Italian-Moldova BioEnergy project, financed by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region aims to verify the economic feasibility and logistics of agro-energy, with particular attention to the implementation of a biodiesel chain linking the two areas. Focus is on supporting the Moldovan agro-industrial development, aiming at satisfying the energy needs at local level through the use of bio-energy, and, thanks to the strong tradition in the cultivation of protein-oil crops, and with the necessary technology, to produce energy directly from renewable sources for both local consumption and for sale to third parties, and the possibility of crops supply to some plants from Friuli Venezia Giulia producing bio-fuels from imported raw material.

The Project foresees a number of missions, the first of which has already been completed last July with as follow up (in August) a technical seminar hold in Chisinau by FVG Regional Administration officer and Udine University lecturer to Moldovan Public Administration officers, farmers and agro-entrepreneurs. In October a group of Moldovan entrepreneurs will be in Friuli Venezia Giulia region meeting the local counterpart, while by-middle November 2010 in Chisinau should be held the project Final Conference with the presence of a delegation of Italian entrepreneurs.

It has been published the call for ideas for the renovation of former Civil Hospital of Gorizia in the framework of the project "Spazio giovani alla frontiera" .
The competition is is open-ended and anonymous. The competition foreseens the d evelopment of an Urban Project referring to the area currently owned by the Company for Health Services n. 2 Isontina, preparatory to a redesign and reorganization process of the Gorizia's former Civil Hospital and recovery of the existing park. For further information visit www.spaziogiovanigorizia.eu.

To increase the competitiveness of the cross-border territory enhancing the cooperation among Italian and Slovene companies. This is, in short, the strategical objective of the project iCon, co-financed by the European Programme for territorial cooperation Italy-Slovenia. Fourteen partners, seven from Italy and seven from Slovenia, representing the main organizations that give support to local enterprises in the cross-border area, are going to work jointly for three years in order to achieve this vital objective for the economic growth of our territory.

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.

In the last years a large number of military brownfields has been dismantled because of changes in the security and defence policies. Most part of these sites is easily accessible, often located in the city-centre and even well connected through modern infrastructure. Therefore the rehabilitation of military brownfields in proximity of densely populated areas is an important issue for local authorities and an opportunity for private investors. As a matter of fact, by recovering military brownfields, greenfields are preserved, the sustainable urban, economic and social development is supported and public owners can profit from the rehabilitation.

Gorizia and Isonzo area are in the middle of cross border development dynamics for the EU programming period 2007-2013, since the area is eligible in 8 EU cooperation programmes. This high concentration of funds requires the development of technical skills, whose lack is still visible even today. Training patterns addressed to Eu Project Managers are still insufficient and often weak and not job-oriented, even if the demand is increasing and job opportunities very high.

In this framework, Informest, on the basis of its long standing experience on fund raising and human capital development, is proposing a training course aimed to the increase of knowledge about the access and use of EU funds.

The second call of the initiative "Friuli Venezia Giulia Progetta!", promoted by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia to stimulate local organizations, public bodies and enterprises to participate to European grants, has been launched. Informest manages the on-line platform www.progetta.fvg.it of the initiative and the help desk to support the applicants. Requests for funding may be sent through the web site only. 

A meeting among the representatives of Informest, Area Science Park and the Centre for Molecular Biology, signed the start of the project "Innoweek", the week of Innovation, Science and Technology, a project financed by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and coordinated by Informest, whose aim is to represent in a serie of events and meetings in Vojvodina's main city, the Friuli Venezia Giulia 's regional system of scientific research, innovation and technological development. 

Informest has promoted the international cooperation project PRO.COOP in collaboration with ICE and with the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, LegaCoop FVG and Confcoop FVG as project partners. Financed by the Law n. 84/2001, the project aimed at sustaining and fostering the Italian cooperative system in the Balkan countries. It thus strengthened the Italian institutional and economic relations with the cooperatives associations in Croatia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, providing assistance and training in the fields of legislative reforms, fiscal systems and civil economy. The project proposed the EU Regulation on the European Cooperative Company and the Italian best-practices as models for the Balkan cooperatives in their harmonization process towards the European standards.