Dear partners, thank you very much for your contributions.
I agree with Paula that our main challenge now is to concrete and clarify:
- the fields or concrete technologies to be analized&exchange of
experiences
- the role of each of us in each WP. I think that technological or
non-technological profile of the partner will make the difference.
Best regards
Dear Partners,
First of all, I am sorry for the delay of our presence on the Weblog Creator.
By now we have succeeded to look through the communication done so far, we are happy to learn, that the partnership is very active, and we hope, that finally an excellent proposal will be the result of this active work.
A short introduction about us: Our institution is the Heves County Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
The chamber system in Hungary operates on the basis of voluntary membership. The democratic Hungarian society built on national and local governments cannot do without the self-administration of the economy and an economic authority free of politics, which is capable of representing its participants. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Heves County is a voluntary organisation and representative of the regional business community within the county. With its activities of harmonising and mediating interests, as well as its services of developing the economy, it contributes to the organisation and development of both the entrepreneurial community and the economy of the county and the region.
The most important among the aims and tasks of the chamber is to enforce the safety of turnover and decent market behaviour, to represent the general and unified interests of its members – carrying out economic activities.
Our Services:
• Providing professional information, organising info-days, lectures, conferences
• Services regarding vocational training
• Supplying business addresses, mediating business offers, business partner search, support for market access
• Business Information Service System for Enterprises (Chamber Service System and Chamber Preferential System)
• Catalogue system of the simple web pages of companies, enterprises of the county
• Operating professional clubs
• Operating chamber funds
• Consulting activities regarding loan applications, tenders
• Services connected to the safety of business transactions
• Preparation of professional guides, information booklets and other publications
• Publishing monthly chamber newsletter
• Preparing economic studies, surveys
At the moment we have a membership of about 1000 business units. Among our members there are about 30 companies dealing with food-production or packaging and about 90 dealing with commercial aspects.
The chamber is taking part actively in national and European projects.
Among the project we participated as partners in a national 3-year-long project about food. Results of the project:
• 6 novel product:s newly developed biosensors and other analytical devices.
• 6 new know-hows: marketable traceability model systemsnew methods and technologies.
• Due to the development of novel model systems 6 licences, prototypes.
• As a result of the integrated novel model systems a food safety database is established.
• A new info-communication model on traceability.
• New lecture notes, food safety education.
We also have close cooperation with the Károly Róbert College in Gyöngyös, which institution also has lots of experience in “food sciences” both in educational aspects and in scientific R&D fields. And we have a good relationship with the Chamber of Agriculture, too.
Reading through the comments done so far on the project idea, basically we agree all the results reached so far by the discussion of the partners. We find it very important to emphasize, that all the target groups (R&D labs and universities; Enterprises; Business support organisations; end Users = Elderly) should be kept in mind all along the project implementation, and the products, outputs of the WPs should be target group orientated.
We also agree with the 4 WPs described by Paula on 16/07/2010, and we agree with Christina’ comment, that we have to concrete and clarify all the details of the aims, Work Packages, target groups, and results, outcomes and of course the roles of the partners and the budget. As it does not come out of the comments, do you already have an idea about the sum of the budget? And who will be the lead applicant? We think, that it would be important to clarify the details as soon as possible to have the possibility for everyone to work on details regarding the proposal. Have you already got some ideas on the method how to do it together?
Regarding the Application meeting in mid-September, if the target county is Hungary, we suggest to meet in North-Hungary, in the region involved in the CREATOR project. We are located in Eger, the capital of Heves County, one of the three counties of North-Hungary. It would be a pleasure for us to organize this meeting in Eger. We organize several international project meetings a year, our experience is, that the transfer to Eger is not so problematic and expansive by taxi, (about 130 kms) and the hotels are also cheaper in Eger, than in Budapest. Also in our Chamber the conference room is free of charge. So let us know your decision about this meeting.
Best regards to you all,
Gabriella
Posted by: File Sándor | 22/07/2010 at 11:37