Study on the transfer of expertise through mentoring in SMEs

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 mentori...

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
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