NEWS

Last Updated 2008-06-10

TRN 2009 Annual Conference
TRN is starting the preparation of the 2009 Conference, to be done in September, focused in e-Government and interregional cooperation. The call for papers will be open soon. If you are interested, please contact our Communication Officer, Mr Maxime Bouillard

Innovation and SMEs
TRN is managing since October 2006 the InnoSME project (www.innosme.eu), with the objective to promote the participation of Innovative SMEs in the ICT Sector in FP7 and CIP through National and Regional Networking. The project has deployed some tools to help SMEs to be more innovative. For more information contact our Secretary General and InnoSME project Manager Mr Francisco Loras

Best Practise
TRN ask you to send us your best practices of promoting and linking Innovation, ICT and SMEs in your Region. To develop and share these experiences is our main objective in the short term. TRN has started the preparation of a proposal to be submitted in the ICT PSP call in CIP. For more information contact Mr Francisco Loras

Report
EU Regions and Networking. TRN hands in Report to the European Commission – Directorate General Regional Policy and Directorate General for Information Society and Media: “EU REGIONS AND NETWORKING. Improving Interregional Cooperation and Best Practice Exchange in ICT”. You can download the Report here

Meeting with the European Commission
TRN will participate in a meeting promoted by the new Unit “New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” in DG INFSO – with the aim to share information about the objectives of running projects, the achievements reached so far, and to derive synergies and potential issues for collaboration, including further development of research areas.

New Secretary General
Mr. Francisco Loras, InnoSME project Manager, has recently been appointed as TRN Secretary General. His main task will be extending the stakeholders support network created in InnoSME to all European Regions.