Last 30th April, Informest with the support of FVG Tourism and Prealpi Giulie Regional Park, attended to “Motor Travel Trade” Slow Tourism Exchange, initiative realized in the frame of the project “MOTOR – Mobile tourist incubator”. The event was organized by Delta 2000 in Comacchio (Ferrara Province) in occasion of the “Slow Week”, biannual fair devoted to bird watching, naturalistic tourism and to activities related to slow tourism. At the “Motor Travel Trade” participated more than 35 tourist operators, among which there were also several operators of the Julian Prealps zone, pilot area of Friuli Venezia Giulia.

On 8^th April 2013, in the frame of the project “A geomantic laboratory for the management of the hydrogeological and seismic risk ”it has been held an interesting conference about “Earthquake superficial evidence in Kashmir – 5^th October 2005”

Professor Shahab Pervez, from University of Kashmir, presented the current situation of the earthquake zone in Kashmir during the conference at the Department of Mathematic and Geosciences. He described the devastations caused by the seism, the projects for reconstruction already implemented, regarding the recovery of some public buildings, and the ongoing projects.

It will be held Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at 10 am at the Hall Pasolini in the headquarters of Autonomous Region, in Udine, via Sabbadini 31, the meeting of presentation of the call for the detection of secondary schools of the second degree of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia to be credited in the mobility program KEPASS.

KEPASS mobility is included in the project Knowledge Exchange Program for the Adriatic School System in the frame of the IPA Adriatic Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-1013.

Informest and the Province of Gorizia as Lead Partner, are the proposers of REMIDA, a project funded by the MED transnational cooperation Porgramme.

The Province of Gorizia, supported by Informest, is organizing a public event to present the project. The event will be held on Thursday 11/04/2013 at 2.00 pm, Sala del Ridotto, Kulturni Dom, Gorizia

It will be presented on Wednesday, 10th April at 14.30 at Mostar Fair the pilot project of the Tourist Board of Hercegovina-Neretva Canton, partner of the Adristorical Lands project.
The project, financed by IPA Adriatic Programme, is aimed at promoting the utilization of the cultural heritage for the development of a sustainable tourism and territorial identity, where the tourism is base on natural and cultural values, common traditions of the Adriatic bacin and is focused on small medioeval borgues, castels, walled cities and cultural sites comprised in these territories.

In the frame of the road show “Make business abroad – Sustain and orientation instruments of Economic Diplomacy”, organized by Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with Italian Economic Diplomacy and Sole 24Ore, on 4^th April Informest presented in Verona at Confindustria Verona premises the new platform ExpòLive www.expolive.it, as new internationalization instrument for companies.

We are glad to invite you to the round table “How much knowledge in 1 cubic centimetre?” and to the 1st crossborder workshop concerning new opportunities offered by “Internet of things”, arranged in the framework of the activities promoted by the iCON project (www.icon-project.eu). The event is addressed to the most innovative companies situated in crossborder territory between Italy and Slovenia and it will be scheduled on April 8th 2013 in Area Science Park premises (Building C) in Padriciano (Trieste).

Informest, within of the activities foreseen by iCON project (www.icon-project.eu), invite you to the second italian and slovene joint business mission to Sofia, in Bulgaria, from 29^th to 31^st May 2013, in the occasion of the following events and workshops: Exhibition and Congress on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Solar South-East Europe Exhibition, Exhibition and Conference on Waste Management, Recycling and Environment “SAVE THE PLANET”.

In the frame of the MECOM (mechanics and component parts at Kragujevac) project, funded by the regional law 19/2000, on Tuesday 12^th of March at 4.30 p.m. a conference on the opportunities for Friuli Venezia Giulia enterprises in the Serbian automotive sector will be held in Pordenone, at the Technological Pole (project LP), with a particular focus on the Kragujevac area.

A new online instrument for enterprises to enhance the business opportunities with Russian Federation: www.expolive.it. The platform will be presented on 26th February 2013 by Pordenone Fair during the Convention "ExpòLive – business opportunities with Russian Federation", an occasion to discover how the Federation is changing, in which direction are going the reforms, which is the social, institutional and economic scenario.

Opera di donna / Woman skill è l’EXPO di talenti femminili in programma a Gorizia dal 22 al24 febbraio 2013 al Conference Centre di Gorizia, la prestigiosa location all’interno dell’antico Seminario Minore di Gorizia, oggi sede della Facoltà di Scienze Diplomatiche e Internazionali di Trieste a Gorizia.

Imprenditrici, manager, professioniste e artiste saranno le protagoniste della kermess, con spazio per esposizione e relazioni sulla propria esperienza e attività professionale.

Durante Opera di donna / Woman skill ci sarà anche un concorso per studenti italiani e sloveni dal titolo “Io sarò un imprenditore innovativo”.

The first Digi.TV italian conference will be held in Trieste, Tessitori Hall, on 8th February starting from 10.00. Starting from the fact that broadcasting services and  ICT technologies importantly contribute to the development of the society, this event will analyse the process of transition from analogue to digital television and its effects in Italy with a particular focus on Friuli Venezia Giulia territory.

On 22nd and 23rd January partners of project MOTOR “Mobile Turist Incubator” met in Prato di Resia for the second interim meeting.

During the meeting, that followed the one organized last year in Kranj at the headquarters of the Business Support Centre, the Lead Partner presented the study on tourist potential and the development plan for areas involved by the project and discussed with partners on the involvement of tourist operators in the coaching and tutoring activities.

KEPASS project, focused on mobility and study in the Adriatic area, will start in Triesteon January 17^th , with a meeting to be attended by policy makers of education in the countries involved:Albania,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia,Italy,Montenegro andSlovenia. Project leader of cross-border cooperation is Friuli Venezia Giulia Region - Directorate for education, university, research, family policies, association activity and cooperation.

On 18th December will be held in Trieste (IT) the event "Friuli Venezia Giulia and Albania: together for the integration of disability". The event is organised in the framework of the project ADRIA3, financed by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Law 19/2000.

This initiative rised from the identification of some common issues of  associations operating in Albania in the context of disability and inclusion of disabled people in work, in particular:

It will be held at 11 o’clock on Friday, the 23rd of November at the Conference centre in Via Alviano the event aimed at local EGTC presentation, organized by the municipalities of Gorizia, Nova Gorica and Šempeter-Vrtojba. The conference is part of the cycle of events organized both at the EU Commission and Committee of Regions in Bruxelles and at local level and aimed at fostering the exchange of ideas between national, regional and local authorities and citizens on the cooperation opportunities existing in the frame of the EU.

Six Croatian companies participated to the international fair EIMA 2012 from 7th yo 12th November 2012 within the project "ITHREU, Italy - Croatia: a partnership for Europe", co-financed by the Ministry of Economic Development Law 84/2001. The international exhibition presents productive companies from all over the world, bringing the best of their production and latest technologies. 

In the framework of the programme MAE-Region-China, with reference to the project “Cultural heritage, the source of wisdom, heritage of all humanity”, the kick-off meeting was held successfully on the 30th October 2012, in Venice. The meeting was attended by all Italian Regions partners (Veneto, Friuli Venzia Giulia, Lombardia, Emilia Romagna, Toscana, Umbria, Lazio and Marche) and the representatives of the most important institutions in the field of conservation and valorization of the Chinese cultural heritage: the Capital Museum and University of Pechino, the Qufu World Cultural Heritage Monitoring Office and the Cultural Relics and Tourism Bureau, the Nanjing Museum, the Chongqing Museum and Province of Hunan.

On 19th November 2012 ICE organizes in Tirana the following seminar "Albania: Opportunities for industrial collaboration between italian and albanian enterprises in the field of innovation", financed with the funds of law 84/2001 which regulates the Italian participation in the stabilisation, reconstruction and development process of the Balkan Countries, including Albania.

Eleven SMEs from Friuli Venezia Giulia Region met thirty companies from Montengro during the business matching activity organised in Podgorica from 24 to 26 September 2012.
The initiative was implemented as part of the project "ADRIA 3" funded by the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia using the funds of Law Reg. 19/2000 and is the result of the fruitful cooperation between Informest (project leader), Unioncamere Friuli Venezia Giulia (with the collaboration of all four chambers regional organizations, coordinated by Aries) and the Ministry of Economy of Montenegro through its Directorate Development of SMEs - NASME.

Informest in cooperation with the project partners Unioncamere Friuli Venezia Giulia and NASME - National Agency for Development of SMEs organises in Podgorica (MNG) on 25 and 26 September an event based on business matchings between eleven companies from Friuli Venezia Giulia and thirty companies from Montenegro with the aim of promoting and supporting new business partnerships between the two territories.

12 companies fromItalyandCroatiaparticipated inArad,Romania, the largest international trade fair AGROMALIM, September 6th to 9th. The event was organized in every detail by Informest, in collaboration with Finest, the Croatian Chamber of Economy and the Croatian Ministry of Economy, within the project "ITHREU, Italy - Croatia: a partnership for Europe", co-financed by the Ministry of Economic Development Law 84/2001.

Last Friday the 31^st of August the Mountain Week “Nature, Mountain and Culture without borders”, organized by Monfalcone municipality with the support of JULIUS project, was inaugurated. A large public assisted to the opening evening, listening to the words of the mountaineer poet Mauro Corona. Ten days fully dedicated to the lovers of mountain, with a very rich programme of expositions, books presentations, bands performances, excursions, conferences and famous guests (Nives Meroi, Mauro Corona and many others) dedicated to Mountain,outdoor activities and natural beauties of cross border area.

On the 22nd of June 2012 a workshop on the future possibilities of collaboration in the frame of the EU and on the development of project ideas of potential interest for FVG region and Vojvodina took place at the amphitheatre Nikola Tesla at the Novi Sad University. The workshop was held in the frame of the project “Renewable energies and biotechnologies between FVG and Vojvodina-ENERBIO”, financed by the FVG region, coordinated by the Pordenone Technological Pole and with the participation of INFORMEST, CBM and the technical science and medical science Faculty of Novi Sad.

Novi Sad, June 15th, 2012. Milorad Ðuric, the Regional Minister for Culture of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, officially opened the exhibition entitled “Aquileia crocevia dell’impero“ at the government building hall of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Novi Sad, in the presence of President of Informest Silvia Acerbi, President of the Mitteleuropa Association Paolo Petiziol, and Director of the Museum of Vojvodina Agnes Ozer.

Even this year the Cultural Contact Point-CCP Italy of Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) proposes the annual infoday on the Culture Programme 2007-13, which will be held on July 4 2012 in a very special location: the ancient city of Aquileia.

The infoday is organized in collaboration with the Aquileia Foundation, selected in 2011 with the project Tourist Promotion of Archaeological Sites along the road Aquileia-Viminacium (T-PAS) as part of annual cooperation projects of the Culture Programme.

During the morning Elvira Rocca, Marzia Santone and Maria Cristina Lacagnina, staff of the CCP Italy, will present the funding opportunities for cultural cooperation projects under the Culture Programme 2007-13.

In the afternoon, Leila Nista, project manager for the CCP Italy, will discuss the new Framework Programme for the cultural and creative sector for 2014-2020: Creative Europe.

A transnational working session will follow, dedicated to the analysis of awarded projects within the Culture Programme 2007-13, with the participation of the Aquileia Foundation, the Cultural Contact Points of Slovenia and Croatia and the Cultural Center of the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Participation at the infoday is free. For info and registration please write to: antennaculturale@beniculturali.it. The deadline for registration is June 22.

The Hellenic Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks and by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in cooperation with CEI, within the SEETAC Project organised in Athens on May 22 the Transport Ministerial Conference and the Infrastructure Forum, in which transport and infrastructure ministerial representatives of Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine (SEETAC partner countries), European Commission (DG Enlargement and DG Mobility and Transport), European Investment Bank (EIB), regional organisations (RCC and SEETO) and transport operators (International Road Union, TRAINOSE, the Hellenic Railways Organisation and the Hellenic Regulatory Authority for Railways), gathered to discuss investments coordination in South East Europe to EU transport system and better organisation of their transport planning.

Informest, Agency for Development and International Economic Cooperation, with the support of the project iCON partnership (www.icon-project.eu), has the pleasure to invite you at the workshop on the cross-border ICT networks scheduled on May, 25th 2012 at 9.00, at the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia, via Giosuè Carducci 2 (Gorizia).

On 17th of May 2012, it will be held in Gorizia (Italy) the final event of the SEPA project.

The project SEPA has started in 2009 and has involved eight territories of the South East Europe area: Italy, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Serbia. The partnership has been working together since the beginning by pursuing the common objective of improving the socio-environmental impact of the industrial areas through the outline and test of innovative management models and eco-friendly investments.

The presentation of the Axis II "Internationalization - Development of Economic Relations between Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro" in the framework of ADRIA3 Project - financed by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia through L. 19/2000, will be held on 11 May in Trieste at the Chamber of Commerce. During the event, the local partner, the Directorate for the support of SMEs in Montenegro NASME, will make a country presentation highlighting the opportunities of cooperation between SMEs of the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and Montenegro.

The First Transnational Conference of the SEE Digi.TV Project will be held in Trieste, at the Hotel Savoia Excelsior Palace, on the 19^th and 20^th of April. The event is organized by Informest, in collaboration with the Regional Communication Committee of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Corecom FVG) and the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Media (Agcom).

In the course of the event, partners from Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, with the support of international experts, will have the possibility to discuss about issues and regulations concerning the digitalization processes of the terrestrial television transmissions.

Informest, Agency for development and international economic cooperation, with the support of the iCON project partners, have the pleasure to invite you to the Italian-Slovene entrepreneurs joint mission for the “International Supercomputing Conference” (ISC) in Hamburg from June 18^th to 20^th 2012.

The conference is a world-wide event with the participation of 100 exhibitors, 2.400 experts and more than 300 speakers from 50 countries. Aim of the Fair is to promote the creation of new business contacts with academics and industry (they represent respectively the 43% and the 42% of the participants). In Hamburg it will be presented the most promising results of research in the field of supercomputing and cloud computing.

The event has been sponsored by IBM, Bull, Intel, Samsung, Supermicro, Dell, Fujitsu, Hp, Mellanox, Sgi.

Polo Tecnologico of Pordenone, Informest and CBM - CONSORTIUM FOR MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE in collaboration with ENERBIO project partners have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the workshops of presentation of the project scheduled for the 11th and 12th of April 2012.  The double event will be one of the best opportunities for meeting  experts of the renewable energy and biotechnology & health sectors. During these workshops it will be presented two sector analysis, business and investment opportunities in the region of northern Serbia, technology transfer and the development of the economic cooperation and R&D in the energy,  environmental and health & Biotechnology sectors.
 For registration please complete the online form (http://www.enerbio.it/) within Friday, the 6th of April 2012.

A delegation of Italian and Slovenes businessmen, under the aegis of iCON project, participated at the triple event on the Green Economy in Sofia ended last March 30^th, 2012. The international meeting is one of the most important business exchange for sector players in the South-East Europe and represents a wide presentation of business and investment opportunities in the region, for the technology transfer and development of economic cooperation on energy and environment.

Within the framework of the project Financial Facilities for SMEs: Training and Capacity Building for Business Support Organisations in non-EU Member States of the Central European Initiative (CEI) - FIT4SMEs II a training event will be held in Belgrade (Serbia) on 3-4 April, at the Sava Center.

Informest, will participate together with the partners of SEPA to European b2b Matchmaking Event in the Field of Waste Management, Recycling & Environment, organised by Enterprise Europe Network. “SAVE THE PLANET” will be held in Sofia, in Bulgaria, from 28thto 30th March 2012. Website of the fair http://www.eco.viaexpo.com/en/exhibition/.

The fair will be the occasion to present the results of the project and to attract the investors.

The 30^th it will be held by the stand the conference "The Green Marketing – a tool for the promotion of eco-industrial parks and businesses". 

On March 21 and 22 will be hold in Sempeter pri Gorici at the Modri hram multipurpose hall of the Lipa Hotel (Trg Ivana Roba 7) the 5th STeering Committee/Technical Meeting of the Project AGRONET - "Realization of a permanent network of logistics, distribution and services infrastructure in the food industry chain of the Adriatic Area – Priority 1 – Measure 1.2 ”. The project benefits from funding from the IPA Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013, and sees the participation of partners from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.

The Final conference of ADC project, financed by SEE programme and coordinated by Veneto Region with Informest technical assistance, has been scheduled for the 13th of March in Venice. During the conference main project results, their long term expected impacts and the future perspective of cluster cooperation in Adriatic-Danubian area will be illustrated.

The second phase of the FIT4SMEs Project (www.fit4smes.net),managed by Informest and co-financed by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Central European Initiative (CEI) through the Know-How Exchange Programme- KEP, started in October 2011, foresees in the following weeks a series of trainings offered to BSOs of the 9 non-EU CEI Member States (Albania, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldavia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine) in the field of financial facilities provided by international financial institutions for small and medium enterprises.

The meetings will be held in three different East European capitals (Tirana, Belgrade and Kyiv), and foresee a technical programme of knowledge transfer in the field of financial facilities provided by European Bank for Recostruction and Development-EBRD, European Investment Bank-EIB and the World Bank Group-WB. In such a way as to improve the local BSOs capacity to provide a complete and qualitative assistance to SMEs on access to financial facilities.

The first event related to ADRIA3 Project – Strengthening and development of cooperation between countries on the Eastern Adriatic coast will be held on 11^th of February in Buje (Croatia).

The project leaded by Informest and financed by Friuli Venezia Giulia Region Law no.19/2000 is focused on three main Axis, which have as common aim to transfer experiences and good practices to the stakeholders in the three recipient countries: the Istrian Region, Montenegro e Albania. ADRIA3 aims at strengthening the economic and institutional actor capacities in order to develop policies based on environmental, economic and social sustainability principles.

This first event will be focused on Axis I which aims at preserving the Pannonin Mediterranean bee ecotype in the territories of Friuli Venezia Giulia and Istrian Regions. Three main activities are foreseen by the project:

1. scientific research on the Pannonian Mediterranean bee ecotype; 2. creation cross-border beekeepers network; 3. promotion of related products and awareness raising on the importance of bees.

At the event will participate lecturers from Trieste and Zagreb Universities and from the Natural History Civic Museum of Trieste.

For any further information: www.adria3.eu, email: info@adria3.eu

Informest, within the iCON project frame (www.icon-project.eu), has the pleasure to invite you to the italian-slovene joint business mission to Sofia, in Bulgaria, from 28^th to 30^th March 2012, in the occasion of the following events and workshops: Exhibition and Congress on Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Solar South-East Europe Exhibition, Exhibition and Conference on Waste Management, Recycling and Environment “SAVE THE PLANET”.

Shortly before the end of the second reporting period, the project partners of the SEE Digi.TV project met in Gorizia, at the invitation of the Italian partner Informest, to discuss the progress made in the second period of the project, more precisely during October and November 2011, and to plan in detail the forthcoming activities in the next months. The second period and the last two months were very important for the course of the project since many documents were under elaboration or finalisation. As there are currently on-going activities in each work package (legal, economic, technical and public awareness framework, as well as in the accompanying communication activities), many details related to the documents in preparation and those that were essential for planning of the next activities needed to be clarified and fixed.

SEETAC’s 8^th Project Meeting will take place on 17^th and 18^th January2012 in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting is organised by the Office of the President of the Republic of Serbia in cooperation with the Central European Initiative and the Serbian Ministry of Infrastructure.

The meeting will focus its proceedings on the main results deriving from the database collection, which means traffic flows in the South East Europe area in the current and future situation. Moreover, the discussions will also concern the definition of multimodal traffic scenarios and their outcomes, project fiches and these activities will serve as the main platform for the organisation of the next donor conference, foreseen in spring2012 inAthens, Greece.

The meeting will end with the SEETAC steering committee in order to validate the so far accomplished objectives and results.

Within the activities planned in the frame of the project “iCON Competitiveness of SMEs through Innovation and Collaborative Entrepreneurship” aimed to increase the role of the economic sector in the cross-border area between Italy and Slovenia thought the promotion of SMEs cooperation and networking, Informest is organizing the training seminar “Introduction to the use of Digital Business Ecosystems services for the SMEs”.

The event is scheduled for 6^th December 2011 at 14.30 at Informest premises (via Cadorna 36, Gorizia) and it is addressed to ICT SMEs.
The duration of the meeting will be approximately of 2 hours. Teacher: Tomi Ilijaš, founder and director of Artur d.o.o.

On December 2 will be hold in Udine at the Salone delle Feste of the Hotel Astoria (XX Settembre Square, 24) the Seminar “The AGRONET Project and the development of a network in the agro-food chain”. The project benefits from funding from the IPA Adriatic Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013, and sees the participation of partners from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy.

Informest, the Municipality of Latisana and the Shipyard of Aprilia Marittima organize the event “the development of the yachting pole” of the “FATE - From Army To Entrepreneurship ” project. The event will be held Thursday 27/10, 10 am, in Aprilia Marittima, “Saletta del Centro volontari del soccorso in mare”, Cantieri di Aprilia.

The event is the final open day of FATE project, aiming at providing local and regional administrations with useful tools to manage, plan and start up the requalification process of military brownfields and encouraging the economic development through the conversion of military brownfields into business support centres. The open day will present the results of the pilot action of FATE (conversion of Radaelli barrack into support centre for advanced yachting service) and an overview of the environmental and economic situation of the lagoon.

For further information: francesca.silvera@informest.it

It will be held tomorrow (Tuesday, 28 June) at 11:00 am at the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region premises, in Udine, Via Sabbadini, 31, Kugy room, ground floor, the press conference on “FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA PROGETTA! 2” - Regional Edition 2011 - organized by the Central Direction of Culture, Sports, International and communitarian relations of the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and Informest, sponsored by the Department of Regional Affairs of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, mission structure" Project Opportunities for the Regions - PORE ".

In occasion of the official visit in Croatia of the Italian Minister of Economic Development, Mr Paolo Romani, the third edition of the Italian-Croatian Economic Forum will be held in Zagreb on 30th June 2011. The initiative is organized by INFORMEST and ICE (Italian Trade Commission) with the cooperation of FINEST and PROMOS and it is co-financed by the Italian Law 84/2001. The Forum aims at providing to the Italian companies, in particular to the Small and Medium Enterprises, a wide panorama about the opportunities of economic cooperation, new partnership and investments in Croatia.

On May 31st the conference titled "The conversion of military brownfield: a territorial opportunity" will be held at 9 a.m. in the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia compound in Udin (Italy) - via Sabbadini 31. The conference is part of the FATE project - From Army To Entrepreneurship financed by the SEE programme - South East Europe. The topic f the conference will be the process re-conversion and re-qualification of brownfields, in particular the military one.

Si terrà il prossimo 16 maggio al Polo Universitario di Gorizia il seminario su "Cooperazione socio-sanitaria internazionale: opportunità e prospettive per il Friuli Venezia Giulia" promosso dalla Direzione Centrale salute, integrazione sociosanitaria e politiche sociali.
A partire dalle esperienze e dalle progettualità che  il Friuli Venezia Giulia ha promosso all’interno delle attività previste dal Piano operativo “Le Dimensioni Internazionali della Politica della Salute della Regione Autonoma FVG”, verranno affrontati i diversi livelli di  intervento: dimensione europea, cooperazione internazionale e azione umanitaria.  

On April 13, at the Hotel Savoia Excelsior Palace in Trieste (Italy) will be held at 9.30 a.m. the first International Conference of the project "Financial facilities for SMEs: training and capacity building for Business Support Organisation in non-EU member states of the Central European Initiative - FIT4SMEs", co-financed through the Know-how Exchange Programme (KEP) of the Central Europe Initiative (CEI) and by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region.

At the gallery Dora Bassi will be on public display from 10th March to 3rd April the 30 projects submitted by Italian and international architects for the redevelopment of the former Civil Hospital of Gorizia in the framework of the project "Youth area at the border".
The opening ceremony and the award ceremony will take place at 4 pm at the Gallery itself, while at 6 pm, in the Auditorium della Cultura Friulana will hold a seminar during which the same winners and worthy of reporting will show the ideas presented to redevelop the former hospital area bordering the municipalities of Nova Gorica and Šempeter-Vrtojba.

Further information: www.spaziogiovanigorizia.eu, e-mail: info@spaziogiovanigorizia.eu

On 21th of February at 10 a.m. by MIB School of Management in Trieste there will be presented to the public the report "Internationalization of Enterprises of Friuli Venezia Giulia". The initiative will be illustrated by Federica Seganti and then will be presented the results, the regional strategies and the pilot actions proposed in favour of economic regional system.

The final conference of the project "PRO.COOP: PROmotion of COOPerative enterprises in Balkan Europe for social and economic cohesion" was held on 17^th December 2010 in Udine. The project was co-financed by the Italian Law 84/01 that establishes the Italian participation in the stabilization, reconstruction and development process of the Balkan countries; it was also co-financed by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia.

Informest has been invited to partecipate to "Italian - Albanian Economic Forum" that will be held in Milan on 18^th January 2011 by Palazzo Turati, during the visit of the Prime Minister of Republic of Albania, Sali Ram Berisha, organized by Promos - Chamber of commerce of Milan, with the cooperation of Municipality of Milan.

On November 30, 2010 was held in Gorizia, on the premises of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia, the first cross-border integration Forum Italy-Slovenia, organized by Informest in the framework of the project iCON, funded by the Community Programme for Cooperation Italy-Slovenia 2007-2013, the European Regional Development Fund and by national funds.

On Tuesday 30th November, at 14.30h, a forum on cross-border integration Italy-Slovenia will  take place within ICON project at the "Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia-sala Conte Giuseppe della Torre". 
The forum, organized by Informest (as project partner) is aimed at analyzing the real context, the level of territorial integration, the previous experiences and best practices in the cross-border area.

On Friday 2nd of December 2010 at 10.15h, a seminar of presentation of the "Turchia ICT" initiative, realized by Informest in collaboration with the technological pole of Pordenone, will take place at the headquarters of the technological pole of Pordenone. The seminar will describe Turkish market, deepen business opportunities for ICT sector and detail legal fiscal aspects for the settlement of foreign productive unites.

The annual Conference of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) took place on October 13-15 in Antwerpen (Belgium). The Conference, organized with the cooperation of the European Presidency, saw the participation of 800 partners from all over Europe, engaged in a serie of workshops, round tables, and other events, among which the ceremony for the assignement of the "Best Practice Awards".

On Wednesday 14 July 2010, at 4 p.m, by Polo Tecnologico Di Pordenone Scpa , Via della Comina, 25, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Poland". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and about the situation of Poland in the post-crisis scenarios. They will also evaluate risks and opportunities of cooperation with enterprises of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Poland Business Guide will be distributed to all the participants.

On 1^st July 2010, at 5 p.m, by Confindustria Trieste Headquartes , Piazza Casali, 1, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Croatia, Serbia and Albania". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and adopted measures and about the situation of Serbia, Croatia and Albania and the post-crisis scenarios.

Within the 7^nd edition of the Italian Festival organized by ICE Office in Sofia on 7^th June was held the Economic Forum "Bulgaria and Italy: together paving out the road from crisis". It was an important opportunity to verify bilateral economic and trade relations between Italy and Bulgaria and, at the same time, to compare the actions used to address the ongoing economic crisis.

Friday, 18^th June 2010, from 9.30 to 13.30 the Conference Centre of AREA Science Park will host the international conference "Internationalization of human capital and regional competitiveness: launch of the Welcome Office Friuli Venezia Giulia and presentation of the project Talents for an International House". The event will approach issues related to developing synergies between human capital and territorial attractiveness, through targeted services to accommodate and international mobility programs.

Last 21 of May Informest organized the final step of Promogel project. Inside Longarone Fair it were organized more than 70 business to business meeting among the Italian companies participating to the project and the selected serbian, croatian, bosnian and montenegrin companies. All the companies operate in the fields of machinery and products for ice cream, refrigeration systems, supplies and equipment for bars, restaurants and ice cream parlour.  PROMOGEL Project is realized by Informest with the contribution of Veneto Region. The project is designed for companies from Veneto interested in developing business collaborations with companies operating in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro markets.

On thursday 6 May 2010, at 4.30 p.m, by Confindustria Gorizia Headquartes , Via degli Arcadi 7, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Serbia". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and adopted measures and about the situation of Serbia and the post-crisis scenarios. The esperts will also evaluate the possibility of cooperation for the entrerprises of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

Baku, 2.5 million inhabitants, is the modern and lively capital city of a young Country which is experiencing an extraordinary economic development. In the last five years, Azerbaijan recorded an astounding economic performance: regardless the global crisis, the azeri economy has grown by 10.8% in 2008 and by 9.3% in 2009. In the three-years period 2005-2007 it has grown at the rate of 28.5% per year, a figure that makes even China disappear. Italy is the first economic partner of Azerbaijan, with almost ¼ of the entire Country's foreign exchange. Informest participated to the economic mission organized by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Baku on April 25-27, 2010.

The Project PROMOGEL is realized by Informest (Agency for Development and International Economic Cooperation) in collaboration with the Fair Longarone and with the contribution of the Region of Veneto. The project is designed for companies from Veneto specialized in the fields of machinery and products for ice cream, systems for refrigeration, furniture and equipment for bars, restaurants and ice cream parlors which are interested in developing business collaborations with companies operating in the markets of Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Montenegro.