1. Danube Transfer Centre SLAVONSKI HRAST Activities and results
Ivan Ambroš, PhD
Development Agency VSC HRAST Ltd.
Vinkovci, CROATIA

2. Danube Transfer Centre SLAVONSKI HRAST
established by Vukovar-Srijem County (government)
using existing RDI capacities (university)
to meet the needs of companies (private sector)

3. Danube Transfer Centre SLAVONSKI HRAST
platform for the research and development in wood sector
encourage constantly developing competencies
conduct scientific research and encourage their commercialization
encourage cooperation between scientific community and entrepreneurs
promote development and applied research
create a foundation for continuous transfer of technology and knowledge,
provide entrepreneurs with advanced business support services in order to improve the level of added value of their products

4. Letter of Expression of Interest (LOI - Letter of Interest) signed in Romania, Bucharest, before the start of the Danube-INCO.NET project in November 2013
22 and 23 of May 2014 Training for DTC partners in Stuttgart related to DTC founding, visits to Steinbeis Transfer Center – “Optical Chemo- and Biosensors” in Tübingen and Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) Reutlingen 

5. 4 and 5 of March 2015 in the premises of the Technology Park Vinkovci Ltd. - first meeting (set-up meeting) on establishment of the first center for technology transfer in Vukovar-Srijem County

6. Development Agency HRAST in May 2015 in Karlsruhe participated in conception workshop for “Made in Danube” project proposal – applied to Interreg DTP

7. Conference „Connect Ideas to business 2016“ 2 of May wood processing company „Spačva“ presented their innovative idea
Visits to Wood cluster proHolz in Ostfildern and to Center of competences for wood in Biberach

8. 3 and 4 of May 2016 in Karlsruhe - Training for DTC Business Plan, DTC Structure and future funding opportunities
Visits to Wood cluster proHolz in Ostfildern and Center of competences for wood in Biberach

9. 9 of June 2016 Bucharest: Workshop of Priority areas on innovation and technology transfer

10. 29 July 2016 Cluj-Napoca – Twinning and meetings with North-West Regional Development Agency and Furniture Cluster of Transilvania

11. March 2016 – adopted S3 Croatia 2016-2020
Competence centres call launched on 19 August 2016
Competence centre SLAVONSKI HRAST
Danube Transfer Centre SLAVONSKI HRAST

12. DTC RESULTS Filling up TIN portal
Innovation Audits, Technology request and Expression of Interest
- Wood processing company Spačva d.d. Vinkovci
- Company Grad Export Vinkovci
Technology offers
- University of Zagreb, Forestry faculty,
- Croatian Forest Research Institute

13. DTC RESULTS Projects in implementation: Projects in evaluation:
Danube-INCO.NET (FP7 – partner Eko-sustav Ltd.)
Projects in evaluation:
Made in Danube (Interreg DTP)
CEFAIR (Interreg ADRION)
SIGMA (Interreg CBC Cro Srb)
Projects in preparation
Competence centre (Ministry of Economy, CRO)
ROSEWOOD (HORIZON)
Interreg DTP 2nd Call

14. Thank You for Your attention!
Ivan Ambroš, PhD
Development Agency VSC HRAST Ltd.
Vinkovci, CROATIA