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- Agriculture in the Europe of 25 portal
This website of the Directorate General for Agriculture is a portal providing up-to-date information on the agricultural situation in the new Member States. Access is given to documents, studies and reports, fact sheets, country information and conference proceedings. This portal takes over the function of the still existing ‘Agriculture and enlargement’ website that will no longer be updated.
- Avignon Academy for SMEs and Crafts in Europe
- Bertelsmann Foundation
- Centre for European Economic Research
- DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission
- DG Regional Policy
- Driving forward - futures for the automotive sector from a regional perspective
Anticipating change in the automotive sector from the perspective of key drivers - including technology, regional investment and support, and geographies of production - is the theme of EMCC’s next workshop in Warsaw, Poland, on 23-24 September 2004. ‘Driving forward - futures for the automotive sector’ will also examine possible effects on employment and work organisation, particularly for SMEs in the automotive supply chain, and how regional policymakers might respond.
- EMCC exchange events in 2005
The European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC) will continue to develop its Company Network in 2005 with a new series of exchange events. These events offer a dynamic forum where managers, employees and their representatives, as well as policymakers and researchers, can examine change at the point of impact - the company level. Topics for 2005 include: ‘Offshore outsourcing of business services - threat or opportunity?’, ‘Workplace innovation - fostering productivity and quality of work’, ‘Entrepreneurship - developing the right climate’, and the challenges and future prospects for the European telecommunications industry and the construction sector.
- Economic development agencies: Fostering business champions
In a seminar organised for the members of its Company Network, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions discussed the role of economic development agencies (EDAs) in fostering business champions. The seminar was held in New Lanark, Scotland (United Kingdom), on 21-22 March 2006. Four EDAs - from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland and Estonia - offered an insight into their strategies for fostering business champions and economic development. Three of the EDAs were joined in their presentations by firms that they had supported.
- European Federation of Contract Catering Organisations
Based in Brussels, Belgium, the European Federation of Contract Catering Organisations (FERCO) represents the national contract caterer associations of ten European countries. The Federation defends the interests of its member organisations at European level, dialogues with social parties and cooperates with other employers' associations. It also plays the role of industry promoter and provides a forum for discussion.
- European Information Technology Observatory
- European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
The Foundation is an autonomous body of the European Union founded in 1975 with a mandate to 'contribute to the planning and establishment of better living and working conditions'. It is a tripartite EU body, whose role is to provide key actors in social policy-making with findings, knowledge and advice drawn from comparative research.
- FIOM - Federation of Metallurgical Employees and Workers
- FIZ technik
- Gentlemen's dispute or bar room brawl?
This report by PricewaterhouseCoopers analyses the consequences of the block exemption regulation (BER) governing the way in which vehicle manufacturers distribute their products in Europe. The regulation will affect every sector of the European automotive industry: carmakers; dealers; technology suppliers; spare parts producers; repairers; used cars as well as consumers.
- Global Business Network
- IRE - Innovating Regions in Europe Network
- ISTAT - National Statistical Office
- Institute for Employment Studies
- International Monetary Fund
- Job rotation: European models
A report, based on a recent Finnish survey on job rotation in the European Union, examines the operating environment of job rotation and the implementation of projects in 14 Member States. The survey was carried out within the framework of the 'Renewing professional skills through job rotation' (Potkuri) project and partly financed by the 'Adapt' initiative.
- LBS - London Business School
- McKinsey & Company
- New market opportunities for construction: summary
This is a summary of the Euroconstruct analysis of June 2003, produced by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies and its European partners. According to it, housing and business construction will continue to drop until 2004 and will recover in 2005. Despite bleak prospects new opportunities are developing for the European construction industry due to the new Members' strong growth in the construction of new transport infrastructure.
- Nordic Centre for Spatial Development
- Regional development in the Nordic countries 2002
This report offers an analysis of current regional developments and policies in the Nordic countries, providing a comprehensive picture of recent policy trends and initiatives It also includes an assessment of the impact of EU-funded cross-border, interregional and transnational co-operation programmes on the economic and demographic development of the different countries.
- Rising employment in hotels and restaurants
This brochure, published in 2003, belongs to the 'Eurostat Statistics in Focus’ series. It provides facts and figures on employment dynamics and distribution by category in the hotel and restaurant segment of the tourism industry. Data refer to the period between 1999 and 2001 and are provided by the Community Labour Force Survey.
- Science and Policy Research Unit
- Swedish Business Development Agency
- Swedish Technology Foresight
- Technology Foresight Ireland
This report from the Irish Information and Communications Technologies Panel assesses the position of information and communications technology in Ireland and puts forward proposals for the next 17 years. It analyses the current impact of ICT across eight sectors, and describes and analyses the different drivers of change: changing technologies, the political climate, competitive trends, the growth of the economy and demographic trends.
- The European Case Clearing House
- The Federation of Finnish Electrical and Electronics Industry
- The Irish National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science, Technology and Innovation
- The Kiel Institute for World Economics
- UK Foresight
- UNI Finance Sector
- UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
EMCC is a project of the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
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