SWG Modern housing

“The Sectoral Working Group Activities”

Venice, March 14th, 2012

The Network

• Region of Veneto, Lightning Cluster

• Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia

• Emilia Romagna Region, Larcoicos-ICIE Cluster

• Bulgaria Economic Forum, Bulgarian Furniture Cluster Association of Business Clusters (ABC)

• Maribor development agency , Cluster Energy Optimized Construction, ŠTP Technology park, Chamber of commerce & industry of Štajerska, Slovene Construction Cluster, Centre for Promotion of Entrepreneurship Piran  

• Hungary - HITA

• cluster Pro Wood, cluster Green Energy Biomass, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business Development Bulgaria, Institute of Economic Forecasting  

• Serbia - City of Niš , "Dundjer" cluster  

• BIH - Republic Agency for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises , SD Energy Cluster

1st SWG Meeting (Maribor, 26. and 27.10.2010)

• WP 4 activities and planning of the Budapest meeting

• Presentation of the participating regions and cluster-activities

• Joint development of SWG activities

• Cluster manager profile

• Planning next SWG Meeting / Timetable

• Sharing of good practices in cluster organisations

• Individual meetings  

2nd SWG Meeting (Venice, February 16th, 2011)

• Briefing on meeting objectives• On site visit to local cluster. Examples of building restoring in Venice, • Sharing best practices in clusters organization (The experience of public building and

cultural heritage restoration in Venice)• Presentation of activities implemented after the 1st SWG• Discussion on the preparation of PEV • Cluster manager profile• Transnational agreement• Draft programme of next SWG meeting in Banja luka• Summarization of the results of PPs workshop

3th SWG Meeting (Banja luka, 17. & 18.03.2011)

• Presentation of the Adriatic - Danubian Clustering Project

• The genesis of cluster development in the European Union, cluster development in Slovenia, the experiences at the regional level

• Cluster development in Republika Srpska/Bosnia and Herzegovina

• Republika Srpska experiences – presentation of Cluster “Drvo” Prijedor

• Pannel discussion - Topics:

– Vision of cluster development in Republika Srpska/Bosnia and Herzegovina in next 5 years

– The functions of clusters we want to develop in the future

– Identified problems so far and the models of most useful assistance from the European Union

– The most interesting forms of international cluster cooperation

• Visit to the GRAMES Construction Fair

• Workshop: implementation of WP4 activities, agreement

proposal, ADC cluster management activities, ADC local offices

• Workshop: PEV programme, transnational MH cluster database

PEV Event (Maribor, May, 31st and June 1st, 2011)

• Presentation of sectoral working group results• Future Modern housing network• Agreement signature• Project development – ideas• Public presentations – cluster managers• Cluster2cluster meetings, B2B meetings

Main outputs

- Exchange of experience in development and management of MH clusters,

- Identification of clusters / networks / institutions / companies interested in cooperation in transnational ADC MH network (to be continued),

- Future transnational activities identifined; including the concept of local offices,

- Transnational Modern housing ADC agreement,

- Business cooperation between cluster members started,

- Information about clusters and cluster supporting institutions is available on the project web platform

Conclusions

- There is no magic formula for transnational cluster cooperation, we need dedicated people and professional institutions;

- The process of networking must be additionally developed to reach the sustainability;

- Clusters and cluster supporting institutions must provide resources for transnational cooperation;

- Cluster manager can (short term) be provided by coordinator of SWG