On 17th May, 2011 In Triaditsa hall in Grand Hotel Sofia, on the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, a discussion forum devoted on the present and future of the national telecommunications infrastructure was held. The forum was organized by ACIS, ASTEL and ICT Cluster.

Mr. Parvan Rousinov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTITC), Mr. Evgeni Angelov, deputy minister of economy, energy and tourism, General Hristo Tihinov, Director of Communications and Information Systems, Ministry of Defense ( MO), Ivan Dimitrov, Director of Communications and Information Systems at the Ministry of Interior (MoI), Yordan Georgiev, Executive Director, Bulgarian Energy Holding, Vladimir Pulkov, Dean of the Faculty of Telecommunications, TU – Sofia took part in the round table discussion. The position of the organizers was presented by Mr. Peter Statev, Chairman of ICT Cluster,  Mr. Antoni Slavinski, Chairman of the board of ASTEL and Boyko Simitchiev, Vice – Chairman of the Board of ACIS.
Suggestions from the business were done by Mr. Tzvetan Mutafchiev, CEO of Telelink, Mr. Peter Belev, executive director of Multiplex, Stoil Trifonov, President  of International Power Supply (IPS) , Mirela Georgieva, Nokia Siemens Networks, Vesselin Kalchev, Director  Business development, Smartcom - Bulgaria.

According to the European directive "Digital Agenda for Europe" Bulgarian ICT business is ready to actively participate in the unification of the Bulgarian telecommunications infrastructure and to offer economic model for maintaining and managing an operating broadband.
In the forum were exposed the positions about the state of telecommunications infrastructure, managed by different ministries, agencies and other government agencies.

The proposals of the Business were: creation of a public council for management and coordination of the national telecommunications infrastructure; implementation of public private partnership in order to make national telecommunication infrastructure more effective and accessible.

Four Bulgarian New Entrepreneurs, working in the field of tourism, information technologies and fashion design participate in the second phase of the programme “Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs”.

The event was organized by Bulgarian ICT Cluster with the support of ARC fund and Foundation for New Bulgarian University in the framework of the project I3E- Promoting Innovation in the Industrial Informatics and Embedded Systems Sector through Networking, financed by South - East Europe Programme.

The aims of the workshop are: 

• to provoke dialog between SEE countries  for the  development of innovations in ICT field;                                                                                                                                                                               
•to receive information from Balkan countries about  the recent development of ICT and particularly microelectronics and embedded systems;
• to inform ICT SME for the business opportunities  in SEE area countries;
• to inform and train the representatives of SME and  ICT associations;
• to create basis for future cooperation between SME  and NGOs from different countries in the SEE area; 
• to wider the I3E project network;
• to disseminate the achieved I3E project milestones so far;

Representatives of SEE countries , not presented in the project consortium were invited and made presentations and overview about ICT sector and recent development in respective countries. There were representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYROM , Croatia, Albania and Turkey.

Фондация ИКТ Клъстер участва в Комисията за оценка на частния иновативен софтуер, която е част от Министерството на транспорта, информационните технологии и комуникации.

Information, volume of knowledge and professional relationships are very important  to achieve business success.

Telecommunications Cluster was founded under the initiative of Foundation “ICT Cluster” in the beginning of 2008 under the project  “Establishment of Telecommunications Cluster and Development of Sustainable Cluster Strategy” (Project BG 2005/017-586.04.02/ESC/G/CDI-II-003), funded by PHARE Programme and the Ministry of Economy and Energy.

Mr. Georgi Nikolaev has successfully completed his training in Luxembourg within the program “Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs”.

The Bylaws of Cluster “Microelectronics and Embedded Systems” was unanimously adopted on a meeting of the founders, held on 16.12.2009 at City University’s hall, Business park Sofia.

After long delay The National Strategy for Broadband Access was adopted by the Council of Ministers. The strategy is a basic document for further development of business investment projects in small and rural municipalities.

At the end of December 2008 the EOS project had finished. It was financed by the FP6 program of the European Commission.

Intermediary Organizations (IOs) of the program Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs from EU participated at the networking meeting in Brussels. The event aimed to generalize the results achieved during the pilot phase and to mark the start of the second phase of the program. Intermediary organizations with experience in implementation of the different phases in the project and new organizations participated in the event.

Representatives of European Commission and EUROCHAMBRES, Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Support Office made presentations and answering of questions for successful realization of the pilot phase and the launch of the second phase.

The first day of the conference finished with “speed dating” between participants with the aim to establish first contact and exchange of information. During the second day 4 workshops were organized and each one were devoted to variety stages of the program realization.

Bulgarian ICT Cluster took part as Intermediary organization in the second phase of the program too, in the consortium Exe More.

On January 27th - 28th, the second conference on clusters took place in Budapest under the slogan Mobilizing Clusters for Competitiveness. The objective of the conference was to improve the Central European cluster development practices in the light of the cluster policy recommendations of the EU and good European and Asian cluster practices.

In addition to the representatives of the European Commission, speakers from the following countries shared their experience: UK, Germany, Czech Republic, China, Greece, Japan, Russian Federation among others. The Chairman of the Bulgarian ICT Cluster, Mr. Peter Statev made a presentation in the event.