Information on an EU funded project for the support of SME related supporting

structures

e-Karelia

© Werner Willeke

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E-Karelia / Project components

• Component 1 - Promotion of awareness

• Component 2 - Seminars, training, consulting

• Component 3 - WEB Portal for SMEs

• Component 4 - Knowledge transfer

• Component 5 - GIS (including business plan)

• Component 6 - e-commerce, including an

e-mall for Karelian SMEs

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E-Karelia / Component 1 / Awareness raising

• Final book with articles from all experts 1

• CDs with training materials, Almanach, other materials

1. Books and CDs - in Russian - can be obtained from the project beneficiaries

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E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training and other events / Places

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E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training

Location & TrainingsLocation & TrainingsLocation & Trainings

Basic Enhanced

Petrozavodsk 7 groups, 79 participants

10 courses, 132 participants

Sortavala 2 groups, 22 participants

2 courses, 24 participants

Kostomuksha 2 groups, 22 participants

1 group, 12 participants

Belomorsk 2 groups, 25 participants

1 group, 15 participants

Segezha 2 groups, 20 participants

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E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training / General information

• In 6 locations in Karelia

• Basic training - 15 groups

• Special training - 14 groups

• All in all 351 training units for 255 participants

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E-Karelia / Component 3 / Consulting

• 8 companies have been consulted individually

• A survey on the use of business application software systems has been made 1

• Special workshop on e-commerce has been organized for SMEs

1. The survey - in Russian - can be obtained from the project beneficiaries

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E-Karelia / Component 3 / WEB Portal

• More than 100 SMEs registered on the WEB portal

• Is connected to other Internet resources (WEB Almanach - „yellow pages“)

• Official launch in August 2006

• http://msb.karelia.ru

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E-Karelia / Component 4 / Knowledge transfer

• 3 study tours provided (Finland, Germany, Denmark)

• 45 participants have gone onto study tour

• SMEs in the West and their approach using ICT has been demonstrated

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E-Karelia / Component 5 / GIS

• Business plan for GIS services has been developed

• Remote forestry sensing technology has been demonstrated

• Business Almanach „Petrozavodsk 2006“

• Karelian topic centered maps

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E-Karelia / Component 6 / e-commerce

• E-commerce handbook developed and distributed

• Seminars on e-commerce, marketing and CRM organized and provided

• Additional e-mall development for the SMEs of Karelia

• Up to 10 SMEs can offer their goods and services not only in Karelia but worldwide

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E-Karelia / Expert days used during the project

2004 / 2005 2006 Total

Core team 305 452 757Local Senior 210 31 241Local Junior 16,5 223,5 240Foreign Senior

151 184 335

Foreign Junior

0 72 72

For more information please refer to:

http://www.e-karelia.ru

e-Karelia

© Werner Willeke