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Description of Pilot Actions

Designation (name of activity)

22. The organising IRC provide co-organising IRCs with a package for external promotion.

Lean TTT Contact responsible for this action

Javier Gabilondo

SPRI - Sociedad para la Promoción y Reconversión Industrial, S.A.- BASQUE IRC -Innovation Relay Centre /Basque Region Tel.: +34 94 403 7034/30/00 e-mail: jgabilondo@spri.es

Which part of the process Brokerage Event: Start up

Objective To facilitate for the co-organising IRCs to promote the event

What to be done Make a template/guideline for an information package that partner IRCs can use for their promotion of the event. Content of leaflets, mail and Web etc. Implement at an event.

Why is it needed To secure and facilitate the work of co-organising IRCs. Guarantee that correct information is passed on to external clients. Save time for the network. If it’s not so much effort for the IRC to spread information to their clients it’s more likely to be done – quick and easy.

Input to external IRC Template/guideline for an information package. The external IRC should be one that will organise a brokerage event during the test period.

How to follow-up Measure and track the impact indicators below

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Impact indicators

• Number of participants

Cost-benefit for the Pilot Action Estimated effort: 3/10

Estimated impact: 6/10

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PILOT ACTION 22 – The organising IRC provides co-organising IRCs with a package for external promotion

Objective: To facilitate the co-organising IRCs to promote the event. What has been done? The first brokerage event on Logistics and Transport technologies (in the scope of the Atlantic Logistic Forum 2007) has been used by SPRI for this specific pilot action SPRI. The activities were launched right after the Brokerage Event was registered in the BBS. The co-organiser is the IRC South-West of France, in particular OSEO Innovation Aquitaine and Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d'Industrie Aquitaine. For the purpose of facilitating their work, an information package was elaborated and sent to the co-organisers. Such package contains the following items:

Reminder on how the registration and profiles management process works (registration, technology profiles, update and validation, making appointments, catalogue publishing, deadlines, etc...)

Programme of the Forum or Fair in which scope the brokerage event will take place

Specific describing letter presenting general information of the brokerage event (venue, schedules, websites of reference, deadlines, participation costs…)

Brokerage leaflet ANNEXES – Example of package used for external promotion of a brokerage event

How it works At the Brokerage Event, organisations will have an opportunity to register their specific technology offer or request interests, in order to meet with potential partners for technology transfer and commercial agreements. How it Works:

1. Registration: Please fill in all requested fields carefully to prevent queries arising.

Deadline for registration: 20th October, 2007 2. Technology profile: After your log-in you will have access to the profile

section where you can create your profile online. If you are unable to fill in the information for a certain field, please leave it open. After you have submitted your profile it will be validated by your local IRC before being published in the catalogue.

Deadline for submission of profiles: 20th October, 2007 If you would like to update your contact details or make changes to your profile, please contact your local IRC colleague who will be happy to assist you. 3. Making Appointments In order to make an appointment, you must let us know when you will be available for meetings (check the boxes at registration). Click "Catalog" in the menu. When clicking "List all profiles" a complete list of profiles submitted so far will be shown. - To read a profile, please click on the title of the profile. - To select a profile, please tick the selection box on the left of each profile. Deadline for making appointments: 31st October 2007. Be sure to visit the catalogue several times as new profiles will be submitted continually!

That's all you have to do to select dialogue partners and make appointments. The matching planner tool will process your appointment requests together with your selected sessions later and will generate your individual meeting schedule, which will be sent to you on approx. 10th November 2007.

FORUM 2007 Tentative programme

THURSDAY, 15TH OF NOVEMBER

Names preceded by an asterisk (*) are not yet confirmed

09:30/10:30 - OFFICIAL INAUGURATION AND INSTITUTIONAL PLENARY SESSION

Political authorities for transport and logistics from the EU, Brazil, Spain, France and the regions of Euskadi and

Aquitaine.

10:30/11:00 - COFFE-BREAK

11:00/12:30 - FIRST SESSION

" The development of ports in the Maghreb and cooperation with the ports of the Atlantic seaboard

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Mohamed Nemouchi, Deputy Director of Ports. Algerian Ministry of Ports.

El Mostaza Al Mouzani, Director of Tanger Med Port Authority. Morocco.

A representative of Bejaia Mediterranean Terminal. Algeria.

*Mohamed Jamal BENJELLOUN of the national agency of ports of the Moroccan Ministry of Transport.

*Samir Hakimi, director of ports, Ministry of Transport of Algeria.

12:30/14:30 - LUNCH

14:30/16:30 - SECOND SESSION

" Circle for Optimodality in Europe "

Philippe Mangeard, President of Modalohr and Presidente of the COE

Founding members of the COE (CMA -CGM, Geodis, VTG, VNF, FNTR, TLF, Louis Dreyfus Armateur, SNCF,

etc)

16:30/18:00 - THIRD SESSION

" Future challenges of Air Cargo transport "

José Mª Navajas, General Manager DECOEXSA Perishable Cargo Division

Ricardo González Placer, Managing Director at VIAS (Vitoria Integrated Air Services)

A representative of SPAIN-TIR.

19:30/22:30 - EVENING MEAL

FRIDAY, 16TH OF NOVEMBER

09:30-12:30 - FOURTH SESSION

"Guest country: Brazil. Transport and logistics in Brazil."

Representative of Port of Santos.

Sergio Torres, Agent of SPRI in Brazil

Representative of Infraero Aeroportos Brasileiros

Alexandre Campos, Director of América Latina Logística

Representative of TAM Cargo

*Representative of MCC in Brazil

*Representative of Port of Suape

12:30/13:00 - CLOSING CEREMONY

13:00 - LUNCH

Technology Transfer Meetings in TRANSPORT and LOGISTICS 16th November 2007

ALF 2007- Atlantic Logistic Forum

The Basque and Souht West France IRC have organized with the Cluster de Transport and Logístics, TIL-ITS Basque County, a brokerage event in Logistic, that will be celebrated in Biarritz for days 15 and 16 of November 2007. This event take place within the framework 2007 Atlantic Logistic Forum (ALF), trans-border Forum of commerce, transports and logistic of the Atlantic Arc, a space of debate, interchange of interests, fruition in agreements, operations and businesses, organized by the Logistic Platform Aquitaine - Euskadi. The objective is to provide to the companies and institutes of research of the Basque Country - Aquitania, a unique opportunity to know potential industrial partners of any country of the UE in this scope as well as to serve as a knowledge platform of the current situation and technology problems in the Atlantic Arc. For more information please visit: http://www.forumalf.com/alf.phpç and http://www.clustertil.com Areas of Interest are the following:

• Transport • Logistic

Participants: All European institutions, companies, universities, technology centres and research institutes offering or requesting transport and logistic technologies are eligible to participate in this event. Schedule Deadline for registration: 20/10/2007 Deadline request for bilateral meeting: 31/10/2007 Meeting agenda: 10/11/2007 Meeting: 16/11/2007, between 10h to 17 h Agenda for the meetings: Deadline for meting requests is 31/10/2007, the subsequent agendas will be sent by 10/11/2007 and the meetings will be held in Centre Bellevue - Foyer Gallerie (at Atlantic Logistics Forum) Vague 2 with date 16 November from 10:00 to 17:00.

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The Basque and Souht West France IRC (Innovation of theBasque Country) and the Transport and Logistics Cluster, TIL-ITSEuskadi, have organised the I Technology Transfer in LogisticsConferences, which will be held in Biarritz on 15 and 16 November2007.

These conferences take place in the ALF 2007 Atlantic LogisticForum (ALF) framework the Atlantic Arc Commerce, Transport andLogistics Cross-Border Forum, a debating space for the exchangeof interests, the fruiting of agreements, operations and business,organised by the Aquitaine-Euskadi Logistic Platform.

The objective is to provide Euskadi-Aquitania companies andinstitutes with a unique opportunity to know potential industrialpartners from any country in the EU in this field.

The technology transfer conferences consist of creating a forumfor European companies and technology and research centresdemanding and offering technologies in the logistics area. Thiswill allow for promoting innovation with technology cooperationand supporting technology transfer between the participatingcompanies and research centres and the participation of SMEs inEuropean research programmes.

Participation in the Technology Transfer Conferences is open tocompanies, universities, and technology centres from more than30 European countries offering and demanding innovatingtechnologies. With brokerage work (interpersonal interviews) arrangedby the organizer, the participants have the opportunity to announcetheir technologies, know how and technical or cooperationrequirements by means of a catalogue, which is widely disseminatedin Europe by means of an Innovation Relay Centre Network.

The catalogue includes the cooperation profiles of all theparticipants, showing the intention of each company to promoteor search for technologies and consists of a page describing inEnglish the desired technology and collaboration. Each participantwill receive the agenda with the interviews arranged, coming fromboth the signs of interest of the European companies in the profilesentered in the catalogue, and the interviews which the companyitself has asked for with other companies. The duration of eachmeeting will be 30 minutes which will be held from 10 to 17h.

In this way, they have the opportunity to have an interview withpotential partners with the aim of establishing future businesscollaborations and strategic alliances in the patent licence, knowhow transfer, R&D projects, distribution contracts, technicalassistance or joint venture areas.

Participants

European institutions, companies, universities, research, and technologycentres, offering and demanding transport and logistics technologies,should participate in the event.

Timetable

Registrations: on-line,web: http://www.innovationrelay.net//bemt/home.cfm?EventID=1630Deadline: 20/10/2007Request for meetings: 31/10/2007Sending agendas: 10/11/2007Conferences: 16 /11/2007

Meetings agenda

The deadline for requesting meetings is 31/10/2007, the completeagenda with the timetables of the meetings will be sent on 10/11/2007.The conferences will be held in Biarritz (France), in the Centre Bellevue- Foyer Galerie (in the Atlantic Logistics Forum)Vague 2, on 16/11/2007 from 10:00 to 17:00h.

ALF 2007 information and programme,15 and 16 November:http://www.forumalf.com/alf.php

For more information

TIL CLUSTERhttp://www.clustertil.com/“TIL CLUSTER-ITS EUSKADI” is a Tool to improve Competitivenessin the transport and logistics world.The action field covers:• companies and agents interested in improving their competitiveness

acting in Supply Chain Management,• logistics and transport operators,• infrastructure managers• and companies and brokers offering products, technology, and

services to the transport and logistics sector.

BASQUE IRChttp://www.spri.es/aSW/web/cas/ambitos/innotec/irc/transferencia.jspThe Innovation Relay Centre for the Basque Country, “Basque IRC” isa consortium formed by: SPRI and SARETEK.

CRI SUD OUEST FRANCEhttp://www.cri-sud-ouest.netThe Innovation Relay Centre for the South West of France is a consortiumformed by:Oseo Aquitaine, Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d´IndustrieAquitaine, Chambre Régionale de Commerce et d´Industrie LimousinPoitou - Charentes, Oseo anvar Limousin, Oseo anvar Midi-Pyrénées,Oseo anvar Poitou- Charentes.

The IRC are Centres created with the aim of facilitating the transferof innovating technologies from and to European companies or researchdepartments.

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