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“ZENIT is a true
pioneer in the area of European support for SMEs. The team
from Mülheim has bridged the distance between NRW and
Brussels for 25 years - and not just in a literal sense. First
as Euro Info Centre, then as Innovation Relay Centre and finally,
since the beginning of 2008, as one of our most important
partners in the Enterprise Europe Network, ZENIT communicates
our EU initiatives and programmes to local enterprises, and
provides us with important feedback about how Europe can become
more SME-friendly. The European Commission thanks ZENIT for
this.”
Günter Verheugen,
until February 2010 Vice President European Commission, Commissioner
for Enterprise and Industry
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“We take
the opportunity of ZENIT's 25th anniversary to celebrate more
than 20 years of constructive teamwork between this outstanding
member of our Enterprise Europe Network and the European Commission.
Personally, I take pride in having been involved in this collaboration
as early as 1999.
Awarded with best practice awards, ZENIT GmbH is of vital importance
for us as a competent and reliable partner in our work with
small and medium-sized companies in North-Rhine Westphalia.
The European Commission in Germany thanks ZENIT for its effective
work and looks forward to continuing our good cooperation
in the future.”
Dr. Stephan Koppelberg, European Commission
Head of the Regional Representation in Bonn |
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“For
me, support for small and medium-sized enterprises in North
Rhine-Westphalia in their European activities is a main priority.
I would like SMEs to take better advantage of the opportunities
available to them in the European Single Market. ZENIT is an
important partner here. As „NRW.Europa“ together with
the NRW.BANK, ZENIT is responsible for providing EU-related
services in the framework of the „Enterprise Europe Network“
and thus makes a significant contribution to strengthening our
SMEs‘ position in Europe.”
Andreas Krautscheid, Minister
for Federal, European and Media Affairs |
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“ZENIT
is one of the leading regional innovation agencies in Germany
and is of particular relevance for effective SME and economic
policy. The Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology thanks
ZENIT for a long-standing working relationship based on mutual
trust, for example in the implementation of ZIM, our SME support
programme, and as National Contact Point for SME-related EU
funding programmes. A hearty "Keep it up!" from Berlin!”
Hartmut Schauerte, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry
of Economics and Technology |
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“As a
member for many years of the Netzwerk ZENT e.V., LBBZ enjoys
making intensive use of the services offered by ZENIT. This
applies particularly with regard to the utilisation of public
funds for our development projects, as well as to the systematic
expansion of our activities abroad. In the realisation of our
objective of marketing our innovative laser technology more
proactively in other EU countries, we have often profited over
the past years from ZENIT's support and its contacts throughout
the EU. I can only recommend every enterprise to play an active
role in the Netzwerk ZENIT e.V. and to make use of the consulting
firm's expertise.”
Ulrich Berners, Managing Director Laser Bearbeitungs- und Beratungszentrum
GmbH, LBBZ |
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“At present,
making skilful use of modern technologies is extremely crucial
for the enhancement of innovative potential of small and medium-sized
enterprises. Therefore, professional and comprehensive consultancy
helping forge pioneer ideas into viable business models and
strategies is all the more essential. With its 25 years of experience
in highly diverse activities related to modern technology dissemination,
ZENIT is a truly reliable and trusted partner, capable of coping
with most innovative undertakings swiftly and efficiently. Thanks
to professionalism and commitment of this successfully thriving
public-private partnership European entrepreneurs are becoming
leaders in business and management innovation.”
Elzbieta Bienkowska, Minister
of Regional Development, Poland |
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“Since
2003, ZENIT GmbH has been closely linked to Malta with the setting
up of the Innovation Relay Centre (Malta) office and subsequently
as a partner on both the IRC Network project and the environment-oriented
METTTES project. ZENIT GmbH made an important contribution to
capacity building within our organisation and over the years
our two
organisations have consolidated a very professional and collegial
working relationship. Malta Enterprise would like to congratulate
ZENIT GmbH on its 25th anniversary.”
Alan Camilleri, Executive Chairman,
Malta Enterprise |
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“Our
cooperation with ZENIT first started some 20 years ago with
the Euro Info Centre network, and already in the field of environment.
A few years later, we both were among the pioneers in the Value
programme which later became the largest European technology
transfer network. Over the years, we have appreciated the professionalism
but also the friendliness of the ZENIT team. We have been proud
to collaborate in organizing match making events during large
fairs whether in Germany (Medica, Entsorga, …) or in France
(Pollutec …) and in elaborating more efficient tools and
methodologies for the network.”
Ludovic Denoyelle, Director for
Innovation and Competitiveness of Enterprises of the Regional
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Burgundy, member of the
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“In the framework of the Renewable Energies Export Initiative
and together with ZENIT, the German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce
organised two delegation visits to Germany by Lithuanian,
Latvian and Estonian enterprises. ZENIT‘s expertise and
reliability, coupled with the staff‘s friendly attitude,
contributed to a major degree to the success of these projects.
The delegates felt very welcome and thus the foundation was
laid for successful business links to German partners.”
Maren Diale-Schellschmidt, CEO, German-Baltic Chamber of Commerce
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“Over
the last two decades, SenterNovem/EG-Liaison and ZENIT have
worked closely together in the Framework Programmes and as National
Contact Points for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, as well
as in other joint networks, such as the Euro Info Centre and
the Innovation Relay Centre Network. ZENIT has great experience
in EU-related issues and cooperating with organisations throughout
Europe. It is our leasure
to continue this good relationship with our neighbour in North
Rhine-Westphalia for many years to come.”
Giel Dubbeld, NCP KP7 SME en
KP7 Regions of Knowledge manager, SenterNovem/EG-Liaison |
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“A constructive
and successful partnership has connected us with ZENIT for many
years. For us as a development-oriented enterprise, ZENIT's
broad spectrum of consulting services in the areas of innovation,
technology transfer and internationalisation offers interesting
potential for our work.”
Thomas Eulenstein, Managing Director,
Kunststoff-Institut Lüdenscheid |
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“With great enthusiasm in 2005 the Italian National
Council of Research (CNR) agreed to be part of the METTTES
(More Efficient Transnational Technology Transfer in the Environmental
Sector) European project managed by ZENIT. The long experience
of Peter Wolfmeyer and his staff, already tested in the multiannual
common job within the Innovation Relay Centre Network, made
the project successful both for the innovative approach to
the technology transfer and for the dissemination of the environmental
culture among the involved SMEs. In terms of professionalism
and competence ZENIT is an example we should all follow!”
Dott.ssa Stefania Giuffrida
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Direzione Centrale Supporto alla Programmazione e alle Infrastrutture
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“We are
a young, innovative and fast-growing enterprise. Our customers
expect from us customised solutions. That means not just intelligent
products, but also effective organisation. ZENIT helped us to
gear our internal structures to these requirements. The measures
proposed - and in the meantime implemented - were tailored precisely
to our needs and ZENIT displayed a high level of customer orientation
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exactly in the sense of our own company philosophy.”
Alexander Houben, Managing Director
JHT Jakobs-Houben Technologie GmbH |
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“Regardless
of whether high-tech enterprise or old economy: ZENIT helps
businesses tap the right source of funding and thus makes an
important contribution to creating space for much-needed innovations.”
Anno Jordan, Sales Director, QS EMG Automation GmbH, Deputy
Chairman of ZENIT e.V. |
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“Without
ZENIT's support, our application in the Sixth Framework Programme
would have been unsuccessful. Understanding and adhering to
the Commission's rules when calculating the budget and weighting
the individual tasks was particularly challenging for us. Here
too, ZENIT's experience was highly significant for the success
of our application.”
Joachim Kieker, - ESECMaSE –
Project Coordinator |
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“Congratulations to ZENIT on achieving a very successful
first 25 years.
The QUESTOR Centre has been the Northern Ireland contact point
on a number of EU environmental-related programmes. During
this time we have worked closely with ZENIT and have developed
a relationship that has brought significant benefit to small
and medium-sized enterprises, research institutions and universities
in our respective regions.
ZENIT is an outstanding partner and an excellent ambassador
for North Rhine-Westphalia and we look forward to at least
another 25 years collaboration.”
Dr. Wilson McGarel, Director,
The QUESTOR Centre Queen’s University Belfast
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“ZENIT
is the model of a successful nerve centre in the “Enterprise
Europe Network“. Our two organisations have worked together
for many years in a partnership characterised by trust and a
clear distribution of labour. In order to make the European
decision process more transparent, sound and decentralised information,
such as ZENIT provides, has become increasingly important.”
Heinz Rudolf Miko, acting Head
of the Representation of the European Commission in Bonn |
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“On behalf
of SPRI, the Basque Development Agency, I would like to congratulate
ZENIT on the occasion of its 25th Anniversary. We have worked
mainly in the field of technology transfer, first, in the IRC
Network and, after, in the Enterprise Europe Network. We have
also been partners in other initiatives of the ERA, like the
Accompanying Measure AWARE and the MANUNET ERA-NET scheme. Our
fruitful collaboration with ZENIT has helped to foster the co-operation
between SMEs from the Basque Country, Spain, and North Rhine-Westphalia.
ZENIT is an excellent partner and a model to follow and we expect
to continue collaborating with them in the future. ”
Tomás Orbea, General Director,
SPRI, Spain |
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“With
ZENIT GmbH Budapest University of Technology and Economics has
been in contact since 1st September 2001 (…) The two institutes
started their cooperation in 1997 as colleagues in the Network
called Innovation Relay Centre (…) when National Technical
Information Centre and Library (OMIKK) became partner of the
Network. In this sense we can say that we have been working
together for more than 10 years. This relationship has been
deepened from 2004 mainly in the area of environmental technologies
(…) We can declare that our cooperation with ZENIT has
been very fruitful and has developed to a friendly level besides
the official one and we hope to continue it in the future as
well. We wish another at least 25 years for ZENIT for their
amazing work in the area of technology transfer and innovation
management. They are such motivated, experienced, professional
and
above all gracious a team that it is an honour to cooperate
with them.”
Prof. Gábor Péceli,
Rector for Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary |
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“We have
successfully co-operated with ZENIT GmbH within the Enterprise
Europe Network (former Euro Info Centre Network) for many years.
As Germany is an important market for Swedish Industry, ZENIT
has been an important and competent co-operation partner. We
have co-operated as partners in many international matchmaking
events at international trade fairs, bringing companies together
to discuss future business. As we share a common methodology
on how to help SMEs go international, we have deepened our co-operation
as regards individual targeted partner search for our clients
which has led to successful business for the companies. I am
convinced that this will lead to even more business in the future.
There is no doubt that the ZENIT staff is one of our best colleagues
in the network for which I am very grateful.”
Carina de la Tajada Lahall Enterprise
Europe Network/ Almi Företagspartner Örebro AB, Sweden |
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“PRAXI/
HELP-FORWARD Network in Greece has been collaborating very closely
with ZENIT since 1997 in technology and Innovation. We have
worked on countless cases of technological collaboration, organised
missions for each others clients in our respective countries
and have been partners in projects. We have through the years
become also
personal friends with the ZENIT stuff. Efficient, reliable and
proactive is the words I would use to describe our friends in
ZENIT. Thank you for the good collaboration thrughout the years
and we look forward to many more to come... ”
Vassilios Tsakalos, PRAXI/ HELP-FORWARD,
Greece |
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“IWT
and ZENIT have been involved in the former IRC network, now
Enterprise Europe Network, from the start. Quite a number of
European companies involved in environmental technology have
met with European partners via the networks' brokerage activities.
ZENIT, as chairing organization of the networks' thematic group
environment, has brought a lot of supporting organizations together
in organizing actions for the SMEs in this field. Then and now,
ZENIT is a respected partner within the network, it's always
a pleasure to cooperate with them.”
Mr Leo Van de Loock, acting President
IWT |
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“ZENIT
is a globally well-known and respected institution in terms
of national and international projects carried out mainly in
Europe. ZENIT has contributed to the internationalization of
our centre, Ege University
Science and Technology Centre, in various fields but especially
in the implementation of European Union projects. In addition,
ZENIT has organized various matching activities, mainly Turkish
- German Business Days. A large number of Turkish and German
enterprises have met and realised business partnerships and
invaluable efforts have been spent for the progress of technical
and business collaboration between Turkey and Germany. It is
also worth mentioning that the IT matching tool called "BEMT"
developed by ZENIT has facilitated the daily operations of our
Innovation Relay Centre in the former Network in terms of technology
transfer and event management. We will be glad to keep on collaborating
with ZENIT in various platforms. ”
Professor Dr. Fazilet Vardar
Sukan, Ege University, Turkey |
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