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» Ninth National Innovation Forum, 5 December 2013, Sofia , Applied Research and Communications Fund and Еnterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria, with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria, Ministry of Economy and Energy and Bulgarian Medical Association, are organizing the Ninth National Innovation Forum "Innovation and Sector Competitiveness". The Forum will be held on 5th of December 2013, starting from 10.30 at the Sheraton Balkan Hotel.

The Forum agenda features ARC Fund's main findings of the annual Innovation.bg report, which is centered this year on the national innovation policy for the next programming period 2014-2020 and the main priorities underpinning the government’s strategic policies and documents.

» Ninth National Contest ‘Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2013’, Applied Research and Communications Fund and Enterprise Europe Network - Bulgaria launch the Ninth National Contest ‘Innovative Enterprise of the Year 2013’. The contest is supported by the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria.

The competition is open to all active Bulgarian companies successfully developing and implementing innovation in the last three years (since January 2011).

» State-of-the art report on public sector innovation, As a key deliverable to the CCIC project, ARC Fund produced a state-of-the art report on public sector innovation, whose key ambition is to present an overview of how public sector innovation is made possible on the local and regional level within the contexts of the involved project partners.

» Ninth National Innovation Forum, 5 December 2013, Sofia, On December 5th, 2013, Applied Research and Communications Fund, Еnterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Medical Association organised the Ninth National Innovation Forum "Innovation and Sectoral Competitiveness". During the Forum, the President of Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Rosen Plevneliev awarded the finalists in the National Contest for Innovative Enterprise of the Year.

» The Bulgarian SIC online game Zone of Risk nominated for the World Summit Award, The 3D online quest game for teenagers Zone Of Risk developed by the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre and its partners from Kabinata.com has been nominated for the World Summit Award.

» Eighth National Innovation Forum, On December 18th, 2012, the Applied Research and Communications Fund, Еnterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria and the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria organised the Eighth National Innovation Forum "Innovation and Competitiveness".

» Eighth National Innovation Forum, 18 December 2012, Sofia, The Applied Research and Communications Fund, Еnterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria and the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism with the support of the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria are organizing the Eighth National Innovation Forum "Innovation and Competitiveness".

At the Forum the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, Mr. Rossen Plevneliev will present the Innovative Bulgarian Enterprise of the Year Awards.

» Innovations and competitiveness, In 2010 the European Commission adopted its "Europe 2020" strategy as an important tool for finding solutions for competitiveness and innovation capabilities of the European economy, climate change, limited energy resources, aging and health. Bulgaria made ambitious commitments by adopting the National Reform Programme (2010-2013), including measures in the field of innovation for reaching the R&D investment target of 1.5% of GDP in 2020, coupled with a better business environment.

» Seventh National Innovation Forum entitled Innovation and Competitiveness, The Applied Research and Communications Fund, the Representation of the European Commission in Bulgaria and the Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism organized the Seventh National Innovation Forum entitled Innovation and Competitiveness.The Forum was held on May 17, 2011 under the auspices of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria Mr. Boyko Borisov, with the support of Enterprise Europe Network – the largest European network for providing information and consultancy services to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

» Policy Forum “e-Bulgaria: Toward ICT Development via Research-Based Policies", On 30 July 2010, the Applied Research and Communications Fund supported by the German Marshall Fund/Bulgaria Fund organized a policy forum entitled e-Bulgaria: Toward ICT Development via Research-Based Policies. The forum was dedicated to using adequate and reliable indicators for the penetration and usage of information and communication technologies (ICT) when developing policies and assessing their impact.


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