Euro Info Center Maribor

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Maribor Development Agency Euro Info Centre
Maribor SI 752
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Country Profile - Slovenia
Area 20,253 sq km Capital Ljubljana Currency
Slovenian Tolar - SIT Exchange Rate EUR 1
239,640SIT Length of coastline 46.6
km Population 2 mio Population density 97
inhabitants per km2 Nationalities Slovene
1,727,000 Italian 3,000Hungarian 8,500 other
227,500 Language Slovene in nationally mixed
areas also Italian and Hungarian
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Maribor Development Agency
Name Maribor Development Agency (MDA) Founded
1993 Founder Municipality of Maribor Legal
status public organisation Owners Maribor
City Municipality, Municipality Race-Fram,
Municipality Starse, Municipality Duplek,
Municipality Hoce- Slivnica,
Municipality Miklavz na Dravskem polju No. of
employees 18
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Activities of MDA

• elaboration of regional development strategy,
• implementing the proposals of the regional
  development strategy,
• promoting a regional approach to tackling the
  problems of the Podravje region,
• co-ordinating and providing business advice,
  especially to growing SMEs and business networks,
• co-ordination of tourism and rural development
  projects,
• acting as a co-ordinator for cross-border
  projects / EU-region cross-border office

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Activities of MDA-EIC

• I. Awareness-Raising Activities
• Events (seminars, fairs, ...)
• Information Documents
• Tender Alert
• Mass Media Mailings
• Internet Web Sites
• II. European Services to Companies
• European Programs and Projects
• Legal and Fiscal Assistance
• EU Sources of Financing
• Business Cooperation Specialist information tools
  / Databases
• Other Special Services
• III. Information on Request

• IV. Partnerships
• Regular cooperation in answering questions
• Joint activities / events
• General coordination activities
• V. EIC Network Activity
• Participation in meetings
• Organisation of meetings
• Joint projects
• Questions posed to the EIC Network
• VI. Promotional and Public Relations Activities
• Promotion of EIC and EIC services
• Participation in DG Enterprise promotional
  Campaign
• VII. Management of EICs

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Range of Activities

• EIC Maribor is active in the area of
  internationalisation of SMEs in north-eastern
  part of Slovenia. EIC is covering 4 regions
• Podravje Region
• Pomurje Region
• Koroska Region
• Savinjska Region
• Area 6.930 km2
• Number of inhabitants 770.000
• Number of SMEs 9.300

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Regional Clusters Business Networks

• RAST Regional Avio destination of Slovene Tourism
• TECES Research and Development centre of
  Electrical Machines
• Wooden Constructions Cluster
• ALUREG Slovenska Bistrica (Aluminium cluster)
• Energy and Construction Enterprise Network

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Core branches

• Construction
• Metal processing
• Timber / Wood processing
• Automotive
• Plastics
• Services Tourism, Logistic, Storage,
  Communication

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Partners search

• Joint projects in different branches and levels
  (EU programmes)
• Business cooperation and networking
• Research Development
• Human resource development

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Cluster policy

• Slovenia has many kinds of experience in the
  field of supporting end encouraging clustering,
  networking and collaboration. After 4 years of
  successful national cluster policy which has
  finish in 2005, a strong national policy was
  missing. In regional development plans throughout
  Slovenia we could see that the cluster policy is
  incorporated into those plans. The importance of
  the Regional policy in general is seen as
  improvement of competitiveness of the region,
  cross-regional cooperation and fostering of RD.
• The Slovene innovation and competitiveness policy
  2005 and on is based on supporting all economics
  sectors, there is no sectoral focus. The Policy
  is horizontal and aimed to all economic sectors.
  None of the measures is designed particularly for
  clusters. The target groups are companies (SMEs)
  and RD institutions.

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Info

• Euro Info Center Maribor
• Maribor Development Agency
• Pobreška cesta 20, SI - 2000 Maribor
• Tel. [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• e-mail eic_at_mra.si
• Web page http//eic.mra.si