PITA - Parque tecnológico Almería

Five Technology Based companies of Almería have been selected for the second phase of the EOI-APTE EBTs’ Consolidation Action Programme. This programme is being developed by EOI Foundation (Industrial Organization School belonging to the Industry, Tourism and Trade Ministry) in collaboration with the Spanish Association of Scientific and Technology Parks (APTE), that PITA belong to.

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.