The initial assessment and the in-between assessment of intercultural sensitivity of students of the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (UASUA) is examined, representing an important part of a planned longitudinal study. Additionally, the researchers present the design of the future. In general the researches want to explore the effects of intercultural education on business students. In this paper the researchers want to evaluate whether there is a difference in cultural sensitivity of students choosing two different business studies, one with, the other one without intercultural courses and inputs. Furthermore, the disparity between objective and subjective intercultural sensitivity is compared. In a next step the researchers analyze the effects of the first intercultural education part in one of the selected business studies. An approved test instrument (IDI) and an additional survey developed by the researchers are used for evaluation and t-tests are used to compare the two groups of students and the development of the sensitivity measurements over time. These findings contribute to a longitudinal study aimed at assessing the effectiveness of specific input on intercultural sensitivity over several generations of students.
Even though almost half a million companies in Europe are transferred every year, only 30% of family-owned businesses manage to complete this process successfully. Therefore, a matchmaking platform to facilitate national and transnational business succession was developed as a part of the Interreg ENTER-transfer project (Interreg Central Europe, CE 1158). In this article, the authors present the platform, its planned functionalities, as well as feedback which was collected from future users and public authorities (i.e. future “customers”). To ensure maximal functionality of the platform and the fulfillment of stakeholder needs, which are prerequisites of a successful go-to-market and high future user frequency, qualitative interviews with public authorities and an additional 23 interviews with potential users from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland were conducted. Based on the data collected, the authors identified the prerequisites, motivations, essential infrastructure, cooperation possibilities, problematic elements, and specific consulting requirements necessary to develop and implement successful business ownership transfer. The analysis of the information gathered during the interviews as well as practical implications stemming from the data and its effect on the platform development and marketing will be presented in this article.
The aim of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the variability of multi-year subsidy titles in the culture sector in a temporal and cross-sectional comparison, to determine the factors influencing the size and dynamics of subsidies, and then to compare the defined problematic areas with selected cities of the Central Bohemian Region. The analytical part shows the development of subsidies in the context of total income. Furthermore, the share of subsidy providers in the subsidy income of municipalities is examined. Subsequently, a comparison is made of the dynamics of non-investment subsidies, investment subsidies and total expenditures of municipalities. This part also includes the recalculation of subsidies per inhabitant and its evaluation over time. The key part of the paper is to find the factors that affect municipalities' spending on culture. The influence of these factors is investigated through established hypotheses.This paper also focuses on the financing of cultural policy and the formation of the concept of cultural development and gives recommendations that the district cities should adopt in the field of cultural policy.
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