he first day, 27 November Mr. KOSTAS GIOTOPOULOS representing the Development Company of Chamber of Achaia – lead partner of the ECO-nautinet project – welcomed the project partners and they began the works of the workshop as it is described in the agenda (see attached presentations) while firstly introduced themselves and their organizations.
List of partners :
KOSTAS GIOTOPOULOS, representing the Development Company of Chamber of Achaia
KONSTANTINOS GRITSONIS, representing the Development Company of Chamber of Achaia
ANTUN PFEIFER, Associate at Power Engineering and Energy Management Chair, Department of Energy, Power and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb
PERO PREBEG, Asst. Prof., PhD – Head of the Laboratory for Marine Structures, Chair for Ship Structure Design at the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
ROBERT BEDOIĆ, mag. eng. chemical engineering and technology
BUJAR MERSINI, Administrator of Hudson Albanian Group on behalf of CCIT
Mr. KOSTAS GIOTOPOULOS, pointed out that Chamber of Achaia aims to support all local stakeholders of blue community sector in collaboration with the Chamber of Ileia and Chamber of Aitoloakarnania. The overall objective is to valorize the ECO-NautiNET Project to organize a Blue SMEs Community in Achaia and in Region of Western Greece respectively.
Mr. Giotopoulos presented all the main results of the continuous discussions that the Chamber had with the SMEs and especially the organizational structure of the local network and its main objectives. There was a discussion with all the other members in order to identify whether the Greek proposal could fit the needs of the other countries and whether this result could be a transnational output of the project.
In the second part of the meeting, more than 20 local stakeholders of maritime sector accepted the invitation to attend the works of the meeting and to give their feedback to the “ECO-Nautinet” organizers.
There were represenatives from Academia (University of Patras, Hellenic Open University, Technological Educational Institute), Research Organisations (Industrial Systems Institute, Computer Technology Institute), Chambers of Commerce (Aitoloakarnania, Achaia), Municipality of Patras, Region of Western Greece and SMEs who are willing to become members of the Network.
The main issues that were raised from stakeholders were related to gains and profits from their participation to the Network. They all expressed their positive interest, but they said that the objectives, the activities and the responsibilities of the members should be clear. Also, a timeplan is required in order to organize their time and responsibilities in order to keep up with project activities.
