On December 17, 2009 in Sofia, the Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund) in cooperation with the Association of Business Cluster (ABC) and the Centre for Innovation of BAS organized a meeting with cluster-member companies from Bulgaria, members of the BBA. The meeting was hosted by ARC Fund. The topics discussed during the meeting included: – Presenting the results of cluster PRO_INNO Workshop in Berlin (Ms Genoveva Hristova, President of the BBA) – Funding opportunities for clusters under OP “Competitiveness” of 2010 (Mr. Angel Kovachev, Ministry of...

On December 9, 2009 the Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund) in cooperation with the Association of Business Cluster (BBA) and the Center for Innovation of BAS organized a meeting with cluster-member companies from Varna, members of the BBA. The event was hosted by the Institute of Aero- and Hydrodynamics (BAS – Varna). The topics discussed during the meeting included: – Funding opportunities for clusters under OP “Competitiveness” of 2010 (Mr. Angel Kovachev, Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism) – Opportunities for technology and business...

The TransBonus project, co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Union, opens a call for project research ideas (in the form of pre-proposals), in the surface transport thematic area, proposed by research organisations, NGOs, universities, and public organisations, coming from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria. SMEs can also submit pre-proposals under the conditions that they establish partnership with research organisations, NGOs, universities, and public organisations. Authors of the best 2-3 project ideas (Pre-proposals) per...

On the occasion of the Safer Internet Forum 2009 in Luxembourg, the first pan-European Youth Panel on online safety will be organised by INSAFE on 21 October 2009. Entitled “YEP (Youth e-safety Panel) 2009”, the initiative will bring together 54 young people aged 14 to 17 selected by the national Safer Internet Centres in all 27 Insafe member countries. The young panelists will discuss issues related to their use of online technologies. “The Pan-European Youth Panel has my full support. This is a very valuable initiative which allows European youngsters to voice their own opinions...

ARC Fund, organized on behalf of ECAbit the 4th International Conference Advancing Innovation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (AIECA 2009) The Technical University – Gabrovo, Enterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria and the Municipality of Gabrovo were co-organizers of the event, which was held on 24-26 September in Gabrovo, Bulgaria. AIECA 2009 was supported by the World Bank’s infoDev program and iDisc global incubator initiative. The regional conference of the Eastern European and Central Asian Business Incubators and Technology Parks Networkbrought together more than 70 participants from...