The projects committee met in Budapest in March and over a long day considered 24 projects submitted by our Associations. Of these we agreed to support a wide range of projects including: a conference and networking event in the Netherlands on 13th October (for more details contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )as well as support for a seminar in Slovakia, also in October on 7th and 8th in Piestany. The Slovak Association is also receiving support for the organisation of screen and digital printing workshops  focusing on special effects. These workshops will take place in April, June and November.

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