Holzcluster Steiermark

1. Holzcluster Steiermark • Founded in 2001, the company develops and implements projects along the entire value-added chain of the wood industry – and focuses most of its work on timber construction.

2. Holzcluster Steiermark Wood as a key Styrian strength • The Province of Styria has over 1 Mio. hectares of woodland, making it Austria’s most extensive wooded region. With its 5,300 enterprises, the forestry sector and wood industry form one of Styria’s most significant industries and provide jobs for 56,000 people.

3. Holzcluster Steiermark • Holzcluster Steiermark sees its role • in facilitating networking between business, science and politics, • as driver of innovation activitieswithin the forestry sector and the wood industry, • in promoting internationalisation efforts primarily in South-Eastern Europe and • in providing services for companies in the forestry sector and wood industry

4. Holzcluster Steiermark • Letter of Intent with cluster organisations in South East Europe • Work together do develop the forestry and timber industry • Know how exchange within the countries and organisations • Developing of common projects in the future

5. Holzcluster Steiermark • ID:WOOD combines two main focuses of our activities: • Innovation activities and • internationalisation efforts

6. Project Facts • Titel: Clustering Knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD Sector • Programm South East Europe • Numberof Project Partner: 15 • Number of involved Countries: 9 • Duration: 2 years (till end of Sept. 2014) • Lead Partner: Slovenian ForstInstitute

7. Project Partners:

8. Short Description: Sharing and transferring technical and organizational know-how Target group of ID:WOOD project are the support organizations dealing with the wood sector - technology centres, RDAs, universities, research and design centres, the productive sector, SMEs, policy makers, chambers of industry and commerce and sector associations. Stakeholders are given the opportunity to strengthen their organizational and technical capacities, to develop new functions, to participate to working groups and to be actively involved in the networking activities.

9. Project Organisation: Wp 3: Needanalysis and developmentstrategies for the woodsector Wp 4: Innovationcapacity building and supportactions in the woodsector Wp 5: Transnationalknowledgeclustering

10. Activitis WP4 • Act 4.1: Development ofclustermanagmentcapacities 3 courses x 2 days (AT, SI, IT) • Act 4.2: Fosteringinnovationskills in thewoodsectorsupprotingstructures 2 workshops x 5 days (RO, SR) • Act 4.3 Bridgingthegapsbetweenproductivesectorandknowledgepoles everyregion x 2 disseminationeventslocalknowledge pole • Act 4.4: Increasing SMEs awarnessaboutnewsupportorganisationpunctions everyregion x 2 open daysfor SMEs

11. 1th Cluster Management Course in Austria First day: 10th of July 2013 • Best Practice Example • Financing of cluster • Qualification and event management • Innovation Management for Clusters • Styria Innovation in wood • Cluster as engine of economy Second day: 11th of July 2013 • Communication and branding • International skill development • Internationalisation • Engineering center wood • Company: Johann Pabst Wood

12. 2th Cluster Management Course in Italy • Date: 16th -17th October 2013 • Location: Pordenone, Italy, at SicamFair Fair SICAM • Date: 15th – 18th • 16th October : Speed date meetings between ID:SMEs and stakeholders • 17th October: Meeting between SMEs and Exhibitors

13. 3rd Cluster Management Course in Slovenia • Second Day , 7th of November • Design and wood - Innovative services and innovative wooden products for furniture • Introduction: Creative industries in Slovenia (Ministry, Faculty of Design). • Design of Products and Ambient in wood (ISIA Roma, Faculty of Design, Zavod BIG). • Workshop: Design as a way for raising competitiveness of Cluster members. • Visiting the Month of Design exhibition.

14. Act 4.2 : Fostering innovation skills in the wood sector supporting structures Innovation course : Green Building with Wood • Duration: 1st till 3rd of October 2013 • Location: Serbia, Belgrade, Forestry Faculty Technical course wood and furniture : Basic to safe, functional and fine furniture • Duration: 22nd till 24thof October 2013 • Location: Romania, Sibiu

15. Bridging the gaps between productive sector and knowledge poles Each project partner will: • Undersign Memorandum of Understanding with local knowledge pole • Organise two dissemination events together with the local knowledge pole • Present the competitiveness development project

16. Memorandum of Understanding Purpose: • To foster innovation and competitiveness of SMEs in the wood sector • To share and transfer technical and organisational know how to SMEs • Rising SMEs capacity to implement innovation processes • Strengthening the network transnational and national cooperation capacity Objectives of MoU • Specific technical dissemination activities at local level • Competiveness development project for local SMEs • The delivery of joint support activities

17. Transnational cooperation • Transnational expert groups • Transnational problem-solving services for the companies • Transnational conferences

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