EuroOc
EURO-OKTAÉDER Vocational School

This institute has been operating in Békéscsaba for more than 10 years. Trying to meet the requirements of the local labour market, it offers post-graduate OKJ courses, and has the licence to organise exams, too. These courses are usually focus on professions requiring management knowledge.

The executives of EURO-OKTAÉDER know the labour market of the region, and have great experience in setting up educational programs and courses.
The main objective of the school is to improve education of economy, information technology and languages in Békés County, helping the students to reach a high professional level and meet the requirements of the local labour market.
www.euro-oktaeder.hu


Nok
Women’s Association of Békés County

The Association was founded in 1998 and now it has 200 members and 6 AFFILIATED ASSOCIATIONS operating in the county. It’s main goal is to promote gender equality, women’s rights and interests in society. The programs helping women to find a job, to advance professionally or to be present in public life, have the ACCENTUATED support of the Women’s Association.
The Association is well aware of the local problems and needs, and tries to solve them with the financial help of international tenders. For example, it has been a partner in the PHARE-programme helping the women of Békés County to improve their state in the labour market.
 
Many regional and national NGOs have a close contact to the Association.


Kopern
Kopernikusz Innovációs Egyesület

The Kopernikusz Innovation Association is a non-profit organisation, founded in 2002. It’s goal is to help the development of small- and medium sized enterprises, to improve their competitiveness and to develop the regions with organising seminars, trainings and conferences in co-operation with the local organisations. In addition, it helps enterprises to get support from the Structural Funds and other EU programmes. 

Although it is a quite young organisation, the Association’s references are very impressive. It takes part regularly in the realisation and management of EU (LEONARDO, Phare, LIFE), Italian and national projects,

The Association has been organising trainings for micro- and small sized enterprises in the topic of financing and entrepreneurial knowledge. The realised projects promote the international competitiveness of the Hungarian small- and medium sized enterprises. The Association works with Italian and Hungarian partners, which have been successfully serving the enterprises for long years.
www.kopernikusz.hu


Afs
Békés County Labour Center

The Békés County Labour Center is part of the State Employment Service. It was founded in 1991 and since then, it has helped the employers to find workforce, anticipating and cutting back unemployment in the county. To fill in this function properly, it collects data on the processes and state of the local labour market, makes forecasts and helps the local educational institutes to determine the optimal structure of education.

It also deals with the rehabilitation of persons with altered abilities, and operates the support and service system for the unemployed, including counseling opportunity.
The Center has wide experiences, it has led and realised many EU projects, for example helped to create www.epalya.hu that offers career guidance in the whole country.