gsub mbH for Europe - Thinking on a European scale, acting locally

Information about the following programms and projects:

LECIM
mov.ENT (Erasmus for young entrepreneurs) (Erasmus programm)
MetropolisNET
manAGE (Leonardo da Vinci programm)
Valori (Leonardo da Vinci Programm)
COP – Community of Practice on Partnerships


The tasks of our gsub for Europe team are:

• Identifying suitable and relevant invitations to tender
• Assistance in formulating applications, seeking partners as well as in implementing the agreed measures.
• Monitoring and evaluating European projects
• Expert services

LECIM (Learning Cities for Migrants Inclusion)

The project intends to maximize the impact of vocational training and adult education actions targeted at people with migrant background, run in mid-size European Cities, by their coordination with and integration into the City welfare system.
It intends

• to improve the capacities of Local Development Partnerships to identify and implement a Vocational Training and Adult Education Actions Plan addressed to people with migrant background;
• to bring together stakeholders designing the integration process of the education actions into Cities welfare system;
• to raise the knowledge of successful local experiences;
• to transfer of 3 best practices (results of previous successful projects in Bologna, Berlin and Dunkerque), in 3 Cities that need it (Catania, Santander and Budapest).
• The project uses different methodologies and tools: workshops (using the EASW and GOPP methods), training seminars, website, support desk, study visits.

Our European partners are: C.I.O.F.S. FP (Italy), CEFIR (France), Documenta, (Spain), FKFSZ (Hungary) and ZSI (Austria).

Contact:

Jasmin Zouizi
Phone: +49 (0) 30 284 09 – 223
jasmin.zouizi@gsub.de

Further information concerning our projects:

mov.ENT (Erasmus for young entrepreneurs):

On the 19th February 2009 the new pilot programme of the European Commission “Erasmus for young entrepreneurs” was launched. The concept of this new European exchange programme is that young European entrepreneurs will be able to spend up to six months working with an experienced entrepreneur in another EU country and learn how to better manage and grow their own business.

Who is the programme for?
Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs is intended for New Entrepreneurs and Host Entrepreneurs. A New Entrepreneur (NE) is someone who is firmly planning to set up his/her own business or has already started a business within the last three years. Host Entrepreneurs (HE) should be experienced businesspeople who own or manage an SME in the EU. NEs’ and HEs’ business can be in any sector of activity.

NEs will gain experience from shadowing the senior host entrepreneur, while at the same time contributing to his/her business through their work, new ideas and fresh views.

The exchange programme is financed by the European Commission. The matching of the NEs with HEs is carried out with the help of over 100 intermediary organisations (IOs) competent in business support (e.g. Chambers of Commerce, incubators, start-up centres, etc.) all across the EU. The gsub-Projektegesellschaft mbH is implementing the programme in Berlin. Above all we are responsible for the matching of new and host entrepreneurs as well as for the support of new entrepreneurs staying in Berlin.

Our European partners are: Centro Servizi P.M.I. (Italy) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bacau (Romania).

MetropolisNet:

MetropolisNet is a unique network of different types of organisations developing and implementing local strategies for employment and social inclusion in a number of European cities.
The members of MetropolisNet are located in Berlin, Budapest, Dublin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Rome, Santander, Seine-Saint-Denis, Tampere and Vienna.
Among others the aims of MetropolisNet are promoting employment and social cohesion in large cities and urban areas as well as exchanging information, experience and know-how between the partner organisations. The partnership is a forum for exchanging information and good practice on re-integrating disadvantaged groups in the labour market.

manAGE:

Many European countries are faced with a common challenge: firstly, the ageing of their population which is leading to a changing labour market; and secondly, the need to be receptive to retaining older workers until retirement age and beyond if they are able to work longer. Managers and human resource professionals need to create a strategy to manage an ageing workforce. The improvement of working environments for an age-diverse workforce should be the challenge for management and may require new ways of working.

The general project objective is to help human resources management to improve their age management policies. The project will improve the awareness of managers and human resource staff of the need to manage an ageing workforce. The objectives are to develop an interactive e-learning age management course for use by human resource staff and management.
The e-learning age management course will promote new ways of learning and will also enhance the skills and qualifications of human resource staff and management to help them manage an ageing workforce. The project will increase the employability of older people and will prevent older workers taking early retirement.

Our European partners are: Association of Entrepreneurship Promotion (Poland), European Profiles S.A. (Greece), Labfor (Italy), Life Academy (Great Britain) and 4system Polska (Poland).

VALORI

The EU project VALORI is supported by the Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo da Vinci. In a previous project (Coast Revitalization) a method of vocational training using open modules was developed. This method was used to support socially disadvantaged groups such as immigrants, former convicts, disabled, older people and others to access the labour market and find a working place. Within the scope of VALORI these modules shall be made over and improved. During the project ‚Job Facilitation Tutors’ will be qualified in training courses in the European partner countries. These ‚Job Facilitation Tutors’ shall solicit the increased employment of socially disadvantaged people and will advise the enterprises of the introduction and improvement of diversity management.

Our European partners are: province of Livorno (Italy), province of Massa Carrara (Italy), province of Lucca (Italy), province of Pisa (Italy), province of Grosseto (Italy), Motivacio Foundation (Hungary), GMYN – Greater Manchester Youth Network (Great Britain)

Contact:

gsub mbH for Europe
Dr. Diana Peitel
Kronenstr. 65
10117 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0) 30 284 09 - 129
Fax: +49 (0) 30 284 09 - 210

E-mail: diana.peitel@gsub.de
Internet: www.gsub.de