Success Stories

TREK to lead employment policy actions and Technical assistance for the uplift of the Tourism Industry focusing primarily in the Region of Attica, Greece.

The project refers to an integrated set of actions aiming at the effective inclusion of unemployed in the labor market of the Region of Attica on the basis of their actual needs as well as the current trends of sports entrepreneurship. The beneficiaries receive targeted training related to sports entrepreneurship (with emphasis on sports marketing and management), a sector that represents a vital part of the local economy as evident by the number of enterprises active in it. Moreover the beneficiaries are supported through customized advisory and mentoring services, with the ultimate goal being to either be employed in relevant enterprises or establish their own companies (individual or social). The project addresses a crucial problem of Attica (as well as Greece in general): the growth of unemployment in combination with the lack of development. The project aims to tackle this problem through targeted actions based on the development potential of Attica, especially in the post-Olympic Games era that helped local entrepreneurs to realize the importance of competent professionals in the sports management.

The project aims to implement an Integrated Local Plan for the employment of unemployed youth in the hotel industry of Thessaly by fostering new forms of promotion and marketing of hotels with the use of electronic social networks (social media). The activities foreseen aim at the implementation of an integrated grid of specialized active and preventive measures for employment growth and matching demand and supply of labor in the hotel industry, so as to revitalize and restructure the hotel industry for all areas in the Region of Thessaly.

TREK to offer Financial and Advisory Services to the Region of Central Macedonia, GR for funding facility from International Donors and the European Investment Bank (EiB). The development of the Regional Administrative and Business Center along with the renewal of the City’s Western city entrance (Western Gate) constitutes a visionary project focused on improving the quality of life of citizens in the Regional Unit of Thessaloniki. At the same time it will contribute to the mitigation of serious problems in Thessaloniki’s urban area (Western city Gate). The Center will be a one-stop-shop where citizens can have access to the Regional Authority’s services, while they can also do their shopping, recreation and entertain themselves or even engage in business activities.

TREK has been appointed as a Finanacial Consultancy expert to explore and apply micro-funded instruments for the Co-operative Bank of Peloponnese.TREK has been appointed as a Finanacial Consultancy expert to explore and apply micro-funded instruments for the Co-operative Bank of Peloponnese.

The EC has underlined that EU countries have done much to foster knowledge transfer and sharing, also modifying laws and taking new guidelines, but they have limited themselves to acting merely on a national scale. The IKTIMED project promotes an innovative integrated approach for the MED area aimed at improving the openness of the Mediterranean territories’ innovation systems, through the setting-up of new modalities of cooperation among research centers, the public sector and enterprises. The approach is to foster a new way to sustain innovation, through an open, more dynamic MED model of innovation, in which companies can see both “inside-out” and “outside-in”, considering that innovation is ever more based on knowledge of external assets. Cooperation is a way to generate new ideas and bring them quickly to market.