1. Founded in 2001, the company develops and implements projects along the entire value- added chain of the wood industry – and focuses most of its work on timber construction. Holzcluster Steiermark

2. Wood as a key Styrian strength The Province of Styria has over 1 Mio. hectares of woodland, making it Austria’s most extensive wooded region. With its 5,300 enterprises, the forestry sector and wood industry form one of Styria’s most significant industries and provide jobs for 56,000 people.

3. Holzcluster Steiermark Holzcluster Steiermark sees its role – in facilitating networking between business, science and politics, – as driver of innovation activities within the forestry sector and the wood industry, – in promoting internationalisation efforts primarily in South-Eastern Europe and – in providing services for companies in the forestry sector and wood industry

4. Holzcluster Steiermark Letter of Intent with cluster organisations in South East Europe – Work together do develop the forestry and timber industry – Know how exchange within the countries and organisations – Developing of common projects in the future

5. Holzcluster Steiermark ID:WOOD combines two main focuses of our activities: – Innovation activities and – internationalisation efforts

6. Project Facts Titel: Clustering Knowledge, Innovation and Design in the SEE WOOD Sector Programm South East Europe Number of Project Partner: 15 Number of involved Countries: 9 Duration: 2 years (till end of Sept. 2014) Lead Partner: Slovenian Forst Institute

7. Project Partners: Institution NameLand Slovenian Forestry InstituteSlowenien InformestItalia Wood Industry ClusterSlowenien Technology Center of PordenoneItalia Wood Cluster StyriaÖsterreich Regional Development Agency CentruRumänien EcoregionsBulgarien Zala County Foundation for Enterprise Promotion Ungarn PINsKroatien Development Association NERDABosnien und Herzegowina University of Belgrade (Fac. of Forestry) Serbien Friuli Venezia GiuliaItalia Ministry of AgricultureSlowenien Ministry of the EconomySlowenien Tuzla CantonBosnien und Herzegowina

8. Short Description: Sharing and transferring technical and organizational know-how Target group of ID:WOOD project are the support organizations dealing with the wood sector - technology centres, RDAs, universities, research and design centres, the productive sector, SMEs, policy makers, chambers of industry and commerce and sector associations. Stakeholders are given the opportunity to strengthen their organizational and technical capacities, to develop new functions, to participate to working groups and to be actively involved in the networking activities.

9. Project Organisation: Wp 3: Need analysis and development strategies for the wood sector Wp 4: Innovation capacity building and support actions in the wood sector Wp 5: Transnational knowledge clustering

10. Activitis WP4 Act 4.1: Development of cluster managment capacities 3 courses x 2 days (AT, SI, IT) Act 4.2: Fostering innovation skills in the wood sector supproting structures 2 workshops x 5 days (RO, SR) Act 4.3 Bridging the gaps between productive sector and knowledge poles every region x 2 dissemination events local knowledge pole Act 4.4: Increasing SMEs awarness about new support organisation punctions every region x 2 open days for SMEs

11. 1 th Cluster Management Course in Austria First day: 10 th of July 2013 Best Practice Example Financing of cluster Qualification and event management Innovation Management for Clusters Styria Innovation in wood Cluster as engine of economy Second day: 11th of July 2013 Communication and branding International skill development Internationalisation Engineering center wood Company: Johann Pabst Wood

12. 2 th Cluster Management Course in Italy  Date: 16th -17th October 2013  Location: Pordenone, Italy, at Sicam Fair Fair SICAM  Date: 15 th – 18 th  16 th October : Speed date meetings between ID:SMEs and stakeholders  17 th October: Meeting between SMEs and Exhibitors

13. 3 rd Cluster Management Course in Slovenia  Second Day, 7 th of November Design and wood - Innovative services and innovative wooden products for furniture  Introduction: Creative industries in Slovenia (Ministry, Faculty of Design).  Design of Products and Ambient in wood (ISIA Roma, Faculty of Design, Zavod BIG).  Workshop: Design as a way for raising competitiveness of Cluster members.  Visiting the Month of Design exhibition.

14. Act 4.2 : Fostering innovation skills in the wood sector supporting structures Innovation course : Green Building with Wood  Duration: 1 st till 3 rd of October 2013  Location: Serbia, Belgrade, Forestry Faculty Technical course wood and furniture : Basic to safe, functional and fine furniture  Duration: 22 nd till 24 th of October 2013  Location: Romania, Sibiu

15. Bridging the gaps between productive sector and knowledge poles Each project partner will:  Undersign Memorandum of Understanding with local knowledge pole  Organise two dissemination events together with the local knowledge pole  Present the competitiveness development project

16. Memorandum of Understanding Purpose: –To foster innovation and competitiveness of SMEs in the wood sector –To share and transfer technical and organisational know how to SMEs –Rising SMEs capacity to implement innovation processes –Strengthening the network transnational and national cooperation capacity Objectives of MoU a)Specific technical dissemination activities at local level b)Competiveness development project for local SMEs c)The delivery of joint support activities

17. Transnational cooperation  Transnational expert groups  Transnational problem-solving services for the companies  Transnational conferences