Under the leadership of I. Savoini/EuroCommerce and F.Warneck/Uni-Europa the Social Dialogue started for 2010 a new EU-project with the title "Establishing an European Network for provisional management of skills in the commerce sector".
Hasse Karlsson, President of ITM Worldwide Foundation has been invited as an expert on international vocational training to become a partner of this project and member of the steering committe.
The steering committee of the project decided to run three regional meetings in Europe as "European Hearings". That road-show will start in Vienna on April 4th 2010 followed by Helsinki on June 15th 2010. A third Hearing will be in Southern Europe on September 27th followed by the final presentation of all stakeholders on November 17th in Brussels.
The Vienna-Hearing will be organized by N. Piljic from GPA-djp Trade Union Austria and cover Central Europe and South East Europe; the organizer of Helsinki (Scandinavian and Baltic countries) is L. Aro from Pam Finland . The structure of the Hearings and the final reports will be supported by experts: H. Karlsson from ITM Worldwide/Sweden and P.Mare/Kenniscentrum Handel /Netherlands coordinated by Prof. Dr. B. Hallier