Employee Participation in SMEs – A Strategy for Labour Market Policy and Regional Economic Development / Funding: Landesagentur für Struktur und Arbeit (Oct. 2012 May 2014)

The aim of the project was implementation of best practices of employee financial participation in SMEs, which connect labour market policy with regional business development. This transfer process should be horizontal (among the social partners) as well as vertical (between social partners and political decision makers). In this way recommendations, both for social partners and at the policy level could be developed.Focal point was the design of a concept that enables employees to become co-owners as shareholders of their company. This concept refers to the legal form of a German GmbH, a Spanish Limitada or a Polish Sp.z o.o..