The EuroPROC Guide of Good Practices

[01.09.2010]

One of the main actions of EuroPROC is the realization of a Guide of good practices on European and International Public Procurement (IPP) dedicated to intermediary bodies willing to start or to develop their services for SMEs on that topic. In 2009, a benchmarking survey has been led toward European organizations in order to collect their tools and instruments for SMEs on public procurement. 38 organizations answered this survey and 84 instruments were collected. Out of this result, the 17 practices were selected and divided into 4 categories of services: Information, Training, Coaching, International support. Each of these instruments is explained in a practical manner to enable their implementation by any organizations willing to start new services on public procurement for SMEs. Any potential organization interested in obtaining more detail can contact the awarded organization. The aim of this guide: to provide a source of inspiration for those Business Support Organization (BSO) planning to take further steps into providing the SMEs with services on IPP business opportunities. Furthermore, this guide offers clear information on the services that could match the needs of SME and the way to set them up and finance them.

Employment: incentives have helped

[14.05.2010]

Despite the recent rise in unemployment in the Region, there are ways of improving the situation. One potential method of creating new jobs is to amend the law on investment incentives, which is currently not fit for purpose. (FOTO: HMMC. The paint shop at the Hyundai car plant in Nošovice)

Airport to be modernized with EU funding

[18.02.2010]

An integral part of the ongoing development of Ostrava's airport is its technical equipment In the period 2007 - 2013 the airport plans to access EU funding for the acquisition of new technologies in order to meet the latest requirements for air traffic safety and the quality of services while handling increasing numbers of passengers, aircraft and cargo. The first project - currently at the implementation stage - is named 'Machinery and Equipment I', and is co-financed by the Regional Operational Programme NUTS II Moravia-Silesia.

D1 motorway becomes a reality [18.02.2010]
At the end of November the Moravian-Silesian Region received a long-awaited gift. Two more sections of the D47 motorway were opened, finally providing a motorway link from Ostrava to Prague. Ostrava and its Region are no longer cut off from the rest of the country: the former D47 motorway is now linked up to the D1 Brno motorway, and has been renumbered D1 for its entire length. The Bílovec - Hladké Životice section is now fully open, and the Hladké Životice - Bělotín section is currently open with one lane in each direction.

Innovation of the Year 2009 Award [10.03.2009]
The Association of Innovative Entrepreneurship of the Czech Republic has regularly held the competition Innovation of the Year Award since 1996. This year is its 14th edition. The best innovative products of contestants from the Czech Republic are evaluated in the framework of the competition. The company can only register a new or much improved product, e.g. a product, technological process or service and to prove that it has been successfully utilized at the time of registration to the competition i.e. the product has to be for sale on the market, the technological process must be implemented into practice or the service has to be provided.

Tulip in Ostrava [02.03.2009]
Tulipan Park Ostrava is a new project which will offer flexible warehouse, light industrial and office space, eventually comprising over 20,000 sqm on a 4 hectare site. The Park offers advantageous possibilities for logistics, because of its city centre location and easy access to the key transport link for the Moravian-Silesian Region, the D47 motorway.

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