National partners:

The project has collaboration agreements with a series of national partners.

Together these partners represent almost the complete range of Danish business:

Telecom Scandinavia A/S

A strong representative of that indispensable, dogged enterprise culture we need so much in this country.

Telecom Scandinavia designs and develops interactive communication solutions for fixed networks, mobile telephones and the Internet, that support access from all the Scandinavian telephone companies.  Telecom Scandinavia guarantees an optimal basis for marketing campaigns, customer service and business-to-business activity covering the whole of Scandinavia.

Contact person: Martin Pock, Sales Manager

 

Nykredit A/S

Nykredit is one of Denmark’s leading finance firms with activities that range from mortgaging and banking to insurance and estate agency activity.

 

Mortgaging is Nykredit’s core activity.  Nykredit is Denmark’s biggest mortgaging company and one of the biggest issuers of private property bonds in Europe.

 

Nykredit operates with multi-channel distribution and marketing through its own network – including its own call-centre, 105 collaborating banks, the Internet, estate agents and insurers. Marketing takes place under two brands: Nykredit and Totalkredit.

 

The Nykredit group has more than 3,200 employees throughout Denmark and accounts for nearly 27% of the total Danish mortgage and bank loan market.

 

A central element in Nykredit’s core values and vision is to show social and ethical responsibility.  Plurality is a key word for Nykredit in relation to both employees and external suppliers.

Contact person: Jane Bering, Legal expert

 

GN Netcom A/S

 

The illustrious Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab is the parent company of this company, which is a leading producer of communication solutions for call-centres.  GN Netcom is GN’s global brand for hand free communication for professionals in offices and contact centres.

 

GN Netcom supplies technologically advanced solutions combined with smart and functional design, creating value for companies by contributing to employee job satisfaction and efficiency.

 

Contact person: Henrik Elbæk, Director for New Product Management

 

Steen Scheffler ApS

 

A glowing example of Danish enterprise culture despite its many years in the business, the company’s niche is solutions for the visually disabled, and the motivation for being partners in the project is a clear wish to “give something back”.

Contact person: Martin Mejlby, Managing Director

 

 

AF-Handicapservice

 

The core role of the AF (Arbejdsformidling, Denmark’s Employment Service) is to help the job market function well so that companies get the labour they need, in both the short term and the long term, and to help jobseekers find work.  AF’s services to companies and jobseekers are offered both through personal contact and over the Internet in the form of the AF Jobnet, which contains AF’s countrywide job and CV-bank.  Greater Copenhagen AF also has a series of facilities available for jobseekers in the two jobcentres: advice and guidance in job-seeking, access to PC’s and the Internet, newspapers, etc.

AF Handicapservice runs these services for people with disabilities.  The aim is to help disabled people both find and keep jobs:

·         Personal assistance in finding work

·         Preferential access

·         Jobs with pay subsidies for newly trained disabled staff

·         Facilities for the disabled in the work place

 

A disability becomes a handicap as soon as the person meets barriers that make it difficult to participate on an equal footing with those who are not disabled.  This understanding of handicap is called the environment-related concept of disability.  In many cases AF Handicapservice can compensate for the barriers, so disabled people can participate on the labour market on equal terms.

 

Contact person: Kai Lundsteen, Handicap Consultant

 

 

Blindehuset, Faroe Islands

 

This is the North Atlantic equivalent to the Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Denmark. 

Blindehuset offers counselling and guidance to citizens with visual disability on the Faroe Islands.  The organisation offers trials and guidance in relation to facilities and equipment for the disabled, and its two occupational therapists travel round on home visits.

Some of the training and counselling is given to other occupational groups and schools on the Faroes.  Computing has a high priority!

Blindhuset has a total of 11 employees with various occupational training behind them.

Contact person: Karin Kass, Manager