S&T Country Report - Albania - WBC-INCO Net

Mission of the CIRKO covers:
• Giving a pace of the technology transfer in economy in order to increase its
competitiveness in the region and broader; and
• Increasing the level of knowledge and overall intellectual capital in the country
through the systematic continuous education of the staff.
Industry/Sector (technology area): Technology and know-how transfer in areas of
Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Production Engineering, Automotive
Industry, Energy Sector, Welding and new materials, Hydraulics, Automation,
Thermodynamics, Mechatronics, Transport and Logistics.
International activities: USAID sponsored projects (MES CIRKO - Ebiz Project -
Centre for Advanced Mechanical Engineering Systems; Supply Chain Management
Project). UNIDO financially supported the project ‘Centre for Cleaner Production’.
Norway financially contributed to the project ‘Centre for Energy Efficiency’ and
‘Centre for climate changes.’
Name of
initiative:
Centre for Applied Research and Continuing Education in
the Field of Agriculture at the Faculty of Agriculture, Skopje
Contact: Bul "Krste Petkov Misirkov " bb, 1000 Skopje, FYR of Macedonia
Email: Not available
Website: http://www.fznh.ukim.edu.mk/
Industry/Sector (technology area): Not available
International activities: Not available
Name of
initiative:
Euro - Regional Technological Centre at the Faculty of
Technical Studies - Bitola (ETC Bitola)
Contact: "Ivo Lola Ribar" bb (Tehnički fakultet), 7000 Bitola, FYR of
Macedonia
Email: contact@etc.org.mk
Website: http://www.etc.org.mk
The Euro - Regional Technology Center is a foundation established on July 31, 2003
by the Faculty of Technical Sciences - Bitola and the Council of Municipality Bitola,
with support from GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) through their Project for
Technology Transfer.
ETC Bitola has been founded on the basis of analyses conducted by experts from
the Faculty of Technical Sciences - Bitola and Municipality Bitola, and the actual
needs for efficient long-term canalization of expert knowledge from regional higher
education institutions towards SMEs, which would provide the latter the ability to
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