Governmental initiatives

The European Commission provides ideas to create an environment in which firms can be successful, thus to achieve the objectives set by the European Council in Lisbon in March 2000. Information about the European Commissions’ actions in the field "Restructuring, bankruptcy and a fresh start" Homepage of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor(GEM) research program which publishes an annual assessment of the national level of entrepreneurial activity. The World Banks’ Global Insolvency Law Database (GILD) Business Link - a comprehensive page of the UK government with practical advice for businesses in different developing stages and sectors The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is an independent agency of the US federal government. They offer a small business planer, services and tools which helps to start, built and grow businesses

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.