Conference "U-turn: Towards business success"

What?

This conference is to share the outcome of the 2-year EU-project "Crisis Intervention and Management of Change in Micro-Enterprises" under the lead of EVERS & JUNG, Germany. Providers of good-practice crisis intervention schemes will meet and want to exchange their experience with practitioners, policy makers and researchers from all over Europe. Focal points:

Profound demonstration of successful business support methods and tools for endangered micro-enterprises
Presentation of success factors and challenges of crisis intervention/prevention services and special issues of microfinance institutions being active in this field
Hands-on advice from organisations that provide best practice advice in crisis intervention

--> conference flyer engl. (PDF) --> conference flyer dt. (PDF) There are no costs involved for the participation in the conference and the social event.

When?

20th September 2007 conference from 9am - 6pm, social event starting at 8pm

Where?

Handwerkskammer Hamburg Holstenwall 12, 20355 Hamburg, Germany --> public transport in Hamburg --> click here for a map

News

European Handbook available

The European Handbook U-Turn: Towards Business Success is now available for download in English, German, French and Spanish! click here

Conference is over!

The "U-Turn: Towards Business Success" conference is over! More than 100 participants attended the conference which was held on Thursday, 20th September at the chamber of crafts , Hamburg. We like to thank all those who took part!

Final conference

Reserve some space in your schedule: The final project conference will take place on the 20th of September in Hamburg. For details, please click here. No costs involved for participation.

Microempresa en Acción starts its services

Microempresa en Acción, the pilot of Fundació Un Sol Món, successfully started on the 27 of February 2007. The service consits of telephone advice (inbound and outbound) for entrepreneurs having received a microcredit from the savings bank Caixa Catalunya.

Three new best practice partners:

The circle of the project team is once again broadend: Zuidweg & Parters (The Netherlands), the Ondernemersklankbord (The Netherlands) and Associaciò de Mentors i Emprenedors (Spain) have joined and raise the number of best-practice partners up to 13. Presentations of our new best practice partnes will be on-line soon.

First pilot project starts its operation:

With SOS-Ondernemers of FACET/SEON, the first pilot project in the frames of the project is set up. The mulichannel approach of FACET will include a website with tools and worthwhile information, an email-consultancy service and telephone advice.