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Awards and prizes

 

EPSA 2011

The Knowledge Based Economy Project has received a new certification of Good Practice at the 2011 „European Public Sector Awards” (EPSA) within the European Institution of Public Administration.

The Best Practice Certificate has been received upon three evaluation steps made by an experienced jury, comprising a shortlist of 58 nominees from a total of 274 projects from 33 participating countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information Society, through the Project Management Unit, competed  in the EPSA 2011 Awards at the „Smart Public Service in a Cold Economic Climate”category. This Best Practice distinction rewards and certify the outstanding results that KEP Project has had until now.

 

The COMPUTERWORLD Honors Program

The Project Management Unit, within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, has been named a Laureate in the 2011 ComputerWorld Honors Program.

The „Knowledge based Economy Project” joins 254 others from 23 countries as Laureates in this year’s program, from more than 1000 applicants world wide.

The Awards Ceremony will be held in June, 20th 2011, in Washington D.C., USA.

 

National Agency of Public Servants

1st Prize at the National Competition of Best Practices in Public Administration, , for "Improving public services through quality management and organizational performance" category, organized by the National Agency of Public Servants in 2010.

Knowledge based Economy Project is considered to be an example of good practice in Romania's public administration due to its remarkable results, its proven efficiency and its disseminated practices.

 

THE HIGHEST HONOR IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Finalist, at the International Project Excellence Awards 2010, in "Project Excellence in Medium-Sized Projects" category, organized by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

The solid implementation and success of the IT&C Training Program in school and business and the eCommunity.ro Portal, both part of the KEP Project, have impressed the IPMA jury (Project Management International Association), who recommends them as one of the most important achievements in project management.

 

e-Inclusion 2008

Medal at the e-Inclusion Competitionorganized by the European Commission, at the section “Geographic Inclusion” section, Vienna, 2008. The Knowledge based Economy Project is considered an example of good practice for effective use of IT&C and digital technology to tackle social disadvantage and digital exclusion.

 

Romanian IT&C Awards 2006

Knowledge Based Economy was considered to be the "Project with the best informational content" at the Romanian IT&C Awards – Bucharest, 2006, for contributing to the extensive process of expanding access to information technologies and modern communications to rural communities.

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Administration

Giving grants to local entrepreneurs - NFP eCrestere! (eGrowth!)

Objective: The familiarization of the sector SMEs with innovative technology, high productivity, which can transition to a successful business environment.

General: This mechanism provides support to private enterprises or consortia in their efforts to adopt innovative e-business solutions in order to improve their competitiveness on domestic and international markets. The eCreştere! grant program finances projects aimed at improving competitiveness of Romanian companies on national and international markets by adopting innovation e-business solutions, and ICT facilities. It is addressed to PFA sites, AF-sized enterprises, micro enterprises, SMEs, associations of agriculture, handicraft cooperatives, universities and research and development institutes.

Project progress

The call for projects was originally released by order of the Minister, on 26/08/2008, the deadline for receipt of files being 26.11.2008. It was revived subsequently by another order of the Minister of Communications and Information Technology by extending the period for receipt of projects until 26/01/2009.

All the program's documentation was endorsed by World Bank representatives.

The procedures for selecting and contracting of 3 independent evaluatorswas completed.

7 sessions to promote the eCreştere regional program centers

were supported. e-Creştere

279 applications for funding, covering 35 counties were drawn up, out of which 25 originate from the EBC project beneficiary communities.

Following the evaluation process, a number of 52 projects were declared admitted for funding. These projects will absorb 5.6 million RON approved budget. Of the 52 approved projects, 5 projects from the EBC communities .

The main types of project financing aim at implementing:

  • e-business solutions, online commerce, ERP platform, ERP - Enterprise Resource Planing - automatic system of integrated processes within a company;

  • automation of processes, collaborative working platform;

  • online training platform;

  • CRM systems - CRM - Customer Relation Management - automated customer relationship management systems) together with the purchase of ICT equipment and / or innovative manufacturing solutions.

    All the 52 potential recipients were contacted to start regarding the inception of the contracting process and transition to implementation.

    In parallel, procurement procedures were carried out monitoring and evaluating services on project implementation and on the grant scheme as a whole. These procedures are being finalized in an effort to synchronize this activity with the implementation of projects.

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Awards and prizes

 

EPSA 2011

The Knowledge Based Economy Project has received a new certification of Good Practice at the 2011 „European Public Sector Awards” (EPSA) within the European Institution of Public Administration.

The Best Practice Certificate has been received upon three evaluation steps made by an experienced jury, comprising a shortlist of 58 nominees from a total of 274 projects from 33 participating countries. The Ministry of Communications and Information Society, through the Project Management Unit, competed  in the EPSA 2011 Awards at the „Smart Public Service in a Cold Economic Climate”category. This Best Practice distinction rewards and certify the outstanding results that KEP Project has had until now.

 

The COMPUTERWORLD Honors Program

The Project Management Unit, within the Ministry of Communications and Information Society, has been named a Laureate in the 2011 ComputerWorld Honors Program.

The „Knowledge based Economy Project” joins 254 others from 23 countries as Laureates in this year’s program, from more than 1000 applicants world wide.

The Awards Ceremony will be held in June, 20th 2011, in Washington D.C., USA.

 

National Agency of Public Servants

1st Prize at the National Competition of Best Practices in Public Administration, , for "Improving public services through quality management and organizational performance" category, organized by the National Agency of Public Servants in 2010.

Knowledge based Economy Project is considered to be an example of good practice in Romania's public administration due to its remarkable results, its proven efficiency and its disseminated practices.

 

THE HIGHEST HONOR IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Finalist, at the International Project Excellence Awards 2010, in "Project Excellence in Medium-Sized Projects" category, organized by the International Project Management Association (IPMA).

The solid implementation and success of the IT&C Training Program in school and business and the eCommunity.ro Portal, both part of the KEP Project, have impressed the IPMA jury (Project Management International Association), who recommends them as one of the most important achievements in project management.

 

e-Inclusion 2008

Medal at the e-Inclusion Competitionorganized by the European Commission, at the section “Geographic Inclusion” section, Vienna, 2008. The Knowledge based Economy Project is considered an example of good practice for effective use of IT&C and digital technology to tackle social disadvantage and digital exclusion.

 

Romanian IT&C Awards 2006

Knowledge Based Economy was considered to be the "Project with the best informational content" at the Romanian IT&C Awards – Bucharest, 2006, for contributing to the extensive process of expanding access to information technologies and modern communications to rural communities.

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