Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation

The City of Zaragoza and Telefónica, Siemens, Endesa, Ibercaja, and Caja Inmaculada have united to create the “Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation.” The Foundation—whose motto is innovation, science, technology— supports the development of the Information Society in Zaragoza. Actively promoting the scientific and technological culture among the underprivileged, the Foundation organises and promotes related national and international events. The Mayor of Zaragoza chairs the Foundation and the Board includes Spanish luminaries such as Luis Oro, one of the brightest scientists in Spain, and Mateo Valero, who’s responsible for Spain’s supercomputing project.

http://fundacionzcc.org

Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

The city of Zaragoza, capital of the Aragon region in Northeast Spain, is in the midst of a transformation that includes demographic, urban and economic growth. This stimulating transformation will manifest itself at the World’s Fair Expo Zaragoza 2008, “Water and Sustainable Development.”

Connected to Madrid and Barcelona through a new high-speed train, Zaragoza is an important hub in Southern Europe—blending privileged location with international manufacturing and a prestigious University that specialises in computing, telecommunication, and the sciences.

More than two thousand years of history, a high quality of life, and innovative city projects blend to make Zaragoza a dynamic city for work, pleasure, and investment.

http://www.zaragoza.es

Gobierno de Aragon

Aragón became a Kingdom in the 11th Century, although its origins date back to pre-Roman times. The historical path of the Independent Community of Aragón, from its beginnings as a political organization in the 8th century in valleys of Echo and Canfranc to the present day, is laid out in a series of crucial events which apply as much to Aragón as to the rest of Europe: the Commitment of Caspe, the expansion of the Aragonese Principality to the Mediterranean, the political leadership of Fernando II the Catholic and his grandson Carlos I, the Moorish culture, the ‘Ilustración española’, the War of Independence, and the Spanish Civil War.

Nowadays Aragón’s leadership is comparatively autonomous and has been one of the pioneers in statute reform. Aragón has also given the world politicians, philosophers, scientists, and artists, representatives of a rich and universal culture: Martial, Avempace, Miguel Servet, Gracián, Goya, Ramon and Cajal, or Buñuel, Carlos and Antonio Saura.

Regional Assembly of Aragon

Aragon is made up of three provinces: Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel. The capital of the region is Zaragoza. Aragon's Statute states that the autonomous region has a Regional Assembly, a President, a Regional Council and a Department of Justice. Aragon's Assembly comprises 67 elected assembly members. They include 18 from the province of Huesca, 15 from the province of Teruel and 34 from the province of Zaragoza.

http://www.aragob.es

Informatica El Corte Ingles

Informática El Corte Inglés, S.A., that belongs to El Corte Inglés Group, the leading distributor group in Spain, was founded in March 1988. Its main activities range from distributor, reseller, manufacturer to consulting and systems integration in Public Administration and large and medium-sized companies in the finance, insurance, manufacturing, and retail sectors.

Its activities are based on both its own products and solutions as well as integrating third party products and solutions. It is the leading Spanish private capital company in IT and Communications in Spain.

Informática El Corte Inglés owns a computer factory in Madrid which manufactures the INVES brand of products where it assembles more than 70,000 computers each year. Its presence in all of the country’s major cities and regions means that Informática El Corte Inglés covers the whole of the national territory with 18 branches. Responding to current market demand, Informática

El Corte Inglés has divided its organisation into two large divisions with the aim of offering its clients the best service with guaranteed quality. One of these divisions is Technology Infrastructures, whose business lines are geared to providing hardware, software, and broadband services. The other division is Consulting and Services. This division provides projects and services related to Expert Document Management Centres, CRM, Call Centre, ERP, Human Resources, and Internet.

http://www.ieci.es

Innovate Ventures

preInnovate Ventures was founded in 2006 as the guardian of the Innovate!Europe brand in Spain and as co-producer of the Zaragoza conference. It is a privately-owned company, uniquely focused on fostering economic development through entrepreneurship and technology innovation.

The company is based in Madrid with partners in Zaragoza and Silicon Valley, USA.

For further information, please contact: Tina Cassano at +44 (0)121 288 3766.

Ballou PR

Ballou PR provides strategic public relations services for European and U.S. clients that go far beyond traditional media relations.

Specialised in high technology, biotechnology and related industries, including VC and business services companies, the firm’s Paris-based agency helps clients optimise their business strategies and establish global public relations campaigns. In doing so, Ballou integrates all techniques of communications, both traditional and emerging, to develop proactive, aggressive public relations programs designed to increase the sales and value of a company, not just "raise awareness."

Ballou’s multi-cultural and multi-lingual team helps bridge cultural and language gaps by meeting PR needs for clients of all nationalities whose needs transcend borders into a foreign market, whether French, American, or elsewhere in Europe.

For more information, please contact Lucie-Anne Radimsky at lucieanne@balloupr.com

http://www.balloupr.com

Thames Valley Economic Partnership

The Thames Valley Economic Partnership (TVEP) is committed to the prosperity of the Thames Valley in the UK, and the well-being of the people who live there. We do this by:

- supporting business by urging both national and local government to adopt policies that ensure economic growth and attract new investment.

- working to ensure the physical and business environment that has attracted so many world class companies to the area is sustained.

Members of the Thames Valley Economic Partnership fund its activities. They include many of the world’s largest hi-tech corporations with a local presence - for example Microsoft, Dell Computer, Vodafone, Oracle, Cisco Systems and Siemens. There are big transport companies like British Airways, manufacturers like Honda, and utilities such as Thames Water. Banks, and large accountancy and legal firms that serve this area are members. The public sector is well represented through eight local authorities, and other public bodies. All the institutions of higher education are partners. These members work together through a board, and a team of full-time executives tasked to achieve TVEP’s aims, headed by Shaun Whittaker, and based at the heart of the region in Reading, England.

http://www.thamesvalley.co.uk

Innovact

Since 1995, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Reims and Epernay in France, has held a unique event for innovative growth companies looking for development solutions.

Each year, more than 200 innovative projects and companies and 4,000 participants come from countries around Europe to visit the exhibition, conduct business meetings, and attend educational workshops and debates.

Participants can participate in a combination of practical sessions and debates on innovation and entrepreneurship in Europe, as well as meet the other participants on the exhibit floor.

For more information, please contact Sabrina Noel at sabrina.noel@reims.cci.fr

http://www.innovact.fr

Cinco Dias

Cinco Días, the doyenne of Spanish financial newspapers, is published by PRISA, through the publishing house Estructura. The newspaper, which was completely revamped in 2002 on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, is divided into six daily sections:

- Empresas (Corporate)

- Opinión (Opinions)

- Finanzas (Finance)

- Mercados (Markets)

- Economía (Economy)

- 5 Sentidos (5 Senses).

It completes the offering with the weekly sections ‘Directivos’ and ‘CincoRed’, which cover every Friday the prospects, innovations, and management models raised by the world of new technologies. In addition, the newspaper includes special monthly supplements on Funds, R+D and Pharmaceuticals, as well as monographs on the most important events in the world of business and finance. Cinco Días was also a pioneer in a series on fiscal, labour, tax, income and personal investment affairs... through Biblioteca Empresarial, in which leading companies in the sector collaborate.

A finance-economy portal called CincoDias.com complements and completes the print daily's information.

http://www/prisa.es

http://www.cincodias.es

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