e-Skills, e-Competences for e-Jobs in Europe: closing the gap by 2020
With the aim to contribute to decrease unemployment by reducing the gap between demand and supply of e-skills and e-competences in professionals, ESKILARA is part of European initiatives that promote incresed of highly qualified professionals, able to develop jobs in the ICT and Internet sector, like e-Jobs Observatory.
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New Tool PLC-PROG
ESKILARA, through PLC-PROG, provides a new graphic, goal oriented and independent environment for programming PLCs.
This is a new tool for programming PLCs valid for all brands that comply with IEC 61131-3, a methodology based on graphical programming with clear analogies with electricl physical elements.
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Launch of project website INTELLIGENTIC
www.intelligen-tic.com IntelligenTIC is a project approved under the specific program to support Innovative Clusters within the strategy of strengthening clusters and SMEs’ innovation. It is a program of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism (MINETUR).
Recently the European Commission announced the creation of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on "Smart Cities and Communities" (Smart Cities and Communities), in order to catalyze progress in areas where production, distribution and use of energy, mobility and transportation, and information technology and communication are closely linked and offer new opportunities to provide innovative services while reducing energy usage, optimize resource consumption and intelligently manage infrastructure and services to make communities more sustainable environments, efficient and inclusive.
The European initiative is aimed at demonstrate and commercialized scale solutions that address needs at the intersection of the fields of transport, energy and ICT. These projects (called beacon-lighthouse projects-projects) must be comprised of strategic partnerships, innovative companies composed of the 3 target sectors and act beyond the geographic borders and shall also forge partnerships with local authorities and leaders to gain enough visibility to have the support and participation of citizens and local actors.
Therefore, the Intelligen- TIC project aims to promote the development and implementation of the concept of "Smart City" in Spain, through the establishment of a working group based on inter-AEI Intelligent Communities, looking for parallels between the strategies Spanish and European.
This project is based on the need to identify common ground between different AEIs that, from a thematic point of view independent (energy, transport, mobility, ICT) approach aspects that constitute one of the 6 pillars that underpin the Intelligent Communities strategy, for, following the model of the European EIP, are launched cross-sectoral projects where all actions converge into a single strategy based on sustainability and efficiency, to finally identify niche opportunities that may arise in the implementation of innovative high economic impact initiatives and to develop them in an integrated and collaborative way.
GAIA in the GreenCity Investment Forum
GAIA participated in the experts board at the Greencity Investment Forum held last October 18 in Marne-la-Vallée, Paris.
The event, organized by Europe Unlimited and Incubator Descartes, brought together innovative young companies working in "eco" and "smart cities". The companies, searching investment for its development, presented their innovations and developments in front of a jury of business angels, venture capitalists and industry expertswhere GAIA was included.
Following the event, eight companies were selected by the jury to participate in the subsequent selection event to be held on 9 and 10 December in Dusseldorf and which will participate the 120 finalists of 2013.
For more information http://www.e-unlimited.com/events/view.aspx?events_pages_id=1805
Cluster Plus Project Evaluation
The "Cluster +" model seeks to respond well to this limitation when configuring a global value chain (international approach) which consists of parts of other value chains (multisectoral approach) that working together allow boost differential product / service, and even lead to new market segments (radical innovations).
For the success of a global value chain configuration within Cluster + model is essential to consider it in terms of intercluster collaboration at an international level. A leap towards technological convergence and "hybrid" activities ("cross-hybridization"), it is not possible within the cluster itself (since all agents share the same specialization), but in cooperation with other clusters of different technological domains and activities which in turn, as noted above, necessarily shall be located at different locations.
The configuration of a composed global value chain lies in integrating the links required, regardless of their location.
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The configuration of a composed global value chain lies in integrating the links required, regardless of their location. A complete value chain favors the emergence of radical innovations from cross-hybridization. It is essential to empower intercluster collaboration mechanisms. |
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