Study on the transfer of expertise through mentoring in SMEs

Brussels, 14 Jun 2005

The Commission's Enterprise and Industry DG has published a call for tenders for a study on the transfer of expertise through mentoring in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

In the first stage, the contractor will deliver:
- a survey of different training and mentoring support measures/schemes in favour of non-family business successors who are in the process of taking over established small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU-25 Member States;
- the assessment of the quality and impact of existing training and mentoring services in terms of client satisfaction through standardised questionnaires;
- a ranking of selected good practices of existing training and mentoring services, i.e. best practices for the preparation of non-family business successors to acquire established small and medium-sized enterprises through professional training and mentoring.

In the second stage, the contractor will deliver:
- a comprehensive management training guide that covers all those areas a non-family business successor has to know, i.e. all the necessary knowledge and information he/she needs in the process of successfully taking over an established small or medium-sized enterprise;
- the translation of the management training guide into English, French and German;
- the organisation of a final conference on non-family business succession and on existing training and mentoring support measures/schemes for non-family business successors with participation of national experts, SME associations, craft chambers, banks, etc.

The study should cover the EU-25 Member States.

For further information, please contact:

European Commission
Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry
Directorate E - Unit E3 'Crafts, small business cooperatives and mutuals'
Attn: Mr Albrecht Mulfinger
Re: Invitation to tender No. ENTR/05.041
BRE 5/329
B-1049 Brussels
Tel +32-2-295 3942
Fax +32-2-295 4590
E-mail: Entr-Craft-Small-Business@cec.eu.int

To see the full details of the call, please
click here
Remarks: The deadline for requesting tender documents is 13.7.2005.
The deadline for submitting tender documents is 20.7.2005.

Before contacting the Commission, tenderers are strongly advised to consult the original call text in the Official Journal of the European Union at the reference below.

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