71. ICT RTD Technological Audit Estonia

ICT RTD Technological Audit Estonia DG INFSO (http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/index_en.htm) carries out a Technological Audit on information and communication technologies (ICT) research capabilities in each of the EU 12 states in order to identify a number of elements that include: -  The ICT RTD policy environment and the opportunities and barriers it presents; -  The status of the ICT RTD activities identifying the centres of excellence and centres with development potential per FP7 – ICT Theme Challenge and Objective; -  The actions that need to be taken at national and European level to increase the participation of organisations carrying out ICT RTD in both the private and public sector. One of the main results of this research project is Who is Who database – a comprehensive list of key ICT RTD players (Centres of Excellence, successful FP6/FP7 participants, relevant public and private sector actors) in Estonia and in EU 12 as a whole. This comprehensive analysis enables the European Commission to work with the solutions for raising the ICT RTD capacities in EU 12.  

Wednesday, 02 September 2009 | 5359 hits

72. [Project] Contracting for public service providers from the third sector

Contracting for public service providers from the third sector Merit Tatar participated as an analyst in the project „Contracting for public service providers from the third sector“ initiated by the Estonian Ministry of Interior and implemented by Praxis Centre for Policy Studies.

Saturday, 01 August 2009 | 4311 hits | Read more

73. [Project] Maintenance of the European website on integration

Maintenance of the European website on integration is a joint project of European Commission and Migration Policy Group (MPG) with the objective to maintain the European website on integration (www.integration.eu) up-to-date and well functioning, in order to have a widely and easily accessible website for European experience on immigrant integration.

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 | 3938 hits | Read more

74. Maintenance of the European website on integration [EWSI]

Maintenance of the European website on integration is a joint project of European Commission and Migration Policy Group (MPG) with the objective to maintain the European website on integration (www.integration.eu) up-to-date and well functioning, in order to have a widely and easily accessible website for European experience on immigrant integration. In particular, integration.eu is: • A documentation facility; • An on-line data collection tool for good practices; • A platform for the direct exchange of information between stakeholders. Governmental and non-governmental stakeholders working on integration issues at European, national, regional and local levels are at the centre of the Web Site. They create and share knowledge in the form of documents or good practices. They take an active role in posting news items and events. They use the Web Site both as a reference tool to learn from others and as a practical instrument to communicate information they have. Institute of Baltic Studies (IBS) is since year 2010 Country Coordinator for Estonia and is responsible for gathering, verifying and complementing the information regarding Estonian context. In addition to the country specific information and materials of immigrant and ethnic minority integration, the webpage has drawn together a wide list of different best practices in the field of integration and integration policies. See more at: European Website on Integration    

Tuesday, 12 January 2010 | 4677 hits

75. Benchmarking and Foresight for Regions of Europe [BEFORE]

This project was approved in the FP6-2004-KNOW-REG-2 call for proposals of the 6th Framework Programme. The specific programme covered was "Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area" and the activity areas included were "Coherent development of research and innovation policies". The project will perform the comparative analysis (benchmarking) of efficient support instruments for the RTD in geographical areas with demographic significant imbalances. In this way also specific tools of support would be analyzed for rural companies and entrepreneurs. Also, there would develop a panel of indicators of impact of the regional RTD support policies in this type of regions, with special attention to the indicators of social impact. A special attention will be paid to the case of regions that have obtained significant advances implementing RTD policies in the last years (For example: Regions to which the good use of the resources has allowed, or will allow, to leave the Objective 1). In the consortium take part several regions of this type (Castilla y León, Brandenburg). These regions will carry out a task of mentoring on the rest of regions in the project. One of the factors for success in the present project is the achievement of wide regional consensus and the involvement of regional RTD players in the project. A strong effort will thus be made in order to obtain this actor interaction, integrating key players in the management structure and widely disseminating project results. Also the benchmarking process will contribute to trans-national exchange of experience. Other objective of the project is to carry out foresight studies of policies and support instruments to RTD guided to future sectors, intensive in knowledge and with high added value: These sectors will be specified at earliest stages of the project. The development of these new sectors will allow to the participant regions to maintain and promote equilibrium between the competitiveness of its basic industries and businesses and the bid to introduce new economic activities in sectors with good prospects of future. See more: BEFORE project  

Tuesday, 17 January 2006 | 3931 hits

76. Impact of Networks, Globalisation and their Interaction with EU Strategies [INGINEUS]

INGINEUS (Impact of Networks, Globalisation, and their INteraction with EU Strategies, 2009-2011) is a research project sponsored by the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. The project addresses the impact of globalisation and the rapid growth of selected emerging economies in the world on the competitiveness and strategies of European Union firms, industries and regions. It focuses particularly on the evolution of global production networks (GPNs) into global innovation networks (GINs) and the impact that this new process of global capitalism has on knowledge intensive activities in the EU. Global sourcing and assembly arrangements have been around for some three decades. They were principally based on efficiency considerations. Multinational firms (MNCs) outsourced parts of production processes to manufacturers in Asia and other low-cost locations around the globe, while retaining the most knowledge intensive assets in the home country. This is no longer the case. MNCs increasingly scout the globe for locations where the right mix of local competences allows them to tap into sophisticated parts of value chains. This is not limited to advanced economies but more and more involves firms and regions in selected developing countries that position themselves as attractive knowledge-intensive locations in their own right. INGINEUS studies the determinants of this process and analyses its implications both for the EU and its emerging partner countries in the developing world: It looks at the changing strategies of MNCs and the conditions under which it is favourable for them to offshore R&D and other knowledge-intensive parts of their production process. It focuses on the evolving local capabilities in selected developing countries that allow them to claim increasingly complex parts of global value chains at much higher levels of technological sophistication than hitherto. It analyses the consequences of the formation of GINs in the global economy and differentiates among their static and dynamic effects on growth, employment, and competitiveness in the EU.Based on these insights, it derives policy recommendations that would allow the EU to benefit from the positive features of this process while mitigating its adverse consequences. INGINEUS is coordinated by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and brings together researchers from 14 institutions located in Europe (Italy, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Sweden, Norway and United Kingdom) and in some of the most important emerging economies in the world (Brazil, China, India, and South Africa). See more: INGINEUS  

Saturday, 17 January 2009 | 4089 hits

77. [Project] Improving business oriented e-government solutions

Institute of Baltic Studies participates in the project EGOPRISE ("E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR"), which aims to turn public administrations in rural BSR areas to more business oriented service suppliers, to relieve SMEs from administrative burdens, improve their access to information & qualified staff and as a consequence to increase attractiveness of rural areas as places to live, work & invest in.

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 | 3694 hits | Read more

78. Improving business oriented e-government solutions [EGOPRISE]

Project EGOPRISE ("E-GOvernment solutions as instruments to qualify the public sector for the specific needs of small and medium sized enterPRISEs (SMEs) in the rural BSR") aims to turn public administrations in rural BSR areas to more business oriented service suppliers, to relieve SMEs from administrative burdens, improve their access to information & qualified staff and as a consequence to increase attractiveness of rural areas as places to live, work & invest in. Project EGOPRISE has an objective to improve workflows & develop interoperable e-government solutions in order to: make public administrations more service oriented for enterprises; simplify the employment process of (foreign) labour for SMEs; & provide SMEs easier entrance into public & business networks. 22 partners from 8 different countries are participating in the project: Germany (lead partner), Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Belarus. Project is financed by the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013. Project lasts for the period of 2009-2012. See more at: EGOPRISE  

Tuesday, 02 February 2010 | 4507 hits

79. Evaluating participation practices in Estonian Government

The aim of the project is to analyse and evaluate intensively participation practices in nine Estonian ministries during 2007-2009, prepare methodology and framework for similar evaluations in the future and propose suitable policy recommendations for improving the participative culture in public sector in forming publically important legal acts and development documents. The project is carried out in consortium with Policy Research Centre Praxis.  

Tuesday, 01 December 2009 | 4437 hits

80. [Conference] Inspiring Clusters in the Beginning of the New Decade

30-31 March 2011, Tallinn TCI European regional conference Inspiring Clusters in the Beginning of the New Decade will focus on how to improve the Cluster policies both on European, national and regional level and how to achieve excellence in cluster management. Create your own Agenda! In addition to the main programme of the conference, set up in classical conference setting, the conference will also provide opportunities to participants to define their own agenda of the conference based on so called Open Space Technology, which describes part of the conference without keynote speakers, no pre-announced schedules of workshops, no panel discussions, etc. Participants create and manage their own agenda of parallel working sessions around a central theme of strategic importance. The participants themselves organize each session, people may freely decide which session they want to attend, and may switch to another one at any time. Open Space is highly organized, but it is also chaotic, productive and fun. No one is in control. A whirlwind of activity is guided from within by a handful of simple Open Space principles.The most basic principle is that everyone who comes to an Open Space conference must be passionate about the topic and willing to take some responsibility for creating things out of that passion.

Wednesday, 22 December 2010 | 2931 hits