Dear Collegues, I'm looking for potential European partners to start a "Thematic network" among Universities and research institutions inside the Socrates II framework, in order to start research and joint curricula development around different themes related to SMEs' learning/planning & growth. Although I already received several positive messages by collegues from different European countries, I didn't receive any reply from Universities located in: - Spain, - Portugal, - France, - Germany, - Belgium, - Norway, - Sweden, - Denmark - Finland. Is there anybody of you from these countries who might be interested in starting this project. The deadline is 1st November. Very best regards, Carmine Bianchi _______________________________________________________________________ Carmine Bianchi, Associate Professor of Business Management Universities of Foggia and Palermo (ITALY) - Faculty of Economics Scientific co-ordinator of CUSA-System Dynamics Group e-mail: [log in to unmask]; web page: http://www.unipa.it/~bianchi - Phone (office) : +39.091.6254313 - Fax (office): +39.091.6254532 - Mobile phone : +39.0338.9244463 - Phone (home): +39.091.6374869 Mail Address: c/o C.U.S.A. - SYSTEM DYNAMICS GROUP - P.zza A. Gentili, 12 - 90100 PALERMO (ITALY) CUSA-Sdg Small Business Discussion List web address: http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/sme-learning-planning-growth/ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%