The ground development in Romania is based essentially on creativity, economic and social innovation and, most of all on the examples of excellence provided by the socially and economically active communities.

The communities of the project Knowledge Based Economy participated in October – December, 2008, in a contest of identifying those values, called: Community Values.

The ten most beautiful stories, which can serve as replicable models at national level have been promoted in as many shows on national television in April – May, 2009.

The 10 winners are: Laslea (Sibiu), Luncaviţa (Tulcea), Mărăşeşti (Vrancea), Panaci (Suceava), Saschiz (Mureş), Şimian (Bihor), Suceviţa (Suceava), Viişoara(Cluj), Zimnicea (Teleorman) and Zlatna (Alba).

Winners

On the same theme

The competition "Community Values"

The "Community Values" and has designated the winners!

The e-Growth programme represented a grant scheme that financed projects that had as main target the development of companies’ competitiveness on domestic and foreign market, by adopting innovative e-business technologies and solutions. In that context, the projects included financing proposals for:

• Acquisition of production equipment that contains elements or innovative technologies and ICT equipment;
• Acquisition of exploitation rights of a patented invention (the contract of assignment or license), and software licenses and ICT systems;
• Acquisition of software solutions which may include: process analysis, development, implementation and testing of application;
• Purchase of consultancy services for: business plans for the development of solutions for e-business, market studies, preparing project documentation, project;
• Purchase of training services;
• Participation in exhibitions, national and international fairs and services for online marketing;
• Costs for audits.

The value of funding offered varies from 33,450 LEI for individuals, authorized individual and family enterprises, 223,000 lei for SMEs and can reach up to 446,000 lei for the partnerships formed in a small (beneficiary) and a unit of public or private (partner) attested in conducting research - development.

UPDATE July 15th, 2009

More than LEI 5.5 mil for 52 projects with technology and informatics systems solutions

The Project Management Unit within the Knowledge Based Economy Project (KEP) finalized the selection process of the projects that will benefit of grants given by the e–Growth grant scheme. The biggest share in the evaluation of the 52 winning projects, with a total value of LEI 5.5 mil, was the innovative applicability and the sustainability level in accordance with the market’s dynamics.

UPDATE June 2nd, 2009

The results of the submitted projects.

The Evaluation Commitee of the e-Growth grant scheme has finalized the evaluation and selection process.

From all 285 submitted projects, 279 have been submitted on time and entered the evaluation process, 6 of them were submitted after the deadline.

From all 279 projects that entered the first evaluation step – the under administrative and eligibility evaluation, 106 project qualified for the next step – the technical evaluation, and 173 were rejected.

After the technical evaluation, from the 106 projects, 52 were declared admitted, comprising a success factor of more tha 0,700, and 54 projects were rejected because of the under-classification.

The results of the evaluation process can be downloaded from here

UPDATE March 5th, 2009

The Evaluation Committe of the submitted projects had begun its activity.

Until the deadline of January 26th, 2009, 279 financing proposals were submitted within the call of projects e-Growth.

The final list of applicants can be consulted here and includes also the projects that were submitted after the deadline.

Useful documents:

• Grant Brochure
• Applicants’ Guide

The e-Holiday! competition has gathered so far, in its seven editions, more than 350 schools, 1900 teachers and more than 5200 pupils and is designed to compound good practices of precedent editions and to develop complementary activities, based on innovative use of computers, communication and developing competences of modern teaching practices.

The active participation of schools to certain extracurricular activities during the holidays enriches the coordination level within participating schools, supports the collaboration within other KEP schools and promotes the extension of good practices within all 229 communities.

Also, this competition aims to build an active and dynamic community of teachers and students who can disseminate the interest in technology within each community involved.

Through the strong collaboration within all participants, the goal is to incorporate new techniques of using the computer in education and attracting new users from rural areas. This competition seeks to disseminate the performances and results attained at national level.

All of the 1900 educational materials developed by the participants through all e-Holiday! editions, along with the information about the seven editions runed so far can be found in the dedicated section on the portal (http://ecomunitate.ro/evacanta).