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Monday 03.11.2008

THANKFULNESS

COSMO 2008 SBC extends a heartly thankfulness to the following people and companies who contributed their time and resources to promote the COSMO 2008 Small Business Conference with a great success.

Sponsors: We would like to acknowledge the Sponsors and Exibitors for their valued support of the COSMO 2008 Small Business Conference. Please visit our Sponsors, listed to the right, for information on their valuable products and services.

Event Sponsors: A special thanks to the Sponsors for hosting the Conference networking events – Day and Night Kick-Off Cocktail – a chance to sample a wide variety of Macedonian food and drink while mingling with conference participants and new friends.

Keynote speakers: Thankfulness to our Keynote speakers

• Dr. Antal Szabó - UN ret. Regional Adviser, Scientific Director of ERENET - Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network of Central European Universities, Budapest/Hungary and

• Dr. Laurence Hewick – President, Hewick Research Inc., Canada; President & Director of the Golden Horseshoe Venture Forum; Director of BitNet; Co-founder of the Mohawk College International Development Institute; and member of the Viatech

Conference Secretariat Team Members: Thank you to everyone in the Conference Secretariat, Organizing Committee and Programme Committee and Conference Chairman who helped plan, organize and consult.
 

Monday 20.10.2008

PRESS RELEASE (.pdf, 78.2 KB)

Wednesday 1.10.2008

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Organization Committee announced extension of the dead line for paper submission till October 25, 2008

Monday 29.09.2008

The organizers are proud to announce that the members of COSMO 2008 Small Business Conference - Program Committee are:

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chairman:
Blerim Zllatku – Director,
Economic Chamber of North-West Macedonia, Macedonia
www.oemvp.org

Members:

Dr. Antal Szabó – Scientific Director of ERENET, UN ret. Regional Adviser on Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Hungary
Jezic von Gesseneck – President, Chamber of Commerce Belgium-Luxemburg-South-East Europe, Belgium www.chamber.5u.com
Ph.D. Naser Raimi – State University Tetovo, Faculty of Economics, Macedonia
www.unite.edu.mk
Filip Ivanovski – University American College, Macedonia www.uacs.edu.mk
Ph.D. Dejan Pendev – Director, The Institute of Economics, University St.Kiril and Methodius, Macedonia
Mia Hellström – gender equality consultant, Sweden
Evzal Rakipi – Director, Business Development & Career Centre, South East European University, Macedonia www.bdc.seeu.edu.mk
Slobodan Sofeski – President “Small Business Chamber of Macedonia" – Macedonia
www.sbch.org.mk
Ph. Suna Spirovska – COSMO Innovate Center, Macedonia

Wednesday 27.08.2008

Press Release

The vision of COSMO 2008 Small Business Conference is to support information share and communication between interested parties which will contribute in establishing partnership between partners of EU countries and Macedonia in growing business networks that will influence to sustainable economic development. The main focus of the conference will be establishing business network and creating new business models, innovations and finance opportunities for the network members of EU and candidate countries.

The conference is a place where over 150 representatives of the public sector, small and medium enterprises from the Republic of Macedonia and the South East Europe region, as well as experts from EU will meet. The conference consists of an educative part, as well as a discussion forum and workshop for exchanging knowledge, experiences and ideas for technical, economic and legal issues which are a challenge for the sustainable business networking of the private sector of the Republic of Macedonia with regional and EU business companies and organizations.

The stimulation of the partnership through models of local, cross border and global e-commerce business networks is a priority of the CОSМО 2008 Small Business Conference. The conference offers a unique opportunity to companies for a meeting with the present and future clients from the business sector or public sector in the Republic of Macedonia and South-East Europe region. The conference presents an ideal opportunity for promotion and presentation of companies and organizations.


Friday 29.08.2008

Pre-Conference Seminar:
Forwarding and EU Trade Agreements

We invite interested participants of following Pre-Conference Seminar for their active presentation on following themes:
1. Place, role and meaning of the forwarding in the foreign-trade working;
2. Import-export customs of goods in RM –the forwarder as a legal procurator in front of the state bodies, regarding the calculation of expenses with ECD towards the contents
3. Preferential treatment of the goods in the customs procedure, EUR 1 and a statement in an invoice, as a result of the many agreement of different countries
4. Duty free (according to the Customs Law)
5. Customs tariff in circumstances of RM membership in EU (what do we get with it);

The Pre-Conference Seminar will held on 4 October 2008 in Skopje, Macedonia. link
 

Wednesday, 06.08.2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please download the brochure (CALL FOR PAPERS.pdf) with detailed announcement instructions.

The deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2008.

PAPER TEMPLATE

For all COSMO 2008 EEC papers please use the template file: SBCtemplate.doc.

Tuesday, 5.08.2008

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Networking

27 - 28 November, 2008
Hotel Continental, Skopje, Macedonia

Invitation
Programme
Call for papers
Registration Form
Sponsorship Brochure
Conference Venue

We have great pleasure to inform you that COSMO 2008 Small Business Conference (COSMO 2008 SBC) will be held in Skopje, Macedonia, from 27-28 November, 2008 year. „Sustainable Entrepreneurship Networking„ is the title of the conference this year.

Launched in 2008 by the European Commission, the Enterprise Europe Network offers easy access and proximity to local services for SMEs, thus creating regional business gateways. Business actors are encouraged to share, define and disseminate best practices in fields such as innovation, expansion to new markets, enlargement of the client base, improvement of market position, etc.

Therefore, in all member states, but also in candidate states as Macedonia, strategies and programmes are currently under preparation to encourage companies in regional networking, and internationalisation of their expansion.

Business networking is critical for sustainable development of Macedonian companies as building the relationship in the entrepreneur network they get support for their goals, avoid isolation, make connections, receive new information of local and international market.

The stimulation of the partnership through models of local, cross border and global e-commerce business networks is a priority of the CОSМО 2008 Small Business Conference.

Working language of the conference is English.

We invite you to join us at the conference as a participant or as a sponsor. There are different sponsorship packages that we offer to the companies and organizations for their promotion. For more information see Sponsorship Brochure below or contact Edward Sofeski es@cosmoinnovate.com.mk

In the case that you are unable to participate, you are welcome to pass this invitation to your colleague.

Tuesday, 5.08.2008

REGISTRATION
In order to registring for the CОSМО 2008 Small Business Conference please fill this form.

Monday, 4.08.2008

ATTENTION to Authors and Participants
To comply with our policies, please observe the following:
- Only papers of which at least one author is registered at the conference will be published in the Proceedings.
- Registration is valid only AFTER the conference fee has been paid in full.

NETWORK SUPPORTERS

International Council for Small Business

Euro Info Korespondentni Centar Bosna i Hercegovina

BSMEPA - Bulgarian Small
and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency

Anima Investment Network  

ELTIS - European Local Transport Information Service

EUROMED

Small Business Research Portal

European Agenda
 

ESBRI - Entrepreneurship and Small Business
Research Institute

Bureau Alsace

Standardization Institute of the Republic of Macedonia

Europe INNOVA Initiative

Innovating regions in Europe

Eber

Institute for small business and entrepreneurship

Hungarian Science and Technology Foundation

conference venue ...

INSTITUTIONAL SPONSOR

The conference is supported by funding from the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Macedonia

GOLDEN SPONSOR

SILVER SPONSOR

SEE University -
Business Development Centre

OFFICIAL SUPPORTERS

Small Business Chamber

Oda Ekonomike e Maqedonisë
Veriperëndimore

Human Resources Development Fund

Macedonian-German Economy Union

Restaurant "Oreov lad"

COSMO 2008
Small Business Conference is
Global Entrepreneurs Week Event

SUPPORTERS

Entrepreneurship Research and Education Network
of Central European Universities

Economic Chamber
for Tourism of Macedonia

COORGANIZER

LINKS

Small Enterprise Development in
the Republic of MACEDONIA
An overview (.pdf)

All participants interested in CОSМО 2008 Small Business Conference
can register for through the following link

CALL US TODAY

COSMO INNOVATE CENTER

bul. Jane Sandanski 113 1000 Skopje, Macedonia

tel. +389 2 244 8077,8134 fax. +389 2 244 8240

e-mail: contact@cosmoinnovate.com.mk

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