... AmCham members to adopt the code of business practices. The American Chamber of Commerce in Albania has invested its time and expertise to help train business circles on how to use the new electronic procurement system. AmCham’s work involves working together with the Local Governance Program in Albania (LGPA) to train businesses in municipalities where the program has cooperation agreements for the use of electronic ...
... AITA Association was founded in January 2007 in Tirana and represents the interests of most of IT companies in Albania. This association has about 40 members who exercise their activities in the field of Information Technology in Hardware/Software, Information Consulting Services, Business Application Solutions, IT Training and Education etc. Its objectives are: • to serve as a stimulus so that the business of IT companies in Albania to be regulated ...
... Established in 2005, the Albanian Confederation of Industry is a voluntary and independent non-profit organization gathering businesses with different profiles that are currently operating in Albania. It provides the following services to its members: • The unification of all entrepreneurs operating in the production field of goods and services that generate profit under an independent organization from the other economic and public actors, having as a prime scope the assumption of the full responsibilities that belong to ...
... The General Directorate of Standardization (DPS) is a public authority under the Minister of Economy Trade and Energy. It is the National Standards Body in Albania, established about 60 years ago. DPS represents the Republic of Albania in all European and international organizations for standardization and interests of all the country's economy in the drafting and adoption of European and international standards as Albanian standards. Drafting and adoption of standards consists of the needs that manufacturing and service enterprises have, regardless of their shape and size, businesses ...
... The Albanian Centre for Competitiveness and International Trade (ACIT) - a joint programme of the USAID and the Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS) was established in 2002. The ACIT's mission is the improvement of the quality of trade policies in Albania, as an important instrument for the economic growth and development, as well as the increase in the benefits of the society and citizens from the opportunities created by the trade liberalization and integration. To accomplish this mission, the ACIT has developed its programme based on five main pillars - it operates ...
... May 2010. DPPM focuses its activities on: • The administration of all procedures of granting and protecting industrial property rights; • The provision of reliable examination and registration related to patents, trademarks, industrial design, and geographical indications; • The preparation of laws and regulations related to the industrial property system; • The Representation of Albania and fulfilling obligations in conjunction with bilateral agreement with homologue office and other organism and international organizations for issues of industrial property. Contact persons: Safet Sula, General Director E-mail: safet.sula@alpto.gov.al; ssula@alpto.gov.al Sonila Elezi, Head of Law and Foreign Relation E mail: sonila.elezi ...
... Council of Ministers. DPM is organized and operates based on the DCM no. 1576 date 17.10.2008 “On the organization and functioning of DPM” and the Prime Minister Order no 112 date 06.08.2008, “On the approval of the structure of DPM”. DPM implements the metrology policy in Albania in all the three categories: • “Scientific metrology" dealing with the organization and development of national measurement standards and with their maintenance. • "Industrial metrology" dealing with the comparison of measurement results. • "Legal metrology" regulated by law and other legal provisions which aims to ensure accuracy and reliability of measurement results in ...
The mission of AITA is to facilitate the exchange of information and experience, development of knowledge in the ICT area in agriculture, food and environment in order to strengthen the competitiveness of these sectors in Albania and elsewhere and to promote awareness of ICT in agriculture, food and environment.
Contact person:
Prof.Dr. Petraq Papajorgji, President
E-mail: aita@yahoo.com
Further contact details are provided below.
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Professional qualifications and expert profile The external expert should have experience with the assessment of dissemination and communication activities in European funded projects. In addition, knowledge about funded projects from the Structural Funds and/or IPA would be an asset. For the assessment a distinction of the expected use of project results by different target groups in different target countries would be useful, therefore knowledge of the external expert about the specific ...
... Albanian Centre for Business Research and Training (CCIT) that employs 43 people is one of few organizations in Albania having a special department, Centre for Business Research and Training, which is orientated to develop projects and arrange trainings. It employs a qualified staff (engineers, business managers, IT specialists, PhD and MSc degree employees) and has strong cooperation relationships with national and international know-how centres. CCIT has technical competences in ...
... specific RTD client groups. Communication with clients and consulting skills will be developed in the course of these activities, thus through the ERA WESTBALKAN+ project the knowledge, capabilities and skills of WBC NCPs as competent service- and information providers will be strengthened. Data on the RTD landscape of Croatia and Albania will be integrated into the existing online database RTD in Westbalkan, which currently contains information on RTD key players from the other WBC. Further data collection is planned to provide a complete picture of the research landscapes of all WBC. Both, the client base, which entries will be doubled, together ...
... Foreign Direct Investment (flows, choice of location, coordination of policies) · Sector Competitiveness · Trade and Macroeconomics The research should cover the South East Europe region or one or preferably more CEFTA 2006 Parties (Republic of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Croatia, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Republic of Serbia and UNMIK/Kosovo). Work on other countries with strong implications for CEFTA 2006 would also be considered. Subject to certain eligibility criteria, the OECD Investment Compact will cover the travel and accommodation expenses of ...
... Monitoring Committee (MoCo) for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation in research and innovation has played and continues to play a key role in bringing together EU Member States and all Mediterranean countries. The EU has concluded bilateral Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Moreover, Albania, Croatia, Israel and Turkey are all associated to the Seventh Framework Programme. The European Commission has supported scientific collaboration, policy dialogue, networking and twinning activities in the Mediterranean countries through their participation in the Research Framework Programmes. Capacity-building in research and innovation has also been funded by external policy instruments ...
As a result of the long-standing scientific collaboration between the European Union and the Mediterranean Partner Countries, 168 FP7 projects are presently in place with an EU contribution close to EUR 430 million. There are 373 MPC participants in these projects. This publication has been prepared on the occasion of the "Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Research and Innovation: An agenda for a renewed partnership" organised by the Directorate General for Research and Innovation, in ...
The Social Sciences and Humanities are influential for all Member States and for the European Commission. METRIS is an initiative of the Directorate-General for Research (DG RTD), which aims to become an entry and reference point for the social sciences and humanities landscapes in Europe. Commissioned by the ERA Directorate of DG RTD and performed via the Metris-Network, it pursues the collection, regular updating, and analysis of information on social sciences and humanities at national and ...
The Social Sciences and Humanities are influential for all Member States and for the European Commission. METRIS is an initiative of the Directorate-General for Research (DG RTD), which aims to become an entry and reference point for the social sciences and humanities landscapes in Europe. Commissioned by the ERA Directorate of DG RTD and performed via the Metris-Network, it pursues the collection, regular updating, and analysis of information on social sciences and humanities at national and ...
The Social Sciences and Humanities are influential for all Member States and for the European Commission. METRIS is an initiative of the Directorate-General for Research (DG RTD), which aims to become an entry and reference point for the social sciences and humanities landscapes in Europe. Commissioned by the ERA Directorate of DG RTD and performed via the Metris-Network, it pursues the collection, regular updating, and analysis of information on social sciences and humanities at national and ...
This Strategic Research Agenda has been formulated through intensive cooperation and consensus building in South East Europe. It identifies synergies and potentials for the South East European region reflecting the strong confidence of stakeholders in the future of the region. Being Europe is reflected in working on common European research goals; the regional strength is presented by selecting topics where expertise is already available and that are required to upgrade the infrastructure to ...
The Transnational Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is a major output of the I3E project, which is dedicated to the improvement of innovation transfer between researchers and industry, relevant to the industrial informatics and embedded systems sector in the South East Europe (SEE) area. It helps developers and researchers to focus their research plans on relevant topics as well as to avoid barriers in transforming their ideas and research results into innovations. The SRA is formed based on the ...
This Strategic Research Agenda has been formulated through intensive cooperation and consensus building in South East Europe. It identifies synergies and potentials for the South East European region reflecting the strong confidence of stakeholders in the future of the region. Being Europe is reflected in working on common European research goals; the regional strength is presented by selecting topics where expertise is already available and that are required to upgrade the infrastructure to ...