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.

The above mentioned project is aimed at the activation of stable relationships between the institutional, research and economic-entrepreneurial system of FVG region and Vojvodina, with a particular focus on the renewable energies and biomedicine sectors, also thorugh the development of joint projects.

The workshop was attended by a high level delegation of the Vojvodjna Autonomous Province headed by the Vice-President Tomislav Stantic, the Ministry of research and technological development Rade Ciric and the vice-rectors of the Technical Science University Vladimir Katic and of the Medical Science University Biljana Draskovic. 50 people (researchers and representatives of development and governmental agencies) participated in the event.

During the first part of the event the CBM showed the current collaboration opportunities in the frame of the EU with a particular focus on the future announcements of the 7FP that will be published the next July and on the mid and long term perspectives, also explaining the present global strategies in the frame of the bio-economy and by introducing the new European Programme for research and innovation Horizon 2020.

During the second part of the event the project partners and all participants in the workshop began an interesting and fertile exchange of project ideas between the two regions in the biotechnology and renewable energies sectors with the aim of promoting further future collaborations. Firstly some arguments of potential interest in the frame of the forthcoming European announcements in the agro-food (for example innovation of agro-food SMEs) and energy sectors (as the mapping of the geothermal or R&D resources in the bio-energy sector) were investigated.

Also some specific themes were discussed. Among others: oncology, telemedicine, district heating by exploiting biomasses produced by the agricultural factory as well as the starting of high educational courses on renewable energies that will be further discussed by the stakeholders of the two regions also individuating appropriate financing opportunities.