roxi - Rostocker Existenzgründer Initiative ‹
DesignSHIP ‹
BSR InnoReg ‹
Capacity Building ‹

Project description

For more information send an email to: roxi@uni-rostock.de .

Contact details:

Pawel Warszycki (Project management/ Coaching)


phone: +49  381 498 -5630 (HIE-RO)
fax: +49  381 - 498 - 5634 (HIE-RO)
e-mail: roxi@uni-rostock.de

   DesignSHIP

The overall objective of the project is to stimulate and integrate the industrial design sector in terms of education and labour markets within the South Baltic Region (SBR) through conduction of joint activities devoted to transfer of knowledge and exchange of good practices. The SBR industrial design sector is dominated by small and medium sized companies with a high creativity potential and little business competence. A typical career path of graduate designes involves starting up their own business, such as a design studio, but the significant lack of entrepreneurial competences and experiences is an important problem.
In order to facilitate a better integration of higher education and the labour market it is therefore necessary to educate management and economics graduates in the area of industrial design management and encourage the formation of entrepreneurial partnerships between students and graduates with complementary skills.
The European industrial design sector is developing rapidly, but is still beyond the level of a mature branch. The objective of the project is to facilitate the integration and education of students, graduates and SME’s, as well as support institutions and universities, in terms of industrial design management and implementation within the SBR upon basis of a cross-border training programme.
The main project activities include transfer of knowledge and exchange of good practices, as well as educational, training, informational and promotional activities. The project target groups are: students, graduates of art, design and architecture; students, graduates in economics, management, business, law etc.; SME’s involved in the industrial design sector.
The projects results will include: the integration and knowledge exchange between a total of 5 partners from Poland, Germany and Sweden; the development and testing of a common training programme; establishing of a common strategy for future activities to ensure the durability of project effects.; training of 90 persons; organization of an annual international creative mix event. The cross border impact of the project involves the establishing of a long-term cooperation agreement between project partner institutions leading to future activities devoted to the exchange of experiences and good practices.
According to the UNCTAD “Creative Economy (2008)” report creative industries are the leading component of economic growth, employment, trade, innovation, and social cohesion in most advanced economies. To become a leader in this trend and achieve a competitive position among other parts of the world, the SBR needs to implement activities devoted to bringing out the positive aspects of cultural differentiation. Cooperation within the project will provide practical experiences in this matter.


DesignSHIP on the South Baltic Programme Site

 

BSR InnoReg - Strengthening Innovation Governance in Baltic Nonmetropolitan Regions through Transnational Cooperation 


Summarized description

Economic and demographic development in Baltic nonmetropolitan regions is increasingly weak compared to the metropolitan regions. In order to gain balanced regional development, it is important to narrow the gap and support economic and innovation performance in nonmetropolitan regions.
BSR InnoReg utilizes the results of VBN InnoReg project (2006–2007) whose main outcome was a common understanding of regional innovation system dynamics and challenges as well as a joint development vision for Baltic nonmetropolitan regions. Based on VBN InnoReg results, the capability of the innovation systems to secure availability of skilled work force and support the creation and reform of SMEs are regarded as the main challenges among Baltic nonmetropolitan regions.
To address these challenges and to operationalize the joint development vision, BSR InnoReg aims at improving innovation governance and enhancing attractive and complementary innovation support environments in Baltic nonmetropolitan regions.
During the project, longterm competence needs of development organizations in the partner
regions are identified, which provides basis for regional development workshops and transnational training on selected key themes, such as global networking and financing tools. New innovation support instruments concerning e.g. userdriven innovation, startup financing and utilization of students in innovation processes will be developed jointly, tested in the partner regions and disseminated as a practical toolkit for the use of Baltic nonmetropolitan
regions. Furthermore, based on experiences of partners and results of project activities, a Memorandum of Understanding on efficient innovation governance in Baltic nonmetropolitan
regions with recommendations and practical information on BSR innovation potential and shared challenges will be produced. The MoU will be signed by the involved decisionmakers
ensuring commitment of the participating regions to elaborate their innovation policies according to the shared development view.
The project improves the capacities of decisionmakers and development organizations of the
partner regions for identifying future challenges and managing of risks in decisionmaking
as well as for developing coherent innovation support services for SMEs. The project strengthens the role and commitment of the decisionmakers of Baltic nonmetropolitan
regions in fostering the competitiveness of the BSR and increases recognition of the BSR as an attractive and dynamic region in the EU.


Contact details:

Christine Blume (Project management)

phone: +49 - 381 - 498 - 5624
fax: +49 - 381 - 498 - 5634
e-mail: info@hie-ro.de

The Capacity Building Project, realized within the South Baltic Programme, was launched to help potential beneficiaries of the Programme in the preparation and implementation of cross-border projects.

The aim of the Capacity Building Project is to support participation in the South Baltic Programme, particularly among local authorities and NGOs who constitute the target group of the Project.

For more information see www.sbpcapacity.org.


Contact details:

Pawel Warszycki, Van Vu

phone: +49 - 381 498 5630
fax: +49 - 381 498 5634
e-mail: pawel.warszycki@hie-ro.de or van.vu@hie-ro.de