Holzcluster Steiermark Founded in 2001 the company

Holzcluster Steiermark • Founded in 2001, the company develops and implements projects along the entire valueadded chain of the wood industry – and focuses most of its work on timber construction.

Holzcluster Steiermark Wood as a key Styrian strength • The Province of Styria has over 1 Mio. hectares of woodland, making it Austria’s most extensive wooded region. With its 5, 300 enterprises, the forestry sector and wood industry form one of Styria’s most significant industries and provide jobs for 56, 000 people.

Holzcluster Steiermark • Holzcluster Steiermark sees its role – in facilitating networking between business, science and politics, – as driver of innovation activities within the forestry sector and the wood industry, – in promoting internationalisation efforts primarily in South-Eastern Europe and – in providing services for companies in the forestry sector and wood industry

Holzcluster Steiermark • Letter of Intent with cluster organisations in South East Europe – Work together do develop the forestry and timber industry – Know how exchange within the countries and organisations – Developing of common projects in the future

Holzcluster Steiermark • ID: WOOD combines two main focuses of our activities: – Innovation activities and – internationalisation efforts

Project Facts • Titel: Clustering Knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD Sector • Programm South East Europe • Number of Project Partner: 15 • Number of involved Countries: 9 • Duration: 2 years (till end of Sept. 2014) • Lead Partner: Slovenian Forst Institute

Project Partners: Institution Name Land Slovenian Forestry Institute Slowenien Informest Italia Wood Industry Cluster Slowenien Technology Center of Pordenone Italia Wood Cluster Styria Österreich Regional Development Agency Centru Rumänien Ecoregions Bulgarien Zala County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion Ungarn PINs Kroatien Development Association NERDA Bosnien und Herzegowina University of Belgrade (Fac. of Forestry) Serbien Friuli Venezia Giulia Italia Ministry of Agriculture Slowenien Ministry of the Economy Slowenien Tuzla Canton Bosnien und Herzegowina

Short Description: • Sharing and transferring technical and organizational know-how • Target group of ID: WOOD project are the support organizations dealing with the wood sector technology centres, RDAs, universities, research and design centres, the productive sector, SMEs, policy makers, chambers of industry and commerce and sector associations. • Stakeholders are given the opportunity to strengthen their organizational and technical capacities, to develop new functions, to participate to working groups and to be actively involved in the networking activities.

Project Organisation: Wp 3: Need analysis and development strategies for the wood sector Wp 4: Innovation capacity building and support actions in the wood sector Wp 5: Transnational knowledge clustering

Activitis WP 4 • Act 4. 1: Development of cluster managment capacities 3 courses x 2 days (AT, SI, IT) • Act 4. 2: Fostering innovation skills in the wood sector supproting structures 2 workshops x 5 days (RO, SR) • Act 4. 3 Bridging the gaps between productive sector and knowledge poles every region x 2 dissemination events local knowledge pole • Act 4. 4: Increasing SMEs awarness about new support organisation punctions every region x 2 open days for SMEs

1 th Cluster Management Course in Austria First day: 10 th of July 2013 • Best Practice Example • Financing of cluster • Qualification and event management • Innovation Management for Clusters • Styria Innovation in wood • Cluster as engine of economy Second day: 11 th of July 2013 • Communication and branding • International skill development • Internationalisation • Engineering center wood • Company: Johann Pabst Wood

2 th Cluster Management Course in Italy § Date: 16 th -17 th October 2013 § Location: Pordenone, Italy, at Sicam Fair SICAM § Date: 15 th – 18 th § 16 th October : Speed date meetings between ID: SMEs and stakeholders § 17 th October: Meeting between SMEs and Exhibitors

3 rd Cluster Management Course in Slovenia - Second Day , 7 th of November • Design and wood - Innovative services and innovative wooden products for furniture - Introduction: Creative industries in Slovenia (Ministry, Faculty of Design). - Design of Products and Ambient in wood (ISIA Roma, Faculty of Design, Zavod BIG). - Workshop: Design as a way for raising competitiveness of Cluster members. - Visiting the Month of Design exhibition.

Act 4. 2 : Fostering innovation skills in the wood sector supporting structures Innovation course : Green Building with Wood § Duration: 1 st till 3 rd of October 2013 § Location: Serbia, Belgrade, Forestry Faculty Technical course wood and furniture : Basic to safe, functional and fine furniture § Duration: 22 nd till 24 th of October 2013 § Location: Romania, Sibiu

Bridging the gaps between productive sector and knowledge poles Each project partner will: § Undersign Memorandum of Understanding with local knowledge pole § Organise two dissemination events together with the local knowledge pole § Present the competitiveness development project

• Memorandum of Understanding Purpose: – – To foster innovation and competitiveness of SMEs in the wood sector To share and transfer technical and organisational know how to SMEs Rising SMEs capacity to implement innovation processes Strengthening the network transnational and national cooperation capacity Objectives of Mo. U a) b) c) Specific technical dissemination activities at local level Competiveness development project for local SMEs The delivery of joint support activities

Transnational cooperation § Transnational expert groups § Transnational problem-solving services for the companies § Transnational conferences

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