PITA - Parque tecnológico Almería

During the recent IASP World Conference in Korea an IASP European Division meeting was held. An important part of this meeting was holding a Presidential election as Sten Gunnar Johansson had come to the end of his presidential term. The vote was put to the members present and various proxies had also been received. Iztok Lesjak (Ljubljana Technology Park, Slovenia) was unanimously elected as the new President of the division, taking over from Sten Gunnar.

The Regional Minister of Economy, Innovation and Science, has celebrated his first Board of Directors as chairman of the Almeria Scientific and Technologic Park. At this board, hold in the afternoon of Monday 14th of June, Ávila got to know the challenges and objectives of the park.

Telecommunications, Information Society and Internet International Day also hold at PITA showed the existing need to have Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to be consolidated as strategic for the productive economy.

PITA chairman, Martín Soler, officially presented our park 2009 Annual Report. This publication explains last year most relevant activities and events, as well as technical; finance and entrepreneurial information related to the Almería technopolis. “The park has willing of self evaluation to measure our progress”, Soler said.

In the coming days it will be published Science and Innovation Ministry official call for this year finance grants under INNPLANTA name (former Acteparq) for Scientific and Technologic Parks’ entities already installed or in the process to be installed in them. A total of 600 mio Euros for projects without any subsidy request economic limitation Aids can reach 100% of the budget.