1. Balkan and Black Sea ICT Clusters Network 3rd meeting Skopje, FRY of Macedonia 27.11.2015

2. Members Macedonia MASIT Montenegro Montenegro IT Cluster Romania IT Cluster Cluj IT Cluster Serbia Vojvodina ICT Cluster ICT NET Ni Cat ICT cluster of central Serbia Kragujevac Turkey ODTÜ TEKNOKENT Albania Albanian ICT Association Bosnia and Herzegovina BIT-Alliance ICT Association of Chamber of Commerce for BIH Bulgaria Bulgarian ICT Cluster Bulgarian Cluster Telecommunications ICT Cluster Plovdiv Greece HAMAC Corallia Kosovo STIKK – Kosovo ICT Association

3. 2015 Activities 2B ICT project under the COSME Call for cluster excellence submitted; Project Danube ICT submitted and approved under the START call of the Danube strategy ; Facebook profile and LinkedIN group maintenance ; Distribution of useful information to partners ;

4. DANUBE ICT Danube ICT Clusters’ Sustainable Cooperation for Smart and Inclusive Growth

5. Main Objective Create sustainable long term strategic transnational cooperation among ICT Clusters resulting in elaboration of common strategy for transnational cross-cluster and cross – industry collaboration and to identify for the benefit of SMEs. Specific objectives To share experience and good practices for cross- cluster and cross- industry collaboration and to identify the strategic areas and industries for common cooperation and project preparation; Increase the competitiveness of traditional sectors, in the Danube region by promotion of innovative ICT solutions in traditional old industries.

6. Partners : ICT Cluster CLUJ IT Montenegrin IT Cluster Vojvodina ICT Cluster

7. Main activities: WP1. Project coordination – leaded by ICT Cluster 1.1. internal communication among partners 1.2 external communication to the implementing body 1.3 delivering the midterm and final report WP2. Organization of the strategic ICT Clusters meeting – leaded by Vojvodina ICT Cluster 2.1 communication with external partner 2.2 preparation of strategic ICT Clusters meeting 2.3 Strategic ICT Clusters meeting 2.4 dissemination and minutes elaboration WP3. Elaboration of strategic action plan for cross-industry collaboration - leaded by CLUJ IT 3.1 collection of information from all partners 3.2 elaboration of a draft of the strategic action plan for cross – industry collaboration 3.3. distribution of the draft strategic action plan to all partners and collection of recommendations and proposals 3.4 Elaboration of final strategic action plan

8. Project timeframe : Project duration : 6 month WP/MM1M2M3M4M5M6 WP1xxxxxx WP2xxx WP3xxx

9. Budget : Total project budget : 22 000 euro START Amount requested: 19 800 euro Project partners contribution: 1507, 00 euro Third parties contribution: 693 euro P ersonal costs: 8920 euro Travel and accommodation : 10 300 euro Meetings and Event costs: 1 950 euro External services: 200 euro NB! All partners have budget for traveling and accommodation for the strategic ICT Clusters meeting.

10. Networking news : Copenhagen cluster event – Marina Blagoevic/Stelian Brad ICT event, Lisbon – Anita Nikova Sweden Trip – Marina Blagoevic

11. Presentation of CODIA Cluster

12. Presentation of ESI Centre

14. Election new chairman organization

15. Network priorities for the 2016 – presentation and discussion