A conference entitled „EIT ICT Labs Outreach:  A New Link Between Budapest and Cluj-Napoca”, co-organized by EIT ICT Labs Budapest and the Babeș-Bolyai University, will take place in Cluj-Napoca on 29 November 2013.

The event on November 29 introduces the EIT ICT Labs to the ICT sector in Cluj-Napoca, presents a successful start-up initiative of a EIT ICT Labs student, and offers the opportunity for the representatives of the Babeș-Bolyai University and Cluj Cluster IT to give an overview of the possible cooperation with the EIT ICT Labs.

EIT ICT Labs is the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT). The mission of EIT ICT Labs is to drive European leadership in ICT innovation by linking education, research and business together. EIT ICT Labs Budapest is the only EIT ICT Labs associate partner located in the Central and Eastern European region.

The Outreach Programme focuses on developing fruitful partnerships with EU countries not directly connected to the EIT ICT Labs network. The program activates local start-ups and links local professors, researchers and students to EIT ICT Labs related innovation projects and contests.

We believe that the programme can answer some of the challenges of the ICT companies in Cluj-Napoca. Its goal is to provide well trained ICT human resource for the local ecosystem, as well as to help the ecosystem transfer its business profile from outsource programming to local innovation. The programme aims at increasing the number of young professionals that have both an excellent ICT skills and a bright entrepreneurial mindset.

Programme details

EIT ICT Labs Outreach:  A New Link Between Budapest and Cluj-Napoca

Date: 29 November 2013

Venue: Cluj-Napoca, Babeș-Bolyai University, Aula Magna

11.00–11.45 Introduction of EIT ICT Labs:

• Dr. Zoltán Horváth, Director, EIT ICT Labs Budapest: The Outreach Program of EIT ICT Labs
• Zsuzsa Várhalmi, Deputy Director, EIT ICT Labs Budapest: Student Opportunities at EIT ICT Labs
• Frederick Ayala Gomez, EIT ICT Labs Master School: How to develop a startup idea at EIT ICT Labs Master School

11.45 Q&A
12.00 Introduction of local opportunities:

• Dr. Anna Soós: The ICT education at the Babeș-Bolyai University
• Andrei Kelemen, Executive Director, Cluj IT Cluster: How the local ICT eco-system can connect with EIT ICT Labs

12.30 Q&A
12.45 Closing remarks by Dr. Zoltán Horváth
13.00 Reception (Pyramid Restaurant)

The name of the centre operating in the Infopark in Lágymányos is EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group, because it is the associate partner of the information and communication technologies knowledge and innovation community (ICT Labs KIC) created by EIT, the Institute of Innovation and Technology of the European Union. The leader of the Hungarian consortium that has created the organization in Budapest is the ELTE Faculty of Informatics; its members are the BME Faculty of Electrical Engiwwlllld and Informatics, Cisco, and the Hungarian subsidiary companies of GE; its key industrial partners are Ericson Hungary, the Hungarian Telekom, and the Nokia Solutions and Networks. Besides the EU funds, the organization has won a one billion HUF support from the National Development Agency, in order to carry out research and development programs. The only Central-Eastern European member of EIT ICT Labs is the organization’s centre in Budapest, which, besides R&D programs, organizes international Master and Doctoral training programs, free of charge for citizens of the European Union.

RSVP: Júlia Makkai
Communication & PR Office|Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj Napoca
Email: julia.makkai@ubbcluj.ro | www.ubbcluj.ro/hu
Mobile +40 744352920
Directions to the venue: Main building of the Babeș-Bolyai  University,  1.  Mihail Kogălniceanu St. (city center), Cluj Napoca.
Parking facility: Visitor parking is available in parking lots in front of and the both sides of the main buliding. The parking is charged.
For further details on EIT ICT Labs and the Outreach program, please contact: Bálint Molnár
Marketing & Communications Manager | EIT ICT Labs Budapest Associate Partner Group

H-1117 Budapest, Bogdánfy Street 10/a
Telephone +36 1 381 2332 | Mobile +36 30 458 7240
email: balint.molnar@ictlabs.elte.hu | www.ictlabs.elte.hu

For further information on the opportunities offered by EIT ICT Labs, please see the following links:

http://ictlabs.elte.hu/
http://eitictlabs.eu/
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