Good practice

Mentors i Emprenedors, Spain The non-profit organisation Mentors i Emprenedors stated its business in July 2003. Its main concern is to contribute to a social and sustainable economy by delivering support to micro and small entrepreneurs. The activities of Mentors i Emprenedors therefore consist of the following issues:

Delivering technical and tutorial support to entrepreneurs involved in micro and small business.
Promoting micro and small business as a way for people to overcome a severe economic and social situation.
Acquisition of partners in public and private institutions in order to take economic and social actions in the field of micro and small enterprises

The support given to entrepreneurs consists of the following issues:

Helping entrepreneurs to set up a Business Plan,
Provision of additional tutoring services, tailored to the entrepreneurs needs and
Monitoring the consolidation of the enterprise.

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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.