Home » News » New TCI Contact Point in the Caspian Region

News - Europe

Written by Webmaster



New TCI Contact Point in the Caspian Region

This initiative in collaboration between TCI and Astrakhan State University aims at promoting the cluster approach to increase the standard of well-being in the Caspian region, including Russia, Kazakstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan. It will officially be launched on the occasion of the Conference on “Competitiveness of Companies and Territories. New Vision. International Dialogue” to be held in Astrakhan, on 25-27 October 2011.

Ccp_team

Contact

Access TCI Caspian Contact Point website in Russian at
http://tcipoint.aspu.ru

Тел./Факс:
8 (8512) 61 08 09
8 (8512) 61 09 34
8 (8512) 61 08 88

e-mail:
tci.network.org@aspu.ru

Адрес:
414056, Россия, г. Астрахань,
ул. Татищева, 20А, офис 116

 

Objectives

TCI Caspian Contact Point focuses on a regional level, pursuing the promotion of the cluster approach to increase the standard of well-being in Russia, Kazakstan, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan.

Under the direction of Nataliya Korchagina, member of the TCI Board of Directors and head of the Centre for Competitiveness and Cluster Initiatives of Astrakhan State University, this regional initiative develops new services with its members and serves as information point in the Caspian región.

Concretely, this initiative aims at:

- linking the community of competitiveness and clusters practitioners in the Caspian region
- speaking for the Caspian region in TCI
- promoting and diffusing TCI initiatives and bringing TCI voice in the Caspian region
- confirming the membership of existing TCI members, and
- generating new TCI members

 

Official launch

TCI Caspian Contact Point will officially be launched on the occasion of the Conference on "Competitiveness of Companies and Territories. New Vision. International Dialogue" organized by Astrakhan State University and to be held in Astrakhan, October 25-27, 2011. TCI President, Alberto Pezzi, and General Manager, Patricia Valdenebro, will both be representing TCI in the event.

Discussions on the most urgent questions like "How to start a cluster project? How to make it the most effective and eliminate mistakes? How to make the potential partners interested in cluster interaction?" will be addressed.

For more information on the conference, please, visit http://tcipoint.aspu.ru.

To register for the conference, please click here, the registration is available till October 15, 2011.

 

About TCI Regional Initiatives

TCI encourages the development of regional/local initiatives that serve the needs and interests of cluster practitioners and regional agencies throughout the world. This is consistent with TCI's mission to promote the cluster concept, improve methodologies and raise professional standards in this field, and improve living standards and the local competitiveness of regions throughout the world.

This Caspian Contact Point adds up to ongoing initiatives like the German Contact Point and the RedLAC-Latin American Cluster Network. You can read more about the TCI regional initiatives on the Open Projects Forum.

 

 


26 August 2011