On Wednesday 14 July 2010, at 4 p.m, by Polo Tecnologico Di Pordenone Scpa , Via della Comina, 25, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Poland". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and about the situation of Poland in the post-crisis scenarios. They will also evaluate risks and opportunities of cooperation with enterprises of Friuli Venezia Giulia. Poland Business Guide will be distributed to all the participants.

The end of divisions in Europe had an outburst as a direct result of sudden passengers and trade flows along the roads and railway East-West axis. This has led to a significant burden on the existing transport infrastructures, particularly in the South-Eastern Europe, whose network was less developed. With the support of the European Union was launched a regional infrastructure development plan, based on National Master Plans, with intention to contribute at the same to time the "physical" integration into EU of these countries, until the planned policy accession in the incoming years.
The increasing flow of vehicles (passenger cars and commercial vehicles) on the main roads also imply the need to ensure higher levels of risk control and security, which otherwise are likely to weigh heavily on the social and economic development. This should happen within a transnational cooperation framework as a natural consequence of the integration process and of the increasing interdependence that points to the creation of a single space, eliminating the still strong tendencies towards fragmentation and individual approach to problems.

On 1^st July 2010, at 5 p.m, by Confindustria Trieste Headquartes , Piazza Casali, 1, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Croatia, Serbia and Albania". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and adopted measures and about the situation of Serbia, Croatia and Albania and the post-crisis scenarios.

Informest invita le aziende a partecipare alla tavola di lavoro sulla Marcatura CE e prodotti: nuova normativa dell'Unione Europea (Decisione 768/2008) che si terrà  mercoledì 23 giugno 2010 dalle ore 17 presso la sede di Confindustria Gorizia. I settori coinvolti sono elettrico ed elettronica; ascensori; apparecchiature in pressione;  strumenti di misura; esplosivi civili; articoli pirotecnici;  apparecchiature e sistemi di protezione per atmosfere pericolose.

Within the 7^nd edition of the Italian Festival organized by ICE Office in Sofia on 7^th June was held the Economic Forum "Bulgaria and Italy: together paving out the road from crisis". It was an important opportunity to verify bilateral economic and trade relations between Italy and Bulgaria and, at the same time, to compare the actions used to address the ongoing economic crisis.

Friday, 18^th June 2010, from 9.30 to 13.30 the Conference Centre of AREA Science Park will host the international conference "Internationalization of human capital and regional competitiveness: launch of the Welcome Office Friuli Venezia Giulia and presentation of the project Talents for an International House". The event will approach issues related to developing synergies between human capital and territorial attractiveness, through targeted services to accommodate and international mobility programs.

Within the SEENET Programme, CeSPI has issued a call for the selection of 7 researchers from public and private research institutes from South-East European countries on policy patterns of local and governance development, and decentralized and international cooperation. The deadline to submit the application is the 28th of May, 2010.

The ITALBALK project, financed by the Italian Government under the program for the support to regional cooperation, strives on the need of improving connections to commercial traffic between Italy and some Balkan countries with special attention to integrated logistics and transport services. Specifically, the sub-project 4th focuses on the Bar-Belgrade rail/road route through Montenegro and Serbia, in the light of the considerable Italian interests in Serbia and of the possibility for further market penetration in the neighboring countries (Romania, Hungary).

On thursday 6 May 2010, at 4.30 p.m, by Confindustria Gorizia Headquartes , Via degli Arcadi 7, will be held the seminar "The real economies of Central and Eastern Europe: Serbia". Informest analysts will talk about International Crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and adopted measures and about the situation of Serbia and the post-crisis scenarios. The esperts will also evaluate the possibility of cooperation for the entrerprises of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

Baku, 2.5 million inhabitants, is the modern and lively capital city of a young Country which is experiencing an extraordinary economic development. In the last five years, Azerbaijan recorded an astounding economic performance: regardless the global crisis, the azeri economy has grown by 10.8% in 2008 and by 9.3% in 2009. In the three-years period 2005-2007 it has grown at the rate of 28.5% per year, a figure that makes even China disappear. Italy is the first economic partner of Azerbaijan, with almost ¼ of the entire Country's foreign exchange. Informest participated to the economic mission organized by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade in Baku on April 25-27, 2010.

The culture is based on processes of development and remains closely linked to economic performances. There can be no economic development without cultural development. An example of the interaction comes from historic development highlighted by the "Four Tigers", where to economic performance have contributed both the practical implementation of modern economic theories and strong local cultural roots. Moreover, the economic environment acts as a vehicle of cultural values.

A recent meeting between the Italian partners of the project Adriatic Danubian Clustering has highlighted the diversity of ways and needs that articulate business internationalization when in particular it concern business clusters. They range from the emerging need for a "vertical" and inter-sectoral  integration in the Veneto between districts to a more horizontal and widespread district in Emilia Romagna. But a purely commercial approach often reduces internationalization to production relocation in a logic of cost-cutting and/or of market-seeking. This limitation of the approach is likely to be added to other known constraints of Italian companies internationalization that will compete with foreign companies (and their territorial and institutional environment) able to relate with  the host area and its companies within a territorial a partnership framework.

Prospettive di sviluppo nel settore delle energie rinnovabili in alcuni paesi dell’Europa centrale e sud-orientale

La determinazione della domanda potenziale di investimento in nuovi impianti e del fabbisogno di tecnologie per il settore delle energie rinnovabili, a fronte degli obiettivi di produzione concordati internazionalmente e/o previsti da programmi nazionali dei singoli paesi, è di estrema attualità.