Fit for Partnership with Germany
Manager Training Programme of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
In June 2018, the TÜV Rheinland Academy gladly received executives from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in Cologne as part of the Manager Training Program. It is unusual to have three countries from Central Asia represented within one group of MP participants, and it actually brought their business community closer together. Continue reading
A visit to a traditional company in the German knife industry, Felix Solingen, was on the programme for a group of Ukrainian executives, who completed their training in the spring of 2018 at the Carl Duisberg Center. Felix Solingen GmbH is one of the oldest knife manufacturers in the world. Continue reading
The majority of Germans have probably never heard of the small town of Tuttlingen with its not quite 35,000 inhabitants near the Black Forest. Nevertheless, almost 600 enterprises in the field of medical technology are located there, many of them world market leaders in their industries. Continue reading
Around 50 co-operations are planned or have already been agreed – this is what the 19 Egyptian managers, who completed further training in March 2016, have achieved so far. The economic value of these contacts is estimated at a total of 20 million euros, whereby most of this sum consists of goods exports from Germany to Egypt.
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Awareness of ecologically produced foods has been steadily growing in industrialised countries. The market for organic foods is booming in Germany too. In 2017 it achieved double-digit growth. In the ingredients list it often says: origin in EU/non-EU countries: Germany is dependent on imports for many products. As far as peanuts are concerned, they have mostly come from China. Continue reading
In 2015, Amir Mamdouh founded the Sayyal Sazan Azaran Tadbir (Satco) consulting firm in the city of Tabriz to work with clients in the metal industry. The 32-year-old Satco managing director and engineer completed the MP in 2017. While in Germany, he established contact with a Berlin-based firm now involved in digitisation for a Satco customer. Mamdouh also succeeded in bringing another member of his MP group on board to support his firm’s expansion inside Iran. Continue reading
In your average company, transformation has to be handled with courage and foresight. The second Chilean MP group, hosted by Conoscope GmbH in Leipzig in May, got to learn all about this first-hand when they visited IMM electronics GmbH.
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Good feedback is an art, as the 22 Ukrainian executives came to realize on the final day of their MP training in Hamburg. But the recognition and appreciation that they do get is very important.
They were highly entrepreneurial in pursuing goals during the 2018 spring training. The MP sessions on various management subjects, the many visits to German companies and their discussions with people there, and not least their own international experience, were all a lot of help. Continue reading
The weather on the first day of the spring month of March was extremely cold in Dresden with temperatures around minus 12 degrees Celsius and an icy wind. In the early morning, 16 Azerbaijani farmers took the bus that was to keep them fairly warm and take them to the places where they were going to visit German enterprises and institutions that day. Continue reading
How does a firm operating internationally and manufacturing exclusively in Germany manage to be successful in the textile market despite stiff competition? MP participants from Egypt found the answer to this question during a visit to TRIGEMA, an enterprise owned by the Grupp family. Continue reading