Final Conference
Presentation of activities and results of sectoral
working group on logistics”
Mónika Alíz Mészáros, deputy director, ADC project manager
Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency
Business Development Directorate
Budapest, 13 March, 2012
Introducing HITA
In 2011 it was founded by the Hungarian Government (265/2010. (XI.19.) governmental decree) to implement Foreign Trade Strategy
Ministry of National Economy is supervising HITA, this ministry is responsible for the new Foreign Trade Strategy, but it is an independently operating budgetary institution
Number of employees is 150, it had a financial budget of 12,5 million EUR for 2011
Headquarters in Budapest, 15 regional offices in Hungary and linked to 61 offices around the world
Main tasks:• Investment promotion: Incite foreign companies to invest in Hungary, assistance for the whole process Link the Hungarian SME with investors, help them to be suppliers• Business development: Encourage Hungarian SMEs to expand their activities on international level (trade
promotion) Internationalization: capital export, facilitate joint ventures, international technical
cooperation
Tasks of SWG (Sectoral Working Group – transnational)• To define the exact sector (subsector) at transnational level;
• The aim is to check the opportunities of transnational matching, productive networking and sharing of good practices in the clusters organisation and to draft the sector-based partnership agreements/letter of intent for this purpose;
• To be organized after the Regional focus group meetings (RFG) in all countries and share the national experience and view
Local Working Group (RFG – regional focus group)• Define the sector at regional/national level;
• regional clusters, companies, decisionmakers, experts, institutions participate in it;
• their aim is to check the opportunities of matching, productive networking and sharing of good practices in the clusters organisation and to give comments the sector-based partnership agreements;
1st SWG Meeting (Budapest/Hungary, 16.11.2010)
• Welcome & meeting objectives • WP4 activities and information of the Budapest partner meeting• Presentation of the participating regions, cluster-activities – 9 partner
LP Veneto (I), FVG (I), Molise (I), MRA (SI), ITDH (HU), CPEP (SI), IPE (RO), City of Nis (RS), DUNEA (HR)
• Joint development of SWG activities• Cluster manager profile• Planning next SWG Meeting / Timetable • Sharing of good practices in cluster organisations (Hungarian Logistics Cluster)
• Individual meetings
2nd and 3rd SWG Meeting (Budapest/Hungary 31.01.2012)
• Welcome & briefing on meeting objectives• Sharing best practices in clusters organization (Romanian, Hungarian)• Presentation of activities implemented after the 1st SWG – 5 partner
MRA (SI), HITA (HU), CPEP (SI), IPE (RO), DUNEA (HR) – Italian and Serbian partner were missing (-4 partner)
• Discussion on the preparation of PEV • Cluster manager profile no time to prepare it• Transnational agreement letter of intent• Presentation of new ADC website • Summarization of the results
Main outputs of SWGs- Exchange of experience in development and management of clusters,- Identification of clusters / networks / institutions / companies interested in
cooperation in transnational ADC network,- Concept of local offices (HITA)- Transnational Logistics ADC letter of intent for agreement
The establishment of the ADC Logistics Network - with a letter of intent that was signed in Budapest on 23rd of February 2012 - aims to fulfil the expectations and to match the interests for growth of Logistics clusters and company networks, their stakeholders and the companies therein by providing facilities to:
• promote tech-transfer for better sharing innovation sources & RTD results• foster the participation in projects financed/co-financed by the EU and by other donors;• create and update a common web platform supporting logistics co-operation (all partners
should provide necessary information on a regular basis), which contains information about the recently available exact co-operation opportunities.
Partnering event of logistics
- 24 participating organizations from 4 countries (Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia), exactly 31 persons
- 12 institutions signed the Letter of Intent for transnational cooperations: - Regional Development Agency of Dubrovnik Neretva County, DUNEA- Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency - Association for the Development of Logistics and the Economy of the South Great Plain
Region- Association of Hungarian Forwarding and Logistic Service Providers- Central European Logistics Cluster- Hungarian Logistics Association- Institute for Economic Forecasting- ITC Oltenia Cluster- Electro-Technical Regional Cluster- Romanian Maritime Cluster- Centre for Promotion of Entrepreneurship Piran- Maribor Development Agency
Thank you for your kind attention!
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 00-36-1-872-6547
Web: www.hita.hu
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