Promoter
INFORMEST Service and Documentation Centre for International Economic
Co-operation
INFORMEST is a Service and Documentation Centre for International Economic
Co-operation, established by the Italian Act No. 19/91 and legally constituted
by the Regions Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Veneto and the Italian Institute for
Foreign Trade (ICE). It has a geographical specialisation in Candidate
Countries, Balkan Countries, NIS, China, Mongolia, North Korea and Vietnam and
it aims at developing economic co-operation between Italian enterprises and
economic operators and their counterparts in the Eastern Countries through the
provision of a wide range of specialised and integrated services, such as:
assistance and consulting, development projects, information services.
Asian Partners
CCPIT - China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CHINA)
CCPIT is the most important and the largest institution for the promotion of
foreign trade in China. The aims of the CCPIT are to operate and promote foreign
trade, to use foreign investment, to introduce advanced foreign technologies, to
conduct activities of foreign economic and technological cooperation in various
forms, to promote the development of economic and trade relations between China
and other countries and regions around the world. The CCPIT promotes trade
through its functions of information consultation, exhibition, legal assistance,
etc.
VAFoST - Vietnam Association of Food Science and Technology (VIETNAM)
VAFoST is a non- governmental, non-profit making organization with the voluntary
participation of scientists, technologists, policy makers, entrepreneurs of
different economic sectors in food science and technology and other sciences and
technologies related to food science and technology. The Association’s
objectives are to assemble and unite its members for the exchange of
experiences, wide spreading of professional knowledge, enhancement of
occupational capability, to make contributions for solving the problems in food
domain as well as in agro-food industry, at the same time to make contributions
to push up the country’s industrialization and modernization.
MNCCI - Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MONGOLIA)
MNCCI is the main business representative body of Mongolian business community
engaging the most of companies, enterprises and trade organizations in its wide
range of activities and services and protecting their common interests. The aims
of MNCCI are to promote and develop the competitive private sector of Mongolia
making it not only an engine of sustained growth but the main provider of
economic activity, to make the Chamber a capable and influential organization
protecting rights and common interest of the business community and putting for
ward its proposals in the policymaking process by developing public-private
sector dialogue & partnership, too be a leading organization in terms of
providing overall economic and business assistance and services to the business
community, to be pro-active member of international business community by
participating in most effective way in ICC, CACCI and the other international
institutions' activities.
European Partners
CSI - Consorzio Sviluppo e Impresa (ITALY)
CSI is an Export Consortium accredited by the Veneto Region, and qualified by
the National Law n.83/89. The Consortium intends to favour the
internationalization of the enterprises of the Veneto. It organizes
entrepreneurial promotion projects (economic missions, workshops, seminars,
conferences) and it realizes territorial development projects, mostly in the
Eastern of Europe, Centre of America, South America and in the Mediterranean
countries.
KOPERNIKUSZ INNOVÁCIÓS EGYESÜLET (HUNGARY)
It is the association specialised in the promotion of innovation, R&D
harmonisation, technology and know-how transfer aimed at stimulating Hungarian
enterprises to update their productive processes and management methodologies
and to apply innovative strategies. It will be supported by the Hungarian
Investment and Trade Development Agency – EIC HU727, specialised in investment
promotion, trade development, business services and marketing and communication
services, which manages 10 regional offices all over Hungary and has a database
of 40000 Hungarian SMEs.
UP SRC - University of Primorska /Science and Research Centre of Koper
(SLOVENIA)
UP SRC - University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre of Koper operates
on a distinctive interdisciplinary basis and lays emphasis also on the research
of food quality and safety. These activities are implemented by one of its
institutes, the Institute for Mediterranean Agriculture and Olive Growing
(ISKO). As a host organisation the UP SRC has successfully obtained the Euro
Info Centre SI753 Koper, whose tasks are (since the beginning of 2000) mainly to
inform, help and provide consultancy to SMEs with the purpose to create
favourable conditions for the development of SMEs. EIC SI753 Koper has been,
with the support of the host structure, providing it services to companies from
the food-technology field and on food safety as its regular activity and within
specific projects (as the Look-East NET project).
EIC SI753 Koper covers three Slovenian statistical regions, where more than
15.800 companies operate in different sectors. As member of the Slovenian EIC
network will be supported by the other two Slovenian EICs, in order to guarantee
a wider coverage of the Slovenian territory.