In the summer of 2005, a new apprenticeship profession called “business services” was decreed. The ibw now has started a broadly based job marketing campaign for this new profession on behalf of eight Austrian provincial governments. An information platform on the internet has been provided among other things such as information events, folders for youths and possible training companies alike, as well as press releases.

These folders can be downloaded at www.ausbilder.at/bdl. They can also be obtained from the ibw for free.

In this article as well as on the web site, you will find more information about the new apprenticeship profession called “business service”.

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Part two of the analysis of the results gained from a BIC online survey in 2006 focuses on how the offer of information is judged by the users.

BIC – job information computer

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The BIC (Job Information Computer) website increased the number of hits by roughly 18% to 215,000 in 2006. A total of 728,000 calls result in an average of 2,000 visits per day.

BIC – job information computer

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The development team at the ibw has ambitious plans for 2007.

Under the heading of “ibw-development”, new ideas are realised and turned into products. The following overview shows you our plans for 2007. It is the aim of our developmental work to offer specific products and services with a high degree of usefulness for the respective users

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The content of the present report is a presentation of successful international financing plans with micro credits.

First, the historical development and the international call for setting up micro financing programmes in and outside of Europe are described.

Moreover, success figures and factors of micro credits are presented.

Then, there is an overview of micro credit offers, measures and regulations in Europe and European networks.

Due to innovative financings via micro credits being successfully developed and carried out in emerging markets and developing countries, these are presented in a separate chapter.

According to the focus of the EQUAL project “alternative: entrepreneurship”, one chapter is devoted to special micro credit financings for women.

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Not only at national level does ibw carry out a number of projects – at European level we are likewise significantly involved in many initiatives in the areas of EQF, ECVET, mobility, quality assurance, language competence and vocational orientation and guidance. In addition, we are a member of technical working groups on educational policy matters at European level and an important network partner for Cedefop, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training.

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Formation of businesses and corporate succession are two important issues all across Europe. The reasons for this are polito-economic as well as related to labour-market policy. Not only the number of new businesses and business successions is important here, but also their survival in the first years on the market as well as their long-term economic success.

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The EU project “LaBoom” (abbr. Languages for the Book and Media Sector) saw a change in project management at the beginning of this year. On 1 January 2007, the ibw took over the role of the coordinator. The ibw thus follows the Austrian Academy of Book and Media Studies, which withdrew from the project at the end of 2006 due to a lack of personnel. The ibw had already been familiar with the project before, for it had advised the Academy both in foundation and financial matters. In the second year of the project, several products will be designed by a total of twelve project partners under the leadership of the ibw. These products will serve to promote job-related teaching of foreign languages in the book and media business. On the project’s web page http://www.la-boom.net/, information in all six languages of the project can be obtained.

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