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EFES CURRENT AND NEXT ACTIVITIES (DRAFT PROGRAMME)
(* = to be confirmed)

Project SCOPE 2. This is a Phare programme with a global budget of 1.500.000 Euro for acceeding countries to install new services providing assistance to workers' cooperatives and participative enterprises in their development. CECOP (the European Confederation of Workers' Cooperatives is the leading organisation and EFES is a partner of the project. All EFES member organisations in the candidate countries are invited to take part.
SCOPE2 follows SCOPE1, which was considered by European Commissionner Erkki Liikanen as the best for Central and Eastern European Countries. The Report on SCOPE1 is really excellent: click here for a PDF version (68 pages).
You can see here the Report of the first partners' meeting in Prag, 0ctober 16-19, 2003, giving a short description of the project, its main components and the role of EFES.

European Programme for Employee Ownership Education and Learning: this is one of EFES' main new priorities. A new web page is now open to discuss and to develop this programme on Euro EO Training. We had a full week seminar on the matter in Bilbao from September 7 to 14, 2003: here the report of the seminar.
We have a one-year project with a final conference; our intention was to organize it in 2003, but the project was postponed because of the European Commission - DG Employment. We are now going to submit it again for 2004/2005.In a first stage, this project will help to collect and to describe existing education and training programmes in various countries. Following stages will be to define common programmes and a set of specifications for certifying programmes.

Belgian Programme for employee share ownership: EFES BELGIUM is now very successful in developing its Belgian Programme, including: experts pool, partners network, information, education and training, dissemination of the Spanish model of the sociedades laborales. See the websites on http://www.actionnariat-salarie.be/ (mostly in French anf Dutch) and on http://www.sociedades-laborales.net

Polish website: Thanks to a Leonardo project organized by the University of Krakow, and EFES beeing a partner, we are now developing a full website in Polish with the help of two Polish students,we have here in Brussels two Polish students: Aleksandra Michalik and Maja Bobruk. You can see the Polish website on http://www.employee-ownership.be/PL/servPL.htm

National conference for employee share ownership in Denmark *
EFES will develop a set of "national conferences" in countries where information and employee share ownership seem underdeveloped.
Our first intention regarding Denmark was to organize this "national conference" in October 2003, but the project had to be postponed because of the European Commission - DG Employment and Social Affairs.
We are now going to submit the project again for a conference to be held in October 2004.

Next European Parliament and next European Commission: Remember that the European Parliament will be reelected on June 13, 2004 and that we'll get a new Commission, with new Commissionners and new competences. In this context, we plead for the idea that the competences about employee ownership should move from DG Employment & Social Affairs to DG Enterprises. You can find our arguments in our Response to the Green Paper on Entrepreneurship The Commissionners' competences will be decided by the national governments. In this context, all EFES members in all countries could make efforts to lobby their national governments about that. In Belgium, we already discussed the point with our Prime Minister's cabinet and we sent him a personal letter.

April 2005 *:
"National conference" in Greece.

May 2005 *:
Brussels, European Conference on Employee Ownership and trade unions.

June 2005 *:
"National conference" in Sweden

EFES PAST ACTIVITIES

May 16, 2003:
Brussels, EFES Board meeting and annual General Meeting of members.

March 28-29, 2003:
Conference of the Central and Eastern European Employee Ownership Network in Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Click here for the invitation, programme of the conference and registration form

March 21, 2003:
Brussels, Conference at Parliament's Hall: "Sociedades Laborales: a model for Belgium?", with the participation of: Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister; Laurette Onkelinx, Vice-Prime Minister and Minister of Employment; Charles Picqué, Minister of Economy; Patrick Dewael, Minister-President of the Flemish Government; Serge Kubla, Minister of Economie of the Walloon Government; Jaak Gabriels, Minister of Economy of the Flemish Government, and many others.

February 14-15, 2003:
Glasgow, Seminar of the project "European Academy on Employee Ownership". The project is organized by Employee Ownership Scotland, with EFES partnership. The aim is to gather European specialized researchers.



For your participation or any proposals, send your message to marc.mathieu@pi.be