ECONOMETRICA Ltd

Econometrica Ltd is a business consulting company satisfying the needs of a clientele that covers a large network of Greek Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) as well as networks of franchisees of large companies.  It provides business consulting, research and training services.

 More specifically, the company offers a wide range of Business to Business (B2B) services, which include: 

• organization, administration and consulting support  
• The construction and supervision of technical and economic research 
• The investigation of investment opportunities in Greece and all over Europe
  
• Field and market research 
• Economic analysis 
• Special economic research 
• Group research 
• Research of urban and regional development 
• Research and external studies on social, demographic and cultural development 
• Outsourcing 
• Mentoring 

 Main fields of interests of the company: 

• combination of formal education and on-the-job training in various business sectors (trade, industry, construction, tourism, health) 
• involvement in several European projects experimenting ECVET 
• continuous vocational training and professional competences certification (company executives have been active in the field of vocational training since 1988) 
• materialization of lifelong training educative programs in Greece as well as in European Union countries  
• trainers’ training seminars in adult teaching methodology 
• planning, development and application of vocational training quality systems  
• vocational training structure certification 
• training of human resources in Centres of Vocational Training or in enterprises
• planning, preparation and evaluation of educative material

EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE

Materialisation of European educative programs. Some of these programs are: 

Equal, Phase II, “Sustainable Employability, Action for Tomorrow”:

Development of a new category of professions: “sustainable professions”

Target groups: women, unemployed, low-qualified, sensitive social groups 

Project aim: ensuring employability and timetable flexibility 

Project innovative aspect: promoting voluntarism and working for the social good 

Transnational partnerships: two partnerships uniting partners from France, Italy and Netherlands 

Equal, Phase II, Interactive Vocational Training Network “Heraclitus”  

Project aim:  

a. adaptation to new working conditions 

b. enhance professional competences through acquisition of new knowledge and skills  

c. promotion, dissemination and reinforcement of vocational training practices 

d. creation of a training model based on state of the art technologies to SMEs and to all enterprises of the tourist sector 

Beneficiaries: unemployed, personnel of SMEs mainly of the tourist sector

Equal, Phase II, “Social Enterpreneurship”: 

Project objectives: 

a. reinsertion of persons over 45 years old facing work exclusion to the labor market 

b. development of new forms of approach, consulting and social entrepreneurship 

Project initiatives: 

a. development of small flexible cooperative enterprises in Attica municipalities 

b. promotion of social enterprises offering services in dynamic economy sectors capable for the development of social enterprises: eg. enterprises offering catering, cultural cafes, recycling companies, agricultural and alternative tourism organizations 

 Highlight the Competences”:  

Joint project between France, Italy and Greece.  

Project Aim: the promotion of a system of transfer of European educative credits (VET-ECVET)  

This system brings together the professional competences and the cooperative enterprises of the services’ sector. More precisely, the project proposes the creation of common professional outlines in the partner countries.

“Proconstr”:  

Project in the domain of construction 

Project Aim: enhancement of vocational training in the construction industry/ outlining and recognition of professional qualifications in European Union Countries 

Participating countries: France, Poland, Italy, Greece, UK and Portugal