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Skilled Business Leaders for Skilled Europe (Lead4Skills) is an Erasmus+
Strategic Partnership project bringing together 8 organizations from 7
different countries. Its objective is to provide higher education
institutions (HEIs) with a comprehensive set of insights, guidelines and
materials that would help develop more relevant and innovative management
education offerings and study processes, based on the real needs of
businesses and economies. We are going to provide you with few newsleters
during the period of project implementation.

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Want to find out who are hidden behind the encouraging combination called
"Lead4Skills" ?

Dear Reader,

You have just opened the first Newsletter of "Skilled Business Leaders for
Skilled Europe" (Lead4Skills). We would kindly like to introduce you this
Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership project and tell you more about the 8
organizations involved. The project is results are meant to be used by
academic institutions and management practitioners - this is why we wrote
you! Activities within the project will include preparation of
cross-country report based on the findings of CEEMAN-led research on
Management Development Needs in Dynamic Societies, development of
guidelines for higher education institutions curricula, teaching materials
and tools, and related education and dissemination events. Each newsletter
will include an interesting interview, preliminary results with
interpretation and a partner in focus.

Enjoy the reading,
Rok, Lead4Skills Project Manager



*Central Interview*

Why building international research project consortiums is absolutely
crucial for modern educational institutions and what are broader trends,
challenges and the future of management education? Read an interview by
Marge Sassi from EBS with our program manager, Rok Ramšak.

*Read Interview ?*
<http://lead4skills.ceeman.org/news/interview-with-rok-ramak-project-manager-of-lead4skills>



*Preliminary L4S*

Enjoy the first preliminary result from our research on Management and
Leadership Development Needs, this time by RISEBA" University of Business,
Arts and Technology. The aim of the interviews was to map the challenges of
the companies. It is possible to conclude from the first results, that
human factor tends to be at the forefront of the business challenges
regardless of the sector the company is operating.

*Read More ?*
<http://lead4skills.ceeman.org/news/preliminary-lead4skills-interviews-of-latvian-managers-by-riseba>



*Partner in Focus*

Each month we will be presenting one of our project partners, specifically
on their most recent and current research projects and researchers in
management. This month we are focusing on Kozminski University from Poland.

*Read More ?*
<http://lead4skills.ceeman.org/news/partner-in-focus-kozminski-university>



*Current Project Milestones*

After two successful international project meetings research partners are
currently working on analysing data collected during project preparation
stage. The data was gathered using qualitative in-depth interviews with
management personnel in 10 companies in every state, accompanied by a
quantitative survey distributed to a wider range of companies.

The analysis will result in individual country reports, case studies and a
cross-country report. These findings combined with new information and
skills gained on LTT events organized by CEEMAN, will later be used to
develop new guidelines for education on management and leadership skills.

Partners will soon meet at start of April for their first joint learning
and training event, where we will focus on program & education process
management. They will gain theoretical and practical insight that will
enable them to develop more in depth and auspicious guidelines.

Results, study and guidelines will be presented in a scientific book on
"Management and leadership Development Needs in Dynamically Changing
Societies", which will be published by Springer. Intellectual outputs will
also be available in a more raw form on Erasmus+ Project Results Platform
that serves as a source of inspiration "from the pool of good practices and
success stories, i.e. projects that distinguished themselves in terms of
policy relevance, communication potential, impact or design."

The data, interpretations and guidelines will be broadly applicable and
instrumental for higher education institutions, entrepreneurs and
businesses alike.

You can already find some interesting preliminary project findings from
Latvia in this newsletter, but more will soon be published on the project
website, so make sure to follow us closely.



*Signup for Newsletter?* <http://lead4skills.ceeman.org/#wf-form-newsletter>



Rok Ramšak
Project Manager



Prešernova cesta 33
4260 Bled, Slovenia
Tel.: +386 4 57 92 532
Fax.: +386 4 57 92 501
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http://lead4skills.ceeman.org

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