Projects Update (11)
The word ‘Reinvestment’ forms a core part of FESPA’s brand promise and since 2005 FESPA has reinvested over €2 Million through ‘Association Member Projects’ designed to stimulate the marketplace, educate and inspire members.
This page gives a regular update on what projects have been approved by the committee and how FESPA will continue to support the industry.
UK - Think tank event - to develop a code of practice on intellectual property
UK - FESPA link event with AEDES during FESPA Digital in Barcelona including factory visits
Belgium - Febelgra Headquarters project - to establish a special feature entrance promoting FESPA
Belgium - Sustainability project for printers
Czech Republic - Reklama 2012 project - Czech Association to participate in Reklama show in March
Spain - Project to promote Aedes at FESPA digital 2012
Spain - Telemarketing for Spanish seminars
Turkey - Series of seminars on new techniques in screen and digital
Turkey - Set up of screen and digital workshop in Ankara High school
Serbia - Seminar in belgrade in March
Slovakia - colour separation and special effects workshop in February in Kosice
Slovakia - Digital workshops for students
Bulgaria - Serigraphy training print shop facility
Bulgaria - colour management seminar
Finland - Serpa 2012 in September 2012
The most recent Projects Committee meeting was held at the end of June when the following projects were approved.
In France, GPSF is organising a certification day for printers working in textile, graphics and industrial markets to provide information and guidance on various certifications including ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 12647, FSC, PEFC and FESPA's own Planet Friendly guide. This one day event is scheduled to take place on 6th October in Paris with AGFA, AFNOR and France Certifications participating amongst others. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ,
Education and training continue to be important areas for FESPA Associations to get involved in and in Czech Republic the 5th suppported Serigraphy workshops for students will be held at the end of September. The course is aimed at teachers, students, artists, graphic designers and creative printers.Spaces are limited to 20 but for more information please contact Tomas Zeleny This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Also taking place in September in Slovakia, FESPA will once again be supporting Screen Printing Workshops for students. Places are much in demand for these highly popular and worthwhile activities so for more information please contact Ludovit Bartos This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
SERPA in Finland is being suppoprted in organisng a one day seminar and workshop followed by a networking evening. The focus of this event will be on business economics for printers to help them develop strategies to transform their businesses into successful customer focused print service providers. The event will be held on 11th November in Helsinki and will coincide with the 35th Anniversary of SERPA. Around 100 printers will be able to participate in this event. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
In the UK a Think Tank event was held a few months ago where top printers discussed issues relating to Print Management Companies. A second Think Tank event has now been supported and will take place in in September with PMC's participating, the objective being to establish a code of practice to operate between PMC's and PSP's. Once agreed, the code of practice will be shared with all FESPA Associations since this particular issue is a problem in many European countries. For more information please contact Peter Kiddell at Prism, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
A few projects from Spain were supported, the first being a promotional campain for the technical courses that Aedes runs for printers.
The second supported event is a print shop activity at Viscom Sign Madrid in October. Aedes (and FESPA) will be supporting live printing demonstrations as well as promoting the work Aedes does in Spain by hopefully encouraging students from print colleges and schools to participate in this event.
Aedes will be undertaking a survey of Spanish printers to collect data on economic and labour statistics in addition to obtaining data on sales, production and work areas across the industry sector in Spain. The survey will be conducted twice in September 2011 and January 2012.
The final Spanish project supported is an initial road show event in Madrid in September to promote Aedes by covering various topics on "Provision of digital solutions", two debates involving digital printers, agencies and media centres with an interactive workshop on how to motivate your customer with a closing presentation on the future of the industry by FESPA. This event will be held on 29th September. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The committee also ratified two earlier decisions to support the Czech and Polish Associations in hosting stands at relevant trade shows in Brno and Poznan.
The next Projects committee meeting will be in September. For more information on project activity please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
In Belgium we are supporting Febelgra with a "Print 2 day" in June, a number of interactive e-marketing workshops as well as some interactive innovation workshops. For more infor4mation please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .Over in Finland we will be supporting SERPA in having a presence at Finn Visual in September, undertaking a member recruitment campaign as well as a Finnish market survey and Finnish economy survey. We also supported the translation of the FESPA Economy survey into Finnish. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Support was also given to the Czech Association to help with costs enabling them to exhibit at the Brno trade fair in May, for details contact the new secretary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Finally, a UK think tank event was also supported, a special small event aimed at top printers to consider and discuss lean manufacturing and working together to share resources. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it A number of tthe other proposals require more information to be provided before a decision can be made. If you want more information on any of these projects please contact the relevant FESPA secretary or of course contact me, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The latest meeting of the projects committee was held earlier this month with over 20 new applications being submitted for consideration.
After a day spent considering all these requests, the following were agreed by the Projects Committee:
Slovak Screen Printing Association/Sieťotlačový zväz SR
5th International Seminar for Screen and Digital Printers, 2-3 October 2009
Supported by FESPA, the Seminar took place in Dudince, Slovakia, this year, focusing on textile printing, and was attended by over 100 delegates.
Read the full report here >>
On Wednesday this week the Projects committee considered a number or new projects and agreed the following:
In Slovenia we shall be supporting an environmental seminar in November which will focus on environmental issues for the SEE (South East Europe) region. This high profile event will be held in Ljubljana wth live streaming to audiences elsewhere using webinar technology. Part of the programme includes translation of the Planet Friendly Guide into Slovenian language for distribution to members of Slovenian Association. For more information please contact
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A pretty busy few months what with preparations for FESPA 2010 but our other events and activities continue with quite a few FESPA supported events having taken place recently. In April I was invited by Sico and PSSiDC to speak at an event in Krakow and it was a real pleasure to see so many people (about 140) attend this event. My presentation was based on how to be a revolutionary printer since in 2010, doing what you have always done will not see you through the hard times. Customers are better informed, more demanding, more empowered and printers have to engage with their customers in a different way if they are to be successful and remain in business.
At our last meeting support was given to a number of new projects as follows:
An environmental conference in Denmark aimed at Nordic countries, a digital seminar in Belgrade in May, in Slovakia the 6th International seminar to be held in Piestany in October, assistance towards the cost of translating the Planet Friendly Guide into Spanish, as well as a textile conference in China in November.
This is probably the most comprehensive single source environmental guide available anywhere for screen and digital printers and by following the advice contained therein, printers can adopt best available techniques and even start off on the road to obtaining environmental accreditation eirough ISO 14001 or EMAS. We are now on our 5th update since the launch of the guide in May 2009.
FESPA continues to support a wide range of projects submitted by its Associations and in the last six months a varied number of projects have received approval. Some of these are described in more detail below. At our last meeting held in December we approved projects for Germany, Finland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Sweden, France and India.
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