<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="95%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><p><span class="htmla_paragrafo"></span></p><p><span class="htmla_paragrafo">ONGOING PROJECTS</span></p></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#003366" height="1"></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_access.gif" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/progetti/access/" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">ACCESS - Actively Coaching and promoting Cooperation in the light of Enlargement for Small and Sole proprietor businesses</font></a></p><p>Its aim is to strengthen the competitiveness of small, micro and sole proprietorship businesses operating in the following sectors and regions: construction and environmental technologies in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Brandenburg in Germany and construction and wood in Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy, respectively border regions of the new EU Member States Poland and Slovenia.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_slavonia.gif" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.slavonia.info/" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">Slavonia project</font></a></p><p>The project offers a contribution to the development of Croatian entrepreneurial resources presented in the territory of Eastern Slavonia -Osijek Baranja County and in Vukovar-Srijem County</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="95%" border="0"><tbody><tr><td><span class="htmla_paragrafo">CONCLUDED PROJECTS</span></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#003366" height="1"></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_lookeast.gif" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/look-east/index.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">LOOK-EAST NET project</font></a></p><p>The aim of the initiative LOOK-EAST NET is to promote the economic development of three EU border regions - Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Italy, Eastern Macedonia in Greece and Carinthia in Austria - in order to improve the competitiveness of EU border region SMEs and to develop their trade and industrial relations with the SMEs of the new Member States from Central-Eastern Europe and to foster cooperation relationships among SME development institutions. </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_iseo.gif" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/iseo/index.asp" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">I.S.E.O. project</font> </a></p><p>The I.S.E.O. (Italian Serbian Economic Opportunities) project, aims at supporting the transformation and economic development of RFI - Republic of Serbia, fostering cooperation between Italian and local companies. </p></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img height="80" src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_vicli.gif" width="150" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/vicli/index.htm" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">VICLI project</font></a></p><p>Presentation of good practices and cooperation opportunities among companies and identification of proposals aimed at enhancing the social environment and the territorial organisation of industrial districts, included those emerging in candidate Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, INTERREG II C CADSES program.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img height="80" src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_sme.gif" width="150" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/sme/" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">SME Strategy</font></a></p><p>The PHARE CBC "SME Strategy" project has enabled SMEs, Small Business Supporting Institutions, and policymakers of the Slovenia-Italy cross-border region to increase their business skills and operational capacity.</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><img height="80" src="http://www.informest.it/progetti/images/logo_opportunitaslovenia.gif" width="150" align="left" border="1" /><a href="http://www.informest.it/opportunita_slovenia/" target="_blank"><font color="#ff6600">Opportunity Slovenia (Slovenija Kot Priloznost) </font></a></p><p>A project to promote the cooperation between Italian and Slovenian enterprises (operating program INTERREG II Ita/Slo). Its aim is to extend the consciousness of small enterprises on the present opportunity of market-places in the cross-frontier area.</p></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table>