Business Support Good Practice in Hanse Regions

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Business Support Good Practice in Hanse Regions

Business Support Good Practice in Hanse
Regions Kick-Off Meeting in Gdansk/Sopot 19/05
/2005
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BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION AIM creating an
environment and sustainable resources that will
enable future collaboration between Hanse regions
during and beyond the Hanse Passage initiative
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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• OBJECTIVES
• Compare business support policies and structures
• Develop indicators for transferable good practice
• Identify transferable good practice
• Verify the above objectives through 4 study
  visits of
• experts
• Develop and disseminate recommendations for best
• practice and future collaboration to a
  selected audience
• Develop a sustainable web-based resource to
  enable
• future regional collaboration as a
  complement of existing
• national tools (databases)

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BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION PARTNERS Partner 1
(Lead Partner) Association Free Entrepreneurship,
Regional Office Gdansk Partner
2 Office of the Marshal of the Pomorskie
Voivodeship Partner 3 The Latvian Chamber of
Commerce and Industry (LCCI) Partner 4 Haute
Normandie International Chambre Régionale de
Commerce Et d Industrie
(HNI) Partner 5 Wirtschafts- und
TourismusFördergesellschaft Kreis Peine
(WTLP) Partner 6 The West Yorkshire
Enterprise Partnership Ltd (WYEP) Partner 7
Province of Drenthe Partner 8 Avacon (Groningen)
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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Deliverables of the project
• 1 comparative study of business support
  structures, policy
• developments and jargon buster
• 1 set of criteria to identify transferable good
  practice
• 4 study visits and a minimum of 39 experts
  sharing expertise
• and experiences and gaining knowledge
• 4 theme-based reports with recommendations for
  transfer and
• future collaboration
• 1 end-of-project report
• 1 sustainable information knowledge resource
  tool
• 1 dissemination event
• 1 evaluation report

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Beneficiaries
• Senior staff from project partners
• Regional Experts from Cluster B (consultation at
  key stages)
• Public authorities responsible for business
  support policy,
• finance and delivery at local, regional or
  national level
• Administrators of EU Structural Fund Programmes
• Providers of business support services
• Bodies/associations representing
  categories/clusters of SMEs
• Representatives from DG Regio and Enterprise.

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Long term impacts
• Increased knowledge among decision makers and
• practitioners of business support policies and
  structures
• Strengthened relationships between policy makers
  and
• intermediaries within and between regions
• Improvements in the development and quality of
  business
• support policies and services
• Improved interregional partnership working and
  potential for
• future collaborative projects (financed under
  EU Structural
• Funding or otherwise)

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Timetable May 2005 December 2006
• I Planning
• Steering Group meeting V 2005
• Strategies marketing, evaluation and
  dissemination agreed V-VII 2005
• Detailed administrative procedures between
  partners agreed V-VII 2005
• Production of promotional material VIII IX
  2005
• Project promotional www site prepared VIII IX
  2005

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Timetable May 2005 December 2006
• I Planning
• Promotional, PR and dissemination activities
  from VIII 2005
• Preparation of comparative research VIII X
  2005
• Development indicators for identifying
  transferable good practice IX X 2005
• Mapping transferable good practice X XI 2005

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Timetable May 2005 December 2006
• II Delivery of study visits
• Development study-visit application form and
  delegate briefing packs XII 2005 II 2006
• Development of 4 study visits (content,
  logistics, etc) I II 2006
• Briefing pack sent out II 2006
• Study visits take place II 2006 VII 2006
• Visit reports prepared VIII IX 2006
• Steering Group Meeting (including Regional
  Experts) X or XI 2006

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Timetable May 2005 December 2006
• III Dissemination
• Organisation of dissemination event III X or
  XI 2006
• Dissemination event X or XI 2006
• Feedback delegates processed and draft
  consolidation reports prepared XI 2006

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• BSGP PROJECT INTRODUCTION
• Timetable May 2005 December 2006
• III Dissemination
• Work on information/intelligence content on
  web-based resource(internet platform) VII XII
  2006
• Last Steering Group meeting (approval final
  claim, report and evaluation report, future
  projects) XII 2006 (?)
• Final claim, report and evaluation report to
  Cluster B Team XII 2006

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• COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
• TO COVER
• All 6 countries participating in the Hanse
  Passage
• National/regional business support structures,
  policies
• and sources of information
• Key issues/developments around selected themes
• potential other themes

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• COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
• METHODOLOGY (to be agreed by Partners)
• The Project Co-ordinator undertakes desk research
  based on
• information and data sources
  received from project partners
• 2. Hanse regions will be given the
  research format and budget (?) to
• Undertake research themselves
• Nominate an organisation to undertake research on
  their behalf
• Authorise lead partners or a contractor to
  undertake the research in
• liaison with a regional policy contact.
• Evaluation results of the BSGP Project should be
  taken under
• consideration.

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• COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
• FORMAT of the Report
• Should be the same for all Partners of BSGP
• Should be the same for other Cluster B or C
  projects approved
• under round 2 to ensure maximum
  comparability of future findings and facilitate
  further joint working and present to the
  Commission a single piece of research to be
  shared between all projects (?)

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• COMPARATIVE RESEARCH
• USAGE of reports
• Dissemination via Hanse web site
• Development of criteria for identifying
  transferable good practice
• Development of study visit programme
• Include in briefing pack study visit hosts and
  delegates

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• CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER PROJECTS
• CLUSTER B
• B02 Regional Products in Hanse Region (Kuldiga
  Development Agency
• Latvia)
• B06 Plan the City with the Port (City of Le
  Havre, France)
• B08 Strategic Logistics Alliance Hanse Passage
  (Senator für Wirtschaft
• und Häfen Bremen)
• B05 Exchange to Export E2E
• B07 Promoting Entrepreneurship

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• CO-OPERATION WITH OTHER PROJECTS
• CLUSTER C
• C02 Hanse Network Knowledge Tansfer in
  Vocational Education
• C03 Hanse-Visits - Visualisation of Innovation
  and Technology
• Institutions
• C07 Network to Develop and Promote Mobility in
  Vocational Training
• (HaMoNet)
• C08 Knowledge Transfer Network in the Hanse
  Passage Regions

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