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Homemade Panera Bread Ham and Swiss Soufflés
Since we moved out into the 'burbs of New Jersey, James and I have had sort of a weekend tradition going on. We go to breakfast at Panera Bread, usually on a Saturday. Now don't get me wrong – I love nearly every single thing on Panera Bread's menu – but I had never really settled on a "go-to" breakfast item until a few weeks ago when I suddenly noticed the baked egg soufflés in their baked goods case.
How I missed these before, I don't know. But they are, as far as I'm concerned, breakfast perfection. My favorite is the Ham and Swiss Baked Egg Soufflé. The right amount of protein, plus the sweet flakiness of croissant? P-E-R-F-E-C-T.
It kind of bums me out that you can only get these little eggy baskets of win for breakfast. I'd love to be able to get them for dinner too. That's when I decided to try and make them at home.
Last Saturday, I set out with a copycat recipe created by author Todd Wilbur for Panera's Spinach Artichoke Baked Egg Souffle. Not being a fan of artichokes, I knew I had to recreate the Ham & Swiss version if I could.
For the Brit's soufflé, I added extra black cracked pepper and minced fresh red pepper. As he devoured his breakfast about half an hour after I started out, the words "perfection", "glorious", and "magnificent" left his lips around rather large bites of food. I don't think he was even talking to me, but to the soufflé in his hands. I think he might just be a fan.
We still love Panera's version, and won't be leaving behind our weekend breakfast traditions any time soon, but now I can have my Ham & Swiss Baked Egg Soufflé for dinner if I want too. That makes me one happy camper.
I think you'll love them too. You can add anything you want to the egg mixture. Think of it as an omelet inside a croissant, if you want. The ingredient world is your oyster, my friend. But try Ham and Swiss at least once. It's a classic combination for a reason.
Panera Bread Ham and Swiss Baked Egg Soufflés
Serves 2, easily doubles or triples
Adapted from Todd Wilbur's copycat recipe for Spinach Artichoke Baked Soufflé
4 eggs, 1 reserved
1 tablespoon milk or half and half
1 tablespoons heavy cream
1/4 cup shredded KerryGold Swiss cheese
1 tablespoon shredded Parmesan cheese, plus more for topping if desired
1/4 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste (optional)
2 thick slices deli ham, diced (I used Honey Roasted. You could also use quartered Canadian Bacon slices)
2 tablespoons fresh minced red pepper, if desired
1 8-ounce tube Pillsbury Crescent butter flake dough
melted butter
Preheat oven to 375°F.
Mix 3 eggs, milk, and heavy cream in a large plastic or glass mixing jug until well combined. Egg yolks should be completely broken and mixed in. Add shredded Swiss cheese, Parmesan, and salt and mix again until thoroughly distributed throughout the egg mixture.
Microwave the egg mixture in 30 second increments on high, stirring after each increment until you have a sort of solid, slightly runny scrambled egg mixture. In my 1000 watt microwave oven, this took 4 increments of 30 seconds.
This tightens the eggs enough so that the dough at the bottom will cook, and the dough at the sides and top will not fall into them. Add diced ham, black pepper and red pepper (if desired), stirring through the egg mixture so evenly mixed throughout. Set aside.
Sprinkle a clean surface with flour, and unroll the crescent dough. Do not separate the pairs of triangles. Instead, pinch with your fingers along the seam so that 2 triangles become 1 square of dough. You will only use 4 out of the 8 triangles included in the tube of dough. Set aside leftover dough, do not discard or pinch together.
Flour the square of dough on both sides, and a rolling pin. Roll out the dough, turning dough once clockwise after each roll. Always roll in the same direction, directly out from yourself, until you have a square that is approximately 6″ x 6″.
Melt about a tablespoon of butter in the microwave. Brush melted butter inside two 4″ ramekins, and then carefully line each with the 6×6 square of dough, leaving excess hanging over the edge of the ramekin.
Fill each ramekin and dough with equal amounts of egg mixture. Sprinkle with more Parmesan cheese, if desired. Fold dough over the egg mixture so it is no longer hanging over the sides of the ramekin.
Break and whisk the remaining egg, then brush over dough in each ramekin. This will give the dough a golden color and shine as it bakes.
Place ramekins on the center of a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 15 minutes. While the soufflés are baking, roll the remaining crescent dough to package specifications. After 15 minutes, remove tray from oven and place the spare rolled crescents onto the baking tray around the ramekins.
Return to oven and bake for 10-12 minutes more, until the souffles are golden brown and bubbly, and egg appears to be solidly cooked.
The remaining crescents may need a few extra minutes, so remove the ramekins from the tray and return the tray to the oven, if necessary.
Allow the soufflés to cool for approximately 5 minutes. You may eat the soufflés directly in the ramekins, or remove them and serve on a plate. They should remove easily since the ramekin was brushed with butter.
Serve with extra crescents, jam, and fresh fruit for an excellent Saturday morning breakfast or weeknight Brinner!
oooh, I LOOOOVE the egg souffles at Panera!! thanks Amber these look fantastic!
Gorgeous photos, Amber! These look like Sunday dinner to me. 😉
So beautiful, Amber! The photos are perfect. And the souffles look creamy and flaky.
Yum! Great lunch idea!
This looks like breakfast heaven to me. I wish we had KerryGold around here. And I agree that ham and cheese is the best combo!
I have never had a Panera Egg Souffle, but now I am tempted to wake up early tomorrow to go get one. These look insanely delicious. Love the photos too.
I have never actually had the souffles at Panera… But, now I don't need to! Love the look of these… They are just beautiful!
Mmmmm! Yummy! I will have to try these. They remind me of an item we used to make in Culinary School. We'd take croissant dough and place ham, gruyere, bechamel and spinach in the center and fold the dough over. It was amazing. Can't wait to try this!
Yum! That looks wonderful!
As a baker at Panera I can tell you that your recipe is far better than anything you can get at Panera. (Really all it is is frozen egg mix, sliced ham and swiss cheese)
I've yet to have the pleasure of eating at Panera Bread, but my Dad talks about it all the time! Now I can have it at home. These look super fantastic!
I love their baked egg souffles, I can't wait to try this recipe. Thanks, Amber!
Oh my goodness you weren't joking were you. I'm soooo in love with this idea!
I think these would be really perfect for brunch! Love your Panera tradition but there is nothing better than homemade treats 🙂
I've never had Panera, so I am excited to have a chance for at least the DIY version. I have a sad tale for you btw, the DH will NOT, I repeat, WILL NOT touch an egg!
I can one up on you on that one, honey. My husband hates cheesy sauces, and any block cheese beyond cheddar.
Oh no! Now thats just SHAMEFUL 😉
These sound fantastic and can't wait to try them this weekend! 🙂
Hi Amber! I had one of these this morning after an early morning hockey session and I just have to say "YUM!" I came home and did a search and after seeing several using puff pastry (huh?) I saw that you had this recipe posted. Since I regard you as a trusted source, I will be giving this a try in the very near future. I hope it is ok if I post on my blog and link back to you. I'm new at this blogging thing, so I hope that is acceptable. Thanks for the great blog. Happy New Year! Lisa
Only change I made is that we like thin slices of ham, perfection!
Sandra, I'm glad you liked them. They're sooo good!
I can't wait to make this for my mum's birthday! Great recipe, but I have one question. I know you said the ramekin measurements should be 4×4 but how deep is it? I have the 4×4's but they seem shallow compared to yours. Thanks for any help 🙂
Renaire, I had to find a measuring tape! Hah. They're about 2 1/2 inches deep. I think a more shallow ramekin will still work, you'll just have more crust at the top. I hope your mum has a wonderful birthday. But then, she's off to a great start – her daughter's making her breakfast!
Thank you so much! I've been measuring for the past hour until I decided to ask you *why didn't i just do that* lol. I have a Panera Bread pretty close by but I really wanted to add things she loves. Hopefully I can be as successful as you've been. Thanks again.
I work at panera bread and these are way better! Real eggs out of the fride? Sign me up!
Completely forgot to post after my b'day brunch for my mom. They were so delicious everyone talks about them every Saturday morning! Only had a few tweaks; used chopped turkey sausage and bell peppers with aged cheddar, and instead of microwaving the eggs I cooked them in the skillet until they were 80-90% cooked and then put them in the ramekins. Thanks again!
Just had the swiss and ham souffle at panera for the 1st time! I was drooling, I loved it. Thanks so much for the recipe as I agree, this souffle would be great for dinner as well. Lori 🙂
Hope you like it at home, Lori. If you want to make the same sort of thing on a bigger scale (say for a large brunch crowd), check out my recipe for Grandma Mack's Breakfast Delight. Same flavors and textures, just in casserole form.
I tried this recipe 3 times and each time a tiny tweak. I keep buying Panera to compare them. This recipe although fabulous is NOT Panera's recipe by a long shot. I precook my eggs less each time and increase baking time slightly making the texture and crust falling into a slightly more liquid center is similar to a Chicken Pot Pie than a crescent surrounding an well done omelet. To each their own but the precooking time greatly changes the texture of the final product. My changes are- Double spinach, 1/2T Parmesan on top of the covering dough and a pinch of sugar to the mix. Less precooking the eggs because of texture and the dough has never falling into the egg mixture yet.
I really appreciate you taking the time to comment, though as you can see from other comments left here by Panera employees, Panera actually uses powdered eggs for their souffles. Using real egg instead is never going to give the same results.
I will also mention that this recipe was adapted directly from a "copycat recipe" commissioned BY Panera Bread by a chef. The only things I changed were the add-ins – the ham, cheese, and red pepper.
I am glad to hear you've made this recipe your own, and I really like the idea of Parmesan to top the dough.
– Amber
They only thing I can eat from Panera bread is the four cheese souffle, I LOVE them. So I was very excited to find this recipe! Looks like you did an amazing job. I tried to make them tonight and its was ok but just not as good as Panera. I can't figure out if it was the cresent or if i cooked the eggs a little to long. I will keep trying because I don;t live my a panera anymore. And they cost so much to buy. Thanks for posting this recipe.
I made these today and we were very disappointed. On a scale of 1-10 I would only give this a 4 or 5. The crescent dough is not like the pastry of panera, and the filling doesn't taste the same either. I'll keep searching and experimenting.
I'm really sorry you didn't care for the recipe, but I appreciate you leaving the feedback. We didn't seem to experience the same thing, and as I said in the post, the recipe is adapted from a recipe commissioned from a chef specifically by Panera Bread. Maybe this is the closest they'd allow the chef to get in terms of recipe development. Also keep in mind that the filling at Panera Bread is made from frozen egg product, so the texture/flavor is always going to be different than using fresh eggs. Would love to hear more about your experimentations!
Made these and they are good. However, this recipe is not the Panera recipe. So if you are looking for the exact Panera recipe this is not it.
I just wanted to take the time to thank you for doing this! It's my new favorite thing, considering the panera egg souffles are my favorite.
Devon, thanks so much for your kind words! I love those Panera Souffles too. These are just for when I can't get them! 😉
Ill will have to give this a try. The ham and Swiss is the only one I like. And it is now off the menu replaced by sausage and Gouda 🙁
Thanks for the great recipe! I was so disappointed when I couldn't get the Ham and Swiss Souffle at my Panera. This has helped fill the void! I've made a couple of changes, using country ham and puff pastry. Comes out delicious every time!
It's pretty good. 🙂 I think next time I'd pre-cook the egg mixture less, and bake longer. The texture was too much like scrambled egg.
This is a perfect recipe.
Thank you so much, Erin!
What would you recommend for making ahead instructions?
Hey Erin,
Really, the only thing you could do ahead of time with this recipe would be to have your mix-in ingredients ready to go. Chop the ham, dice the red pepper or any other vegetables that you're going to use. Baking is what takes the most time, and that you can't really do ahead. 🙂
Good recipe… Just made these this morning. Next time I would add more Swiss cheese,maybe anotherb1/8 of a cup? Also I had to bake it about 25 minutes longer than the recipe so that the eggs would cook. My husband loved it too!
I've been using this recipe and tweaking it as I go, it's pretty tasty. I don't have ramekins so I've been using silicone cupcake pans, which works ok. I double the filling and use the whole tube of crescent rolls, it makes 8 little soufflés. My favorite combo so far is egg, ham, Swiss, laughing cow light and nutmeg. The laughing cow cheese adds some creaminess without too many calories.
For the naysayers – this recipe uses crescent rolls from a tube. Of course it's not going to be identical to Panera, any more than tube crescent rolls are identical to bakery croissants. But it's a pretty easy and tasty substitute for the Panera soufflés that you can make at home for about 1/4 the cost. And now that Panera has taken the ham & cheese off the menu, its even better to be able to make at home.
the results will be a lot more like panera's if you use the Pepperidge Farm puff pastry dough. yup.
Made this for breakfast, a bacon and cheddar variety for him, turkey and provolone for me. Both were hits! I overcooked his egg in the microwave slightly, and he still enjoyed it tremendously! Posted a pic of mine to Twitter: https://twitter.com/Floyd_Tori/status/374201829204037633/photo/1
Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Tori, your photo looked delicious! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment. I'm glad you enjoyed the recipe. 🙂
I went searching for a recipe after trying the sausage and Gouda soufflé at Panera and falling in love with it. We don't have a Panera in Calgary. Made it this morning. Used Gouda cheese, dried onion flakes (too lazy to chop onions) and Johnson's Italian Sausage meat. Fantastic! Thanks for sharing the recipe. It was amazing and definitely making it into my breakfast recipe book.
Anna, I haven't tried that sausage and gouda version yet, but now I'm inspired to make my own! Thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment, I'm really glad you enjoyed your breakfast. 🙂
Any experience with freezing these? It would be great if I could pop one of these in the microwave or toaster oven as I get ready for work, and then grab it as I run out the door in the mornings 🙂
Hey Angela, thanks for your question. I haven't tried freezing them, but my understanding is that Panera's are frozen before they bake them. The nice thing is, croissant dough and eggs aren't all that expensive in terms of ingredients. Why not make up a few and freeze one, and see how it works out? I'd love to know too! If I get a chance to try it myself, I will. But as I'm due with a new baby in a week, you may get a shot before I do. 🙂
Made this recipe this morning, and it was delicious! Thank you for taking the time to share your update to the recipe and to the other postings for different ideas/add ins 🙂
Leah, I'm so glad you enjoyed them! Thank you for taking the time to come back and leave a comment. It always means so much to get the feedback.
Your recipe for the Panera Egg Souffle called for 2 Tablespoons of Red Pepper. NO! Do you mean Hot Red Pepper or Sweet Red Pepper.
Hot Pepper would be Fire Alarm 2. Please advise. Val


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September 12, 2013 12:45 PM ET
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Alright. We're going to start the afternoon session. Happy to be able to introduce Eric Cremers, the President and COO of Potlatch, one of four publicly traded timber REITs in the U.S., and with that I am just going to turn it over to Eric.
Eric Cremers
Well, thanks. Good afternoon everybody. As Gail mentioned, I am Eric Cremers. I am the President and Chief Operating Officer for Potlatch. I joined the company a little over six years ago as CFO and then just very recently transitioned over in my new role. I have with me CFO, Jerry Richards, who quit Weyerhaeuser and proud he joined Potlatch.
As Gail mentioned, we're the fourth timber REIT in the industry, you probably know our peers, Weyerhaeuser, Rayonier and Plum Creek. We're the fourth of the group. The segment of our business has really in to the resources business which is the REIT qualified business and these segment have business further in to northern and southern timberland. Then we also have, on the other side we have attached some REIT subsidiaries, the C-Corp. Its activities are not requalified, and so it [plays] regular C-Corp activity, and what goes on in that side of the business is our wooden products manufacturing and our real estate sales, a lot of our real estate sales.
We're the fourth largest timber REIT. We have about 1.4 million acres under ownership. I'll show you the location of those acres here shortly. We've got an enterprise value of just below $2 million, about $1.6 billion, $1.7 billion of equity and $300 million of net debt. Strong balance sheet, solid credit metrics. I'll take you through the stats here just a minute, and as a REIT, we pay a pretty attractive dividend of $1.24 per share per year with the yield today a little over 3%.
Moving on to next page, page four just lays out for you where our ownership of our acreage is. As you can see, our largest land holding base is in the state of Idaho where we own over 800,000 acres, we're the single largest private land owner in the State of Idaho. Down in Arkansas, south central Arkansas we have about 400,000 acres of timberland and then up in Minnesota we have a little over 200,000 acres.
If you take a look at our wood products manufacturing business, we operate five manufacturing facilities around the U.S. As you can see on slide five here, two of those facilities in the State of Idaho, where we run a dimensional lumber mill as well as plywood mill. We have another stud mill out in the State of Minnesota. We also have another stud mill in the upper peninsula of Michigan, then we have another dimensional mill down in Arkansas in the heart of our ownership.
Turning to page six, just a brief overview of the business; we segment, our business into three distinct P&Ls; the first one the resource business, the harvesting and the growing and harvesting of trees. That business last year had about $66 million of EBITDA. Our real estate business is another segment. Our real estate business really is just a sale of raw acreage, there's no real developmental vertical, developmental activity that takes place at our acreage. That business produced $34 million of EBITDA last year and then finally our wood products business.
Again the production of lumber and plywood last year had EBITDA of $52 million. The bottom of this page, now I want to highlight something for you and that's the yellow bar, even through the depths of the recession, the company was able to generate EBITDA between a $100 million and $150 million per year. The sources of that EBITDA has varied overtime. During the downturn the EBITDA was driven by the sale of non-core or non-strategic acres. Nowadays it's less driven by the sale of those acres and its more driven by the performance of our wood products business, which has been really strong off late.
Turning to page seven as you can imagine owning timberland with log production and as well as our wood products business with the sale of lumber and plywood, our business is correlated to the state of the housing industry in U.S. and fortunately we have seen the industry turn the corner, housing starts are picking up. I think it went to a little bit pause right, but I think we'll get back to track and we anticipate higher housing starts over the next several years for a number of different reasons.
If you take a look at the drivers or the performance of our resource business, obviously log pricing is a key component. This chart lays out for you the trends in log prices. This is not our data, but this is industry wide reported data. The green line represents delivered log prices up in Pacific Northwest, and you can see there has been a really nice recovery off at the bottom back in 2008. That recovery is largely driven by Chinese demand; the Pacific Northwest is approximate to Asia, China and Japan and is able to export logs to those markets.
Compare that to the South which is shown here in the red line, [southern pine] log prices declined and they have not yet recovered and that's one of the key issues we and the rest of the industry are facing is when our log prices are going to turn the corner in the South. The bottom line on that page is oak wood which relatively flat and stable overtime.
So to answer the question about when our log price is going to turn the corner, I think you need a basic understanding of the industry which is it's all about what is the growth of the force and what is the harvest level in the force, relative to a particular region or wood baskets is what we call it. And what we saw at the bottom of the recession is that the harvest levels were far below the growth rate of the forest. The forest was growing then the harvest levels were, consequently there was excess supply and it push prices down.
We still think we are in a bit of an excess supply situations today, hence the reason we are not seeing a recovery in log prices. But as we see housing starts move up to $1.5 million which we think we are guessing to in the next few years it will bring a lift to the strong repair and remodel market. We think there was going to be continued demand in Asia, and we think we are going to see flat to perhaps declining output coming out of Canada. So we think that bodes really well for our resource business in the south. That red line is going to turn up again, we believe in the not too distant in future.
Turning to the next page, page 10 just lays out a view of our historical harvest volume. We converted to a REIT back in 2006, you can see we are harvesting 3.3 million tons per year. We ramped up and then the housing downturn pause and we've since dialed back our harvest levels. Our expectation again is we will get higher prices over the coming years, and most probably because of the fact that we deferring harvest volume. We have an opportunity to harvest more aggressively, we are not going to do it until we see better pricing but we certainly have that opportunity out there.
Turning to page 11, just taking a look at Potlatch's reported pricing and volume trends. Now this is for sawlogs, so it excludes the sales of pulpwood. What you see is that prices for us declined back in 2009 and this is consolidated so it includes to both north and south sawlogs. We brought them back in 2009 at $53 per ton, and we've since worked our way back up to $73 per ton, that's what we are forecasting for this coming year. So we've seen a nice recovery, that's really driven by a product mix shift to more northern region sawlogs. As I showed you a minute ago prices in the south have been relatively flat.
We had an important customer Georgia-Pacific idled, they are across Arkansas Plywood mill, that lessened demand in our operating wood basket in that part of our Arkansas, as they were buying about 1 million tonnes per year of sawlogs and of that 1 million tons, about 400,000 tons was coming from Potlatch. So a large customer idled their mill lessening demand in the region. Although we've seen a nice recovery in sawlog prices, but it's really more in our Idaho region as oppose to the South
Page 12, if you follow the industry, you are maybe you familiar with this issue. British Columbia is an important producer of lumber to the industry not just for North American demand but also for Asian demand, particularly China. The mountain pine beetle has decimated the forest in British Columbia and the trees are basically dead. In DC, they can still be processed today and turned into lumber, but as time goes on, trees becomes less and less quality enough to get through a lumber mill for the production of quality lumber.
So consequently, there is a sort of a ticking bomb there of when a log or piece of log or tree can be use to run through a saw mill. At some point in time it's going to be a special low quality that it can't be run through a saw mill. So consequently, people believe there are roughly 20 to 25 large saw mills that will be closing in British Columbia. These are big mills, these are not typical small mom and pop mills that you might find in the U.S. These are large mills, and so when they comes down, there will be less supply coming out of British Columbia, which ought to help the outlook for the industry.
Another favorable factor that we pay attention to is Chinese demand. The Chinese buy a lot of North American logs, principally from the Pacific Northwest and lumber prinicipally lumber coming out of British Columbia. There is a lot of talk about, gee, what's going to happen to China. Is it going to a banking crisis? It's growth for real, it's 7% to 8% GDP growth. Our view is that it is for real. It will continue. A lot of the lumber and logs that they are buying from North America are used for construction. It's not for the construction of the single family home, but it's used for the construction of concrete warming for large urban building or condominium building and in any given year, the management try to maybe a little bit higher or a little bit lower but nonetheless, very significant. And the simplest way to think of it that the takeaway from North America today is roughly the equivalent of 600,000 to 800,000 U.S. housing starts. So you think about housing starts in the U.S. collapse so less demand for wood. Well, China has really stepped in the plates here to absorb a lot of that capacity.
Another reason to be optimistic about the industry's outlook is the demand for biomass. Again if you follow the industry, there is a lot of pellet plans going up down in the South in the Mid-Atlantic and those pellet plans are producing pellets for sales to Europe, European utilities. They are required to have -- a lot of them are required to have 20% of their electricity by the year 2020 come from renewable sources, including solar and wind and the (inaudible) pellets and the bringing of pellets over there is placing a lot of coal consumption.
So there is some very strong demand for pellet plans and you are seeing a lot of pellet plans go up in the South right now to meet that demand and that of course ultimately put the pressure on the forest, primarily on the side of (inaudible).
You take a look at historical lumber and panel prices. I think what you see is that prices really bottoms in late 2008, early 2009. We've seen a real nice recoveries since then and we've seen two periods of time where we had sharp upticks in pricing, one was back in the early 2010, you can see both lumber and power prices went to the roof that was due to extraordinarily wet weather down in the south, or it's going to receive shortage of logs because we stop to harvest when the ground is too wet.
So lumber and pellet prices went through the roof, prices enrolled over and then we started marching up. And then earlier this year, you can see on random links deposit price which is a composite of whole bunch of different dimension species of lumber, they got up to about $435 per 1000 board fee, so one of the strongest pricing we've seen in many, many years. That was really driven by excitements about how we starts for the coming year.
A lot of dealers in the U.S. build up inventories in anticipation of a strong home building season while we did see a pretty strong home building season so maybe not quite as strong as they had hoped. So prices rolled over, but that rollover makes sense down the floor, now they are working their away higher again. And we think we are in this period of time right now where supply and demand where basically out of balance. And as demand continues to improve as U.S. housing starts continue to improve, it's going to take higher prices to meet that higher demand, that's what can compel that extra capacity to common on to the market.
In fact, we see just put its most recent reports its forecast for lumber prices for next year and its forecast for next year was at lumber prices full year 2014 over full year 2013 was going to be roughly 9% higher than this year. So pricing is important driver for our wood products business and we are excited about future.
On the next page kind of highlight this phenomenon of capacity utilization pricing correlation the industry. If you step back and you think about it, it makes sense. So higher capacity utilization is in an industry, the higher the pricing likely to be in the industry. It's It's probably hard to from the slide up on the screen here, but if you got a hard copy you can see it. If you look at the pricing and capacity utilization 2009 which is the point in the lower left hand corner there, the industry operated 60% capacity utilization and pricing was maybe $180 for 1000 board fee. And look where it was in 2010, 2011, 2012 and then the red dot represents where we expect to be in 2013. You can almost draw a straight line between the 2009 and 2013 through those data points. As capacity utilization in the industry is working its way higher, prices have been moving higher.
Taking a look at the performance of our wood products business, you can see this chart lays out performance over the last eight years or so and what you see is that in the depths of the recession we actually went cash flow negative. We lost $11 million on EBITDA basis in 2009. As did a lot of other people they lost money as well. And that forced a lot of closures in the industry. And since that period of time with this growing demand and with the industry struggling to meet that demand because of all the closures that took place, our profitability has moved right along with pricing.
Turning to page 18 and taking look at our real estate business, like any owner of large amount of land you might want to segment that land and think about what's the highest and best value that you can get for that land. So for over 1.4 million acres roughly 1.2 million of those acres we think the best outcome is for growing timber for our own use. So whether we use it in our mills or we sell it to third party customers best use for that acre, the highest value use is for growing timber, but roughly 200,000 acres we think we can sell at prices that are greater than what we call [T&B] or timber management value.
So we can do present value of future cash flows on a acre of timberland and we can say this is what it's worked to us only in operating as timberland or we can sell it to somebody else who has got maybe a different use for that particular acre. So we have identified roughly 200,000 acres of land that we anticipate selling over the next 10 years or so to others that we think are going to pay us more money. And if you take that 200,000 acres in the segment that which we have done on page 19, the lesser value opportunities on the left hand side of the page which includes conservation moments.
The next higher value of the non-strategic timberland, then you have real estate and tyen finally HBU or higher better used real estate and this page lays out some of the characteristics of what those particular acres might look like.
Page 20, just highlights the trends in our real estate business and what you see is that on the left hand side of the page. During the downturn we are showing up a lot of non-strategic acres, these are acres that we identified way back in 2006 and 2007. We knew we are going to sell them. We sold them in the downturn to generate cash that helps to sustain the company's cash flows, dividend and balance sheet requirements through the downturn.
So we by and large done selling those non-strategic acres. If you go back to that price chart that I referenced a couple of pages ago roughly 125 acres, 5000 acres that we have left to sell as HBU roughly 95,000 acres of world but only 15,000 acres of non-strategic single adds, so it's a not a lot less in that bucket. Hence the reason the yellow piece of that bar has come down, but what you are going to see from our real estate business going forward is roughly the sale of 20,000 acres per year at pretty attractive prices, the prices that are well above what timber management value will be for those particular acres.
So if you take a look at our timberland holdings over the past 7 or 8 years, what you see is back to 2005 we had about 1.4 million or 1.5 million acres, required some acres along the way, then we sold some acres along the way. We are hopeful that we will be able to find acres to acquire. There is a very active investment community trying to buy timberland in the United States and it's the TIMOs, timber investment management organization. And whenever acreage comes up for sale, the TIMOs will compete very aggressively for those acres, but we hope to be able to compete with them in the future.
And part of will help allow us to compete is having a good balance sheet. So turning to page 22, it just lays out for you our most recent quarter ending balance sheet and what do you see is that from a credit metric standpoint, we're in great shape. Frankly, we feel that we're a little bit under levered at the stage, you can see net debt to enterprise value up in the upper right hand corner stands at 14%, which is relatively low for a company like ours with the high quality assets.
We've got a $250 million revolver unsecured that we put in place at the end of last year, it's completely undrawn. We got ample access to capital. We're investment grade rated by Moody's that change happened late last year, early this year, but S&P still has at one notch below investment grade. And one of our goals here to near terms to convince S&P that we are worthy of investment grade.
Certainly the next page on debt maturities, really nothing to be concerned about, don't have anything back until 2015. So from a debt maturity standpoint, we're in a good shape.
Turn to page 24, taking a look at this historical breakdown of our cash flow where has it come from. If you look at the left hand side of the page, that's corporate consolidated EBITDA that's after corporate overhead. The right hand side of the page breaks down the company's cash flows by business segment that does not include corporate overheads. So you can't add up the three bars on the right and get it equal to the bar on the left, but what you see is our resource business generally creates anywhere from $80 million to $100 million a year of EBITDA. In fact it bottomed in 2012 to $66 million, but on an LTM basis, we're not moving up to $82 million as we're realizing those higher prices in the northern region, in particular in Idaho.
The next segment down, you can see is real estate. You can see we're generating a lot of EBITDA back in 2009, '10, 11 from the sale of non-strategic timberland. That business is trailed off here as we stop selling non-strategic acres. but it still generated $27 million of EBITDA on LTM basis. And then finally on wooden products business on the bottom right hand corner there, you can see it's had a real nice turnaround, producing a $73 million on an LTM basis.
So turning to page 25, we are taking a look at the dividend. The yellow bar represents our FAD it's a non-GAAP measure, funds available for distribution, kind of how much cash does the company has left over to pay out to investors as we are a REIT and do like to pay a dividend. The green bar represents the amount of our dividend payouts. And what you see is that through the 2007 to 2010, we're paying out roughly $8 million a year, $2.04 a share and then in late 2011, we had to cut the dividend, as we had no more non-strategic acres to sell, and that was a source of a cash flow through the downturn that we've been using to support the dividend.
So we cut the dividend to $1.24 per share, a roughly $50 million per year in payout, and what you see is that in 2012, we generated $53 million of FAD. So it's slightly in excess of our dividend. But if you look at 2013 on an LTM basis, what you see is that we've generated $74 million of FAD which is well in access of our $50 million payout. So just to kind of wrap it up here, there is a lot of reasons we are optimistic about the industry. We think housing is getting back on track. There's a pause right now, but we think its going to continue the recovery. We don't see Chinese demand going away, we see opportunity in biomass and we see declining supply coming out of Canada. So we are optimistic about our future to wrap it up. Okay. Gail, turn it over to for Q&A.
Question-and-Answer Session
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
I guess I would like to start because I am pretty close to where you ended in terms of funds available for distribution. Several other of the timber REITS face (inaudible) are end this year, you in the past have toughed it out really [leading] a line of sight to reaching harvest school. Is there any change in that thinking or do you still think you need to (inaudible) in fundamental your intentions are to (inaudible).
Eric Cremers
Well I think this kind of the source of the backdrop here the question is around stability of the earnings. We want to be very careful and very measured with any dividend increase that we might make. But certainly with the recovery in the wood products business that we have seen; we've seen a real nice turnaround in the company's cash flows and certainly we are now earnings well in excess of what our dividend payout is. So I guess I would like to tell you that is it's under review by the Board and its under consideration.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And would you be comfortable enough given the recent volatility in wood products pricing, can you give us a [standout] to cash [that] EBITDA?
Eric Cremers
Well we think we are for the next anywhere from two to four years going to enjoy significant earnings from our wood products business. If I had to pick a mid-cycle EBITDA for that business I'd say its probably in the $40 million to $50 million kind of range. So we think this is going to rollover at some point in time. We are getting returns right now that are well in excess of cost of capital. That being said we've got several years here where demand is going to fundamentally outpace supply, and we think that ultimately that sets up for higher pricing in the industry and its not just us again it's [Ricci] came out with this forecast says 9% higher prices year-over-year. With demand improving 5% to 10% per year, that type of a forecast make sense to us. So if that happens and we don't give up that pricing to providers of logs in terms of log cost going into mills, we can expect firm profitability from that business.
Unidentified Analyst
What were you thinking pricing as when you said it sounds like cost of capital?
Eric Cremers
Well again I would go back to kind of what I think mid-cycle EBITDA is working probably in the $40 million to $50 million kind of range.
Unidentified Analyst
What that pricing (inaudible)?
Eric Cremers
So it's probably, the number off the top of my head but it's probably 75 bucks below where we are at today. We are at 350 today.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
Maybe not fair just looking at your analysis that (inaudible) up. I mean that [Ricci] forecast he is relatively aggressive when he thinks that's a lumber and how they've got within 5% of it's 2004-'05 peak and open to another question of what you are seeing in terms of (inaudible) demand saw mill you are starting. But it seems like there is still a lot of (inaudible) out there? And what were they basing on the supplier response wouldn't come there, clearly must be assuming a pretty healthy level of demand, but today --.
Eric Cremers
I haven't seen the specifics of their Gail, but I can tell you what I think about it. Well I think 9% is certainly realistic, I think the easy supply come back to the industry is already come back. The prices that we had in this spring, if you won the mill and you can turn that mill on mills were minting money in the spring. So the easy capacity is already come online and virtually every region is making reasonably good money right now.
I think easy way, it's not easy to get that late capacity to come back on line again, there is somebody that recently bought a mill in our operating area down in our Arkansas and they said we are going to get this mill back up and running again. And the question was asked when do you expect to start this mill back up again and they said December of 2014. So it's going to take them almost a year and half to get this mill up and running again, and if you think about it and we are just mills and sitting, they are not running for four years is probably, the machinery is probably gotten rust, you have probably lot of motors that need to be replaced certainly the blades and the saws have to be sharpened, you got to find the employees, skilled labors scattered in the recession oil fields.
So I think it's a lot harder to get these mills back up and running than we might think. And also I think lot of the easy supply and there is a slide in the appendix here but a lot of the easy supply will see simply ramping up its production levels. If you look at the expected lumber production coming out of BC it's going hit its maximum probably next year and then it is going to start to roll over due to this (inaudible) epidemic. So I think getting back to the question how is the 9% realistic, it's because supply is going to have a hard time fetching up the demand.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And if that's the case then what is the imply in terms of log demand and particularly you got in the south where you are still selling the supply?
Eric Cremers
Yeah, it's ultimately the U.S. south is poised to really outperform here longer term. You've got log costs that are just at rock bottom levels, there is no export opportunity. So if you're a producer of lumber, then go to place for lumber production is going to be in the south. Eventually that demand is going to turn around again in the south and you will see that during the harvest level enforce exceed the growth rate of its force. And that's going to in all likelihood term pricing back up again.
So that's million dollar question is when is that term going to happen and when is pricing going to take a turn in the south. In our view is we don't have any better quality estimates than anybody else, we're probably still couple of years away from those pricing trends turning the corner.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And a little bit more in near term. Can you talk a little bit about harvesting conditions and what you've seen in the current quarter, I guess maybe our (inaudible) experiencing the deluge that you're getting a little further east within the foot side I think that goes in the opposite side of the coin and could easily take some level together.
Eric Cremers
Yes, it's been really dry in Idaho this summer if you heard or seen a lot of fires out west, you somebody got hit with fires, a big fire outside of Sun Valley. Unfortunately we had very little damages here in our acreage and the (inaudible) rates are raining out west , it's one of the seasonal thing. So the risk of fire has diminished greatly over the past couple of weeks. But it's not so wet we can't get up and harvest in Idaho. And then likewise it's just adjusted in the south there parts that got hit with really wet weather here recently, but where we're at that was not the case.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
Are you benefiting from it on the margin like the ripple effects that keep on moving further sales to get lost and have you seen any benefit or not so much?
Eric Cremers
Not so much is a short answer.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And as lumber prices came off over the last quarter, have you seen any impact in terms of demand maybe customers that thought they were going to ramp up or is there already shift maybe scaling back or is demand still kind of pointing out?
Eric Cremers
Yes, I think, in general, it's pretty stable. I think our order files probably lengthened a little bit, which in our saw mills. They sell production out in the future. In the best of times, we might be working three to five weeks out in the future and the worst of times, we might will have one week, maybe even less of production sold. I'd say we're probably in the middle of that right now, pretty firm takeaway I think is the best way to describe it.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And more strategically, I mean, you mentioned about one customer is that taking if you are year, year and half, can we start sawmill. Are you seeing, are you hearing more noise out there that people are taking the longer-term view and on the housing side and starting to take more actions in that direction?
Eric Cremers
Yes, certainly there is a lot of chatter about new mill construction. [Postner] has said they are going to build some 700 million square foot two mills in the South. There is talk of that sort of thing, but when does that capital actually get invested, when does the plant gets build, and when it starts production. It's a long time into the future. So I think people are scratching their heads right now trying to figure out how to get capacity up in south and sorting through the various alternatives.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
And any expense, I guess, one of the explanations out there, from when lumber pricing came off was whether that delayed housing activity. Any sense or noise that you are hearing that people might -- that housing activity might pop (inaudible) the fall or any part of it that's relatively steady state from that perspective?
Eric Cremers
No, I think it's really steady state from that perspective. I do have a pretty strong point of view that will happen in the spring. Viewers got excited. We're not going to bottle lot of lumber because we are excited about the coming home building season that center price to lumber soaring, and that's similarly price of lumber relative to value of the house is pretty small, but in terms of price of lumber soaring, then we did have bad weather for three or four weeks, so I can remember of snowing in Denver and I don't know April and May it's crazy.
And that really less in demand, less in takeaway from the dealers yards and they said you don't need to buy lumber because there is limited home building activity because the weather was so bad. So we stayed away from the market and prices started to roll over and once prices start to roll over, there is a lot of psychology that comes into play and dealers we think said prices are coming down, I am not going to step in by until, I think the prices have hit the floor. And so when they rolled over, they rolled over really hard, but you can see if you go back to the (inaudible) composite slide, prices found the bottom, since now something like 7% from bottom in the summertime. But a lot of it's driven by psychology.
Gail Glazerman - UBS Securities
Okay. With that, we've actually gone a little long, but Eric thank you very, very much for joining us today.
Eric Cremers
Thank you.
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Sqwishland is TOYCON 2011's Most Innovative Toy
Barely two months since its official launch in the Philippine toy market, Sqwishland is already headlining and creating a name for itself.
Labeled as Asia's biggest convention for comics, toys, anime, cosplay, movies, and gaming, the 2-day toy convention was flocked by over 20,000 fanatics, with the three Megatrade halls jam packed. Highlighting the event this year was the 10th year anniversary and the partnership with various toy companies, upcoming blockbuster movies, and international conventions.
Sqwishland showcased its online game, Sqwishland.com, at the Sqwishland booth where kids were free to register and play on the spot. Originally made famous as vending toys, Sqwishland capsules in vending machines were on display, along with Sqwishland plush toys and the retail toy line.
Sqwishland held a DIY Sqwishland Design Contest where 20 lucky kids had a chance to design their very own Sqwishlander with the DIY Sqwishland kit. The top 3 winning designers took home boxes of Sqwishland toys and prize money.
Sqwishland toys are a collectible craze with kids in the United States of America and are developed by Sqwishland LLC, a company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The online game where the Sqwishland toys come to life, Sqwishland.com, is designed and managed by the Sqwishland team in Manila, Philippines. The Sqwishland toys were launched in the Philippines last April, opening its doors for Filipino kids to get a taste of their own country's creativity and hard work.
Each Sqwishland toy is contained in a capsule which comes with a strip of paper, known as a SqwishCode. The SqwishCode serves as the entry pass for players in the online game, Sqwishland.com, where they can use it to unlock fun new bonuses, outfits, homes, virtual Sqwishland pets and so much more. The Sqwishland toys bought at toy stores come to life in the online game.
Players can interact with each other, join the community activities and play minigames. The more Sqwishland XP(points) they earn by playing, the faster they can level up and grow their Sqwishland pets. Joining Sqwishland.com is absolutely free for everyone of all ages.
Sqwishland toys are available at participating Toy Kingdom, Toys R us and Ollie & Co. Stores or any SM Mall Outlets. For every purchase of a Sqwishland 6 pack tube, Filipino kids can be a Premium Member of Sqwishland.com for 3 months for FREE. Players can choose to subscribe to a Premium Membership that will allow them to access more areas and play more minigames. Upgrading to a Premium Membership can be done by two different payment methods: Paypal or Credit Card.
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SqwishLand LLC is a joint venture between Brand Vending of Scottsdale, AZ and FunGuy Studios of Phoenix, AZ. The company distributes over 500 different collectible soft 'n squishy collectibles and other toys based on its hugely popular online game SqwishLand.
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The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) offers a variety of internship opportunities across departments at the theater.
Internships are directed toward undergraduate and graduate age individuals. All internships are unpaid. College credit is available for certain internships through the intern's sponsoring institution.
Dates are flexible based on the applicant's academic commitments, but typically internsjips run for one semester according to the following schedule:
- Fall (September - December)
- Spring (January - April)
- Summer (May - August)
Internship availability in specific departments is subject to change but past internships have been offered in: Artistic Management, Education, Marketing and Public Relations, and Development
Please note: A.R.T. does not offer internships in directing, acting, voice, stage management, or any other production based positions.
Administrative internships are available for variable periods throughout the year.
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To apply, please email email@example.com with the following:
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to the volume of applications we receive, we cannot reply personally to every applicant or answer questions about applications once submitted. If you have not been contacted by the department(s) to which you apply within one month of submission, you should assume we will not be able to give you the internship(s) for which you applied. Please feel free to apply again in the future.
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- The permanent staff of URENIO is about 20 people, and external contract research personnel varies between 15 and 50 people. Qualifications of the permanent staff cover urban and regional planning, mechanical and chemical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, architecture, sociology and economics, applied mathematics and statistics.
Nicos Komninos is currently a professor of Urban Development and Innovation Policy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master's Degree of Architect-Engineer from the Aristotle University, post-graduate studies in General Semantics with A. J. Greimas, and a PhD from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, with P. H. Chombart de Lauwe. He teaches courses on "Strategic Planning for Cities", "Learning Regions: innovation systems analysis and strategy", "Smart City Applications Design and Development" and the postgraduate seminar "Intelligent Cities and Environments of Innovation".
He is founder and director of the Urban and Regional Innovation Research (URENIO) and has coordinated about a hundred research projects under the European Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP), Framework Programmes (FP), and Territorial Cooperation Programmes (Interreg, SEE, MED). He has been honoured with the Award for Excellence and Innovation of Aristotle University for achievements in competitive research. Along with research, he took part in the development of smart cities, technology parks, and innovation strategies in most EU countries; in UNIDO activities on regional innovation in developing countries; in the OECD innovation strategy; and actually in the assessment of Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) across many regions of Europe.
Fields of research and expertise:
– City and regional strategic planning: strategic planning roadmap and methods; assessment of innovative agglomerations; planning for innovation clusters, planning for technology districts, technopoles, science and technology parks; urban regeneration projects.
– Innovation systems analysis and strategy: innovation and knowledge-based development; management of systems of innovation; innovation strategies; smart specialization strategies (RIS3); new product development methodologies and tools; measuring and benchmarking of innovation performance.
– Intelligent cities / smart cities design and development: intelligent city strategies and applications; planning for intelligent sectors and districts; web platforms for collective intelligence, technology transfer, collaborative new product development, digital marketplaces; smart innovation ecosystems; user-driven innovation ecosystems; living labs; future Internet technologies.
He has published extensively on urban and regional development and planning, innovation territories, smart and intelligent cities. He is the author of twelve books including the trilogy "Intelligent Cities: Innovation, knowledge systems and digital spaces" (Routledge 2002), "Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks" (Routledge 2008), and "The Age of Intelligent Cities: Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies" (Routledge 2014). He was guest editor of three special issues on smart cities, "Intelligent Clusters, Communities and Cities: Enhancing innovation with virtual environments and embedded systems", International Journal of Innovation and Regional Development, Vol. 1.4, 2009; "Smart Applications for Smart Cities", Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 2012.3 (together with H. Schaffers and C. Ratti); and "Smart Cities and the Future Internet in Europe", Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Vol.4.2, 2013 (together with H. Schaffers and M. Pallot).
He is member of the editorial board of eight academic journals and associate editor of the 'Journal of the Knowledge Economy', the 'Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A system's view across time and space' and the Journal of Smart Cities. More at http://www.urenio.org/komninos/
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Elias G. Carayannis is Senior Visiting Professor affiliated with URENIO. He is full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center, (EURC) at the Department of Information Systems & Technology Management, George Washington University in Washington, DC. His teaching and research activities focus on the areas of strategic Government-University-Industry R&D partnerships, technology road-mapping, technology transfer and commercialization, international science and technology policy, technological entrepreneurship and regional economic development.
He has published thirteen books to date on science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship with CRC Press, Praeger/Greenwood, Palgrave/MacMillan and Edward Elgar. He has also published working papers with the World Bank and given invited lectures on a number of occasions at the World Bank, the IADB, the European Union, and several universities. Dr. Carayannis is Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal of the Knowledge Economy; the Springer Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship: A Systems View Across Time and Space; the IGI International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development; the Edward Elgar Book Series on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; and the Springer Book Series on Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. He can be reached at: [email protected]
Dr. Yiannis FALAS has a Mining Engineer degree from the National Technical University of Athens and a PhD on "Clusters in Traditional Sectors" from the Architectural School of Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Greece. His research focuses on European clusters, mainly of traditional sectors of the economy and lately of the wood/biomass/bioenergy sector. After graduation, he worked in the Region of Western Macedonia, as Assistant Co-ordinator of Transport Infrastructure program (1st and 2nd C.S.F.). He has then been the project manager of the Regional Innovation Strategy, RIS and RIS+ Projects, and the "Knowledge clusters" Innovative Actions Program of W.M.
He has been the coordinator of the Regional Innovation Pole of Western Macedonia and the Regional Innovation Office of W.M., as well as the National Coordinator of the Strategic Med project "PROFORBIOMED". He has long experience with Cross-border and interregional cooperation projects (H2020, FP7, Interreg, Med, Black Sea, etc), coordinated several foresight exercises and has cooperated with a large number of S.M.E.'s (feasibility studies, project proposals and implementation, etc).
He is currently the Director of the Bioenergy and Environment Cluster in Western Macedonia. His main interests are innovation and regional development, interregional and cross-border development strategies, namely for clusters and SMEs.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Christina KAKDERI (MSc, PhD) is a regional economist and a researcher focusing on systems of innovation and smart innovation environments (national and regional innovation systems, technology policy, social networks, intelligent cities/districts). Since 2005 she has been involved in numerous EU and national funded projects related to spatial development and innovation ecosystems.
She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, an MSc from the School of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University, UK and a PhD on innovation systems analysis from the Faculty of Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. During her studies, she has received a three-year fellowship from the State Scholarship Foundation and a fellowship from the Research Committee of AUTH. She has also attended a number of extended training courses, such as those of the DIMETIC network (in Strasbourg, Maastricht and Pecs) on innovation networks, policies and methodologies, and of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute (in Rome) on spatial econometrics.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Margarita ANGELIDOU is a senior research officer. She is skilled in research projects' management and implementation, as well as project proposals' development. Since 2005 she has worked in business and academia in European and national research projects related with urban, socio-economic, technological/digital growth. Her research interests revolve around digital platforms for addressing urban problems, urban and social innovation and the knowledge society.
By education, Margarita is an urban development engineer (BSc, MSc) with a PhD in Smart Cities. She has received numerous fellowships and distinctions from the Institution of State Scholarships of Greece (I.K.Y.), the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Research Committee of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Research Committee of the University of Thessaly.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Twitter: @M_Angelidou
Stratos MANOS is an Architect Engineer and PhD candidate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Thesis title: The Urban Regeneration and Internationalisation of Cities in Europe).
Since 1993 he is working as researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and participated in various projects of the European Union, including the RITTS of East Macedonia and Thrace, the Urban Pilot Project of Thessaloniki, and national projects on urban renewal, innovative spatial development, urban planning and regional development. He participated in European urban planning competitions.
Since 1997, he is member of a consulting group responsible for Regional and Local Development projects and Industrial Parks Development projects. He participated in the Evaluation of Central Macedonia"s Regional Operational Programme (especially in Technical Infrastructures and Local Development measures), the Cross-border cooperation projects (Euroregion "NESTOS-MESTA"-LACE), and the development of GIS applications.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Giorgos MARTINIDIS (MSc, MA) is a psychologist specialising in research methods and social psychology, with further postgraduate studies in economics and politics in SE Europe. He is a PhD candidate at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, researching the contribution of human capital to regional innovation systems.
Since 2007 he has worked on the implementation of various research projects and the drafting of project proposals for URENIO. In addition, he has worked on project administration and financial management both for URENIO and for the South Eastern Europe Research Centre (SEERC).
In 2014, he received an award by Transparency International for a study on corruption in Eastern Europe. He has published papers on various topics, including the view on mental disorders throughout history, the historical and social patterns of alcohol use, and minority rights and minority policies in SE Europe.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Nancy (Anastasia) MARTZOPOULOU is a Mechanical and Agricultural Engineer and currently belongs to the academic staff of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning – School of Architecture – Faculty of Engineering – AUTH, where she completed her PhD thesis entitled "Energy and environmental management in industrial concentrations".
She has been actively involved in the research activity of the URENIO Research Unit – AUTH, participating in the implementation and the management of research projects such as: Cross-Inno-Cut, Innopolis, INTERVALUE, The future of industry in Thessaloniki, Innovation in the Ionian Islands, Digital research center in Central Macedonia, Istos: Innovative Actions in the South Aegean. Scientific fields she is interested in: Urban/Regional Planning and Innovation, Smart Specialisation, Smart Energy Cities, Environmental Planning, Industrial Symbiosis and Ecology, Eco – Industrial Parks, Emergy Analysis, Agricultural Engineering. She teaches at the Schools of Architecture and Agriculture.
E-mail contact: [email protected] | [email protected]
Dimitris MILOSSIS is electrical engineer with studies in the School of Technology, University of Patra, Greece. He has a Diploma in Electronics for Telecommunications from the University of Southampton, England and a Masters cource in Business Adninistration (MBA) in University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki, Greece). He is a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on the topic of "Regional Innovation Systems".
Since 1999, his is working as a researcher at the URENIO research unit in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and participates in various European projects. His scientific interests are in business performance assessment (benchmarking), web development, and networking in Innovation Management Tools and New Product Development.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Nitsa PAPADOPOULOU received a Masters in Business Administration from St John"s University U.S.A, specializing in strategic business planning and marketing. Her undergraduate studies are in Linguistics and Education.
Prior to her current position, she worked for consultancy companies and was responsible for the development of services and coordination of product delivery to clients, and training and monitoring of personnel. She has participated in research projects concerning regional development in the Health Network (Rhine Esprit Project DGXIII) and Interborder Development (ADAPT). Her scientific research interests are mainly focused on knowledge management and innovation management techniques.
Since April 2002, she is an active member of URENIO and participates in the implementation and coordination of research projects related to Regional Development and Innovation Technology for the regions of Thessaly, West Macedonia, and Ionian Islands.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Maria PARASKEVA studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Before her current position, she was a project manager at the Vocational Training Centre (VTC) for seven years. She was also the head of the department that was responsible for combating people's exclusion from occupation, and for the department that aimed at promoting graduates to labor.
During her career, she has worked at the "Organization of Cultural Capital of Europe Thessaloniki "97", and at Macedonian Press Agency. She has taught "Greek as a foreign language" and "vocational guidance" at the Vocational Training Centre, where she has also written the handbooks on both subjects. She also taught English (as a foreign language) at various coaching schools.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Isidoros A. PASSAS has a Bachelor of engineering on computer systems from the School of Engineering of University of Sussex in U.K. He is in the process of accomplishing his M.B.A. in University of Sheffield in the U.K. His scientific interests are in the application of information technology in business processes of SMEs, business and cluster intelligence, innovation measurement and benchmarking, and web 2.0 new product development, and website assessmenmt.
Since 2001, he has been working as a researcher at the URENIO research unit. He is currently involved in the development of web-based roadmaps concerning New Product Development and the creation of Spin-off companies and supports the URENIO web platform and applications related to benchmarking.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Maria S. Schoina is a graduate of the Department of Civil Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After graduation she was involved in several structural design studies as self-employed or in cooperation with a design and construction firm. She has also been working as a scientific researcher at the Universities of Thessaly and Western Macedonia, in a series of projects and studies in the fields of Regional Development, Innovation, Management of Technology and Tourism Management.
Since 2000 she has been working for the Urenio Research Unit of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, participating in the implementation and the management of research projects such as: InnoRegio: Dissemination of Innovation and Knowledge Management Techniques, InVent: Innovative Actions in Thessaly, Istos: Innovative Actions in the South Aegean, Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS) in Southwest Bulgaria, Medi-Cube: Mediterranean Technology Led Incubator Co-operation.
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Elena SEFERTZI received a master of sociology from the University of Paris Rene Descartes-Sorbonne, a post-graduate degree (DEA), and a doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales, Paris.
She has taught as specialist scientist at the Department of Economic Sciences of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1985-89) and as assistant professor at the Technical University of Crete (1990-99). Her research interests focus on regional innovation policy, technology transfer and industrial development. She has participated and co-ordinated many research projects funded by research organisations and the European Commission .
She is the author of numerous articles, including "Flexibility and alternative corporate strategies" (Industrial Relations, vol. 51, no 1, 1996), "Neo-industrialisation and peripherality" (Geoforum, vol. 29, no 1, 1998), "Innovation in the every day life of libraries" (Technovation, no 20, 2000), "Changing regional systems of innovation in Greece" (European Planning Studies, September/October 2003), and co-editor of Innovation: system-areas, technology transfer, and innovative development in Greece (Athens, Gutenberg,1998), Innovation Development Technologies in Regions and Production Complexes (Athens, Gutenberg, 2001).
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Paraskevi TARANI studied architecture at the School of Engineering in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is a PhD candidate at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, on the topic "The European Cities in the New Economy of Knowledge".Her research interests include the area of urban and regional innovation, urban theory and planning.
As member of the URENIO research unit since 1994, she has been involved in several research projects dealing with city and regional development and innovation diffusion, such us: Regional Technological Project (RTP) of Central Macedonia, Regional Innovation Strategy (RIS+) Central Macedonia, Agropolis Technology Park of Thessaloniki, Innovation in Ionian Islands. Her experience in the field of urban planning includes several projects on urban renovation and planning, technology parks, and new areas development. A number of her projects and articles on the urban condition have been published in international magazines for architecture and urban planning (Techniques & Architecture, D" Architectures, Architecture in Greece, Threshold).
E-mail contact: [email protected]
Panagiotis C. TSARCHOPOULOS received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Urban and Spatial Planning from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1992 and 2013, respectively.
He supports the URENIO Research Unit web presence. Since 1993, he has been working in R&D projects funded either by the E.C. or the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology dealing with digital innovation spaces. His current research emphasis is on smart/intelligent cities and regions, and especially on the digital space of intelligent cities. He also teaches, with Professor Komninos, the "Digital Cities" course at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
E-mail contact: [email protected]


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Teachers are being asked to use more and more technology in the classroom to keep their students up to date with the "real world," Esse explained.
Not only will the MacBooks help with instruction, he noted, but they will help teachers communicate effectively with parents.
"Teachers have already received training in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Forms and Google Calendar," Esse said. "They are using these and other applications to collaborate with colleagues at the school -- some around the world -- and to work more efficiently."
Teachers are using the laptops for their record keeping and assessments.
"Also, all of PUSD's adopted classroom series have a technology component to them that they are able to show to the class, which is very helpful to those students who may not get online access at home," Esse said. "They use Envision math, which has animations for every lesson that teachers can show their classroom via their LCD projectors."
Science and social studies texts also come alive through the endless visuals and resources available via the web.
"Laptops have literally changed instruction in our classrooms," said Principal Kim Michels. "Five years ago, when we made the decision to invest one-time technology funds in conjunction with PTA funds to purchase laptops, LCD projectors and document cameras for each classroom, I would have never predicted the impact this would have on teaching and learning in the classroom."
"It is amazing to see how technology use has grown since the PTA first purchased laptops for the staff," said fifth-grade teacher Lisa Highfill. "Having a laptop enabled teachers to take home their work, build integrated lessons, and better organize the 'business' side of the job.
"Technology takes time to master," she continued. "With a laptop, I am able to work from home and late into the night exploring the latest strategies for bringing 21st-century learning skills into the classroom."
This includes creating websites and "Flip teaching," with the teacher creating projects or videos that students can use outside the classroom.
"My time in the classroom, sharing content, motivating creativity and thinking, is spent in a more individualized way, working one to one with those needing support or re-teaching," Highfill said.
Technology Specialist Tina Davis said that giving laptops to teachers has resulted in a tremendous growth in the daily use of technology in the classroom.
"They have become more comfortable using the Internet to teach educational skills since we no longer purchase software that becomes obsolete after just one year," Davis said. "It is not cost effective to continually upgrade software when there are free or low cost sites available to us on the Internet."
Principal Michels noted that teachers' knowledge and experience with technology varies greatly, but said that they have all embraced the opportunities offered by the new laptops.
"In partnership with their students, teachers have learned and taught technology skills to their students that are preparing them for the future, i.e., Google Apps, iCloud, communicating with other students around the world via Skype, tweeting their learning and more," she said.
"This has been made possible by simply placing a laptop in the hands of each teacher," she added.
"We firmly believe that by purchasing these new laptops for our teachers we are not only investing in our teachers, but also our children," said Fairlands PTA president Laurie Walker-Whiteland. "With all the budget cuts at the state and local levels, it has been really hard on the teachers to maintain their standard of excellence for our children."
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