Month: February 2014

28.02.2014

ICT-KOSEU: Training of Trainers Session ICT in HORIZON2020

STIKK as ICT-KOSEU project partner organized a training session with 13 participants from the academia, the business sector and the government which was held March 28, 2014 at ICK. The lecturer Mr.Ulrich Boes, (URSIT, Bulgaria, ICT-KOSEU project partner) shared his experiences with participants for EC projects. He introduced the new rules, and offered best practices and provided examples of successful proposals .In the afternoon session, participants also had the opportunity to hear Dr.Venet Osmani, Group Leader and Research Fellow at CREATE NET, Trento and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Trento, Italy regarding his experience in EC projects. Dr. Osman presented a summary of HORIZON 2020 focusing on research perspective.Participants also had the opportunity to hear the experiences of Univ. – Prof.dr.techn.Dipl. – Ing Wolfgang Slany on Hands-on experiences on research projects .Mr. Boes concluded the day with where to find information regarding: the trainings, contacts, important organizations and guidelines for participation.All those interested about project and network opportunities can also register at the project web-site – www.ict-koseu.eu

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28.02.2014

STIKK participates in CeBIT for 5th time

With the goal of promoting Kosovo as an Outsourcing Destination, STIKK together with Adaptivit, Harrisia, ICK, IziSurvey and ZagApps will participate in the Europe’s biggest ICT Trade Fair, CeBIT 2014.

This year’s participation of STIKK and the companies was supported by SPARK, GIZ, NMFA (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and IPAK. CeBITgathers around 4000 participants from 70 countries, of which on average was visited by 137 700 visitors from more than 120 countries. During these five days, the companies will have the possibility to meet with potential partners/investors, promote their company and the Kosovo ICT Sector as a potential outsourcing destination.

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27.02.2014

ICT-KOSEU: Information session on ICT

On March 27, 2014 STIKK as one of the ICT-KOSEU project partner organized an information session on Kosovo’s participation in the new EC Framework Programme HORIZON2020 at the MEST. Z. Ulrich Boes, from URSIT, Bulgaria also a ICT-KOSEU project partner offered the participants a general overview of HORIZON2020, the main goal of which is to simplify several aspects compared to the previous framework, however still there are many procedures to be followed. Horizon 2020 should support all stages in the research and innovation chain (including non-technological and social innovation, and activities that are closer to the market), with innovation and research actions having a different funding rate based on the principle that the closer to the market the supported activity is, the larger the additional funding from other sources should be.The participants also had an opportunity to hear from the experiences of Kosovar researches from Diaspora: Priv.-Doz.Eng.Nysret Musliu, associate professor and leader for research project at the Technical University of Viena, Austria, Dr.-Eng.Naim Bajçinca, Senior Researcher Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems & Control Theory and Lecturer in Technical University of Berlin on the topic of “Experience in research as a prerequisite for participation in research projects.” The meeting was concluded with the presentation by the STIKK representative mrs. Mjellma Alijaj on the Online Survey for ICT Research Roadmap, targeting ICT stakeholders. The roadmap will be aligning Kosovo’s ICT research priorities with the priorities set forth by HORIZON2020.

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11.02.2014

STIKK presents the research findings in the field of ICT

STIKK together with the EYE project presented the reports: Analysis of Lack of Skills in ICT and ICT Market Analysis in Kosovo, held on 11 February, 2014 at Hotel Sirius.These reports were compiled after the research conducted with about 500 companies in Kosovo in order to identify the potential growth and development of the ICT sector. The event hosted over 50 participants, ICT experts who participated in the discussion on the findings of research.

The research reports can be found at the following Links:

http://www.stikk-ks.org/uploads/downloads/STIKK_Analiza_E_Tregut_TIK.pdf

http://www.stikk-ks.org/uploads/downloads/Analiza_e_mangesise_se_shkathtesive_ne_TIK_.pdf

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