Mónika Alíz Mészáros, deputy director, ADC project manager Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency

1. Final ConferencePresentation of activities and results of sectoral working group on logistics” Mónika Alíz Mészáros, deputy director, ADC project manager Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency Business Development Directorate Budapest, 13 March, 2012

2. Introducing HITA • In 2011 itwasfounded by the Hungarian Government (265/2010. (XI.19.) governmentaldecree) to implement ForeignTradeStrategy • Ministry of National Economy is supervising HITA, this ministry is responsible for the new ForeignTradeStrategy, butit is an independentlyoperatingbudgetaryinstitution • Number of employeesis 150, it had a financialbudget of 12,5 million EUR for 2011 • Headquarters in Budapest, 15 regional offices in Hungary and linked to 61 offices around the world • Main tasks: • Investment promotion: • Incite foreign companies to invest in Hungary, assistance for the whole process • Link the Hungarian SME with investors, help them to be suppliers • Business development: • Encourage Hungarian SMEs to expand their activities on international level (trade promotion) • Internationalization: capital export, facilitate joint ventures, international technical cooperation

3. Tasks of SWG(Sectoral Working Group – transnational) • Todefinetheexactsector (subsector) at transnational level; • The aim is to check the opportunities of transnational matching, productive networking and sharing of good practices in the clusters organisation andto draft the sector-based partnership agreements/letter of intentforthispurpose; • To be organizedaftertheRegional focus group meetings (RFG) in all countries and share the national experience and view LocalWorking Group (RFG – regional focus group) • Definethesector at regional/national level; • regional clusters, companies, decisionmakers, experts, institutions participate in it; • their aim is to check the opportunities of matching, productive networking and sharing of good practices in the clusters organisation andto give comments the sector-based partnership agreements;

5. 1st SWG Meeting (Budapest/Hungary, 16.11.2010) • Welcome & meeting objectives • WP4 activities and information of the Budapest partner meeting • Presentation of the participating regions, cluster-activities – 9 partner LP Veneto (I), FVG (I), Molise (I), MRA (SI), ITDH (HU), CPEP (SI), IPE (RO), City of Nis (RS), DUNEA (HR) • Joint development of SWG activities • Cluster manager profile • Planning next SWG Meeting / Timetable • Sharing of good practices in cluster organisations (Hungarian Logistics Cluster) • Individual meetings 

6. 2nd and 3rd SWG Meeting (Budapest/Hungary 31.01.2012) • Welcome & briefing on meeting objectives • Sharing best practices in clusters organization(Romanian, Hungarian) • Presentation of activities implemented after the 1st SWG – 5 partner MRA (SI), HITA (HU), CPEP (SI), IPE (RO), DUNEA (HR) – Italian and Serbian partner weremissing (-4 partner) • Discussion on the preparation of PEV • Cluster manager profile no timetoprepareit • Transnational agreementletter of intent • Presentation of new ADC website • Summarization of the results

8. Main outputs of SWGs • Exchange of experience in development and management of clusters, • Identification of clusters / networks / institutions / companies interested in cooperation in transnational ADC network, • Concept of local offices (HITA) • Transnational Logistics ADC letter of intent for agreement The establishment of the ADC Logistics Network - with a letter of intent thatwassigned in Budapest on 23rd of February 2012 - aims to fulfil the expectations and to match the interests for growth of Logistics clusters and company networks, their stakeholders and the companies therein by providing facilities to: • promote tech-transfer for better sharing innovation sources & RTD results • foster the participation in projects financed/co-financed by the EU and by other donors; • create and update a common web platform supporting logistics co-operation (all partners should provide necessary information on a regular basis), which contains information about the recently available exact co-operation opportunities.

9. Partnering event of logistics • 24 participating organizations from 4 countries (Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Slovenia), exactly 31 persons • 12 institutions signed the Letter of Intent for transnational cooperations: • Regional Development Agency of Dubrovnik Neretva County, DUNEA • Hungarian Investment and Trade Agency • Association for the Development of Logistics and the Economy of the South Great Plain Region • Association of Hungarian Forwarding and Logistic Service Providers • Central European Logistics Cluster • Hungarian Logistics Association • Institute for Economic Forecasting • ITC Oltenia Cluster • Electro-Technical Regional Cluster • Romanian Maritime Cluster • Centre for Promotion of Entrepreneurship Piran • Maribor Development Agency

12. http://adc.insiel.it/

13. Thank you for your kind attention! E-mail: monika.meszaros@hita.hu Phone: 00-36-1-872-6547 Web: www.hita.hu