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3rd report of young entrepreneurs group

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Our latest benchmarking report

Networking

Young entrepreneurs working group

This group’s main objectives are:

to enforce the presence and the visibility of young employers inside OPCE;
to enlarge the cooperation and the exchange of information between young entrepreneurs inside OPCE members;
to strengthen links with other European young entrepreneurs’ organizations;

With regard to this last point, official contacts has been held with ‘YES for Europe’, a trans-national organization of young employers based in Brussels. On January the 21st Mr. Marco Pezzini, YES General Secretary and, Miss Isabella Strada, YES officer, were hosted by UEB (Union des Entreprises de Bruxelles) during the OPCE Working Groups’ technical meeting in Brussels.

The cooperation with YES will focus about:

exchange of information regarding the young entrepreneurship in European OPCE capitals;
exchange of documents about the two organizations and the mutual permission to use them for study purpose;

Moreover, the YES President, Mr. Murat Sarayli has been invited to our XVI Congress in Moscow, as speaker on the theme ‘Young entrepreneurship in European capital cities and local government actions to favour it’.

Benchmarking

Traffic working group

The benchmarking group was created to exchange opinions and experiences on key issues which affect directly the economic development of capital cities.

Since march 2005, The benchmarking group is working on Urbanism and traffic issues.

All European capital cities face urbanism and transport key issues which affect directly the economic development. Local governments take measures to respond to pollution, environment, traffic problems and building improvement needs. The entrepreneurs have to feel involved in this matters and to be a real alternative and constructive force. Exchanging opinions and experiences on a European level can help entrepreneurs to make concrete and useful proposals to their local authorities.

Urbanism and Transport are two separate items and should be considered separately.

The working group started with the transport issue asking its members to identify and list the recent measures (as toll system, traffic control, transport network improvement, area closed to traffic …).

The working group will prepare a first sum-up for the Winter 2005/2006 and will present the OPCE propositions regarding traffic in OPCE capital cities to Rodi Kratsa, Member of the European Parliament in charge of transport and tourism, who already attended the OPCE congress of Athens in June 2004 and the Paris Bod in March 2005. Rodi Kratsa will invite OPCE to an inter-group session at the end of 2005.

Contact Marie-Sophie Claverie : msclaverie@medefparis.fr

To be done

On may, the Group leader invited by email the OPCE members to join an informal council of Young Entrepreneurs and Managers (< 40 y.o.). Several members didn’t answer yet, so the YEM Council can’t start at the moment. We hope to do that in the next weeks.

the Group wish to continue to carry ahead TYENEUC 25 (Training for Young Entrepreneurs of the New European Union Capitals), a project to foster the exchange of experience and training for young entrepreneurs who live and work in the capital cities of the new 10 E. U. member states (Hungary, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta) and are members of local or national associations of entrepreneurs. These young entrepreneurs – selected directly by the organizations identified by OPCE – will follow a 3-day training course at the OPCE member organizations selected among those located in countries which are E.U. member states.

During their short stay at the host organizations they will come into contact with the economic reality of the host capital city and will also learn the organization mechanisms and the principles and rules of the associations of entrepreneurs operating in the capital cities of the “old” 15 member state European Union.

The task of the host associations will be making available a tutor (an English language skilled entrepreneur of official) capable of assisting the young guest entrepreneur during his three-day training course, of accompanying him to visit other bodies and institutions and provide him with the documentation needed for his training “on-the spot”.

We think that each exchange should cost not more than € 1.500 (travel, meals, accommodation, insurance);

For the first edition of the Project (2005-2006), the Group will ask to the OPCE members to find a private sponsor which could finance at least one Young entrepreneur’s exchange of experience.

Contact Fabrizio Borracia : Fabrizio_Borraccia@UnioneIndustriali.Roma.It

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