EUROPEAN COOPERATION AND CLUSTERING

in PRELUDE: GUAR@NTeE

Irina Zalisova, BMI

PRELUDE/ELANET workshop

30 March 2004ISSS Conference

Prelude IST project (5FP)

• eEurope 2005 Action Plan• 27 months duration (started April ’02)• 2.7 M.euro• Nine European Digital Regions cooperate

(included new member states of the EU)• ELANET and eris@ lead the process• TeleCities supports it

Prelude’s Consortium

• Coordinating partner: ELANET (CEMR) through ENAIP Sardegna

• Regional supporting network: eris@• Nine European Regions:

- Silesia Region (Poland)

- Vysocina (Czech Republic) – through BMI

- Lombardy (Italy) - IRER

- PACA (France) – Mediterranee Technologies

- Catalonia (Spain) – Localret

- Berlin (Germany) – F.A.V.

- Yorkshire and Humberside (UK) – Textile Training

- Midwest Region (Ireland)

- Kymenlaakso Region(Finland) – Kouvola Region

Federation of Municipalities

Prelude: RCI in objectives and results

• Create European and Regional clusters for innovation: mainstream research and deployment to support local development and modernise public administrations

• Experiment a Cooperation model based on bottom-up practice among Regional administrations and public-private partnerships (clusters)

• Prepare Strategic guidelines for RTD development and ICT innovation and Thematic guides on key application areas for regional innovation

• 20 RCI launched and 9 European clusters being created through inter-regional co-operation and initiatives of Elanet, eris@ and TeleCities

Prelude’s Cluster for Innovation

A cluster for innovation is a structured group of people taking European initiatives on Information Society actions regarding:

- modernisation of public administrations

- Multi-channel and personalised services to citizens, enterprises and communities

- Local development

With a common research, technology and innovation plan carried out by one or more public-private partnerships

Prelude’s cluster composition

A cluster is group of individuals, supported by their organisations, working in

• Laboratories: ensuring scientific competence (research community) and strong link to the territory;

• Companies: mastering technology / providing ICTproducts and services / offering innovation competence;

• Local authorities:endorsing political and strategic issues for effective deployment and impact;

• NGOs: providing advise and other professional services

Prelude’s Application Areas for Nine European Clusters

• e-Government

• e-Business

• eTransport

• e-Inclusion – cross-cutting topic

• e-Learning

GUAR@NTeE - Guaranteeing Universal

Access to Resources, Applications and Networks Towards eEurope

• The Prelude eCommunities European Cluster for Innovation coordinated by eris@ (www.erisa.be)

• Respond to the danger of Digital Divide (social exclusion) in connection with the development of eCommunities and eCitizens issues

• The need to understand better barriers to ICT take-up at the local and regional levels

GUAR@NTeE - Guaranteeing Universal

Access to Resources, Applications and Networks Towards eEurope

The Consortium:• Regional policy makers

• Champion regions throughout Europe

• Technology and industry partners committed to finding solutions

• Universities and IT Research institutes

• European networks active at the local and regional levels

• Pilot Communities representing the interest&concerns of users

GUAR@NTeE - Guaranteeing Universal

Access to Resources, Applications and Networks Towards eEurope

• Nov-03 Cluster Action Plan (pdf file !)• Jan-04 Workshop on eCommunities,Brussels• Feb-04 Policy Forum on eCommunities, Brussels (Czech

experts + President of Vysocina Region involved) • March-04 Workshop on eCommunities, Prague (draft of the

Thematic Guide presented) ! W3C/WAI and ISDAC are involved !

• May – 04 Presentation at the Final Prelude conference, Road-Map is ready

You are invited to:

• Join the European constituency that we are building as a community of interest to boost regional European research and innovation by actively participating in the Prelude

• FINAL CONFERENCE: May 13th-14th, Limerick , Ireland

THE PRELUDE CHALLENGE

CLUSTERING DIGITAL INNOVATION IN EU REGIONS

Thank you for your attention !

Contact in the Czech Republic:

• Irina Zálišová, BMI, zalisova@brezen.cz

www.brezen.cz/bmi

on behalf of Vysočina Region

www.kr-vysocina.cz