On 6-7th of December 2017 was held the third partners' meeting of “Smart Factory Hub” project in Steyr, Austria. The project on which ICT Cluster is a partner is financed under the Danube Programme.
On the first day of the two-day meeting was discussed the implementation of the project as well as the past and current work packages. The partners also had discussion about next steps for development the already build mapping tool. Every partner also presented the good pratices for implementation of smart technologies into production process in factories in their countries. During the second day the consortium made plans for execution the next work package and when will be held the next project meeting, that will be in Belgrade. The meeting was attended by the project officer from JS - Mr. Marius V. Niculae, who gave high evaluation for the first year implementation of the project.

Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF, IPA)

Todor Mitov – representative of ICT Cluster was invited to present the programme “Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs” on a seminar “Business start-up and Development within the Context of Entrepreneurship 2020”. The training that took place in the period November 24 – 26th, 2017 in Veliko Tarnovo, aimed at addressing the need to spread the entrepreneurship culture among the young people in the country, especially those living and studying outside of the Capital. The participants were 40 students between age of 18-25, from all around the country, motivated to start and develop their own business. On 25th of November Todor Mitov familiarized the audience with the benefits of the “Erasmus for Entrepreneurs” programme.

20тата среща на мрежата на програмата Еразъм за млади предприемачи се състоя на 5ти – 6ти октомври в гръцката столица Атина.

Представител на ИКТ Клъстер като посредническа организация по програмата беше Красимира Шиндарова. Тя взе участие в срещите на консорциумите Ventures 8 и YEIM, в които ИКТ Клъстер е партньор. На тях бяха обсъдени приближаващият края си 8ми период на програмата и следващия 9тия период.

Красимира Шиндарова изнесе презентация пред мрежата за позитивите на България с цел промотиране популяризиране на България и София като предприемаческа дестинация пред предприемачи от Европейски държави.

On October 5th and 6th was held a work meeting on the project Smart Factory Hub in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The meeting was organize by University of West Bohemia.

On the meeting were discussed the execution of the Work package 3, Work package 4 and it were made planning for the upcoming Work package 5 as well as planning for the next technical meeting in Steyr in December.

On 6^th of October were held Bilateral meetings and workshops on respective deliverables of the WP3, WP4 and preparing for WP5.

Executive Director of ICT Cluster – Anna Naydenova took a part in the 5th Cluster Matchmaking Conference that was held in Stuttgart, Germany, on 21 and 22 September. The event was attended by 175 clusters, representing more than 15,000 companies from 30 countries. This was an extremely productive event where more than 600 meetings between the clusters took place, leading to new innovative collaborations across Europe.This year's Cluster Matchmaking Conference focused on models for sustainable cluster cooperation.

Presentations and other conference information can be found on the following website: https://www.b2match.eu/cluster-matchmaking-2017

The executive director of ICT Cluster – Ms. Anna Naydenova took part in the Bi-regional cluster networking and business exchange meeting which was organized in the frame of the Black Sea Horizon project and took place in Budapest at Hotel Danubius Gellért on 12 September 2017.

The main aim of the event was to provide a forum for selected stakeholders to promote the dialogue between research based clusters of the targeted regions – the European Union and the Black Sea Region – , offering the chance to exchange experiences, best practices, fostering cooperation opportunities, recommendations on the development, management, operation and internationalization of research based clusters.

Ms. Anna Naydenova made a presentation about the ICT Cluster and it’s successful Cross-industry, Cross-cluster and Cross- regional Collaboration initiatives.

Във връзка с изпълнение на проект “Smart Factory Hub”, Фондация ИКТ Клъстер търси да назначи мотивиран Експерт Бизнес Развитие.

Проект Smart Factory Hub / DTP1-071-1.1 / е финансиран по програма за транснационално сътрудничество Дунав . Основната цел на проекта е подобряване рамката и условията за иновации в сферата на „интелигентните предприятия“.

За изпълнение на целите на проекта, той ще бъде насочен към откриване на иновативни решения на следните след 3 области:

·         Прилагане на иновативни технологии,

·         Прилагане на ефикасни продуктови процеси

·         Прилагане на ефикасни системи за управление на човешки ресурси

Експертът бизнес развитие ще бъде зает в изпълнението на работни пакети 3 и 4 на проекта, а именно „Подобряване на общата база знание“ .

Вид заетост: временна (6 месеца)

Половин работен ден (4 часа на ден),

Отговорности на позицията:

·         участие в процеса на създаване на онлайн интерактивен картографски инструмент

·         съдействие в създаване на концепция и структура на уеб платформата,

·         идентифициране на фирми и доставчици на решения,

·         създаване на база данни

·         идентифициране на добри практики в България в три тематични области:  нови технологии, производствен процес и система за управление на човешките ресурси;

·         други дейности възложени от ръководителя на проекта;

Изисквания за заемане на длъжността:

·         Висше образование. Образователно-квалификационна степен “бакалавър/магистър“ в сферата на маркетинг, икономика, управление ще се счита за предимство

·         опит в разработването на уеб платформи, сайтове, бизнес инструменти

·         опит в развитието и управлението на бизнес над 5 години;

·         Отличен английски език

·         Отлични комуникационни и презентационни умения

·         Самоинициативност

·         Отговорност и дисциплина

Ако се интересувате от позицията, моля изпратете ни CV на английски език на e-mail: anna_naydenova@ictcluster.bg  

Ще се свържем само с одобрените за интервю кандидати. Кандидатурите ще бъдат третирани с нужната конфиденциалност.

Тодор Митов, представител на ICT Cluster, запозна студентите по предприемачество в „Колеж по Мениджмънт, търговия и маркетинг“  с възможностите, които програма „Еразъм за млади предприемачи” предоставя.

Събитието се проведе в събота, 15 юли. Тодор Митов направи презентации пред две групи от 10:00 и 12:00 и отговори на допълнителни въпроси, които студентите имаха за програмата и начина за кандидатстване.

Красимира Шиндарова – координатор проекти и Тодор Митов – асистент проекти в ИКТ Клъстер, взеха участие в Деня на отворените врати в София Тех Парк на 30 юни 2017, където представиха програмата Еразъм за млади предприемачи. Представителите на ИКТ Клъстер имаха възможност да се срещнат със заинтересовани предприемачи и да им представят възможностите и ползите, които програмата може да предостави за развитието на техния бизнес.

Three parallel leading themes, all-day presentations devoted to a particular topic (pre-cons) as well as a bonding event – this is what we have planned for the participants of the this year edition of .NET DeveloperDays, which is going to take place on October 18th – 20th.
.NET DeveloperDays is the biggest event in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated exclusively to application development on the .NET platform. It is designed for architects, developers, testers and project managers using .NET in their work and to those who want to improve their knowledge and skills in this field. The conference content is 100% English, making it easy for the international audience to attend.

Who has been invited?
The organizers have just revealed the names of all speakers together with conference agenda. On the first day, the opening session will be delivered by Michele Leroux Bustamante (Surviving Microservices), while the entire event will be closed with the speech by Neal Ford (Stories Every Developer Should Know).
Among the speakers for two conference days there are:

- Alex Mang (How Far Can ‘Serverless’ Actually Go?)
- Alon Fliess (Past, Present & Future of C# Debugging)
- Daniel Marbach (Microservices with Service Fabric. Easy… or is it?)
- Dino Esposito (The Same Software Just the Other Way Around)
- Dror Helper (Secret unit testing tools no one ever told you about)
- Eran Stiller (Bot-Tender: A .NET Chatbot Walks into a Bar)
- Gill Cleeren (Practical Xamarin.Forms)
- Szymon Kulec (Performance that pays off)

This list presents only some of the prepared presentations. Summaries of subsequent sessions together with speakers’ biographical notes are available at the conference website.

Meet other experts!
Bonding event for all participants and speakers is planned on the first day when all sessions are over. In practice, during the entire event the participants will have the chance to talk and exchange their knowledge, but looking at plans for the bonding event, one may assume that this is going to be the best occasion to meet other programmers from all over the world. 
“IT is one of the fastest developing sectors, so we pay great attention to the up-to-date character of Conference subjects”, say the Organizers. ”Each year, experts from different countries come to the event. We record the biggest number of participants from our neighboring countries; however, there are also those who travel from such more distant corners of the world as the Balkans, Portugal or even the USA and Australia! In this way we have the chance not only to share content-related knowledge, but also to contribute to the international network of .NET experts”, adds Maciej Pilecki, Head of the Organizing Committee.

You can’t miss it!
The conference together with the presentations are going to be held in English. The registration system as well as all information concerning the event are available at http://net.developerdays.pl/ as well as at Facebook profile of the Conference: https://www.facebook.com/DeveloperDays/.
The DATA MASTER company is the organizer of the event. It also organizes the Join! Database Conference.

Three parallel leading themes, all-day presentations devoted to a particular topic (pre-cons) as well as a bonding event – this is what we have planned for the participants of the this year edition of .NET DeveloperDays, which is going to take place on October 18th – 20th.
.NET DeveloperDays is the biggest event in Central and Eastern Europe dedicated exclusively to application development on the .NET platform. It is designed for architects, developers, testers and project managers using .NET in their work and to those who want to improve their knowledge and skills in this field. The conference content is 100% English, making it easy for the international audience to attend.

Who has been invited?
The organizers have just revealed the names of all speakers together with conference agenda. On the first day, the opening session will be delivered by Michele Leroux Bustamante (Surviving Microservices), while the entire event will be closed with the speech by Neal Ford (Stories Every Developer Should Know).
Among the speakers for two conference days there are:

- Alex Mang (How Far Can ‘Serverless’ Actually Go?)
- Alon Fliess (Past, Present & Future of C# Debugging)
- Daniel Marbach (Microservices with Service Fabric. Easy… or is it?)
- Dino Esposito (The Same Software Just the Other Way Around)
- Dror Helper (Secret unit testing tools no one ever told you about)
- Eran Stiller (Bot-Tender: A .NET Chatbot Walks into a Bar)
- Gill Cleeren (Practical Xamarin.Forms)
- Szymon Kulec (Performance that pays off)

This list presents only some of the prepared presentations. Summaries of subsequent sessions together with speakers’ biographical notes are available at the conference website.

Meet other experts!
Bonding event for all participants and speakers is planned on the first day when all sessions are over. In practice, during the entire event the participants will have the chance to talk and exchange their knowledge, but looking at plans for the bonding event, one may assume that this is going to be the best occasion to meet other programmers from all over the world. 

“IT is one of the fastest developing sectors, so we pay great attention to the up-to-date character of Conference subjects”, say the Organizers. ”Each year, experts from different countries come to the event. We record the biggest number of participants from our neighboring countries; however, there are also those who travel from such more distant corners of the world as the Balkans, Portugal or even the USA and Australia! In this way we have the chance not only to share content-related knowledge, but also to contribute to the international network of .NET experts”, adds Maciej Pilecki, Head of the Organizing Committee.

You can’t miss it!
The conference together with the presentations are going to be held in English. The registration system as well as all information concerning the event are available at http://net.developerdays.pl/ as well as at Facebook profile of the Conference: https://www.facebook.com/DeveloperDays/.
The DATA MASTER company is the organizer of the event. It also organizes the Join! Database Conference.

Екипът на ИКТ Клъстер беше един от 10-те клъстера, които взеха участие във второ клъстерно обучение на тема „Обучение за клъстерни мениджъри - изграждане на българските клъстери “, което се състоя на 21-22 юни 2017 в Хотел Хилтън, София. Обучението бе организирано от. Обучението беше организирано от Иновации Норвегия, съвместно с Асоциацията на бизнес клъстерите, със съдействието на Enterprise Europe network. Обучителният екип беше съсътавен изцяло от норвежки експерти: господин Олав Бардален – специален съветник по въпросите на клъстерните мрежи към Иновации Норвегия, господин Тор-Арни Белика – водещ експерт по иновативен мениджмънт и бенчмаркинг специалист на Европейският Секретариат за Клъстерен Анализ (ESCA), господин Ейвинд Петершаген – програмен мениджър в Норвежките клъстерни програми Арена и Норвежките центрове за експертиза (NCE), и госпожа Хеге Окланд – клъстерен мениджър. Лекторите представиха конкретни примери и добри практики от развитието на клъстерните организации в Норвегия, насоки в интернационализацията и управлението на клъстерите, както и основни въпроси от областта на бенчмаркинга и сертифицирането на клъстерите с етикет от Европейският Секретариат за Клъстерен Анализ. Обучението беше с практическа насоченост, изцяло предназначено за клъстерни мениджъри на развиващи се и развити клъстери. На всички участници бяха връчени сертификати