Good practice

Unternehmer in Not, Austria This service consists of an online-platform where entrepreneurs of micro and small companies have the possibility to assess the health of their business and provides them with free up-to-date information. The project is run without any additional financial resources. The online-platform contains:

about 80 articles (including interviews with testimonials),
about 50 newsworthy contributions ("short news"),
self-assessment tool (SME online-check)
list of about 40 books,
list of about 70 web-links,
glossary (about 50 terms focusing on self-employment and indebtedness),
searchable through a list of about 100 keywords and full-text search
monthly newsletter (with about 400 email-addresses).

The information channels are structured along main topics

towards crisis (prevention, coping with crisis, life after crisis)
legal aspects (insolvency law, private debt-relief)
financial aspects (cash flow, loans, creditors)

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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.