The main objective of this mission is to present our network to Chinese key institutional players, who may concretely support further bilateral business agreements, and to create a favorable ground for the network members aiming to commercially exploit in China their geo-ICT competences. More info &nbsp

Check these interesting events: 24th railML.org meeting Geodesign Summit Europe INSPIRE KEN Schema transformation Workshop In case you want to promote a conference or inform us about an event, please contact us. &nbsp

A warm welcome to iDA, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, who recently adhered to the smeSpire Network. Reciprocally beneficial will be the sharing of knowledge and experience in enabling geo-ICT SMEs to make business innovation and to implement e-Government policies. &nbsp

During the recent INSPIRE Conference in Florence, Glenn Vancauwenberghe (KU Leuven) and Piergiorgio Cipriano (EC JRC) presented the first results of the online survey on Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) working on Geomatics and Information Technlogies (GeoICT). http://www.slideshare.net/smespire/leveraging-smes-strenght-for-inspire Some key findings: almost 90& of GeoICT companies have been founded between 1988 and 2008 90% of companies are “small”, with less than 50 employees; “micro” companies (less than 10) represent 60%

An important Memorandum of Understanding has been recently signed by smeSpire and EBPC (European Business Promotion Center), with HeadQuarters in Shangai, China.  After years of experience in institutional projects, in Europe and in China, EBPC gives EU companies the guarantee to be under Chinese Institutions protection, having the same Chinese companies rights. EBPC objectives are to support EU SMEs to enter the Chinese market, to build Chinese “Land” Company, to

Recently three calls for tenders have been published on European Commission web sites: Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) for Data and Services in EU Public Administrations. SMART 2013/0063 – Study on a “European data market” and related services. E-leadership skills for small and medium size enterprises. More information. &nbsp

symposium GIS Ostrava 2014 – “Geoinformatics for Intelligent Transportation” will take place from 27 to 29 January 2014 in Ostrava (Czech Republic). The aim of the conference is to present and discuss new methods, issues and challenges of the geoinformatics contributing to make transportation more intelligent, efficient and human friendly. It is a chance for GI experts, geographers, transportation planners, developers, public sector as well as industry transportation specialists, and other

A joint initiative of Infologica and Plovdiv chamber of commerce and industry, held on 13 June in the city of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The aim of the workshop was to inform small and medium enterprises, public institution and organisation about smeSpire project and the opportunities which offers INSPIRE directive. The workshop was a joint initiative of Infologica company and Plovdiv chamber of commerce and industry. The workshop was held on 13

“Concrete steps to implement INSPIRE: synergies between the public and the private sector”: a smeSpire round-table at the INSPIRE Conference.  Let put it in your diary and join us Monday June 24th. More information &nbsp

Thanks to a cooperation agreement with CEKTRA – Centre for Knowledge Transfer from Slovenia, in the coming months an intense activity aiming at taking on board of the smeSpire network also geoICT SMEs located in 8 SEE Countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia) will be done. Particularly beneficial will be the translation of project material in additional six languages (Albanian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian).