The Mentoring Commission of EMCC France welcomes a founding member of ADINVEST. 
Pascal Echardour, DG ADINVEST International and Board member of ADINVEST Europe aisbl, invited by EMCC, joins the EMCC France Mentoring Commission following the work carried out within the framework of the European MentorCert project.

20/20! or rather 100/100! This is the overall score delivered by the evaluators (ERASMUS +) of the European Commission to ADINVEST International and its multi-country partners (including the Budapest Business School) for the MentorCert project resulting in ISO 17024 certification of Business Mentor ...

Almost everyone has already seen a corporate balance sheet, to take stock of the financial health of the organisation. But few people know how to determine the success of a business without focusing on finances. What are the criteria for a non-financial assessment for what purposes?

For the EYEE consortium "Ethical Young Entrepreneurs in Europe", co-financed by the European Union, representatives of ADINVEST International intervened to support our partner MAC-Team aisbl to carry out a training on Entrepreneurial Mentoring for the programme coordinators in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Poland.

The European Union, concerned with the level of SME/SMI owners skills, has co-financed multiple projects since the end of 2013 in the framework of the programme Erasmus +, mainly around the SME owners mentoring process:

• 2014-2016: INSIST: www.insist-project.eu First project on intergenerational succession in SME’s transition.
• 2015-2017: TRUST ME www.trust-me-project.eu: This project has allowed working with experts to establish a skill card for the Business Mentor but also to build a mentoring training programme certified in 4 countries.
• 2017-2019: MENTORCERT www.mentorcert.eu The first steps proved that, in all European countries, the Business Mentor job filled a need. To go even further this approach, the European Commission accepted this new project : the implementation of a European certification scheme for Mentors compliant with ISO requirements.
• 2019-2021: INTEREST www.interest-project.eu One of the important fallouts identified in tha above chain of propjects and feedback by SME's was that accountability of the SMEs leaves much to be desired in general and that reporting practices hardly go beyond financial reporting in particular. In fact, more integrated reporting, incorporating the process of integrated thinking, on capabilities (knowledge, competences, skills, experience, etc.) is needed. An overarching medium-term objective of INTEREST is to introduce integrated thinking among European SMEs.