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9.00 – 10.00	Registration
PLENARY SESSIONS - "Vitosha" Hall, Inter Expo Center Moderator: Bojil Dobrev, Director, Scientific Research Department (NIS) of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
10.00 – 11.00	Opening: Welcome speeches	Yordanka Fandakova, Mayor of Sofia Ivan Ilchev, Rector, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Ministries representatives
11.00 – 11.30	EUROCITIES Information on the network activities and participation of the Cities in transnational projects	Paul Bevan, Secretary General of EUROCITIES
INNOVATIONS - MEETING OF SCIENCE AND BUSINESS IN THE CITY OF SOFIA Moderator: Kostadin Kostadinov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
11.30 – 13.00	Announcement of the awards of the Idea Challenge – Student competition for innovative business ideas, organized by Start It Smart (Student Club for Entrepreneurship)	Dimitar Karamantchev, Founder of Start It Smart, Co-founder of International Consortium of University Entrepreneurs
	Sofia Municipality policy of support for SMEs	К. Grigorov, MGFSME
	Sharing of good European practices for successful entrepreneurship in the technology transfer	Vihra Andonova, "South-East European Co-operation for financing and transfer of technologies" Project
	Sofia University policy for development of successful entrepreneurs - innovators	Prof. Georgi Chobanov, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University
	Innovations: BG 2010 (the main aspects of the Report)	Assoc. prof. Teodora Georgieva, Applied Research and Communications Fund
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch Break
14.00 – 18.00	MEETING "CULTURAL HERITAGE - SOURCE OF PROSPERITY FOR SCIENCE, TOURISM, BUSINESS" with the participation of students, young entrepreneurs, researchers, developers, and representatives of banking and financing institutions floor 1, Lobby

THEMATIC DISCUSSIONS IN PANEL SESSIONS

28 October 2010 (Thursday)
	Hall "Vihren"	Hall "Pirin"	Hall "Rodopi"	Hall "Musala"	Hall "Rila"
14.00 – 15.45	Science-business relationship for implementation of the EU innovation policy Center for Technology Transfer in Science NIS, SU "St. Kliment Ohridski" Moderator: Krasimira Geneva, TTO at NIS, SU Sharing experience of the TTO at NIS of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" from the annual meeting of TTOs in Europe, held in Barselona, Spain - Zlatina Karova, TTO at NIS, SU "Innovative educational and certification schemes for SMEs" - Dr. Maria Stefanova-Pavlova, Managing Director Meeting of the National group for support of the project "Cooperation in Southeast Europe for financing and technology transfer" - Rayna Karcheva "Innovative training methods" - Janeta Kapitanova Qualification skills for second-hand sale - Kamen Mutafov	EUROCITIES in the Cities Welcome - Irina Yordanova Irina Yordanova, Chair of Standing Committee on European Affairs and Relations with Civil Society, Sofia Municipal Council Entrepreneurship and SMEs Paul Bevan, Secretary General of EUROCITIES Sofia experience in EU projects participation - Nadya Nikolova, Sofia Municipality EUROCITIES NLAO Project presentation - Sonya Blazheva, Sofia Municipality	Innovations in the field of culture and tourism Project for development of the cultural tourism in Sofia. Presentation of the "Visit Sofia" website - Mariana Georgieva Archaeology - opportunity for innovation in the city of Sofia - Slavei Galabov, Vassil Kitov IT products in service of the cultural and historical heritage - Yuri Atanasov Digitalization of cultural and historical sites - Boyan Bonchev Preserving cultural heritage and development of the cultural tourism - Eng. Mitya Dimitrov, Sozopol Foundation	Plenary session 1 "European policy and practices for career and mobility of researchers" Moderator: Prof. Roumen Nikolov, NIS of Sofia University Politics of the MEYS in the field of science - Genoveva Jecheva, Head of department, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science Challenges to career development and mobility of researchers in Europe - Assoc. Prof. Elissaveta Gourova, Sofia University "Towards Mobility of Researchers" - Dr. Magdalena Wislocka, Irish Universities Association "Academia-Industry, TT and cooperation - the Israeli experience" - Dr. Isser Peer, Director Research Authority, Bar-Ilan University	The Future of e-Book and e-Libraries Moderator: Assoc. prof. Ivan Koychev, Sofia University ATLAS: Applied Technologies for supporting Multi-language Content Management * • Presentation of the project and opportunities of the future web based services i-Publisher and i-Librarian * • Discussion Emil Stoyanov, Tetracom Interacive Solutions Ltd Intuitive search of large repositories of digital images for sale with the support of StockPodium - Georgi Kadrev and Hristo Georgiev, Digital Spaces Living Lab
15.45 – 16.15 Coffee break
16.15 – 18.00	"SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP : HOW TO START SOCIAL VENTURE" Discussion of students-entrepreneurs from Start It Smart with the assistance of the Bulgarian Business Angels Network and Start UP Foundation	"Europe" Programme - Nadezda Angelska, Sofia Municipality Presentation of other cities - members of EUROCITIES Training and support for European project development, EUROPLAN, Great Britain	Program "Glob@l libraries - Bulgaria" - Ilia Popov Sofia Municipality and the British Council Project "Open Cities" - Krasimira Tancheva	Plenary session 2 "Bulgarian framework programme for career development and mobility" Moderator: Ms Mirolyuba Madjarova, NIS of Sofia University Vision for reforming education and research sector in Bulgaria, Representative of "Higher Education" Department, Ministry of Education, Youth and Science National report on career development and mobility of researchers, Karina Angelieva, Sofia University Round table discussion "Removing barriers for career development and mobility of researchers in Bulgaria", Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Elissaveta Gourova, Sofia University	OpenAIRE: Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe - Prof. Peter Stanchev OpenAIRE Project, National coordinator E-Publishing Solutions – Astea Solutions, JSC OpenScout: Skill based scouting of open user-generated and community-improved content for management education and training - Assoc. prof. Krassen Stefanov ShareTEC: SHAring digital REsources in the Teaching Education Community - aims and objectives, current prototype - Assoc. Prof. Pavel Boytchev, Sofia University SmartBook: The future of e-book - Assoc. prof. Ivan Koychev, Sofia University Discussion
18.30	Cocktail Party