Marketplace

Negotiations with the heart in the right place

What is needed? What can be offered in return? All discussions revolved around bartering in the spirit of social partnership.(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

At the marketplace Lebensnetze, barter transactions between companies and organizations worth € 205,634 were achieved. Record!

Who makes adaptations to buildings so that people with disabilities can make better use of them? How can an urgently needed purchase be made possible? When Christian Dörfel, the designated State Councillor for Social Affairs, struck the gong for the second time at the Lebensnetze marketplace supported by VKB, Swietelsky and Oberösterreichische Versicherung in the Raiffeisen Arena in Linz, bringing the negotiations to an end, these were not the only questions that had been answered.

Gernot Fellinger (LASK/l.), Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner and Michael Baminger (Verein Institut Lebensnetze).(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

38 companies and representatives of 32 voluntary organizations and social institutions had agreed on barter deals to secure support for specific projects. At the 15th edition of the marketplace, barter transactions to the value of 205,634 euros were achieved. A significant increase on the previous year - and a record!

Soon to be State Councillor for Social Affairs Christian Dörfel (l.) with Julia Samhaber (Center for Civil Society) and Markus Fahrner.(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

ÖAMTC-OÖ director Harald Großauer, "OÖ-Krone" editor-in-chief Alexandra Halouska, Gerald Punzhuber (KPMG/r.).(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

Markus Auer (VKB/l.) and Daniel Frixeder (upart) had time to network.(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

(Bild: Markus Wenzel)

"The marketplace has such a familial character, it creates beautiful and long-lasting relationships," enthuses Julia Samhaber from the Verein füruns association in Linz. Words that reinforce the commitment of the Institut Lebensnetze association led by Michael Baminger, Kathrin Kühtreiber-Leitner, Werner Pamminger, Gerhard Heidlmair and many others.