Learning Networks
Network Promoters
Each network will have a network promoter who will manage the activities of the network and receive the funds from Skillnets on behalf of the network group.
Often network promoters are industry and enterprise organisations. In many cases industry associations and federations and chambers of commerce (i.e. employer organisations) act as network promoters on behalf of their member companies. In other cases trade unions (employee organisations) have taken leadership of the process working with company management to facilitate a network.
Individual companies can also act as promoters on behalf of the network members. Alternatively, network members can create companies (of which the network members are subscribers) in order to assume joint responsibility for the process.
In the Skillnets experience, often
support agencies, advisors, trainers, or consultants have initiated the process
and brought companies together to submit an application to Skillnets. Subsequently,
in the operational phase of the project and the direct legal and strategic ownership
of the network is handed over to the enterprises themselves.