Partners
Falun Borlänge-regionen AB Business with a heart. Right in the heart of Sweden. One region, two central cities –Falun and Borlänge. Millennia-old traditions and revolutionary thinking go hand in hand here and form the foundation for a unique and winning business climate. Here is where 150,000 residents live and work, right in what is often referred to as “the heart of Sweden”. www.fbregionen.se
HintTech is a specialist in web & software development solutions. With offices located in the US, UK, Sweden, Serbia and The Netherlands, HintTech provides strategic solutions to global customers within various industries, including financial services, energy, transport, tourism and government. HintTech works with innovative and proven technologies such as Java™, .Net™ in combination with rock-solid packages such as SDL Tridion, ADAM and SharePoint.
The office in Borlänge offers the possibility to combine on-site project management and consultancy with development from our engineering offices located in Serbia and the Netherlands. This means the advantage of direct local contact and cost effective off-site development and support. www.hinttech.com/nordic
BOOMTOWN strives to make Borlänge, Dalarna into a leading, creative epicenter for rock, pop and all kinds of popular music in Sweden and Europe.
BoomTown is a regional, EU-funded project based in Borlänge. The project stands on three pillars: Education, Networking and Business. www.boomtown.nu
Peace & Love: Peace & Love is more than just a festival. We strive to make events with positive values which convey our message of Diversity, Solidarity and Understanding. Peace & Love is religiously and politically independent.
In 2011 the 12th Peace & Love festival takes place between the 28th of June and the 2nd of July. The city of Borlänge will then be filled with happy, music loving people that care about our earth and want to contribute to make it better. People of diverse ages, interests and backgrounds come together creating the best festival-spirit in Sweden! www.peaceandlove.nu
Stiftelsen Teknikdalen: Since 1988 the foundation Stiftelsen Teknikdalen has striven to help innovators, entrepreneurs and small businesses to develop their business ideas.
Stiftelsen Teknikdalen gathers and disseminates contacts between different businesses and institutions, contributes with know-how and supports in the work of development, and is responsible for and runs a number of projects. www.teknikdalen.se
If you use the Internet for anything – eCommerce, enterprise cloud computing, software downloads, Web marketing or HD video - you've probably used Akamai's services without even knowing it. We play a critical role in making the Internet work for business.
The Internet was never designed to do all that we ask of it today. A network of thousands of networks with no common standards or oversight, the Internet is complicated, expensive and labor intensive for companies to work with. Akamai's mission is to expand and evolve the connected world. www.akamai.com
Äventyrsgruvan is an amazing underground experience taking place in an old mine, some 80 meters below ground level. www.aventyrsgruvan.se
The region's main mean of public transportation. www.dalatrafik.se
Highest quality coffee - produced locally with pride since 1935. www.kaffebonan.se
Now in its 30th year, CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK is recognized as one of the premier entertainment events in North America focusing on the business of music. We bring together Sound Recording, New Media and Broadcast for one spectacular week of events… Combining informative, intensive conferences, cutting edge trade exhibition, award shows, film festival and Canada’s biggest New Music Festival. www.cmw.net
Frontside productions is a film/video and music productions company in Sweden specialized in film music and music videos and videos in general. Our goal is to achieve the highest quality with an edge for our customers. www.frontside.net
The ERDF aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union by correcting imbalances between its regions. In short, the ERDF finances:
- direct aid to investments in companies (in particular SMEs) to create sustainable jobs;
- infrastructures linked notably to research and innovation, telecommunications, environment, energy and transport;
- financial instruments (capital risk funds, local development funds, etc.) to support regional and local development and to foster cooperation between towns and regions;
- technical assistance measures.
Founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003, X5 Music has become Europe’s leading digital Music Label. By licensing and acquiring unique music catalogs we are able to re:fine material into new, high-quality products. These are tailor made for the major digital vendors, mobile operators and mobile handset manufacturers, and are intended for a global market.
In only 3 years X5 Music has become the best selling classical label in the US. Our portfolio contains over 200,000 titles in a wide array of genres. Our customer-focused products and flexible business model allow us to re:lease high value music collections efficiently. www.x5musicgroup.com
Bilmetro: Founded in 1922, Bilmtro still supplies all of central Sweden with high quality vehicles from Skoda, Audi, Seat, Kia, Honda and Scania. www.bilmetro.se
Musikindustrin.se: (MI) is Sweden's largest, strongest and most up-to-date online publication of music industry news. www.musikindustrin.se
Kulturrådet: Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet) is a government authority whose principal task is to implement national cultural policy determined by the Parliament.
SMFF: SMFF is a non-profit trade organization representing approximately 80 music publishers working in the territory of Scandinavia including Greenland and the Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania). SMFF was founded in 1928 and are one of founders of the Swedish collecting society STIM. www.smff.se
The Swedish Federation of Small Businesses’ board and management are very active small business owners. Our board members are also actively involved in the two committees – the Trade and Industry Policy Committee, which monitors overall business issues and the Executive Committee, investigating and processing cases of permanent nature. We know the conditions under which our members live and work and we can thus promote key small business issues with a great sense of pragmatism. We ourselves struggle with red tape and paperwork, but we also get to do what we love most - running our businesses and satisfying our customers. http://www.ff.se
Borlänge kommun: Around 48,000 people live in Borlänge. The municipality is the largest employer with some 3,800 employees.
Borlänge is in many respects still a young municipality. It wasn’t officially recognised as a city until 1944. But there’s no shortage of history here. Borlänge was once a part of Tunabygden, an agricultural community which played a key role in shaping the history of this region. In the late 19th century it was transformed into an industrial town. Today, the picturesque Tunabygden is part of modern Borlänge. www.borlange.se
