Responsibilities & Results:
Europe‘s Consulting Sector in global Competition

	Responsibility Reform benchmarks Realisation and consequences of the European Services Directive What helps and what hinders the realisation of the single market in the service sector?
	Results Structural benchmarks Which structural changes were necessary for the success of the leading European countries in the export of services?
	Competition Best practice in the export of services How SMEs can overcome debilitating structures and arrangements through collaboration, networks and consortia

Europe’s economy will face ever greater challenges in future if it is to position itself as a unified and therefore strong player that is competitive globally. For this reason, this high-calibre 5th European Consultants’ Cooperation Forum (5th ECCF) in Vienna’s City Hall will focus on what is urgently needed to create an open, common and competitive European market. Politicians, firms, authorities and European institutions are responsible for ensuring that the responses to this development that Europe sees fit to undertake also strengthen the international competitiveness of forward-thinking sectors of our economy.

This can and will only ever succeed if the European economy adapts its structures and regulations to the new situation it finds itself in and develops strategies that will allow it to present itself in a balanced, unified and strong fashion in the international marketplace. This makes certain that the insights that participants gain at the Forum can feed into the efforts that are being undertaken in all European countries to develop a common strategy with regard to the export of knowledge-based services that will strengthen the European market.

Every year since 2006, young professionals and experienced experts on the European consulting scene have been meeting at ECCF to discuss those factors that will help to shape the continent’s economic future. The consulting sector and the knowledge-intensive busines services sector as a whole have a key role to play in here. Be part of the discussions!

Presentation, lecture and discussion topics for the 5th ECCF

• Date: Friday, 26 November 2010 at 10:00 hrs

• Place: Vienna City Hall, Wappensaal
  [Access via Grand Staircases Land II /Feststiege 2]
  Lichtenfelsgasse 2, A-1010 Vienna

• Benefits:
  Working documents
  Contact and cooperation opportunities
  Complete catering during the event
  AIC Networking Cocktail

• Participation Fee
  €144,-- (incl. 20% VAT) for AIC members
  €180,-- (incl. 20% VAT) for regular participants

Coming up soon: Programme and possibility for online registration