Creating The Network
The Future for Danube Strategy
Roman Bíro PhD.
name: Roman Bíro PhD.
Position: director
adress: Trnava Hlavná 5
state: Slovak Republic
contact: biro@autoklaster.sk
Automotive Cluster – West Slovakia
 founded by City of Trnava and Trnava Municipality Region in 2007.
THE MISSION
 to help SMEs to be successful and competitive in automotive industry
chains.
THE VISION
 to create network and critical mass of relevant subjects to improve
the quality of human resources, but also to support technology
transfer and innovation processes mainly but not only in automotive
industry.
ACWS Members
Educational institutions
1.
STU Faculty of Material Science and Technology
2.
University of Ss. Cyril and Metodius
3.
Secondary Vocational School Senica
4.
Secondary Technical Vocational School Galanta
5.
Institute of materials and machine mechanics SAS
Innovations centres, agencies and chambers of
commerce
6.
BIC spol. s r.o.
7.
Get On Bratislava
8.
SOPK Trnava
9.
Slovak- German Chamber of Commerce and
Industry
Enterprises
10. COMAX TT, a.s.
11. EMERSON, divízia Branson
12. SIM Plan
13. TSU Piešťany š.p.
14. MAKINO spol. s r. o.
15. Švec a spol. s r.o.
16. Služba výrobné družstvo
17. WIGO s.r.o
18. Kvant spol. s.r.o.
19. Dipex spol. s.r.o.
20. ANEX
21. FORM Engineering s.r.o.
22. Bornet s.r.o.
23. Automotive Group SK spol. s r.o
24. Qintec s.r.o.
25. Carisch s.r.o.
26. Carl Zeiss spol, s.r.o.
27. ProPsy - RWS, s.r.o.
28. Profi Tlač, Pavol Skubeň
29. Klauke Slovakia s.r.o
30. Zväz strojárskeho priemyslu SR
31. Technodat, CAE-systémy, s.r.o.
32. MAPRO Slovakia s.r.o.
33. c2i s.r.o.
34. CCN Casting s.r.o
35. nebotra s.r.o.,
36. Matador Industries a.s.
37. Inekon Systems, s.r.o.
38. CRT-ELECTRONIC, spol. s.r.o.
ONGOING PROJECTS
AUTONET
REACT
Duration: 03/2010 – 02/2013
OP: Central Europe
Duration: 08/2012 - 12/2014
OP: Crossborder Austria-Slovakia
The main goal is to create the
AutoNet network of companies
and institutions involved in
automotive industry which can
use the synergistic effect of the
cooperation. The objective is to
create AutoNet as permanent
network of business supporting
actors of automotive industries
from
automotive
leading
Central Europe regions.
The main goal is to develop usable
solutions for the construction of new
buildings that can be taken in fullest
possible use of available resources.
Production, testing and exploring
renewable energy carriers from regional
available biogenic sources, as well as
waste for the transport (mobility) and at
recovery.
FAST INDUCTIVE CHARGING SOLUTION FOR
ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Duration: 10/2012-09/2012
OP: 7. Frame Programme
The overall objective is to foster the
democratization of electric vehicles in the urban
environment by developing an easier and more
comfortable charging solution which will enable
to ease the EV use by the large public and
facilitate their implementation in the urban grid.
FINISHED PROJECTS
AUTOPLAST
AC CENTROPE
INNOVMAT
HU-SK
OP:
Cross-border
Cooperation SK – CZ
OP:
Cross-border
Cooperation AT – SK
OP:
Cross-border
Cooperation AT-SK
OP: Cross-border Cooperation
HU-SK
Building of „Laboratories for
Construction
and
Simulation of plastics
Forming“ in STU MTF and
Accreditation of new study
Programme
„Plastics
technologies“
The project focused on
International Slovak& Austrian
Benchmarking Comparison,
Contracting Meetings of
Companies, Common Portal
and Networking, Education for
company's Employees.
The project aimed to offer
easy access to experts,
equipment and services in the
field of material sciences .
Project established partnerships of
clusters and subcontractors to
provide particular services, with
main aim to offer them support and
information to increase the
collaborative potential.
ACWS MAIN ACTIVITIES
Education activities – Automotive Academy
Participation in EU projects – internationalization
Development and innovation activities – Automotive
Campus, emerging technologies
Start up support
Networking, B2B, members promotions
Danube Strategy - strategy for future co-operation
Automotive Academy - let´s professionals to
teach professionals
Vision
Create a unique
institution built on the
pillars of experience,
expertise, flexibility,
usability and
affordability.
Mission
Improve knowledge
and skills of
professionals and
managers working in
the automotive
industry in various
management areas.
Strategy
Become the most appropriate
and best choice of education
professionals and managers
working in AP
Create a unique opportunity for
the exchange of experiences
among participants and
between participants and
lecturers.
Internationalization - Project „Automotive
without boundaries“
The main objective of the project is to ensure the correct orientation and a
skilled workforce for the purpose of applying in a wide range of automotive
industry in order to promote economic development and increasing
employment in Trnava and the Moravian-Silesian region.
Specific objectives:
• 1 Develop the skills of human capital on the basis of sustainable cooperation
between academies of automotive clusters,
• 2 Create new forms of cooperation in education between companies and
technical secondary vocational schools,
• 3 Acquire knowledge about the needs of human capital in both clusters,
• 4 Improve cluster management with a focus on the development of cluster
member needs.
Automotive Campus - emerging technologies
Automotive Campus:
 seeks for disclosure of the infrastructure needed to address industrial
applications and innovations in the automotive industry for the industry
subcontractors and students,
 it should also serve to address the challenges of submitted projects under
Horizon 2020,
 it should serve as a base for automotive academy, conferences and
workshops,
 it should serve as a base for emerging technologies, e.g. 3D Additive
Manufacturing,
 Success is contingent upon the support of MTF and private resources
 funding from EU funds and private sources,
 possible incorporation in to Danube Strategy Initiative?
Start up support
STU BA Green Team
Student e-car racing team representing Slovak University of Technology in
Bratislava and Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.
Cooperation with ACWS
 AUTOCLUSTERS Final Conference – 20 minutes presentation, Formula Student in
Slovakia – presentation by Patrik Szábo, representative of STU BA Green Team from
the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, STU in Bratislava,
 MatchMaking event in Lombardy region, Italy - plant visit in Brembo and several
bilateral meetings with representatives from IT, HU, SL, GER, CZ, PL. Topic of event
was hybrid and electrical vehicles and their components. Result of this meetings is
signature of cooperation agreement with Technical University Ostrava.
Start up support
RTU Europe Ltd.
Founded in 2012 as a development and technology research company, focusing
on detailed examination of thermodynamic processes in internal combustion
engines aimed at increasing the efficiency and effectiveness.
The RTU technology represents:
 significant reduction of the current high levels of hazardous air pollutants,
 increase the efficiency of currently produced internal combustion engines, hybrids
and alternative power trains,
 reduce unnecessarily high fuel consumption as currently seen in today’s power
trains.
Cooperation with ACWS
 External consultancy to map the environment in terms of existing businesses,
 A database of suppliers in the automotive industry,
 Consultancy for project activity - consultation on current calls.
Networking, B2B, members promotions
International Match Making events:
Istanbul, Turecko – Matador, Carl Zeiss, Klauke
Kyjev, Ukrajina (26.4.2012)
Miláno, Taliansko (3.7.2012) – STUBA Green Team
Balatonfured, Maďarsko (20.9.2012) – NOTUS-Powersonic
Kaluga, Rusko (24.10.2012) – Automotive Group SK
Wroclaw, Poľsko (5.12.2012)
OEMs visits:
Audi Hungaria - Györ, Maďarsko
Volvo Trucks – Kaluga, Rusko
Brembo & Kilometro Rosso – Bergamo, Taliansko
Boryspil Autoplant – Kyjev, Ukrajina
TUBITAK MAM Institute – Istanbul, Turecko
Danube Strategy - strategy for future co-operation
1. ACWS welcomes the Danube Strategy Innitiative,
2. ACWS also on the basis of plenary session of Regions EDUC-V-031 related to
innovationis ready and willing to co-operate especially in innovation transfer and
internationalization,
3. ACWS experiences makes the Trnava region attractive for partners and future cooperation,
4. The composition of members is prerequisite for future success,
5. ACWS membership in Automotive Industry association and in Union of clusters
makes the scope of possible co-operation much wider,
6. The Automotive Campus project could be the flagship in Danube Strategy projects
for Trnava region,
7. The networking in Danube Strategy is an inevitable „must“!
Thank you for your kind attention!
Contact details :
Roman Bíro PhD.
Automotive Cluster - West Slovakia
Address: Hlavná 5, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
E-mail: biro@autoklaster.sk
Phone: +421910777887
www.autoklaster.sk