Short overview over an SME support project of the EU in the Russian part of Karelia in 2004 until 2006

1. e-Karelia
Information on an EU funded project for
the support of SME related supporting
structures
© Werner Willeke

2. E-Karelia / Project components
• Component 1 - Promotion of awareness
• Component 2 - Seminars, training, consulting
• Component 3 - WEB Portal for SMEs
• Component 4 - Knowledge transfer
• Component 5 - GIS (including business plan)
• Component 6 - e-commerce, including an
e-mall for Karelian SMEs
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3. E-Karelia / Component 1 / Awareness raising
• Final book with
articles from all
experts 1
• CDs with training
materials,
Almanach, other
materials
1. Books and CDs - in Russian - can be obtained from the project beneficiaries 3

4. E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training and other events / Places
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5. E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training
Location & Trainings
Basic Enhanced
Petrozavodsk 7 groups, 79 10 courses, 132
participants participants
Sortavala 2 groups, 22 2 courses, 24
participants participants
Kostomuksha 2 groups, 22 1 group, 12
participants participants
Belomorsk 2 groups, 25 1 group, 15
participants participants
Segezha 2 groups, 20 -
participants
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6. E-Karelia / Component 2 / Training / General information
• In 6 locations in
Karelia
• Basic training - 15
groups
• Special training - 14
groups
• All in all 351 training
units for 255
participants
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7. E-Karelia / Component 3 / Consulting
• 8 companies have been
consulted individually
• A survey on the use of
business application
software systems has
been made 1
• Special workshop on e-
commerce has been
organized for SMEs
1. The survey - in Russian - can be obtained from the project beneficiaries 7

8. E-Karelia / Component 3 / WEB Portal
• More than 100
SMEs registered on
the WEB portal
• Is connected to
other Internet
resources (WEB
Almanach - „yellow
pages“)
• Official launch in
August 2006
• http://msb.karelia.ru 8

9. E-Karelia / Component 4 / Knowledge transfer
• 3 study tours
provided (Finland,
Germany, Denmark)
• 45 participants have
gone onto study tour
• SMEs in the West
and their approach
using ICT has been
demonstrated
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10. E-Karelia / Component 5 / GIS
• Business plan for
GIS services has
been developed
• Remote forestry
sensing technology
has been
demonstrated
• Business Almanach
„Petrozavodsk 2006“
• Karelian topic
centered maps
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11. E-Karelia / Component 6 / e-commerce
• E-commerce handbook
developed and
distributed
• Seminars on e-
commerce, marketing
and CRM organized
and provided
• Additional e-mall
development for the
SMEs of Karelia
• Up to 10 SMEs can
offer their goods and
services not only in
Karelia but worldwide
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12. E-Karelia / Expert days used during the project
2004 / 2005 2006 Total
Core team 305 452 757
Local Senior 210 31 241
Local Junior 16,5 223,5 240
Foreign 151 184 335
Senior
Foreign 0 72 72
Junior
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13. e-Karelia
For more information please refer to:
http://www.e-karelia.ru
© Werner Willeke