Balkan and Black Sea ICT Clusters Network

“Balkan  and  Black  Sea  ICT  Clusters  Network”  History  

 

Ø Based  on  previous  partnership  Ø Conference  in  April    2014  Ø Partners  meeCng  in  Nis  Ø Kick  off  meeCng  in  Istanbul  Ø Partners’  meeCngs  in  Skopje  and  Sarajevo  Ø Last  partners’  meeCng  in  Belgrade    

ICT  Clusters  Network  Goals    Ø  To  create  a  framework  aiming  to  intensify  

collaboraCon  of  ICT  clusters  in  the  region,  thus  meeCng  common  challenges  affecCng  the  business  opportuniCes  in  the  region.    

Ø  To  aMract  criCcal  mass  of  ICT  clusters,  companies,  research  organizaCons  and  academic  insCtuCons  aiming  to  sCmulate  common  R&D  projects  in  region.  

Ø  To  be  one-­‐stop-­‐shop  for  products  and  services  among  ICT  Clusters  and  their  respecCve  clients.  

Ø  To  achieve  mutual  understanding  among  stakeholders  for  market  trends  and  compeCCve  advantages  of  each  network  member.  

Ø  To  support  governments  and  policy  makers  in  harmonizing  naConal  business  legislaCon  aiming  to  achieve  a  more  effecCve  way  for  business  connecCons  in  the  region.    

Ø  To  implement  more  ICT  compeCCve  tools  with  the  aim  to  change  the  regional  economic  performance.  

Ø  To  support  innovaCon  and  compeCCveness  of  the  regional  ICT  sector.    

Ø  To  aMract  more  regional  foreign  investors  through  collaboraCve  partnership  among  the  leading  players  from  each  naConal  market.  

 

The    Network  Includes    Ø  19  members  from  10  countries  from  the  Balkan  

and  Black  sea  region;  Ø  More  than  800  ICT  SMEs;  Ø  More  than  10  universiCes  ;  

Members    

Ø  Albanian  ICT  AssociaCon  Ø  BIT-­‐Alliance  Ø  Bulgarian  Cluster  

TelecommunicaCons  Ø  Bulgarian  ICT  Cluster  Ø  Cluj  IT  Cluster  Ø  Corallia  Ø  HAMAC  Ø  ICT  cluster  of  central  Serbia  

Kragujevac  Ø  ICT  Cluster  Plovdiv  Ø  ICT-­‐NET  Ø  MASIT  Ø  Montenegrin  IT  Cluster  Ø  Ni  Cat  Ø  ODTU  TEKNOKENT  Ø  STIKK  -­‐  Kosovo  ICT  AssociaCon    Ø  Vojvodina  ICT  Cluster  

InsCtuConal  Mechanism  

 

Ø  RotaConal  chairmanship  

Ø  ICT  Clusters’  Council  

Ø Recognized by the European Cluster Society

Ø Awarded with the label Strategic Partnership –

ECSP-4i by the European Commission

Ø Strategic action plan for future cross-cluster

collaboration in the Balkan and Black sea

region focused on ICT and Agriculture was

created with the support of the Danube

Strategy Fund