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» Building Technology Partnerships for Sustainable Business At Eco-Tech Scandinavia, 7-8 October 2008, Göteborg, Sweden , Eco-Tech Scandinavia - is an international meeting place for eco-tech business. It will be one of the most important events within the environmental sector in Scandinavia 2008, featuring innovations, new trends, technologies, products. Scandinavia’s growing export of environmental technology and its clean environment makes Göteborg a natural choice for ECO-matchmaking.

» Safer Internet awareness campaign started in Bulgaria, On 2 October in Sofia was given start to the second national Safer Internet campaign. The 7-month awareness campaign is a joint initiative of Microsoft-Bulgaria, the children's web-portal Az-deteto-com and the Internet provider Evrokom-Cable with the support of the Public Council on Safer Internet, the Ministry of Eudcation and the state agencies for child protection and for information technologies and communications.

» Round table on "Computer Games and Children's Safety in Internet", On 12 September 2008 the State Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (SAITC) organized jointly with the Bulgarian InSafe Awareness Node a round table entitled "Computer Games and Children's Safety in Internet". Representatives of the executive and legislative institutions, IT companies and mobile operators, providers of online games, parents' organizations, NGOs and the media participated in the event.

» Round Table on Public-Private Partnerships in the Area of Safer Internet Use, On 16 July 2008 the Center for the Study of Democracy, together with the Consultative Council with the Committee on EU Matters of the Bulgarian National Assembly, held a round table, entitled Public-Private Partnerships in the Area of Justice, Freedom and Security: the New EU Programme on Safer Use of the Internet with an audience of Members of Parliament, representatives of governmental institutions, NGO’s and experts.

» 9th International Venture Capital Forum, 19 - 20 June 2008, Athens , The Hellenic Center for Investment (ELKE) , the New Economy Development Fund (TANEO) , the Innovation Relay Centre HELP-FORWARD and the Innovation Relay Centre-Bulgaria with the cooperation of the Hellenic Venture Capital Association invite entrepreneurs and researchers having ambitious and innovative business plans to participate in bilateral business meetings with Greek and International Venture Capital firms during the 9th International Venture Capital Forum.



» ARC Fund presents its project on Virtual and Real Violence in schools, In May, ARC Fund presented to teachers and parents the project Children in Virtual and Real Violence – Prevention by Discourse and Education. On May 10, the project, which is co-financed by the Swiss Oak Foundation, was presented at the annual Education Fest in the National Palace of Culture in downtown Sofia.

» Bulgaria – Italy Technological Transfer Event in the ICT sector, IRC Bulgaria and IRC IRIDE, in collaboration with the Centre of Information Society Technologies (CIST) in Bulgaria and the Italian company PoloICT, organised on 27-28 March 2008 in Sofia a Technology Transfer Event in the ICT field, with particular focus on “Telework: technologies and methodologies” .

» IRC Future Match 2008 - a Brokerage Event in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) during CeBIT 2008, March 4th - 8th, 2008, On the occasion of CeBIT 2008, the world's leading fair for information and communication technologies, the Innovation Relay Centre IRC-Bulgaria - being a partner to the ICT Thematic Group of the IRC Network – co-organized the IRC Future Match brokerage event for the seventh consecutive time.

» Awarding ceremony for participants in the pan-European online competition among schools, On February 12, the international Safer Internet Day, ARC Fund as coordinator of the national SID events, organized and awarding ceremony for the best projects of Bulgarian school-children participating at the pan-European online competition among schools “Life online is what YOU make of IT”.

» Seminar on ‘Facilitating Innovations in Municipalities through ICTs’ , On February 7th, ARC Fund organized a round table discussion on the role of ICTs for innovation at municipalities with representatives of municipal and local authorities, central government agencies, and ICT companies.



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