EMPOWERING SMES BY TRAINING THEIR KEY PERSONNEL

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EMPOWERING SMES BY TRAINING THEIR KEY PERSONNEL

• TRABZON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
• INDUSTRY

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TRABZON

• Trabzon is a city in the Eastern Blacksea Region.
  It plays a historical and critical role in the
  development of the region.
• Total population 748.982
• The biggest city in the Eastern Blacksea Region

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• ECONOMY OF TRABZON
• The agriculture, based especially on the hazelnut
  and tea plants, dominates the economic growth of
  the region.
• Other fields of activity in Trabzon are,
• Construction,
• Transport,
• Fishing,
• Textile,
• Forestry
• Almost all of the firms that give service in
  these sectors are
• SMEs.

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• HOW WAS THE PROJECT CREATED?
• Surveys that Trabzon Chamber of Commerce and
  Industry has conducted include the following
  results in general
• There are deficiencies in the corporate
  structures of the firms in the region. ( Most of
  them are family companies)
• The competitiveness of the regional firms is at
  low levels.
• They do not sufficiently invest in RD and
  innovation because of the deficiency in their
  corporate structures.
• Lack of qualified personnel.

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• HOW WAS THE PROJECT CREATED?
• One point got attraction at the end of the
  activities carried out The shortage of qualified
  personnel was the main cause of all those
  problems. Hence, the project was prepared with a
  different method This project aims at making
  SMEs more innovative and promoting their
  corporate capacity by training their key
  personnel such as engineers, top - level
  executives, experts etc. in the fields of
  strategic planning, innovation, entrepreneurship
  and managership and by encouraging them to
  cooperate in foreign trade agreements.

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• Activities
• 1- Establishment of the project office,
  procurement of the equipments, preparation of the
  training halls

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• Activities
• 2- Visibility activities
• Website
• Newspaper advertisements
• Advertisements on radios and tv
• Posters and brochures

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• Activities
• 3- Analysis of SMEs
• Surveys have been conducted on the sectors of
  textile, shipping, agriculture, tourism,
  production, and food etc.
• Surveys have been conducted on 1000 firms
• The results of the surveys have also been shared
  with local administrative bodies.

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The most important problems of SMES are cash flow
and lack of skilled labour
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• Activities
• 4 Application, election and meetings

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• Activities
• 5 Start of the training

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• Upcoming Activities
• Mutual visits to the project partner,Sheffield
  Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will continue.
• Seminars will be organized by SCCI.
• The training period will end.
• SSCI will be visited with the 3 most successful
  SMEs after the training and the best practices of
  the EU will be analysed.
• Cooperation agreements will be signed.
• The final report will be prepared.

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