U-Turn Conference

European handbook --> European Handbook German(PDF) --> European Handbook English(PDF) --> European Handbook French(PDF) --> European Handbook Spanish(PDF) European Handbook by Dagmar Hayen and Britta Seidl Opening speech --> Small Business Advice: Key Messages from Research (PDF) Presentation by Dr. Kevin Mole, scientist and lecturer at the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom Workshop 1: "How to get hold on all the Data?" --> Business Debtline - Gathering the Data (PDF) Presentation by Nick Keith, BDL, United Kingdom --> How to get hold of all the data? (PDF) Presentation by Martin Jung, EVERS & JUNG, Germany --> Mentors I Emprenedors (PDF) Presentation by Antoni Angerri, Mentors I Emprenedors , Spain Workshop 2: "What makes a good advisor?" --> Business Debtline - How to recruit and train the adviser (PDF) Presentation by David Cheadle, BDL, United Kingdom --> ondernemersklankbord (PDF) Presentation by Maud Eyck, Ondernemersklankbord, The Netherlands --> What makes a good advisor? (PDF) Presentation by Christiane Siegel, G.I.B., Germany Workshop 3: "How to motivate your client?" --> Do we know our clients? (PDF) Presentation by Klaas Molenaar, Triodos Facet, The Netherlands --> How to motivate our clients? (PDF) Presentation by José Maria Menéndez, Trans-Formando, Spain --> run & help (PDF) Presentation by Annette Böhm, run & help, Germany Workshop 4: "How to build up a positive relationship to your loan client?" --> Crisis Management in SMEs (PDF) Presentation by Dr. Jochen Struck, KfW, Germany --> Finnish turnaround model (PDF) Presentation by Tuula Pulkkinen, Finnvera, Finland --> MFIs ans Business support services (PDF) Presentation by Alice Penet, Adie, France --> Microempresa en Accion (PDF) Presentation by Jordi Purrà, Un Sol Món, Spain

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.