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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

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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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