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Step 1: Kick-off
- Formation of working groups for project activities
- Mobilization of partners and stakeholders
- Creation of institutional network of independent intermediaries
- Kick-off workshop
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Step 2: Promotional Activities
- Recruiting of intermediaries, MNE, Researchers, etc. in Thailand and Vietnam to participate on the respective Plato boards
- Recruiting of MNE to participate as parent companies
- Recruiting of SME to participate as group members
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Step 3: Training of Partners
- Training of all partners in the Harmony methodology of knowledge-sharing and the KBT software
- Training of Asian partners to become regional Plato managers and master trainers for further intermediaries
- Training of Asian partners to become CSR managers and trainers
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Step 4: Establishment of regional Plato structure
- Launching of Plato Thailand and Vietnam
- Formation of the respective Plato boards
- Identification of potential Plato SME and respective parent
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Step 5: Plato group development
- Training of Plato group leaders
- Pre-grouping interviews of SME
- Identification of needs and priorities of the respective SME
- Establishment of Plato groups
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Project Objectives
- Organisation Building: Upgrading of internal organizational skills and methods of Asian key-intermediaries towards operating as learning organisations and collaborating within an international knowledge-based network.
- Network Building: Development of the knowledge-based collaborative Euro-Asian EMPASIA-Network as a Learning Network and a strategic collaboration of business intermediaries, facilitating business links for RTDI, export, investment and trade within Asia and between Asia and Europe.
- Competence Building: Introduction and piloting of the PLATO approach to regional business support to strengthen the links of the intermediaries to their regional economies and to mobilise SMEs towards business innovation and internationalisation.
- Competence Building: Awareness raising and multiplicator training for Corporate Social Responsibility management (focused on Environmental Performance Evaluation) as a critical factor for business internationalisation.
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