IPR SME Helpdesks: Free Business tools to manage your Intellectual Property Rights in Asia (China IPR SME Helpdesk and ASEAN IPR SME Helpdesk)
The IPR SME Helpdesk project is funded by the European Commission DG Enterprise and Industry. IPR SME Helpdesk is a free service which provides practical, objective and factual information aimed to help European SMEs understand business tools for developing IPR value and managing risk.
The IPR Helpdesks provide a variety of tools for SMEs including: Training, Materials and Online Resources, Case Studies, E-Learning, Newsletters, Publications, Solution Centre, Helpdesk News, Helpdesk TV, Country Factsheets
SME Toolbox on Standardisation
The SME Toolbox offers free support to SMEs and shows how using standards can benefit your business, how to identify the right standards and shape the content of future standards. The SME Toolbox is divided into the following steps:
- Standards and your business
- Finding the right standards
- Standards and your brand
- Keeping up to date
- Sharing experiences
- Getting involved
Two New Programmes launched by UCC School of Asian Studies as part of the Springboard* Initiative
The School of Asian Studiesat UCC is offering two programmes as part of the Springboard Initiative in Higher Education:
1. Higher Diploma in Chinese Business, Language and Culture
This programme enable participants to develop a range of skills (such as Chinese language proficiency, culturally mediated negotiation styles) required to successfully market and negotiate in China across a range of business sectors.
2. Certificate in Business, Language and Culture in East Asia
The modules offered in this programme will be drawn from languages, business and cultures and will equip participants to understand, apply and respond to issues which arise from Ireland's growing engagement with East Asia.
Both courses will begin in early September 2013 and the deadline is August 30th 2013.
Click here for more information or contact Prof Deirdre Hunt dhunt@eircom.net and Dr Leung Wing-Fai wf.leung@ucc.ie of the School of Asian Studies, UCC.
* Springboard offers a choice of 204 free, part-time courses from certificate, to degree, to post-graduate level open to the currently unemployed with a previous history of employment. See www.springboardcourses.ie.
EU public consultation on “The new EU Occupational Safety and Health Policy framework"
The purpose of this consultation is to gather insights and contributions from all interested parties on the possible directions of future EU policy in the Occupational Safety and Health area by identifying current and future challenges, as well as solutions to address these challenges. Taking into account the results of the evaluation of the European Strategy on Safety and Health at Work 2007-2012, it offers an opportunity to influence the European decision-making process.
The public consultation page is available here. The deadline for contributions is 26 August 2013.
