Germany

RKW Berlin GmbH

Since 1921 the RKW promotes and supports the modernization of the German economy as well as innovation processes with regard to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The RKW in Germany has more than 3.700 members – companies and individuals. It operates as a nationwide network.

The RKW offers the following support to enterprises:

• consulting (approx. 500 companies each year),
• seminars, trainings, coaching, and working groups,
• innovative projects, and
• organization of sector networks.

The RKW Berlin maintains business networks with about 200 consultants and trainers and thus covers most, if not all, topics that SMEs are concerned with. It further provides services for SMEs such as personnel development, business management, quality management, marketing, financing and accounting, engineering and production, innovation, technology, and environmental protection as well as support with establishing new businesses. The all-round training program also caters for various needs. Their scope ranges from individual competence development with special focus on individual employees to more complex concepts for enterprise and staff design. Offers are individually tailored to the requirements of the SMEs. Our experienced trainers are the key to success.

The RKW Berlin GmbH has developed and carried out the following personnel development projects:

• PEsystem – Personnel Development with System: This project has applied science-based innovations, such as learning partnerships, joint learning programs that bring together older and younger employees, communities of practice, development of intercultural business skills, and educational coaching to the conditions of expanding SMEs.
• DiP – Diversity Management in the Personnel Development: Over a period of two years, 20 local SMEs have been supported in building, developing, and applying their strategy-oriented and competency-based personnel development and by accounting for diversity.
• qmf – quality with women: Fifteen SMEs have participated in this project, which specified on the personal and professional development of one selected female employee per company with the goal to promote her to the position of Quality Manager.
• FIRE – Women in management: develop internal resources: The FIRE project targeted SMEs in Berlin that aimed at qualifying a female employee aged 40 and above to take responsibility in (project) management by providing training, workshops, and project work.

RKW WEBSITE

International Institut for Sustainability Management (IISM)

Sustainability has become a guiding principle in business, politics, culture and society at large. It is understood in the IISM as a phenomenon that both has an effect in the long-term and is effective over the long-term; it is where economic, social, cultural and/or ecological systems come together. Building on this understanding, the institute deals with sustainability by focusing on the following areas: change management, marketing communications, cross-cultural management, Corporate Social Responsibility and green energy.

The IISM is associated with the SRH University Berlin.

Cooperation between IISM, SRH University Berlin and SWOPS
In the cooperation between the demography project SWOPS – initiated by the BPW Club Berlin e.V.) and the International Institute for Sustainability Management (IISM), the students of the SRH University Berlin work on the topic Workplace Health Management (BGM). As part of a Company Project, students perform quantitative and qualitative interviews with several companies. The evaluation of the results will accumulate in a study, which is then presented in a textbook. For many companies across the EU, BGM is an important tool to be attractive as an employer for his own and potential new employees.

IISM WEBSITE

4. Federal Congress on Gender Health 2016

May 12 and 13, 2016 in Berlin
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
under the patronage of Mario Czaja, Senator for Health and Social Affairs (Berlin)

The Federal Congress on Gender Health is a platform for interdisciplinary exchange among the female and accordingly sensitized male actors in the German health system, who have their focus on the challenges and potentials of gender-specific health care. Thus, the Federal Congress provides a forum for (more) female thinking in health policy.

www.bundeskongress-gender-gesundheit.de

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