DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE Vukovar-Srijem County Ivan Ambroš, PhD Development Agency Vukovar-Srijem County HRAST Ltd. Vinkovci, CROATIA iambros@ar-hrast.hr

Development Agency HRAST Vision: to be a dynamic and respectable institution which fosters development of Vukovar-Srijem County and provides users and regional environment variety of useful services, contents and programs Mission: implementation of county’s development strategy, improvement and coordination of existing development activities and planning of development according to the Strategy of Development of the Republic of Croatia and EU demands

Development Agency HRAST 20 employees in 4 departments (established under the EU funds): Department of Regional Development and Strategic Planning Department of Rural Development and Agriculture Department of Entrepreneurship and Investments Attracting Department of Human Resource Development

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE Letter of Expression of Interest (LOI - Letter of Interest) signed by Eko-sustav in Romania, Bucharest, before the start of the Danube-INCO.NET project in October 2013

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 22 and 23 of May 2014 Training for DTC partners in Stuttgart related to DTC founding, visits to Steinbeis Transfer Center – “Optical Chemo- and Biosensors” in Tübingen and Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) Reutlingen 4 and 5 of March 2015 in the premises of the Technology Park Vinkovci Ltd. - first meeting (set-up meeting) on establishment of the first center for technology transfer in Vukovar-Srijem County

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE Development Agency HRAST in May 2015 in Karlsruhe participated in conception workshop for “Made in Danube” project proposal

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE Conference „Connect Ideas to business 2016“ 2 of May 2016 Karlsruhe - wood processing company Spačva presented their innovative idea

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 3 and 4 of May 2016 Karlsruhe - Training for DTC Business Plan, DTC Structure and future funding opportunities Visits to Wood cluster proHolz in Ostfildern and Center of competences for wood in Biberach

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 9 of June 2016 Bucharest: Workshop of EUSDR Priority Areas on innovation and technology transfer

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 29 July 2016 Cluj-Napoca – Twinning and meetings with North-West Regional Development Agency and Furniture Cluster of Transilvania

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 21 September 2016 Vinkovci - workshop for HORIZON2020 call organized in Development Agency HRAST

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE 4 November 2016 Bratislava 5th Annual Forum of the EUSDR Development Agency HRAST and Vukovar-Srijem County signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE attended by 40 invited guests, ranging from DTC network members, project partners and representatives from local and international ministries and universities

DTC projects Evaluation ROSEWOOD - European Network of Regions On SustainablE WOOD mobilisation (HORIZON2020) Implementation Danube-INCO.NET - Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region (FP7) – partner Eko-sustav Made in Danube - Transnational Cooperation to transform knowledge into marketable products and services for the Danubian sustainable society of tomorrow (Interreg Danube)

Croatian wood sector 48% of Croatian territory (2,5 mil ha) forests and forest land 53.000 employees in forest based industries 10,4% of Croatian export – export of wood industry Wood industry and forestry generate 3% of Croatian GDP Wood industry in Croatia has growth potential, but for competitiveness on world's level, new technologies and new products with high added value are needed.

Vukovar-Srijem County Eastern most Croatian county, covering an area of 2448 km2, accounting for 2,8% of Croatian territory  Forest areas cover 69.383 ha, which makes 28,7% of the county area Total wood stock is approx. 19 mil m3 with average wood stock 344.000 m3 of gross wood mass, managed by „Hrvatske šume“, Administration Vinkovci Mostly oak, but also ash, elm, hornbeam

Spačva basin Largest oak forest in Europe Natura 2000 51.000 hectares (40.000 in Croatia/Vukovar-Srijem County) 96% of famous Slavonian oak lat. quercus robur, cro. hrast lužnjak – slavonski hrast Slavonian oak from Spačva basin high quality and high priced raw wood material Best of the best

Wood Cluster SLAVONIAN OAK www.slavonski-hrast.com founded in 2010 by Vukovar-Srijem County 35 members Triple helix: university industry government

DANUBE TRANSFER CENTRE supported by Vukovar-Srijem County (government) using existing RDI capacities (university) to meet the needs of companies (private sector)

Made in Danube Transnational Cooperation to transform knowledge into marketable products and services for the Danubian sustainable society of tomorrow Applied on Interreg Danube 1st call 1st step November 2015 2nd step May 2016 Approved in December 2016 Start date 01-01-2017 End date 30-06-2019

Made in Danube Expectations Promoting bioeconomy, circular economy and local use of locally available resources for environment protection and smart, sustainable and inclusive growth Bridging the gap between research and industry Pilot implementation of the Local Action Plan for Competence Centre in wood sector 5 Innovation Partnership Agreements 10 Cooperation Agreements 1 Local Action Plan - Deliverable D.5.1.2. in WP5 - focused on sustainable forestry thru new technologies and new products development

Thank You for Your attention! Ivan Ambroš, PhD Development Agency Vukovar-Srijem County HRAST Ltd. Vinkovci, CROATIA iambros@ar-hrast.hr