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27.11.2013

STIKK takes part at the Workshop for SEE IT Export Promotion Strategy

On september 20th – 22nd STIKK participate at the workshop for South East Europe IT Export Promotion Strategy Development which is supported by GIZ which took place in Tirana. The strategy intendes to promote the SEE IT sector to markets in German speaking countries(Germany, Austria and Switzerland) the Nordic region and United Kingdom. An IT Barometer was identified as a neccesary tool for the succesful development and implementation of the strategy. The IT Barometer will show the capacities of the companies from South East Europe which offer IT outsourcing.

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27.11.2013

ICT-KOSEU presenting at the Horizon2020 Conference

Prishtinë, 26 November – STIKK and ICT-KOSEU partners participated in the HORIZON 2020 Inaugural Conference at the Hotel Emerald in Prishtina. The new European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation will offer support to research and innovative activities in the fundamental scientific fields as well as the industrial field. The programme will be running from 2014 until 2020 with a budget of over 70 billion Euro is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe.

The ICT – KOSEU partners had the opportunity to present the findings of the Technological audit conducted through the project. The three project partners STIKK, UP and ZSI also had the opportunity to share with the audience their experiences of being a partner in an EC FP7 project. Horizon 2020 will tackle societal challenges by helping to bridge the gap between research and the market by, for example, helping innovative enterprise to develop their technological breakthroughs into viable products with real commercial potential.

For more information on Horizon2020 see : http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020

If you are interested to gain further information about ICT-KOSEU or Horizon2020 please contact us through:[email protected]

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27.11.2013

STIKK organized two professional ICT Trainings during the Global Entrepreneurship Week

STIKK as one of the supporter of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) organized two (2) professional ICT trainings “IT Fundamentals” and “Network Training” where 25 ICT students were certified.

For seven days passionate Kosovo enthusiasts for doing business based in technology and innovation has been part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2013 (GEW). During GEW there were 23 activities co-organized with 13 local partners.

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30.10.2013

STIKK organize a B2B event in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, Germany

In the course of the activities for IT and export promotion strategy, STIKK in cooperation with Capgemini Consulting and with the support of GIZ organized a B2B meeting with German companies. 6 STIKK company members (INET, Cacttus, Adaptivit, Atikos, Rrota, Komtel) ICK (Innovation Centre Kosovo) and IPAK had the opportunity to meet with companies and organizations in the region of Frankfurt and Stuttgart that work in the field of Information Technology.

During this event, STIKK signed a cooperation agreement with bwconn/MFG(Public Innovation Agency for ICT and Media), OSB Alliance (Open Source Business Alliance) and FLOSSK, the first of its kind in the region.

This was a good opportunity for companies to promote their products and services and it was an opportunity to establish contacts with companies focused on outsourcing in the field of web and software development. This event was organized on 30th October (in Darmstadt and Frankfurt) and 31st October, 2013 (in Stuttgart).

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25.10.2013

Scrum Training

The next training organized by Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK) was held from 7th-11th October, 2013 and was dedicated to Scrum Methodology. The training lecturer was Mrs. Bonka Roustcheva which has a long experience in the application of modern methods for managing software projects.

Key topics of the training were:
– Agile methods
– Scrum Master for Certification

The training was attended by 14 participants. Training was dedicated to all STIKK member companies who have the vision and are preparing to join the foreign markets.

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25.10.2013

Participation at “E-Government and Open Days SEEITA”

On 24th October 2013, STIKK took part in the “E – Government and Open Days SEEITA” conference, organized by the Chamber of Information and Communication Technology – MASIT which took place in Skopje, Macedonia.

The conference was an excellent opportunity to get an insight of what the Government of Macedonia has done so far in the field of “E-Government”, what is the current status of development and what are the plans for the future. In addition, the conference also provided an overview of the experiences of France in the field of E-government development as well as the capacity of Macedonian companies from the ICT industry in the process of building the “E-government services and solutions”.

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25.10.2013

Workshop on Advocacy and Lobbying Strategy

STIKK together with SPARK organization within the framework of ICT Value Chain project organized a one-day workshop for local partners to this project.
This workshop was led by Ms.Vjollca Cavolli which shared STIKK experiences and journey in different processes and issues of Advocacy and Lobbying, where the main goal was the efforts and achievements of policy changes and certain decision-making structures which affect the development of the sector.

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27.09.2013

Financial Workshop

STIKK attended the Financial Workshop “Surviving the EC Audit” on September 10th, 2013 in Institute of Chemistry, Technology and Metallurgy in Belgrade, Serbia organized by Wbc-inco.net (Co-ordination of research policies with the western Balkan countries). The discussion of the workshop was about the preparation of financial records in case of audit of EU funded projects under FP7 programme.

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27.09.2013

Matchmaking with Norwegian companies

As a part of “Growth Program” the second matchmaking event took place this year, whereas Norwegian companies interested for outsourcing visited Kosovo. This time a company from Norway “Working Waves” represented by Mr. Arild Bjørn-Larsen was presented to Kosovar companies, Making Waves is a company specialized on offering combined services in Design and Technology. During the meetings with Kosovar companies, cooperation opportunities were presented and exporting potential for Scandinavian markets. Mr Arild was very pleased with what he saw at local companies and Kosovo overall. Companies that Mr. Arild visited are: Trokit , InterAdria, Rrota, Cacttus and Komtel PE.

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27.09.2013

STIKK meets political parties

D4D Institute has organized 4 representation fairs mid-early September between 30 membership associations and 4 leading political parties in Kosovo. The idea of organizing these meetings was to inform political parties about specific issues that membership groups (e.g. farmers, journalists, doctors, etc.) care about. The ultimate purpose is to inspire party leaders to include membership concerns in their party platforms. Strict rules have been applied during the discussion in asking participants to be concise with their requests within a 2 minutes timeline. STIKK at this meeting repeated the request for proceeding the ”Draft law on goods exempt from custom TAX and goods with zero rate of the custom TAX” which thrust due to the refusal by the president office. Another request from STIKK was the lack of support from government on fiscal policies for companies that are engaged on IT exporting services and scaled VAT for ICT products from 16% to 5%. Because time was limited, at the end we requested more serious approach to the IT Sector from government and as a option to create the ministry of ICT.

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