At the World Trade Center Baltimore (US) will be held international symposium: Creating Global Transformation, organized by the Center for Women and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), the World Trade Center Institute, and the Women in Global Science and Technology (WIGSAT). Anne-Mari Rannamäe will take part in the workshop: Information dissemination and communication.

QUIN-meeting in Stockholm. There was discussed participation of QUIN organizations in future projects and development of QUIN cooperation.
There were in the meeting from Sweden: Wanja Bellander, Margareta Jonason and Birgitta Folcker-Sundell; from Finland: Maila Hakala and Ilse Vaeneberg; from Estonia: Anne-Mari Rannamäe and Kristi Saarso.

There took place in Helsinki “Roses Day”, organized by Finnish Women Entrepreneurial Centre.
QUIN members used the case to make a short meeting how do better use EU funds, Switzerland funds for Estonian innovative awareness improvement, etc.

QUIN-Finland delegation, 11 persons, visited EVIKA Science Centre in Saku. The hostess was Viive Rosenberg, the first QUIN contact person in Estonia. There were in Finnish delegation QUIN-Finland members, journalists and the representative of the Finnish Innovators Union. QUIN-Estonia has there 6 members: Viive Rosenberg, Anne-Mari Rannamäe, Eha Pajumets, Viivi Jokk, Kärt Summatavet and Kristi Saarso. We got more acquainted with problems and joy of inventors in the field of innovation.

There took place in Pirita TOP SPA a seminar organized by WIPO, dedicated for the Global Day of Intellectual Property. QUIN members Kristi Jalakas, Eha Pajumets and Anne-Mari Rannamäe participated on seminar.

The 6th Annual BFIIN (British Female Inventor & Innovators Network) exhibition, conference & award 2005 took place in the Painted Hall, Greenwich Maritime, London.
The QUIN-Estonian members Virve Poom, Karoli Hindriks and Viive Rosenberg participated in this event. Read more...
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In Romania, Brasov took place the first meeting of the 3-years project EUI Net (European University-Industry Network). This project has 72 partners from 30 countries. Estonia is represented by Tallinn University of Technology and NGO QUIN-Estonia. The main aim is to create network of universities, industrial partners and public sector. The main outputs include publishing the 2 books, 1 European workshop and the EUI Net conference, web databases for graduates, available jobs in industry, research and innovation. In Romanian meeting was participated by Anne-Mari Rannamäe.

There was in Tallinn the QUIN meeting where we discussed about the Nordplus Neighbour networking project, which deadline is the 1st of February. There were: Maila Hakala and Tuula Allen-Leino from Finland; Anne-Mari Rannamäe, Virve Poom and Mare Treiberg from Estonia.

August 2002