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Very successfully last several years in Lisbon a conference was held in which more than 100 lecturers from different countries were participated and more than 2000 participants – as well as web users were registered. The Forum includes: Plenary Sessions, Round Tables, Workshops, Living Labs, Marketplace and Exhibitions, Network Area. More than 2500 visitors in 2008 were registered. The next edition of the event will be on 15-16.10.2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.

Sustainability and social responsibility through learning in SME(Nr. LLP-LdV-TOI-2008-LT)

 

The project aims to transfer and further develop an innovative methodology to develop a CSR strategy within SME, using a balanced scorecard monitoring methodology and helping to develop systematic learning activities.

We get a lot of feedback and questions wanting to know more about this very subject. Sorry to say that it isnt one of our specific areas of expertise. So finally we have teamed up with David Craker at Invent Connect. InventConnect is a new Australian Business that helps inventors and developers submit their new product ideas and inventions to industry and also provides promotional services for manufacturers and distributors wanting to announce a new release to the market place.

Risk Management. Disaster Management

 

Analysis of atmospheric data as incoming data for DSS and delivering relevant knowledge to crisis management centers personnel.In November 2007 the work on Dangerous Atmospheric. Phenomena Monitoring System - MeteoGIS was completed.

“IBIS – Internet Business Information System/ Business information network integrated with Database Internet Platform” BG2005/017-454.02.01-10 PHARE Cross-border Cooperation Bulgaria – Greece, “Grant Scheme for Integrated support for economic development and promotion of employment”, total amount - 140 614,00 EUR

The main objective of this “Facilitation Guide” is to enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the service sector to develop and improve the development of competences within these enterprises through self learning.[1]

Globalization increases the need for coherent local-level developmental policies in transitional economies, supported by national-level policy that allows room for constructive local initiative and a variety of ownership forms but prevents self-defeating 'competition downward' to secure foreign direct investment. This paper first summarizes new UN research showing that success of a 'productive' SME sector requires both active support services at the local level and the survival, revival or development of a healthy large enterprise sector as supplier of inputs, output market, provider of various social and technical externalities.  Expectations that 'market automaticity' would solve these problems were entirely wrong. The small enterprise sector will not by itself create successful economic growth. Equally misguided were assumptions that individual private ownership was the only viable form and that local banking services are best provided by large, usually foreign-owned, national units.

Because transition governments too often treat foreign direct investment as a cure-all with automatically positive macro- and micro-level effects, they have failed to negotiate conditions sufficient to secure positive and sustainable development effects from what FDI has occurred.  Blind enthusiasm for FDI partially results from systematic confusion between pure 'asset swaps' which create no new productive capacity, the management changes that may or may not accompany them, and new 'real' investment in the correct and economically meaningful use of the term ('green-field' entities or upgrading of old production capacities).