New MoU with Vietnam

Germany and Vietnam are extending their partnership in the framework of the Manager Training Programme until 2021. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by Peter Altmaier, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, and Nguyen Chi Dung, Minister of Planning and Investment, in Hanoi on 25 March 2019. Continue reading

Wie finde ich den richtigen Lieferanten?

Russische Delegation zu Besuch bei MULTIPOND in Waldkraiburg

Die „Suche nach den richtigen Lieferanten“ führte 20 russische Führungskräfte im Herbst 2018 zur Multipond Wägetechnik GmbH, ein inhabergeführtes mittelständisches Unternehmen in Waldkraiburg in Oberbayern, das Teil der Unternehmensgruppe ATOMA MULTIPOND ist. Continue reading

Quality „Made in Iran“

Tools are Mohammad Ramezani’s world. His family has manufactured them in the family-run firm, the Iran Potk Tools Company, for over thirty years. Now the entrepreneur would like to sell his products in Germany and Europe as well.

Despite the current political and economic tensions in Iran, the Manager Training Programme (MP) opened up a path to success: Ramezani founded a company in Germany and is active in the market. He also took a lot of new ideas home from Germany about how to make sure his business is ready to face the future. Continue reading

MP Graduate Supports Ukrainian Entrepreneurs

The ambitious financial expert, Valeriy Mayboroda, attended the Manager Training Programme (MP) 16 years ago. At that time, he was 25 years old and working for the Ukrainian National Bank. He was just starting his professional career, but he had a clear mission: He wanted to study the work done by development banks and then use the knowledge to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in Ukraine. Continue reading

„The results are impressive“

The latest issue of the magazine “Journal” focuses on the 20th anniversary of the Manager Training Program (MP). It reports on the milestones and beginnings of the program, as well as how it has evolved over two decades.

In the magazine, alumni, partners and entrepreneurs will speak and describe what the MP means to them personally. Continue reading

Professionalising Association Management

At a two-day workshop in September 2017, to which the association’s management members including chairwoman Rania Oraby and other committed members of the EGAA – Egyptian Alumni Association of the MP – met with the German expert Karen Konopka from 2K-verbandsberatung, the focus was on central questions regarding association management. Continue reading

B2B Forum for Executives from Mexico

Cooperation exchanges within the framework of the MP always prove to be a particularly effective way of stimulating the transfer of knowledge and the establishment of business relations with German enterprises. They provide an opportunity for participants to meet a range of German firms and discuss potential business transactions face to face, as they would at a trade fair. TÜV Rheinland Akademie held a cooperation exchange at the end of June 2017 for the MP participants from Mexico. Continue reading

Efficient Use Of Energy in Industry

In October 2016 MP participants from Vietnam, India and Mongolia attending a management training programme focussing on “Energy Efficiency in Industry” visited the Viessmann plant in Allendorf (Eder), to learn about innovative heating technologies from the management practices of the German pioneer in this field and to find out more about the latest technologies in the heating and cooling industry. Continue reading

Energy efficiency in Hamburg

Companies are able to significantly reduce their costs with intelligent energy-saving measures. This not only helps secure their competitiveness, but also already prepares them for medium-term changes in the energy market, such as price increases due to the growing scarcity of resources or energy taxes, and also actively contributes to climate change mitigation. Continue reading