About Forum

TheForum-2010

 

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

 

We have the honour to inform you thatan Interregional Public Organization"Moscow Entrepreneurs Association" (MEA, www.rusbusiness.org) is organizing a business opportunities / investment matchmaking forum «Russia - Europe: Cooperation without Frontiers» to be held in Moscow on 7 -8June2010 at the premises of the Moscow city Government Exhibition Hall (Novy Arbat Street 36/9).

 

General Partnerof the MEA – Fund to Contributing for Development of Small Enterprises in the Science and Technology Spheare

 

The Forum-2010would be the second business partnerships event in Russian history focused on SMEs and organized by the MEA in cooperation with European and Russian business support institutions. The first Forum-2009 brought together more than 80 Russian companies and a large group of European companies and business support organizations representing interests of more than 60 European companies. During one day only more than 500 bilateral Russian-European meetings upon companies’ prior requests as well as an important number of “out-of-schedule” meetings were held, including also the ones among Russians and among Europeans.

 

The Forum-2010will be devoted to bilateral negotiations between Russianindustrialcompanies,inter aliaSMEs, in production, R&D and services with business partnership proposals, including investment projects, and willing to identify potential business partners in Europe, and European companies,inter aliaSMEs,and business support institutionswhich would have shown interest with regard to Russian business proposals and projects or which, in their return, are offering cooperation, including investment projects, to Russian business community.

 

The Forum-2010 is making part of the MEA Long-Term Integrated Business Partnerships Programme for Russian industrial companies, which in addition to an annual brokerage event in Moscow on a broader number of industrial sectors includes, inter alia organizing and holding Russia-Europe matchmaking events in selected Russian regions focused on their local economic and entrepreneurship development priorities.

 

European and Russian companies from the following sectors are invited to take part in theForum-2010:

Traditional sectors of Industry

  • Foodindustry
  • Wood industry, pulp& paper
  • Chemicals
  • Machinery and mechanical engineering
  • Electronics
  • Construction / building materials
  • Textile, fur/leather, garments production
  • Electrical engineering
  • Metal working
  • Automotive
  • Medical devices / Pharmaceutics
  • Optics, glass products, manufacturing, processing and finishing technologies

New sectors –Technologies

  • Energy, environment, climate and water
  • Biotechnologies, bio-fuel and bio-power
  • Advance flexible materials
  • Aerospace
  • ICT and Media
  • Nanotechnologies

The preparation for the forum by MEA involves identification of business partnership opportunities / investment projects, profiling of enterprises and formulation, analysis and screening of individual project proposals. The forum itself will bring together potential commercial and joint venture partners to discuss possible forms of cooperation to implement business partnerships / investment plans being tabled. All those participating in this business - investment forum share one thing in common, the desire to broaden their contact network and to find new partners for technical as well as commercial purposes. The forum provides a unique opportunity for you to find new business contacts.

 

Registration

Registration is opened till1 June2010. Apply for, fill in the Registration Form / Company Profile and send it to the Organizer by e-mail (map-june2010@mail.ru). It is important that you make an accurate and brief description of your company and your desired cooperation with Russian potential partners. This text forms the basis of the entry in the online catalogue on the forum’s website and is used by all participants prior to the forum to assist them in making the choice of companies they wish to meet during the event.

Please note that the sooner you register the earlier information on your company will appear on the forum’s site and for a longer period your offer will be available for Russian companies. This increases the number of your possible meetings during the forum.

 

Investment Projects

Both European and Russian companies with investment project proposalsare invited to fill in an Industrial Investment & Business Partnership Project Profile in addition to their registration / company profile form and send it together with the latter to the Organizer by e-mail (map-june2010@mail.ru) in WORD format.

Each profile has to provide with the following: (i) information on the enterprise (company name, address, telephone, fax and e-mail; contact person; present line of business; annual turnover; present ownership; share capital; number of employees); (ii) project description (purpose of the project; main characteristics of the products to be produced; estimated investment costs; foreign cooperation sought); (iii) investment (pre-production capital; initial fixed investment; initial working capital; total); (iv) assessment of the market.

 

Participation Terms

Participation for European companies and institutions isfree of charge. They pay their own travel and accommodation costs.

Upon individual requests (corresponding forms are to be filled in) two additional payable services could be provided to the forum participants:

- Prior to the forum and upon registration placing company’s advertising material on the forum’s site under “Participants’ Advertising” (in WORD format with/without photos incorporated into the text, preferably in Russian, max. 3 pages in Times New Roman-12 font, without contact details). The service price is € 180 (without VAT 18%);

- During the forum providing a company with a 4 ΠΌ² stand. The service price is € 360(without VAT 18%).

 

Individual Bilateral Meetings

Fullday on 7 June 2010 of individual bilateral meetings, scheduled upon request, between Russian firms and European companies and business support institutionsproposing project proposals and investment/partnership projects to start negotiations on possible future business cooperation. Prior to the forum information on all registered participants will be available on the forum’s site under “Participants”. Everybody is meeting with everybody: Europeans are selecting Russian and European companies and business support institutionsand Russians are selecting European and Russian companies and business support institutionsfor the meetings. All participants are invited tobook in advance and not later than 1 June 2010the meetings of interest to them by making use of a Meetings Request form to be sent to the Organizer by e-mail (map-june2010@mail.ru). Upon registration at the forum premises on 7 June 2010 each participant will receive a list of meetings to be held at numbered tables. English and Russian are the official languages. Each meeting will last for about 30 minutes. A large number of informal contacts can naturally also be made outside the "programme". Interpreters will be available upon request.

 

Industrial Fairs Visit

All participants will be provided with a free entrance to the following fairs in Moscow (www.expocentr.ru) to be visited on 8 June 2010:

- 19th International Exhibition for Electrical Equipment for Power Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Energy and Resource Saving Technologies, Household Electric Appliances

- 12th International Exhibition for Glass products, Manufacturing, Processing and Finishing Technology

 

Sponsorship

If you are interested to co-sponsor the event please fill in a corresponding form and e-mail it to the Organizer. In reply you will receive a sponsor’s package for your consideration.

 

Tentative Programme

Monday, 7 June 2010

09:00              - Registration of Participants

09:45 - 10:00  - Opening ceremony

10:00 – 13:00  - Individual bilateral business meetings & Seminar for Russian officials

13:00 - 14:00  - Lunch

14:00 – 18:00  - Individual bilateral business meetings & Seminar for Russian officials

18:30               - Gala Reception

Tuesday, 8 June2010

A free visit to 2 industrial fairs in Moscow

 

Forms to be filled in

All forms to be filled in by Forum participants are available at the forum’s site www.ru-eu-cooperation-without-frontiers.com under “Registration forms”

 

Forum’s Web-site

All Forum’s information is available at the forum’s site www.ru-eu-cooperation-without-frontiers.com

 

Venue of Events

On 7 June 2010 – Forum – Novy Arbat Street 36/9, Moscow Government Exhibition Hall

On 8 June 2010 – Visits to 2 fairs at “Expocentr” - Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya, 14

 

 

We would be honoured if you could join us at this special event and look forward to meeting you at the business Forum.