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The Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) is a collaborative instrument for developing business/technological/research partnerships for entities around the world especially SME's (Small and Medium sized Enterprises). One of the key factors for business development is innovation. Innovation management can be assessed using specific methods and instruments. One of these methods is the approach developed by the ImP3ove Academy. The ImP3ove methodology is based on an on-line questionnaire which is filled out by the entity. The questionnaire contains a set of questions from different innovation management dimensions. These dimensions are: Innovation Strategy, Organization and culture, Innovation life cycle processes, Enabling factors and Innovation results. After filling the questionnaire, according to the entity's needs regarding to innovation management, a customized benchmark can be applied. Based on ImP3ove database the benchmark can be generated for industry sectors, countries and company size or age classes. Using the filled questionnaire and the benchmarking selection the on-line software based on the ImP3ove methodology can generate a report. This report contains the relevant elements of the innovation management assessment structured on the innovation management dimensions. The paper also presents the results and analysis of the innovation management assessment for various Romanian entities. The results of the innovation management assessment can contribute to the business development, increasing market visibility and increasing client confidence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the structure of an e-learning system and applications designed and adapted to help the internet users to easy access to knowledges and courses, in order to improve the public awareness on environmental management and protection. The e-learning system has been developed using web technology and database programming in open-source software system, which allows easy updating and maintenance of the information contained. The e-learning platform includes actively and directly usable, updated information about the environment, relevant, representing an easy tool for: - Improving the public awareness for management and environmental protection; - Environmental knowledge transfer to specialized training environments, organizations with environmental impact and other stakeholders and also to the public. Based on the web platform for self-training and on-line assistance training, the target groups (environmental specialists from environmental organizations, as well as those from organization with environmental impact, higher education and the environmental education, general public, secondary and gymnasium school, etc.) will be trained in management and environmental protection. Beside of self-learning, the web platform users have unlimited access to a lot of interest aspects on environmental management and protection, like: legislation in domain, diverse types of management systems, links to the others specially sites, a discussion forum, cases studies, presentation of technologies for solving the environmental problems, etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The environment is in continuous transformation because of human action and natural factors. The human society is beneficiary of the environment, which through its activity and creation can produce harmful or beneficial effects on it. This paper presents a the structure and application for a spatial database based on GIS (Geographic Information System) with environmental impact effects and phenomena, designed and adapted to help the public to easy know the effects and consequences of harmful practices in interaction with the environment. GIS database will be available online under web platform and allows online access to locations with environmental impact and problems. The structure contains layers and geographical information. The interaction and administration of the database will by assured by web interfaces. The applications will be based on analysis of a county from Romania. In terms of structural, conceptual and application level, it can be adapted to a region of any European country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]