Post on 09-Jul-2020
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Institute of Entrepreneurship Development www.entre.gr
Who we are
The Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (iED) is a Greek NGO
committed to the promotion of innovation and the enhancing of the spirit of
entrepreneurship.
By recognizing entrepreneurship as a crucial factor for the development and
cohesion of societies, we develop research and are in a position to provide
innovative solutions that facilitate the growth of healthy
entrepreneurship and . promote employment
In order to achieve our goal, we adopt an approach and anthropocentric
cooperate with social, academic and business from Greece and partners
abroad, aiming at and , promoting producing transferring know how
and enhancing the entrepreneurial culture and of effectiveness viability
enterprises.
Our activities are based on the premise that enterprises-and particularly SMEs-
constitute traditionally the backbone of European economies and therefore also
constitute a significant factor in the attempt to and reduce unemployment
lead to a . wider social prosperity
, the year of establishment of iED, we have been oriented towards Since 2005
that direction and have implemented a , wealth of actions and initiatives
which have made us a highly specialized organization in the following indicative
: fields of expertise
Institute of Entrepreneurship Development www.entre.gr
Entrepreneurship
Innovation, on-going consultancy, support and strategic visioning that all
lead to the enhancing of the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Education and training
Diagnosing the educational and training needs of individuals and groups,
developing of training curricula and delivery of customized training
courses.
Employment and social inclusion
Identifying skills gaps, cultivating necessary skills and dexterities for
successful labor market inclusion, developing professional profiles,
investing in comprehensive career guidance and lifelong consultancy.
Regional Development
Measures targeted at local and regional development through the mapping
of available resources and the maximizing of their potential.
E-learning
Learning design and development, online applications, custom learning
solutions and placing education and training in a virtual environment.
Youth
Facilitating youth inclusion and participation in all walks of life.
SMEs
Start-up assistance, reliable business guidance through all stages of
operation and custom made training solutions enhance the viability and
potential of SMEs.
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Our vision
The vision of iED is the facilitation of all the necessary preconditions required for
the creation of an environment that will and cultivate entrepreneurship
subsequently, . social and economic cohesion and development
In order to meet this end, we invest in and aim to offer custom-innovation
, to in order to made realistic solutions enterprises and individuals
strengthen business culture and provide to problems and viable solutions
challenges related to entrepreneurial activities
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Who we work with
iED is an organization particularly aimed at and the developing the skills
wider potential of . Our activities, services and products address human capital
mainly the following target groups:
Enterprises (existing, potential, start-ups)
Self-employed individuals and other professionals
Business consultants
Career guidance counselors
Academic researchers and students
Policy makers, Universities, VET providers, unions
Unemployed and other socially vulnerable groups (women, aging
individuals, NEETs, etc)
Volunteers
Youth
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What we do
Services
Here at iED we provide the following integrated, custom-made services to our
target groups:
1. Business consulting & support
The provision of consulting and support services to individuals and companies
can be a complex and lengthy process. In order to address the issues
associated with it, iED has developed a specific methodology in order to
support effectively both target groups. This approach is reflected in the
development of personalized applications, such as:
of enterprises and Integrated systems for the consultancy support
individuals.
Entrepreneurship guides, etc. evaluation and monitoring
2. Improvement and certification of professional skills
Investing in human capital is the most important investment an enterprise can
make. In this context, the improvement and certification of employee
-and more specifically their soft skills- is an absolutely necessary process skills
that allows both enterprises and employees to grow and become more
effective.
One of the services that iED can provide an enterprise with, is a personnel
, which can diagnose employee evaluation and certification system
needs and work towards the direction of solving them.
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3. Organizational support & production and transfer of
innovation and know-how
Innovation is one of the most important elements of an enterprise
development and also a prerequisite for its future success and evolution in an
extremely demanding business environment. The introduction of innovation,
however, needs proper organization and change management that iED can
facilitate through the development of useful tools, such as:
Customer satisfaction surveys.
Systems for the monitoring of the internal processes of an enterprise and
for assessing the satisfaction of employees.
4. Project planning, submission and management
Having a successful ten-year experience in the submission and
s, iED implementation of numerous European and National program
has the expertise and highly skilled personnel to undertake this activity on its
behalf, but also on the behalf of other organizations.
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5. Information technology applications to facilitate learning and
entrepreneurial processes
One of iED’s competitive advantages is the design and implementation of cutting
edge information technology applications in order to facilitate the operational
processes of an enterprise. These IT applications can be applied in diverse
sectors, such as:
Human Resources - Systems for the & diagnosing of training needs
online distance learning platforms.
Finance - Systems for the . evaluation of business investments
We collaborate closely with our target groups before and during the
in order to ensure that the final end-products are development process,
exactly what they need in order to tackle the issues at hand.
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Products
iED applies its experience and expertise into practice and develops cutting edge
products dedicated to entrepreneurial and personal growth and
. We have developed products aiming towards personal development
development, assessment of skills and qualifications, learning of new skills,
understanding of business processes and concepts, support of new business etc.
Some of the indicative categories of tools are the following:
Training curricula
Professional profiles
Tools and toolkits for entrepreneurial start-up
Training materials
Methodologies for the upgrading and certification of professional and soft
skills
Thematic studies, surveys and research
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in numbers!
From 2005 until today, iED has:
Successfully implemented over 100
large-scale European and national
projects.
Developed more than 20 innovative
packages of tools and products.
Supported more than 2000
companies and businesses for the
design, development and
implementation of their business plans,
the restructuring of their business
procedures.
Supported more than 500 women
with the aim of developing and
enhancing women’s (social)
entrepreneurship.
Developed a network of more than
1000 cooperating institutions
throughout the European Union.
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Your reliable project partner!
In our ten year long activation, we have participated among others in the
planning, implementation and evaluation of more than 100 National and
European projects, something which gave us a unique insight in the practical
aspects of implementing large scale co-funded projects and also provided us with
an extremely wide network of collaborating organizations from both Greece and
abroad.
Our participation in the aforementioned projects gave us also the opportunity to
produce and collect a large number of innovative tools and products on all
aspects of entrepreneurship and lifelong learning, available to be further
processed and utilized by any other interested organization.
EuropeAid ID : GR-2008-BAK-1601676118
PIC No : 998069182
Institute of Entrepreneurship Development www.entre.gr
Institute of Entrepreneurship Development
60 Iroon Politechniou Str.
41335, Larissa
Greece
E-mail: info@entre.gr
Website: http://entre.gr
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