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🚀 Fostering International Collaboration: Austria & Uzbekistan 🇦🇹🤝🇺🇿   We are honored to have participated in the recent meeting between the Uzbek delegation and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance. This was a unique opportunity to present aed – Agency for Economic Cooperation and Development and contribute our expertise to the discussions.   The meeting was hosted by Viceminister Mag. Andreas Reichardt, accompanied by Dr. Michael Mathiaschitz, Mag. Johann Kinast, and Bernhard Herics. Representing aed, Senior Project Manager Marcela Skobalj and Business Development Manager Gregor Pucher joined the dialogue.   The high-level Uzbek delegation, led by Doniyor Kadirov, Advisor to the President of Uzbekistan, included representatives from the Ministry of the Interior, the National Centre for Drug Control, and advisors from the Office of the President and the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Vienna.   Key topics of discussion included: 🌿 Green energy 📦 Customs matters 🤝 Strengthening economic cooperation   We extend our heartfelt thanks to all participants for the inspiring exchange and productive discussions! #BestPracticeAustria #aed #InternationalCollaboration #Uzbekistan #EconomicCooperation #GreenEnergy #CustomsMatters

🌍 Celebrating Milestones and Sharing Knowledge in Salzburg! It was a great honor for aed to be invited to the 20th Europe Summit of the Institute of Regions (IRE) in Salzburg, which also marked the 20th anniversary of this esteemed institute. Our team led an engaging workshop on the progress of the ongoing EU-funded project “Improve Efficiency of the ESI Funds Absorption Processes in Slovenia,” under the Technical Support Instrument (TSI) of DG Reform. We were privileged to have Mr. Aleksander Jevšek, Slovenia’s Minister for Cohesion and Regional Development, as the keynote speaker. His insights into the importance of regional development and cohesion in today’s Europe set an inspiring tone for our discussions. Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the vibrant exchange of ideas, especially also to Franz Schausberger and his team for hosting our workshop and contributing to our Slovene project with highest competence. Here’s to strengthening our commitment to regional development across Europe! #EuropeSummit #RegionalDevelopment #EUFunds #TechnicalSupportInstrument #Cohesion #aed #IRE #bestpracticeaustria #reforms

🎉 Exciting Milestone at the DigiDay in Ljubljana! 🎉 On October 23, 2024, aed/Best Practice Austria, in collaboration with Advantage Austria Slovenia, hosted the DigiDay event in Ljubljana. The event followed a significant step forward in Austrian-Slovenian Cooperation based on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding focused on innovative Administrative Solutions and Technologies, in June this year.   The day before, on October 22, the first Joint Working Group, with participation of the Slovenian State Secretary Aida Kamisalic Latific and the Austrian Vice Minister of Finance Andreas Reichardt, convened at the Slovenian Ministry of Digitalization. During this meeting, specialized working groups were formed to address key areas such as Digital Skills, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, and High-Performance Computing (HPC).   Here’s to successful outcomes and groundbreaking innovations in Public Administration! #BestPracticeAustria #aed #reform #slovenia #digitalization

We are honored to have been invited to participate in the Week of International PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES 2024 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, organized by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. We extend our sincere thanks to Deputy Minister Ilkhom Norkulov for this prestigious opportunity. The Agency for Economic Cooperation and Development (aed) was proudly represented by Rudolf Lukavsky, Commercial Counselor at the Austrian Embassy in Tashkent, and Gregor Pucher, Business Development Manager for aed. It was a pleasure to connect with Max Georg Meier, Project Coordinator at the Hanns Seidel Institute, Tazeen Fasih, Program Leader at the World Bank, Pinar Yasar, Senior Economist at the World Bank, President Ahmet Serdar Ibrahimcioğlu and Director Mustafa Deniz from Kosgeb, and Srinivas Sampath, Director of the Emerging Areas Team at the Asian Development Group. aed looks forward to cooperating on projects in Uzbekistan in key areas such as SME Development, Finance & Taxes, E-Government Solutions, Education, Digitization, Tourism and Cyber-Security. We are excited about the potential for impactful partnerships! #Bestpracticeaustria #aed #InternationalPartnerships #Tashkent #EconomicDevelopment #aed #GlobalCollaboration #Uzbekistan #SME #Finance #CyberSecurity

It was an honour to present the initiative #bestpracticeaustria to the Minister of Energy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Mr. Jurabek Mirzamahmudov, and his delegation at the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, yesterday. At the end of the meeting a memorandum of understanding was signed between both countries in order to increase bilateral cooperation and to position Austrian companies. Interesting presentations were held by Diethard Kratzer ASMAG Group ILF Consulting Engineers Thomas Jukl Denk Grün

Slovenian delegation to Vienna in the framework of the EU-TSI-project "ESIFunds-SI" We are pleased to inform you about the successful outcome of the recent study visit of a Slovenian delegation to Vienna in the framework of the EU-TSI-project "ESIFunds-SI". The purpose of the visit was to exchange experiences and to learn from each other. Insights were given into the organisation of processes in Austria as a decentralised and federal republic, as well as information on the processes of communicating EU issues and their impact on urban municipalities.   During the two days, many high-ranking Austrian institutions were visited. One of the highlights was the Austrian Spatial Planning Conference (ÖROK) where, after a very interesting presentation of the tasks and organisation, the participants had fruitful discussions on the organisational structure of the national programme, financial instruments, overbooking and financing not linked to costs. This exchange of experience will be useful for the implementation of the Slovenian ITI programme.   During the visit to the Austrian Association of Cities and Municipalities, the possibility of establishing a ZMOS representation in Brussels was explored. This potential initiative could significantly strengthen ties and Slovenian efforts at the European level.   We would also like to thank IRE for the excellent organization and collaboration on the study visit.   We look forward to continued cooperation in our joint project and the many promising opportunities that lie ahead.   #aed #BestPracticeAustria #ZMOS #studyvisit #reform

Representatives from the Polish national professional fire department met with aed in Vienna to discuss options for cooperation. The aim is to set up a Rescue Training Centre with state-of-the-art Austrian technology in Poland. aed assured know-how transfer, both in the area of (EU) funding and in consulting on project implementation. #aed #BestPracticeAustria #poland #RescueTrainingCentre

Our reform project for the modernisation of Cypriot pension insurance enters the final phase in which a most modernised IT system will be developed during the next few years according to best practices of the Pensionsversicherung & Sozialversicherung der Selbständigen.   It will consist of eight sub-projects within an agile process- and project management. Besides the IT system upgrade, business process re-engineering will be done, a modern Management Information System will be developed and a special focus will be given on Change Management & Cultural Transformation.   Under the participation of the Cypriot Minister of Labour & Social Insurance, Yiannis Panayiotou and our Austrian Ambassador to Cyprus, H.E. Dr. Susanne Bachfischer, a Kick-Off with all stakeholders from Cyprus & the Austrian expert team took place in Nicosia and all objectives, the overall time schedule, milestones etc. were presented in detail.   It is a pleasure to highlight the amical thus highly professional working atmosphere during the last months and we are convinced that the Cypriot civil society may look forward to getting a state-of-the-art, fully digitalised and thus most transparent pension insurance system.   #aed #BestPracticeAustria #PV #SVS #reforms #Cyprus 

Our reform project for the modernisation of Cypriot pension insurance enters the final phase in which a most modernised IT system will be developed during the next few years according to best practices of the Pensionsversicherung & Sozialversicherung der Selbständigen.   It will consist of eight sub-projects within an agile process- and project management. Besides the IT system upgrade, business process re-engineering will be done, a modern Management Information System will be developed and a special focus will be given on Change Management & Cultural Transformation.   Under the participation of the Cypriot Minister of Labour & Social Insurance, Yiannis Panayiotou and our Austrian Ambassador to Cyprus, H.E. Dr. Susanne Bachfischer, a Kick-Off with all stakeholders from Cyprus & the Austrian expert team took place in Nicosia and all objectives, the overall time schedule, milestones etc. were presented in detail.   It is a pleasure to highlight the amical thus highly professional working atmosphere during the last months and we are convinced that the Cypriot civil society may look forward to getting a state-of-the-art, fully digitalised and thus most transparent pension insurance system.   #aed #BestPracticeAustria #PV #SVS #reforms #Cyprus