On November 18, 2014 St. Petersburg Democenter was visited by students from St. Petersburg State University of Economics, one of the largest universities in Russia and the leader in the sphere of the economic education.

On November, 14-15 partners have presented the results of their cooperation in the framework of the project «Baltic ICT Platform» in Riga within the event «RIGA COMM».

IT Fair «Riga COMM» is an annual event for IT service and manufacturing industries, leaders of national authorities and ICT professionals, where they get to know the most current products from ICT service providers and product developers in the Baltics and foreign countries, consult with knowledgeable professionals and collectively choose the most appropriate solutions for their business or organization in one place. RIGA COMM is the only information and communication technology exhibition and conference in the Baltics.

Planned events of the “Baltic ICT-platform” project implementation final stage

Within the working meetings of project partners during SPIIF 2014 action plan of further events was highlighted on the final stage of the project implementation, including:

- Project presentation on Baltic Information Technology Fair and Innovation Conference «RIGA_COMM 2014», which takes place on November, 14th-15th  in Kipsala International Exhibition Centre (Riga),You can see agenda here;

- Project partners work meeting in Tallinn on December, 16th - where project implementation results would be summed up;

- Project presentation within events organized by Project partners and operated Demo Centres.

Representatives of Non-for-profit Partnership North-West Funding Service Centre, European-Russian InnoPartnership, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of RAS, Non-for-Profit Partnership Latvian IT Cluster, Non-for-Profit ICT Demo Center and Tartu Science Park participated in the project “Baltic ICT-platform” project stand. 

«E-contact show» seminar was held by Non-for-profit Partnership North-West Funding Service Centre which was aimed at matchmaking between representatives of ITC companies, venture investors, financial organizations in Russia, Estonia and Latvia. 

2 trainings were organized by St. Petersburg Democenter – «Innovation solutions promotion in the field of ICT technologies. E-services development as a tool for efficient cooperation».

European-Russian InnoPartnership presented the project and Demo Centers Nnetwork in a form of a stand «St. Petersburg Global Partners», initiated by the Committee on External Relations of St. Petersburg aimed at development of international cooperation between St. Petersburg and partner cities and regions. 

Additional information:

Vaido Mikheim, Project Manager, Phone: +372 5309 5906, vaido.mikheim@scienepark.ee

The comprehensive training "Information systems marketing. Promotion of public e-services as an effective instrument for communication, business and society" was held on the basis of St. Petersburg Democenter.

The subject of the training was devoted to the phenomena of the information society, specialized information systems marketing, innovation products promotion, and popularization instruments for electronic government services among the citizens.This event brought together on the platform of St. Petersburg Democenter representatives of state executive bodies, St. Petersburg  ICT cluster specialists, as well as experts from institutions of higher education in St. Petersburg.

The first part of the training was devoted to theoretical aspects of the ICT impact on modern business and the information society to the knowledge society transformation. The most important developmental milestones of the information society were also considered, such as: the phenomena of personal computing, open communications, cooperative technology, and social interactions.

In the second part of the event the specificity of marketing information systems and the issues of promoting innovations in the framework of the future CBC programs ENI 2014-2020 were presented . All the stages of the project implementation were analyzed in detail: the logic of project preparation, goals, schedule, budget, expected results and indicators.

During the discussion participants considered practical aspects of application filling for CBC program ENI 2014-2020 and shared experience.

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