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PHARE Business Support Programme of the European
Union UEAPME - SME FIT II Institutional
building Environment Management for SMEs
Mrs. Antje Barthauer Chamber of Skilled
Crafts in Leipzig/Germany Bucharest, 29th
January 2009 This project is funded by the
European Union under the PHARE Business Support
Programme and implemented by the UEAPME and its
partners . The content of this document does not
necessarily reflect the opinion of the European
Commission.
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Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig
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Chamber of Skilled Crafts in Leipzig
The Skilled Crafts in the administrative district
of Leipzig
11.700 Companies 90.000 Company
employees 6.000 Apprentice 8,6 Employees per
company

• Representation of interests
• Self-administration
• Services offered

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Chamber of Skilled Crafts in Leipzig
Composition of companies
Electronical and Metal Industries
Building and Construction Industries
Fashion, Textile and Leather Industries
Food Industries
Health and Body Care, Dry Cleaning Industries
Glass, Paper, Pottery and other Industries
Wood Industries
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Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig
1. Task Representation of interests

• Represents the interests of the skilled Crafts at
  all political levels
• Participates on legislative processes and
  initiatives to guide the frameworks for craft and
  small business
• Makes proposals for the city and federal
  development, regional planning, environment
  policy
• Keeps contact to all important authorities
• Reports about the economic situation of the Craft
  in the region
• Promotes the skilled Crafts in the public

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Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig
2. Task Self-administration

• Registers the skilled Crafts and Craft related
  industries
• Orders and inaugurates experts
• Manages and monitors the vocational training
• Organises and implements exams
• Operates statements

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Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig
3. Task Services offered

• Offers a wide range of further education courses,
  information meetings and consultation days
• Gives advices on all Craft related topics from
  start-up advice, export, funding programs, trade
  fairs, new technologies and law to environment
• Gives support on the search of cooperation
  partners, qualified employees, business
  follow-ups, apprentices
• Monitors projects on professional and Craft
  related topics (e.g. round table)
• Provides information through the membership paper
  DHB German Craft Paper and on the internet

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Environment and Transfer Centre
The Environment and Transfer Centre of the
Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig

• Was founded in 1995 with the funds of the German
  Federal Foundation of Environment (total volume 3
  Mio 80 funding for the duration of 3 years)
• Is one of 10 Environment Centres of the skilled
  Crafts nationwide
• Is located in the castle of Trebsen and works
  together with the development association for the
  skilled Crafts and preservation of historical
  monuments

Opening event with press conference 1995
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Environment and Transfer Centre

• The Environment and Transfer Centre is
  integrated in the main department of business
  development of the Chamber of skilled Crafts in
  Leipzig
• Main activities
• Consulting
• Information
• Workshops
• Projects
• Public relations

Employees 4
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Environment and Transfer Centre
The ETZ is cooperation partner / operates
actively together with

• Various ministries of the Federal State of Saxony
  e.g. Ministry of Environment and Agriculture
• Communal facilities e.g. Department of
  Environment Protection, Environment Information
  Centre, district administration
• Universities and research facilities
• Saxonian Energy Agency
• Patent Information Centre
• Co operational unit of Environment Centres
• Central associations of the German skilled Craft
• Guilds and professional associations
• KfW Reconstruction Loan Corporation

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Environment and Transfer Centre
Range of service to the following topics
Main emphasis

• Operational environment protection
• Operational energy efficiency
• Environmental marketing
• Work safety and health care
• Environment and quality management systems
• Funding possibilities
• Transfer of new technologies
• Funding of innovations and inventions

• Ecological building in connection with
  preservation of monuments and historical
  buildings
• This includes
• - Use of environmentally friendly building
  materials and renewable raw materials
• - Energy efficient building and reconstruction
• - Use of regenerative energies

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Environment and Transfer Centre
Consulting examples Hazardous waste from the
past waste water Starting point
Water consumption depending on the production of
food (bakery and butchery)
contaminated soils (e.g. oil contaminated soils
in motor vehicle workshops)

• Information on legal matter
• Finding laboratories
• Support on applying for promotional funds

• Investigation on applications throughout Germany
• Negotiation with waste water association
• Deduction of a general amount (20) of waste water

results

• Establishing environment legally requests

• Saving of fees for waste water

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Environment and Transfer Centre
Consulting example environment friendly process
for cleaning sensitive textiles
Starting point chemical cleaning of textiles
with solvents danger for health and
environmental damage as a result

• Development of a new process for cleaning
  sensitive textiles - wet cleaning with
  sponges and soap, the issuing of a patent was
  accompanied by the ETC
• Market research, making of contacts, supporting
  the application of a patent, supporting public
  relations

results

• Environment friendly no environmental
  regulations, no damage to health, no chemical
  smell, lower investment costs, no hazardous
  waste, cost saving on energy and water, higher
  competitiveness

Turnover increase about 30.000 EUR/year
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Further education courses

• Construction and Energy Consultant in the skilled
  Craft
• Construction diagnostics through the skilled
  Craft
• Solar consultant in the skilled Craft
• Environmental marketing
• Old building renovation and preservation of
  monuments and historical buildings (moulds, wood
  protection a.o.)
• Ecological building, (mudbrick building, green
  covering of roofs a. o. )

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Environment and Transfer Centre
Course Construction and Energy Consultant in the
skilled Craft
Duration 230 hours, along the job, co financed
by the ESF, final exam possible Content
Craftsmen who successfully passed the exam are
named Construction and Energy Consultant in the
skilled Craft and are entitled to issue the
statutory energy passport for buildings (old
buildings).

• Building and construction
• Building physics
• Technical plants
• Energy saving order
• Modernisation planning
• Measurement of airtightness of buildings

Target group building, sanitary, heating,
air-conditioning, electronic, carpenter and
chimney sweep crafts as well as civil engineers
and architects
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Implemented Workshops within the years 1996 - 2008
about 100 workshops with about 1600 participants
additionally information events, lectures on
trade fairs, guild and craft events
Consultations carried out (including short and
telephone consultations)
about 550 per year
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Participation on trade fairs and ecological events
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Energy consulting, Blower-door and thermographic
measurements
Thermogram
Thermography camera
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Financial support for further education in the
skilled Crafts

• by ESF (European social capital)
• by federal funds (BIBB, BMWi, BAFA a. o.)

Financial support for consulting in the skilled
Crafts

• Energy efficiency consulting (federal funds by
  KfW Reconstruction Loan Corporation)
• Management consultant in SME (federal funds)
• Consulting on environment management systems
  (countrys promotion)

Financial support for investments in the skilled
Crafts in the areas of environment and energy

• Building and energy management, building envelope
  (at low interest credits)
• Solar panel equipment, biomass equipment a. o.

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Projects
EU-LIFE-Project Competence Centre for
environmentally building
BMWA-Project Business profit through operational
Health Policy solutions for the practical work
and healthcare safety
EIE-Project E-Check in SME setting up an
it-based consulting system and further education
to become an energy consultant from colleague to
colleague
DBU-Project Environment marketing in the skilled
Crafts consultation on energy-saving building
renovation for house owners by qualified
craftsman
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Environment and Transfer Centre
project environment marketing in the skilled
Craft
Marketing handbook
link between
consumer and
craftsman
travelling exhibition
seminars and marketing workshops
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Project business profit through operational
health policy

• Consultation of companies on work and health
  safety
• Offering work material (best-practice-examples,
  compilation of legal and preventative measures
  for presentations / seminars for employees
• Announcement of an health competition

Best-practice carpenter (30 employees)

• Due to new location of the shredder and
  organizational measures noise could be reduced
• Replacement of noisy machinery with new ones with
  less noise emission

• Safer work conditions through marking escape
  routes for leaving the building in an emergency
  case

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Environement and Transfer Centre
Project Energy-Check in SME bakery crafts
from colleagues to
colleagues electricians, heating and climate
bakery engineer, chimney sweep

• Energy-Checks were carried out in 15 bakeries
• inventory recording the energy consumers and the
  amount of their consumption
• Evaluation of the results using the Energy-Check
  instruments
• Suggestions on measures to improve energy
  efficiency

• Training to become an Energy-Checker
• Development of a special instrument for the
  Energy-Check analysis (software)

Opening up to a new market segment
Energy and cost savings
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Environment and Tranfer Centre
Campaign throughout Germany to motivate citizens
to make use of environmental building renovation
and to stimulate demand in trade
Crucial part is a free energy-check by a craftsman
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Prochures of the Environment and Transfer Centre
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Environment and Transfer Centre
Chamber of skilled Crafts in Leipzig Environment
and Transfer Centre Thomas-Müntzer-Gasse 4b 04687
Trebsen Phone 03 43 83 / 61 20 Fax 03 43 83 / 6
12 20 E-Mail uz_at_hwk-leipzig.de Internet
www.hwk-leipzig.de
Thank you for your attention.