“Fashion to Future” is a project running since May 2006 through to April 2008 co-financed by the EU 6th Framework Programme to foster the competitiveness of SMEs in the enlarged Euro-Mediterranean fashion system. 38 partners from 21 countries are involved in the implementation of the project and Applied Research and Communications Fund runs it in Bulgaria. The objective of the project is to enable SMEs to participate in future European RTD programmes (FP7) in order to pursue excellence through research, innovation, technology transfer in a fashion system integrated with new...

ARC Fund jointly with the World Bank office in Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Economy and Energy, the Bulgarian Academy of Science launched the promotion campaign on the 3rd Annual Competition “Innovative Bulgarian Enterprise of the Year – 2005”. 3rd Annual Competition “Innovative Bulgarian Enterprise of the Year – 2005” The campaign started on 30. 05. 2006 with a press conference with the organizers of the 3rd Annual Competition “Innovative Bulgarian Enterprise of the Year – 2005”. The main objectives, stages...

The South Central Region of Bulgaria was the first Bulgarian region to become a member of the Innovating Regions in Europe Network (IRE Network) having implemented its RIS initiative as a pilot one for the country. The project “Developing regional innovation strategy for the South Central region of Bulgaria” was implemented in the period October 2001 – May 2004 and had the aim of establishing a common platform for co-operation between the public and private sectors, research organisations and universities, and the financial institutions in the South Central Region in terms of innovation...

As of August 1st, 2005 ARC Fund has officially started a project to establish a national hotline under the EU Safer Internet Program. The Internet hotline – abbreviated as SAFE-NET BG – will become member of the European network of hotlines supported by the European Commission. Hotlines allow members of the public to report illegal content on the Internet. The hotlines then deal with the reports by passing them on to the appropriate body (Internet Service Providers, the police, hotlines in other countries) in accordance with their operating rules. This helps to reduce the flow of illegal...

The new ERA ENV project started officially in April 2005. This is a new European initiative financed by the European Commission through the 6th Framework Programme, thematic priority 6.3 ”Global Change and Ecosystems” which will support the organizations from the new EU member states (NMS) and accession candidate countries (ACC) active in the environmental sector to participate in the EU research programs – to identify appropriate projects, form research partnerships and project consortia, and more successfully benefit from the EU funding opportunities. The kick-off meeting of the...