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30 November 2008, Europe
What skills do cluster managers need to fulfil their tasks? What kind of trainings are necessary to meet their future challenges? The first large scale survey supported by PRO INNO Europe on the skills and training needs of European cluster managers is aimed at proceeding towards a clearer job profile and preparing the ground for future trainings on a European scale. Your participation is important: Cluster Organisations and Clustermanagers should participate. This survey is completed by cluster practitioners, for cluster practitioners.

The Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) is a new continent-wide competence and action centre for innovation and cluster based competitiveness approaches to national and regional economic development in Africa.

The CEE-ClusterNetwork is conducting the first large scale survey on the skills and training needs of European cluster managers.

13-14 October 2008, Stuttgart, Germany
MFG Baden-Württemberg, Public Innovation Agency for IT and Media, is organizing "do it.konferenz" - Where creativity meets Technology for the October 13th and 14th 2008, in Stuttgart, Germany.

The management team is assigned by the Board of Directors and supports, facilitate and coordinates TCI activities and networking.

Commissioners are nominated by the President and endorsed by the Board of Directors; they play special and advisory roles.

It is composed by relevant personalities from the world of politics, business and international institutions who played an important role in the application of cluster initiatives. Nominated by the Board of Directors, they are honorary members of TCI. Their role is to assist the Board of Directors in defining the guidelines of TCI activities.

The General Assembly of members is the supreme body of TCI and meets generally once a year during the Annual Global Conference.

Taking advantage of the “5th Eastern African Regional Conference on Innovation Systems and Innovative Clusters in Africa” celebrated in Maputo, Mozambique on August 25-27th and building on the momentum created in Addis Ababa - the 1st Pan African Competitiveness Forum (PACF) - the PACF Executive and Advisory Boards held their second Advisory Board Meetings on August 28-29.

20-21 October 2008, Leipzig, Central Germany
The German Cluster Conference on October 20-21 can be regarded as a nationwide introduction to the TCI Global Conference 2009, also taking place in Leipzig. The two-day gathering of expected 500 participants is the first German event under the patronage of The Competitiveness Institute (TCI) and is hosted by the Industrial Initiative for Central Germany (IICG). Examining various cluster processes in Germany, both, from a practitioner’s and scientist’s point of view, the program aims to portray the benefits of cluster processes. It goes without saying that, thereby, the host hopes to transfer knowledge, intensify social networks and push forward cluster excellence in Germany.