Eurobalance has completed its work successfully

TheEurobalance project which started in October 2009, has succefully completed its work across Europe.

Designed to develop Europe-wide opportunities for work life balance, particularly in SMEs, the project took an innovative work life balance guide developed in the UK and transferred it, both linguistically and culturally, to other areas of Europe: the East (Poland), the North (Denmark), and the south (Italy and Greece).

The transfer was done by training a group of ‘champions’ in each of the countries to understand better the issues and benefits of work life balance who then went into SMEs to ‘cascade’ their knowledge to a larger number of people. In total over 40 champions were trained, over 200 SMEs were contacted and the message was presented to over 1000 people across Europe.

From a sample of these 1000+ people nearly 80% reported that Eurobalance had helped them to prepare for better work life balance ‘very much’or ‘Quite a lot’. An added benefit of the work was that it helped to provide people with new insights into such aspects as time and stress management, childcare opportunities, and workplace interactions. It generated more self confidence, employer-employee cooperation, and skills opportunities.

Overall the project has produced a range of specific outcomes, all of which can be obtained from the project website: http://www.eurobalance-wlb.eu. These include:

An individual work life balance guide tailored to each country’s cultural, legal, and financial characteristics. The guide provides a comprehensive starting point for anyone wishing to find out more about work life balance opportunities.
A web-based champion eTraining and resource centre that provides both training opportunities for potential champions and a complete set of resource materials, documents, videos, etc., to help champions be effective persuaders. All in individual partner languages and contexts.
An opportunity to develop the guide further, even beyond the end of the project, through a WIKI Eurobalance Guide facility for each country.
A video of how work life balance impacts on, and can be used to good effect by SMEs. As well as being available for download from the Eurobalance web site this video is also available in all partner languages on YouTube (simply search for Eurobalance).
A new European Network for promoting work life balance.
A range of newsletters, brochures and publicity material in all partner languages.

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