5-6 June 2012, premises of the Moscow City Government
(Novy Arbat Street 36/9)

The Forum is a platform for the Russian-European dialogue uniting representatives of political, business and scientific circles, and also the all-European framework for the international business cooperation encompassing Russian and European industrial companies, including SMEs, and extending to all Europe and all regions of Russia. Previous four fora brought together 393 Russian and 224 European companies and business support organizations which had 1,294 bilateral negotiations. An important number of “out-of-schedule” meetings were also held.

Forum’s Agenda:

Plenary: discussion of acceleration of Russian economy modernization and diversification via involving Russian companies, inter alia SMEs, into international business relations, especially with European countries in line with the joint initiative Russia-EU “Partnership for Modernization”; the role of Moscow city – capital of Russia – in that as an attractive environment for doing business, potential international financial centre likewise a catalyst for internationalizing companies, including SMEs, in Russian regions; regional entrepreneurship development, importance of Russian industrial enterprises internationalizing, including supporting export potential, attraction of FDI and modern technologies. The first day will be concluded with an official reception and an awarding ceremony of the Russian National Public Prize “Russian Creators” (www.ros-sozidateli.org).

Matchmaking on the second day: will be devoted to bilateral negotiations between Russian and European industrial companies, inter alia SMEs, and business support institutions, in production, R&D and services with business partnership proposals, including investment projects, and willing to identify potential business partners in Europe and in Russia.

European and Russian companies from the following sectors are invited to take part in the Forum:

Advance flexible materials
Aerospace
Automotive
Biotechnologies, bio-fuel and bio-power
Chemicals
Computer technologies
Construction / building materials
Electrical engineering
Electronics
Energy saving and energy efficiency, including heating and lighting systems (technologies, equipment)
Food Industry (equipment, products)
ICT and Media
Machinery and mechanical engineering
Medical devices / Pharmaceutics
Metal-working (technologies, equipment, products and instruments)
Nanotechnologies
New Materials, including energy and heating saving
Optics, glass products, manufacturing, processing and finishing technologies
Textile, fur/leather, garments production
Wood-working, pulp & paper (technologies, equipment, products and instruments)

Organizers of the Forum are: «Moscow Entrepreneurs Association» (www.moomap.ru), “Russian Technology Transfer Network” (EEN member, www.rttn.ru), “Vnesheconombank” (www.veb.ru), «Delovaya Russia» (www.deloros.ru), Department of SMEs Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the RF (www.economy.gov.ru), Federal Antimonopoly Service of the RF (www.fas.gov.ru), Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the RF (www.tpprf.ru), «Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs» (www.rspp.ru), «Association of Russian Banks» (www.arb.ru), Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow Government (http://dnpp.mos.ru), “Russian Bank for SMEs Support (http://mspbank.ru), “Rosbank” (www.rosbank.ru), Finance-Banking Board of the CIS (www.bc-cis.ru).

More information about the Forum and registration procedure can be found on Forum’s website: www.ru-eu-cooperation-without-frontiers.com.

Participation in Forum is free of charge.

«Concern «Almaz-Antey» JSC’s business mission to Sweden takes place 21-25 May 2012.

Eight companies within the Concern will participate in negotiations with representatives of the Swedish business community.

The main topic will be “options for cooperation in the field of design and production of civilian goods”.

Forum Mission – to promote development of innovative processes, international cooperation in science, engineering and business.

Organizers:

• Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation
• Department of Science and Industrial Policy of Moscow
• Institute of Economics and Complex Communication Problems, ECOS JSC
• Russian High-Tech Development Fund
• Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry
• Moscow Entrepreneur’s Association
• Ministry on Science and Industry of the Moscow Region
• Expocentre Fairgrounds

Under the Patronage of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

The Forum has received a wide recognition for ten years of carrying out and is one of the largest scientific and technical exhibition Events in Russia.

One of leading directions of a forthcoming Forum are problems of introduction of development of a high-tech complex, «commercialization» of scientific and technical potential, marketing of high-tech production, and also questions of assistance of realization of priority National projects and programs. Diversified character of the exhibition program of the Forum promotes development of the new technologies arising on a joint various scientific branches.

Forum gives the opportunity to present opinions of the market leaders to the wide range of technological and social-economical questions of participants’ development.

• INNOVATIVE FORUM
  is one of the most important events dedicated to innovation in Russia, it demonstrates the world achievements in the fields, which are determinative for scientific and technical progress
• DEVELOPMENT FORUM
• EXHIBITION TECHNOPARK
• B2B FORMAT EVENT
  is a business site for solution of the topical issues in the real B2B mode, exchange of experience among the Russian and foreign producers of high-tech products, efficient communication in the framework of the business program, search of prospective business partners in Russia, CIS and foreign countries.

Organizers are sure that Forum brings you commercial success and new ideas, attracts investments to your projects, and its ambience allows you to gain new customers and markets.

Arkhangelsk International Forestry Forum devoted to 75th anniversary of the Arkhangelsk region.

The Event is to discuss the following questions:

• The role of the Arkhangelsk region in the development of the forest industry in Russia. Achievements, problems and prospects of integration into the global economy;
• The development of multipurpose (integrated) forest management;
• Introduction of national (federal) control system to ensure the legality of timber production;
• Introduction of European Union regulations for the control of timber control, and consequences for Russian wood/paper exporters;
• Improvement of forest management systems and legislation aimed at preventing and extinguishing forest fires.

The format of the Forum is made up of plenary sessions, round tables and seminars.

The Event will be holding a special exhibition in parallel aimed to demonstrate modern technologies in wood processing sector.

Facilitators: Ministry of Natural Resources and Timber Industry Complex of the Arkhangelsk region, Arkhangelsk branch of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF RUSSIA), the World Bank (WORLD BANK), OOO Pomor Fair.

Contact Information:

“Forestry Forum”: Arkhangelsk, Troitsky Ave, 49, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Timber Industry Complex of the Arkhangelsk Region, tel / fax: +7 (8182) 288-623, e-mail: bokov@dvinaland.ru

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Practical information for the participants

Program

Industrial park “Green wood” – is a scale regional project on the attraction of investments, advanced scientific and industrial technologies.
Project’s participants: the Government of the Oryol region, the Administration of the Mtsensk district.
For complex development of the territory “greenfield” the location of industrial enterprises of different sectoral orientation is planned:

• modern engineering and electronic items  production;
• construction materials, construction and communal technique production;
• processing of agricultural production and  others.

Land sites characteristic:
Industrial park “Green wood” is situated in the north-east of the Oryol region in Mtsensk district.
Its area is 140,5 Ha. The territory of the Industrial park directly abuts to the Federal Highway M2 “Crimea” from Moscow through Tula, Oryol, Kursk, Belgorod to Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Simferopol (European highway E105).

Dangerous natural and man-made processes  are absent on the territory of the Industrial park.
There is a railroad highway Oryol – Moscow parallel to the highway M2.
According to the Industrial park concept the zoning of the territory for 12 industrial sets will be provided, there will be also a rest zone, a service zone, a sport zone,  a trade
zone and subsidiary zones for infrastructure facilities location.
Potential residents will be provided with the opportunity of building of industrial, research, administrative and warehouse facilities on the prepared land sites of industrial purpose.

The project provides:

• providing of all the residents with necessary communications;
• full administrative support from the Government of the Oryol region;
• full package of measures of investors state support, provided by regional legislation, including tax benefits, the subsidy of interest rate on loans,  attracted for investmentprojects realization.

The land sites are the privacy of the only Management Company JSC ‘The directorate of the industrial parks of the Oryol region”. According to it, the state provides “clarity” and transparency of all legal procedures, connected with the transfer of the ownership.

The Management Company provides help in:

• planning;
• getting of agreements and permits;
• providing of the security of facilities;
• providing of “cleaning” services;
• maintaining the operational status of power supply systems, gas supply, road paving,
• water supply and sewage systems;
• consulting services on the attraction of profile working human resources

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