TINIS project

TINIS Project - introduction

The main objective of the TINIS project is to improve the regional development through the enhancement of the innovation in the ICT sector and by the way to improve local politics in terms of creation of innovation.
Different sub-objectives will help reaching that goal:

to improve the existing methods and to make them more mature
to bring new methods and new tools to each TINIS partner
to enhance the ICT networking within the regions involved in the TINIS project
to establish durable links between all TINIS partners and the regions involved
to develop professional ICT networks in each region

The planned results are a clear overview of existing methods and ICT networks to enhance innovation in the involved regions, collaboration and partnership between European ICT structures and improvement of existing ICT networks in the regions.

The long term impacts are:

the creation of links and partnership between some European structures active in the promotion of the innovation in the ICT sector
improvement of regional policies concerned about innovation in ICT sector
more innovation in the concerned regions
contacts between ICT networks of the different regions
adaptation of developed methods to other sectors

The expected outputs of the project are two books (and 7 seven catalogues) to be published at the end of the project (one on "global and individual methods for promoting innovation: implementation and best practices guide + case studies", the other one will focus on the implementation of a ICT network), more (and improved) methods available for each partner and implemented in each region, creation of 2 formal networks.

The long terms effects of the TINIS project are:

new methods will be used by all partners to promote innovation in the ICT sector and all partners want to use them intensively; creation of formal networks in two regions
the different partners will acquire an excellent knowledge of every partner, and indirectly of every region under the ICT point of view. We want to write more projects for more cooperation (links and partnerships)
local authorities will know about methods used in other regions and may decide to promote them
thanks to the dissemination of the book on "individual and global methods", some of these methods can be applied in other sectors than the ICT one (more innovation in the concerned regions)

Thanks to its ambitious goals and its quality, the TINIS Project was selected second by the European Union, among more than 50 other projects.

TINIS Partners

Infopole

INFOPOLE I.S. (Belgium) is the coordinator of a formal ICT network, where it provides added value services to promote the innovation through the partnership. The network includes all kinds of ICT professionals: Universities, Research Centres, big enterprises and SME's. INFOPOLE I.S. is the official leader of the TINIS Project.

contributions: experience in the creation of a formal ICT network; animation methods used within this network: animation of workgroups, project building, arrangement and follow-up, seminars and events organization, newsletter and business opportunities creation
benefits: formalization and improvement of all used methods of networks; durable links with other ICT network in Europe

More info: www.infopole.be

Created in Luxembourg in 1987, the Public Research Centre Henri Tudor's main aim is to promote innovation in both the private and public sectors by offering a large panel of services and activities: R&D projects, technology transfer, technological assistance and consulting, high level training and qualification, doctoral research, animation of innovation networks, high-tech business incubation.

The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor can rely for these activities on a large industrial and institutional partnership.

Its main departments are:

Laboratory for Industrial Technologies and Materials (LTI)
Centre for IT Innovation (CITI)
Resource Centre for Environmental Technologies (CRTE)
Resource Centre for Health Care Technologies (CR SANTEC)
Resource Centre for Information Technologies in Construction (CRTI-B)
SITec® "Lifelong Learning for Technological Innovation"
Technology Watch Centre (CVT)
High-tech business incubator TECHNOPORT

The Public Research Centre Henri Tudor co-ordinates twelve innovation platforms: "Management and organization", "Quality and certification of IT services", "Innovation systems security", "Interoperability standards and e-business", "e-learning, knowledge management and networked organizations", "Statistical and prospective studies in the knowledge economy", "Cleaner production", "Sustainable construction", "Health care technologies", "Information technologies in construction", "Renewable energies" and "Free and Open Source software". Every innovation platform gathers around a national strategic goal a range of partners and of multidisciplinary research and transfer activities.

More info: www.tudor.lu

The CeRDT (Belgium) is a centre active in the promotion and valorization of technological innovation and R&D in Hainault (in Wallonia).

contributions: methods to promote the collaborative innovation; tools to measure the innovative potential of an idea and to analyze the risk; experience into the animation of an Innovation Club; strategy of intellectual property rights; tools to measure the innovative aspect of an idea
benefits: to improve their own methods; to receive best practices in the innovation promotion from other partners; to acquire new methods and new ways to support innovation

More info: http://www.cerdt.be/sqsn/index.php

Computer Technology Institute (CTI) - Telematics Center dept

Patras, Region of Western Greece, GREECE

Computer Technology Institute (CTI) is a non-profit institute for research and development in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), acting under the supervision of the Greek Ministry of Education. It has been established on 1985 at Patras (Greece)

CTI's Scope:

Conduct basic research concerning Informatics (Hardware, Software, Networking) and Information Society
Design and develop IT solutions and services
Support education and life long learning in relation with Information Society technologies
Support Technological development in Greece
Provision of consulting and managerial services concerning Information Society

More info: www.cti.gr

The Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) is the largest multidisciplinary institute in the region. Its goal is the accumulation and the dissemination of knowledge at the frontiers of natural science and technology.

contributions: excellent cooperation with the Slovenian ICT technology networks, the chamber of commerce, universities and regional development agencies; methods of technology audit and technology watch reports; know-how in cooperation with industry and knowledge transfer
benefits: to enhance the ICT network with international experiences and methods; connections with international partners

More info: http://www.ijs.si/

Ostrava Science and Technology Park (Czech Republic)

More info: http://www.vtpo.cz/

Project outputs
Below, you can find outputs of the TINIS project produced by the partners. More information about the project is available at the TINIS project website.

VTPO Presentation

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TINIS project

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