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INSME Annual Meeting 2008

Click here for details about the INSME Annual Meeting 20082-4 July 2008

"Encouraging SME Innovation and Growth: Increasing Capital Access"


Guangzhou (Canton)
P.R. China

Venue: Dong Fang (Oriental) Hotel
120, Liu Hua Road

 Download the presentations made by the speakers on July 3

 Name list of Chinese Participants
 List of Participants - July 3

 Final Agenda of the IV INSME International Conference and Site visits (3 and 4 July)

 Brochure (3 and 4 July)

Catch a glimpse of Guangzhou. Ancient heritage and modern society live together.

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» For enquiries on this event, please contact the INSME Secretariat:
 insme2008@insme.it 

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The 2007 INSME Annual Report is available within the Member's Area for Members only.

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V INSME Annual Meeting 2009

The next INSME Annual Meeting will be held in Dubai (United Arab Emirates) in late April 2009. It will be co-hosted by the Dubai Technopark, the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) and the UNIDO ITPO Bahrain/ARCEIT.

 Technopark video presentation


All INSME Members, but also interested non Members, are invited to participate in this important event to reinforce what has been achieved so far and to move the process ahead.


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2008 APEC SME Workshop for Technology Transfer






The INSME Association in collaboration with the APEC SME Innovation Center  organised an international seminar on “Innovation and Technology Transfer Services for SMEs: the Role of Intermediary Organisations", which was held on June 26-27, in Seoul, Korea.

The material presented during the workshop can be downloaded from the APEC SMEIC website.

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Tenders and Calls

Al-Invest IV Call for proposals

The European Commission, EuropeAid Cooperation Office (EC) has published the AL-INVEST IV Call for proposals. This Call is aimed at fostering the consolidation and internationalisation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Latin America. Al-Invest is an economic co-operation programme that supports the internationalisation of SMEs in Latin America, in collaboration with their European partners in order to contribute to reinforce social cohesion in the region.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25 July 2008.
Reference: EuropeAid/127035/C/ACT/RAL
Maximum indicative budget: 10 000 000 €

See the Call for Proposals page for full details

EU: FP7 - VI CORNET CALL (Collective Research)

The 6th Joint CORNET Call for Transnational Collective Research Project Proposals has been jointly launched by a number of ministries and funding agencies participatins in CORNET
The EU Countries involved are Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, The Netherlands, Turkey. 

Submission deadline: November 7th , 2008.

 Click here to download the leaflet

 For further information click here

   
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The International Network for Small and Medium sized Enterprises (INSME) is a non for profit Association that promotes transnational cooperation and public-private partnership for  innovation in SMEs, involving  main stakeholders dealing with competitiveness issues: governmental bodies, international organisations, business support intermediaries and their associations/networks at subnational, national, regional and international level. The Network comprises at present 83 members in 26 countries in 5 continents.

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