Horizon 2020 – ETNA Plus – is pleased to inform you that there is a new IT tool for partner search specifically dedicated to the project proposals to be submitted under the H2020 ‘Smart , Green and Integrated Transport ‘ (Societal Challenge 4) calls . The platform provides users with the ability to: – Create new partner searches and manage the requests of partnership received, – Identify suitable partner searches, – Answer to the partner searches published by other proposers The quality of published partner searches is...

International Brokerage Event in the field of ICT at Mobile World Congress 2015

Enterprise Europe Network-Bulgaria organises for the fifth time International Brokerage Event in the field of information and communication technologies at Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona – the major fair in Europe for mobile communications and ICT industry. The Brokerage Event is an opportunity for prior organisation of your business meetings to ensure fruitful negotiations on-site with potential suppliers of new products and technologies. The participants in the brokerage event will be given a fully-equipped room for their meetings following pre-agreed schedule. In addition, they...

National Contest for Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2014

For the tenth consecutive year Applied Research and Communications Fund, as coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria, with the support of the Ministry of Economy, the Representation of the European Commission...

Tenth National Innovation Forum

On December 16th, 2014, Applied Research and Communications Fund, Еnterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria with the Ministry of Economy, the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria and KIC InnoEnergy, with the support of the Norway Grants organized the Tenth National Innovation Forum “Innovation Agenda for Sustainable Growth and Competitiveness”. During the Forum, the President of Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Rosen Plevneliev awarded the finalists in the National Contest for Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2014. Dr. Ognian Shentov, Chairman of the Applied Research and...

Discussion: Data-Driven Innovation in South-East Europe

On December 4th, the Institute of Economics in Serbia, together with other research institutes and think-tanks from South-East Europe, and with the support of Google, organized in Zagreb a discussion on data-driven innovations in the region. Practitioners, researchers and senior government officials from Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania and Slovenia took part in the event, exchanging information on good practices from their countries. Prof. Dragan Sagovnovic, Director of the Institute of Economics in Serbia and Mr. Dionisis Kolokotsas, Public...

A Consultation on Europe Wide Views on Sustainable Consumption

The Applied Research and Communications Fund organised a pilot for Bulgaria consultation with citizens on sustainable consumption, which was held on the 25 th of October 2014 at the premises of Universiada Hall in Sofia...

Final conference of the Complex Challenges – Innovative Cities (CCIC) project

2014 was the final year of the Complex Challenges – Innovative Cities (CCIC) project, which began in January 2012 as a partnership among 14 organisations from 10 different EU countries. It was supported by the INTERREG IVC Programme and the Bulgarian Ministry of Regional Development, and was targeted at municipal and regional authorities across Europe, exploring opportunities for successful and sustainable governance of public sector innovation on a local and regional level. As the only partner that is not a public authority, ARC Fund had a unique role in the consortium, namely to provide...