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EFES CURRENT AND NEXT ACTIVITIES
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Brussels, 23 May 2008 – Seventh European Meeting of Employee Ownership
The Seventh European Meeting of Employee Ownership will be held in the prestigious Solvay Library, just near the European Parliament. Programme and practical information are now available. Get all information here

EFES PAST ACTIVITIES
Sixth European Meeting of Employee Ownership - 14-16 December 2006 
For the first time in 2006, we ranked and analysed all European largest companies regarding employee ownership, in a full systematic way. Ranking 2006 was first published during the Sixth European Meeting of Employee Ownership on 14-16 December 2006 in Brussels. Click here for all presentations of the meeting

The European Employee Ownership TOP 100 in 2006
For the first time in 2006, we published our rankings of Europe's largest companies regarding employee ownership:
EUROCAP100: Companies being ranked by equity held by employees, in millions Euro. Europe's largest companies that are partly or totally employee-owned through an ESOP, Share Purchase Plan, or other Broad-Based Ownership Plan, or as a workers' co-operative.
EUROEMP100: Companies being ranked by number of employees. Europe's largest companies that are 50% or more employee-owned through an ESOP, Share Purchase Plan, or other Broad-Based Ownership Plan, or as a workers' co-operative. Companies must be at least majority employee owned by at least 50% of their full-time employees or by an ESOP or profit sharing plan to qualify.
See all details here and the ranking 2006

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 being 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

New European Parliament and Commission: the European Parliament was reelected on June 13, 2004 and we 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 EFES call to new Parliament and Commission 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.

Fifth European Meeting of Employee Ownership on June 16-17, 2005
The meeting will gather 350 people about the European Programme EOLE (Employee Ownership Learning & Education). It will be held in Brussels in the prestigious installations of the National Bank of Belgium. See on www.eole-efes.net

Fifth European Meeting of Employee Ownership, June 16-17, 2005: all presentations, pictures and report
Fourth European Meeting of Employee Ownership - BILBAO MONDRAGON - Report of the Meeting. Pictures of the Meeting.

Project SCOPE 2. The project has now its own website on www.scope.coop
SCOPE 2 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.

EOLE - European Programmes for Employee Ownership Learning & Education: this is one of EFES' main new priorities.
A dedicated web page is open to discuss and to develop this project.
We have now a one-year project for years 2004-2005, with the support of the European Commission.
• First stage, this project will help to collect and to describe existing education and training programmes in various countries.
• Secondly, the project will have to define common specifications and contents for European programmes.
• Thirdly, we shall go to a set of specifications for certifying education and learning programmes which will be developped localy within the various countries.
Practically:
• the kick-off meeting will be help on September 24, 2004 in Brussels, with some 30 experts.
• A synthesis meeting will be held round April 15, 2005 in Brussels, with some 30 experts.
• A final conference will be held round June 15, 2005, hopefully in Torino (Italy) or Brussels.

September 25, 2004:
Extraordinary general meeting of EFES members in Brussels.

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.

November 2002 - Fourth European Meeting of Employee Ownership - BILBAO MONDRAGON - Report of the Meeting. Pictures of the Meeting.


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