Edited by M. Fedorov and B. Hallier “TeamSpirit for Networking” this English/Russian Book has four chapters:

• The history of the European Retail Academy since 2005 inclusive the concept of the Kruzenshtern Workshops
• A report about the first Eurasia Youth Forum with activities in Yekaterinburg/Russia and Astana/Kazakhstan





• An introduction into the start to develop within the EU a sector-network for vocational training in retail
• A chapter about spin-off-networks and sponsors

The Education Council of the European Commission is calling for a common language and an operational tool to link in a multilingual classification qualifications, skills and competences. This taxonomy will be named ESCO and hopefully promotes the interaction between the labour markets and education/training.

ESCO will be structured around three pillars:

• Qualifications
• Skills/competences
• Occupation

More than 300 international students competed in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for three days to show their standard of excellence in different academic disciplines. In the evenings the participants of that Eurasian Youth Forum showed by songs and dances their different cultural background.

The event was prolonged by a 25 hours ride with the "Train of Friendship" to Astana/Kazakhstan, where students were allowed to take part in the Economic Forum and to organize their own half-day slot. Finally students of the EURASIA Youth Trail had the chance to meet three Nobel Prize Winners of Economics as Speakers: Prof. Dr. R. A. Mundell (1999), Prof. Dr. F. E. Kydland (2004) and Prof. Dr. R. Y. Aumann (2005) ( More)
 

In conjunction with the EU DG Education and Culture and with KUSCH (Art in schools) the Alanus University in Bonn-Alfter/Germany has an international art project and symposium for culturally and social deprived children and adolescents together with schools from Romania, Hungary, Belgium and intercultural Waldorf-school in Mannheim/Germany. Artistic activities such as music, painting, drawing and drama enhance both personal development and motivation by overcoming negative self-perception and breaking the vicious circle of discrimination.
 

After Vienna/Austria the second EU-Hearing about the topic „ Establishing a provisional network for anticipating skill needs in the commerce sector in Scandinavia and the Baltic States“ will take place in Helsinki/Finland on June 15th 2010 (more ). Participants will discuss again

• Status Quo Content of Vocational Training
• Innovation of Vocational Training
• National Coordination of Vocational Training
• International Coordination of Vocational Training