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infocluster 08CLUSTER HOUSE MAGAZINE / COMPLIMENTARY COPY / I-IV 2015
BALKAN & BLACK SEA & MEDITERRANEAN
CLUSTER FAMILY
TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKING
ACT LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY

INFOCLUSTER 08  CLUSTER HOUSE MAGAZINE  JANUARY - APRIL 2015
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Dobricka 2, I floor, 18000 Nis, Serbia, tel: +381 18 522 120, 511 240
Editorial: Dr Danka Milojkovic & Mr Goran Zlatkovic with associaties
Editor and lector: Ms Smilja Bojovic
Design and preparation: Cluster House ltd, Nis, Serbia
… DEVELOPER OF CLUSTER SYNERGY IN THE
BALKAN BALCK SEA MEDITERRANEAN …
Dear Cluster Friends,
On behalf of the Cluster House I have pleasure to invite you to join the Balkan Cluster Network.
Mission of the network is cluster synergy in the Balkans in order to develop transnational projects,
approach development funds and appear on new markets. The membership is free. The Cluster
House, as the initiator and coordinator of the Balkan Cluster Network, developed the model for
development of the SMEs and clusters in transitional countries that encourages synergetic effects of
the cross-border cluster cooperation in the region. The models includes information, tailor made
trainings and business learning trips, conferences, fairs, R&D and business projects preparation,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation, mentoring and coaching, promotion and networking.
Since November 2012, 50 clusters organizations and supporting institutions officially joined to The
Balkan Cluster Network. The Cluster House Business Network consists of more than 3000 contacts
with experts, institutions, business organizations, clusters and SMEs in the region. Partnership with
European and global business networks such the Global TCI Network in Barcelona, Spain
www.tci-network.org helps us to ACT LOCALLY AND THINK GLOBALLY.
The Balkan Cluster Network contributes:
 Improvement of Cluster Development in the region;
 Efficient access of cluster organizations to development funds;
 Logistic-informational centre of the Balkan Cluster Network, located in the Cluster House,
makes possible support in order to encourage networking, promotion and
internationalization;
 Support to organizing the Balkan Black Sea Mediterranean Conference DAYS OF CLUSTERS;
 Similar business and development inter-cluster connecting events with the aim of a better
positioning and more successful development of cluster organizations in the Balkans.
NOW IS THE TIME TO JOIN US!
Respectfully,
Dr. Danka Milojkovic
Director of the Cluster House
Member of the TCI Board of Directors

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Contents
INTERNATIONAL CLUSTER MEETING IN SOFIA...................................................................4
MASTER CLASS WINE TASTING DEMIR KAPIJA, MACEDONIA .............................................7
RECOMMENDATIONS OF SERBIAN CLUSTERS -NATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE EU..........8
INITIATIVE FOR NORDICS/BALTIC SEA & BALKAN/BLACK SEA CLASTERS COOPERATION.....9
C2C GREECE & SERBIA..................................................................................................... 10
FORTHCOMING ACTIVITIES............................................................................................. 11
REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR WINE TOURISM MACEDONIA, 23-25 APRIL 2015................ 11
WINE CLUSTER LEARNING TRIP TO URLA REGION, IZMIR 3-6 JUN, 2015: OPEN CALL FOR
PARTICIPATION .............................................................................................................. 13
THINK GLOBALLY TCI 2016 – WELCOME IN DAEGU, 3-6 NOVEMBER 2015........................ 15
THINK GLOBALLY CLAC – WELCOME IN MEDELIN, 16-19 JUNE 2015................................. 16
4 YEARS WITH CLUSTER HOUSE WINNING TEAM............................................................. 17

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ACT LOCALLY, THINK GLOBALLY
International Cluster Meeting in Sofia
Sofia Cluster Meeting was held on 13 March 2015, at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”,
as a partnership of the KOOK Cluster for education, training and qualifications Sofia, the Cluster for
assessable tourism Sofia, led by Mr. Dimitar Stoichev and the Cluster House / Balkan Cluster
Network, led by Dr. Danka Milojkovic.
Sofia Cluster Meeting gathered more than 40 participants – academics, diplomats, representatives of
the governmental institutions and business organizations, economic development experts and cluster
managers from Turkey, Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria. The meeting had been successfully moderated
by Mr. Emil Jassim, from KOOK Sofia.
After Ms. Anna Portarska’s welcome speech, meeting participants had opportunity to listen
presentation of Mr. Emrah Sazak, Turkish Trade Counselor in Sofia, about doing business in clusters
in Turkey. Mr. Dimitar Stoichev, Cluster for accessible tourism Sofia, introduced participants with
cluster development challenges in Bulgaria.

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Mr. Andrew Schafernaker, cluster development expert, motivated the audience to wonder will
South East Europe's clusters be able to meet the challenges of the Future World Economy. Mr.
Vladimir Minev, from Bulgarian Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion Agency, pointed
importance of transnational clusters collaboration and networking. One of the key speakers Mr.
Vedat Kunt, VEGO Partners, Izmir, Turkey, pointed out that everything depends on people and
EVERYBODY SHOULD LIKE EVERYBODY if they want to create a successful cluster organization.
The Cluster House Model, as a tool for cluster
development in countries in transition, had
been presented by Mr. Goran Zlatkovic,
executive director of the Cluster House Serbia.
Ms. Tanja Radosevic, English Tours/Book
Education Serbia, a member of the Cluster
House Network, introduced participants with
the innovative project on educational program
for learning foreign languages for pupils and
businessmen.
Mr. Mustafa Chaushov, chief expert at
Bulgarian Ministry of Economy, presented the
new programming period „Innovations and
Competitiveness” 2014-2020 in Bulgaria.
Dr. Danka Milojkovic, Cluster House director
and a member of the TCI Board of Directors,
Barcelona, Spain introduced participants with
the Balkan Cluster Network and the Global TCI
Network and benefits from the membership in
local and global business networks – to be
successful clusters should
ACT LOCALLY and THINK GLOBALLY!
The Cluster Meeting contributed to the development of personal contacts, exchange of experience,
planning of joint action, creating of new partnership for accessing to development funds.

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Sofia Cluster Meeting had been
followed by Ms. Gergana Avramova
from Bulgarian Ministry of
Economy/Department for Project
Management, Mr. Radu Moldovan,
Economic Advisor of the Romanian
Embassy in Sofia, Mr. Aleksandar
Milicevic, Economic Counselor of the
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in
Sofia, Dr. Dragan Kostic, President of
the Regional Chamber of Economy Nis and Mr. Nebojsa Bogdanovic, vice president of the Regional
Chamber of Economy Nis.
There were cluster managers and members from 14 cluster organizations in the following areas:
education, creative industries, tourism, design, technology, innovations, wellness, IT and e-business.
Due to interesting speakers presentations the following specific topics were discussing:
- Defining legal frame for clusters ,
- Creating national strategies for cluster development,
- Competence mapping for clusters in the SEE region,
- Develop more specialized C2C events and learning trips,
- Improve of policy makers awareness of the important role of clusters for the sustainable
economic development in the SEE,
- Using multiple media to tell cluster story - Cluster House as the SEE cluster platform,
publications like INFOCLUSTER, scientific journals, Cluster TV program.
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The meeting organizers reminded clusters and
support institutions that isolated projects,
initiatives and clusters lose a huge part of their
innovation potential and that sharing ideas
means also getting new ones.
After successfully organized meeting sessions, host
of the event “KOOK” Cluster invited all conference
participants to informal gathering with delicious
Bulgarian food and traditional music.

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Master Class Wine Tasting Demir Kapija,
Macedonia
The traditional event of Tikves region winemakers was organized on February 14th
in Demir Kapija
with the support of the Municipality of Demir Kapija, the Center for education and networking in
tourism „CENET“ Demir Kapija and the Tikvesh Wine Route Foundation, which is the member of the
Balkan Cluster Network.
Cluster House, as an institution supporting the event and long tearm partner of the CENET and
Tikveš Wine Cluster participated in a wine event in Demir Kapija and made useful contacts with
clusters, international organizations and institutions supporting economic development. In addition
to meeting with Cluster Organika from Veles and Tikves Wine Cluster from Kavadarci, contacts were
established with the Centre for development of the Vardar region and UNDP Office Skopje. One of
the issues discussed was possibility of organizing the wine study visits to Macedonia and linkage with
wine clusters and initiatives in the Balkan – Black Sea - Mediterranean Region.
The event which marked the manifestation was “Master class Wine tasting” organized at the oldest
winery in the Balkans - Winery Elenov. Attending guests had the opportunity to hear about aromas,
flavors, texture, weights and other characteristics of the wines from the Tikves region and to taste
premium white and red wines from well known wineries: Popova Kula, Bovin, Povardarie, Stobi,
Tikveš and Elenov.

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Recommendations of Serbian clusters -
National Convention on the EU
The second session of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) working group for
Chapter 20 has been held on Thursday, 19/02/2015 in premises of the National Assembly of Serbia.
The session was well visited and dedicated to the perception of the role of business clusters and
creating a better business environment and raising the competitiveness of Serbian economy.
The session was opened by announcing Books of recommendation for all negotiation chapters which
NCEU would bring out in cooperation with the Office for European Integration. Dr. Danka Milojković,
director of the Cluster House and a member of the Global TCI Board of Directors, talked about the
clusters and their importance for economic development.
The main goal of the 2nd
session of the working group was to define specific recommendations. In
line with this, and the fact that economic development based on the cluster approach is an
important element in the practice of economic development in Europe and is becoming even more
important as Europe strives for sustainable and innovative-driven growth models in the period after
the economic crisis, the Serbian cluster community under the roof of the Cluster House proposed
the following recommendations:
- to empower business organizations (chambers, unions, business associations) to better
advocate for the needs of members and efficient private-public dialogue.
- to draft National Strategy for development of clusters according to the needs of the region
and an action plan with a budget for the implementation of the strategy.
- to develop a National Strategy on scientific and technological development of Serbia from
2015 onward which will encourage cooperation between educational institutions, R&D and
business community organized through clusters, business incubators, tech parks, etc.
- to draft legislation on cluster organizations, business incubators, technology parks
- in order to have more efficient use of EU funds, to approve the existence of budget line at
the national level to serve as co-financing for projects approved for funding from the EU
funds
- to provide infrastructure for the development of clusters

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INITIATIVE FOR NORDICS/BALTIC SEA &
BALKAN/BLACK SEA CLASTERS
COOPERATION
Mr. Lars Albæk, Head of Department/Vaeksthus Copenhagen & TCI member and Dr. Danka
Milojkovic, Director/Cluster House & TCI BDM, as FAO experts for clustering conducted the cluster
development training and coaching activities for participants from "Drina-Sava", "Drina-Tara" and
„Prespa-Sharra“cross-border regions to help establishing and strengthening of value chains in long-
term partnerships for sustainable rural development based on joint marketing strategy through
clustering.
The cluster workshop session resulted with lot of
cluster initiatives and project ideas such as
setting up cooperation across regional clusters in
Nordics/Baltic Sea Region and Balkan/Black Sea,
as well as developing a project idea “Balkan food
cluster” and achieving a cross regional
cooperation between "Drina-Sava", "Drina-Tara"
and „Prespa-Sharra“ within the Balkan Cluster
Network platform.
he workshop “Strengthening value chains”, was
held in Andrevlje, Fruska Gora, Serbia in the
period 23-25th
March 2015 and was organised
within the EU funded project “Preparation for
Implementation of the Area Based
Development (ABD) Approach in the Western
Balkans – 2nd
phase”, as well as FAO TCP:
“Support to the implementation of integrated,
innovative cooperation projects in the Western
Balkan region – the Area Based Development
Approach”.
The workshop had been attended by the following cluster organizations: Cluster of tourism “Sveti
Dimitrije”, Sremska Mitrovica Serbia, Cluster of buckwheat producers Pljevlja Montenegro, Cluster of
tourism Ohrid Macedonia, Cluster initiative of rafting on Drina and Tara Serbia, Textile cluster Užice
Serbia, Agrinet Albania, Cluster initiative of fruit producers in Kosovo and Wine cluster from Croatia.

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C2C GREECE & SERBIA
Real Estate Cluster SERBIA, member of the Balkan Cluster Network and Cluster House from Nis,
organized International Conference on real estate market and systems of work of real estate agents.
Conference participants were eminent agencies from Serbia and their counterparts from Greece
and Bulgaria, with whom they exchanged experiences in order to offer higher level of service to its
customers and allow international connections in this area.
A significant contribution to the success of the conference was given by the CRECOS Cluster
representatives (Cluster coordination of services in real estate) from Greece. Cluster members are
agencies for mediation in real estate in Greece, and other professionals and institutions who provide
services in the area of real estate.
After the conference, representatives of the CRECOS had a meeting with the leadership of the
Cluster House, where they discussed the future cooperation between the two organizations, as well
as the opportunities for CRECOS to be a member of the Balkan Cluster Network and the Global TCI
Network. Members of the CRECOS had been invited to participate at the 6th
International conference
"Days of Clusters", which is traditionally held in the second half of October. Mr. Nikos Manomenidis,
invited representatives of the Cluster House to visit Cluster CRECOS in Thessaloniki, in order to
continue begun talks on cooperation in the field of capacity building of cluster management in the
real estate clusters in the region and access to EU funds for the development of clusters and
business networking.

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Forthcoming activities
REGIONAL CONFERENCE FOR WINE TOURISM
MACEDONIA, 23-25 APRIL 2015
The Ministry of economy of the Republic of Macedonia and the Tikves wine route
Foundation for the first time initiated event which will gather high representatives from
wine and tourism sector in the Balkans and Europe with aim to support building new
partnership between tourism and wine stakeholders in the region.
http://stobiwinery.mk/
The conference will be attended by wine and tourism institutions, business organizations,
experts and cluster organizations from more than 15 countries. There will be wine and
tourism clusters from 9 countries from the Cluster House Business Network such as Urla
Wine Producers and Viticulture Association – Wines of Urla Izmir Turkey, Association of
vineyard cottages Novo Mesto Slovenia, Unido Wine cluster initiative Montenegro,
Fruskagora Growers and Winemakers Cluster "Alma Mons” Novi Sad Serbia, Bulgarian
Wellness Cluster, Romanian Bio Danubius Cluster from Tulcea, Health, Wellness and SPA
Tourism Cluster Serbia.
Conference will be opened by Mr. Bekim Neziri, Minister of Economy, Mr. Christopher Imbsen,
Deputy Regional Director for Europe from UNWTO, Ms. Penelope Denu Director of European
Institute for cultural route, Ms. Violeta Jankova CEO Tikves wine route Foundation and

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Dr.Danka Milojkovic Director of the TCI Board of Directors Barcelona and Director of the
Cluster House Nis Serbia.
The Closing Ceremony of the conference will be done by Mr.Trajce Dimitriev Mayor of
Demir kapija, one of the key support institution of the Tikvesh Wine Route Foundation.
24 April 2015, the Conference will try to give answers to following questions:
- What kind of wine tourism business netwok we need?
- How are public and private sector prepared to invest resources in wine
tourism business network?
- How to use international and national funds for development of wine tourism
business network
25 April 2015, the Forum “Needs of an informal education and networking in wine
tourism” will pay attention on educatial needs in the wine tourism sector.
For more info about the host country Macedonia, please visit
the following link: http://macedonia-timeless.com/
For more info please contact or visit:
Tikves wine route Foundation
twineroute@gmail.com
www.tikveswineroute.com
Ministry of economy of the Republic of Macedonia
www.economy.gov.mk
http://tikves.com.mk/
WELCOME WINE TOURISM CLUSTER FAMILY IN
BEAUTIFUL SKOPJE & TIKVESH REGION
region with the oldest tradition in wine production in the Balkans
http://popovakula.com.mk/

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WINE CLUSTER LEARNING TRIP TO URLA
REGION, IZMIR 3-6 Jun, 2015: open call for
participation
The core value of the “Days of Clusters 2014” wine
session and “Cluster Wine Trip to Trakya Region” in
Tekirdag, Marmara Sea, Turkey, is networking
initiative between the wine producers in Turkey
and the Balkans.
The Cluster House and the Urla Wine Producers and
Viticulture Association – Wines of Urla WoU from
Izmir developed the pilot project “Wine Cluster
Learning Trip to Urla Region”. Mission of the project
is to support efforts for connecting wine makers in
Urla Region based on cluster development model,
with aim to create the Balkan & Black Sea &
Mediterranean wine cluster synergy and to increase
competitiveness, penetrate markets and support
initiatives for development of Turkish wines as the
worldwide recognizable brand.
Wine learning trip will be implemented from 3-6
June 2015 for group of 14 selected participants
from the Cluster House business network - clusters
of wine and tourism, completely dedicated to
discover potentials of wine production in the Urla
Peninsula to similar producers from the Balkan
and Black Sea countries. Wine learning trip agenda
includes visits to 5 top wineries in the Urla Region:
Urla Winery www.urlawinery.com,
Mozaik Winery www.mozaiksarapcilik.com,
Urlice Winery www.urlice.com,
MMG Winery www.mmgsarapcilik.com,
USCA Winery www.usca.com.tr.
Also participants will visit examples of good practices
in the Urla region: The Horse Ranch of Mozaik Winery
and The Uzbas Plant Farm of Urla Winery
www.uzbas.com.
Accommodation:
www.urlabagevi.com
www.kemalbeyrange.com
www.2roomshotel.com

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Wine learning trip will foster C2C and B2B
matchmaking between Urla Region and Balkan and
Black Sea Region which will contribute to new
investments, joint ventures, export-import
promotion and new employment creation.
If you are interested in participation, for more
information please contact info@clusterhouse.rs.
Deadline for applying is May 15.
Number of participants is limited.
for learning and enjoying
welcome to turkey as the top wine destination
www.urlawinery.com

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THINK GLOBALLY TCI 2016 – WELCOME IN
DAEGU, 3-6 NOVEMBER 2015
The 18th
TCI Global Conference will be held under the main theme of "Clusters in the
Creative Economy" and take place in Daegu (Republic of Korea) on 3-6 November 2015.
The conference will be hosted by KICOX, Korea Industrial Complex Corp.
For the past 50 years, KICOX has been the backbone of economic development in Korea.
They have reinforced the competitiveness of the industrial complex by consistently
supporting the tenant companies in advancing their technology, management, and business
environment, which has created an innovative industrial complex that, is at the forefront of
the global and local industrial trend. The venue city Daegu is the heart of industrial
development for the region, particularly for electro fusion/convergence, mechatronics,
mechanical transport, and is a leader of state-of-the-art industry in Korea. Furthermore,
Daegu is also best suited to exhibit the success of the industrial clusters concept, and to
exchange information and knowhow with increasing interest in further development of
industrial clusters in the neighbouring areas such as Gumi, Ulsan, and Changwon.

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THINK GLOBALLY CLAC – WELCOME IN
MEDELIN, 16-19 JUNE 2015
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