The Danish partner has made an appointment with Falck which is a Nordic-based organisation that provides assistance, rescue, healthcare and training to the public sector, private members, business subscribers, insurance companies, pension companies and international clients. The company ambition over the next few years is to develop Falck into a pan-European organisation, and to achieve global status in certain sectors.

In 2004 Falck had 11,000 employees, of whom about 62% were full time, the rest were part time staff, primarily firemen. About 84% of the employees were based in Denmark, whilst the remaining staff were based in Sweden, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and a few other countries. About 10,000 of the employees were working in operations, whilst the other 1,000 or so held administrative positions. For more details about the company Falck go to www.falck.com.

The Slovak Partner - COLSAF - has managed to get an appointment with a company called VITIS Pezinok s.r.o.( See www.vitis.sk). The Company bistributes alcoholic beverages, especially wine produced in the region of the Male Karpaty Mountains, but also non-alcoholic drinks. During th enext two months COLSAF will have all information about their system of career guidance and/or HR management and other relevant data as required by the project.  The management think that by participating in the project they will learn something new and acquire some experience how career guidance can help to improve their human resources managemant.

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