China’s domestic industry is currently undergoing a transformation. As part of its “China Manufacturing 2025” campaign, the government is facilitating Chinese businesses in setting up smart factories. Consequently, 20 SME executives from China who completed a four-week programme in Hamburg during the summer of 2017 showed enormous interest in discovering how German companies have embraced today’s shift towards Industry 4.0. Continue reading
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Industrie 4.0, smarte Roboter und das Energiesystem der Zukunft
Über diese Themen konnten sich 19 ukrainische Führungskräfte bei ihrem Besuch der Hannover Messe 2017 informieren. Die Teilnehmer waren im April und Mai 2017 am Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) in Mannheim zu Gast. Der eintägige Besuch der weltweit bedeutendsten Industriemesse in Hannover gehörte dabei zweifelsohne zu den Highlights. Continue reading
University Hospital Defies the Crisis
Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine and the country’s leading hub for science and education. Home to more than 40 higher education institutions, the city also has a university hospital with over 400 employees. These include Fatima Abdueva, a 36-year-old cardiologist. In 2015, Fatima participated in the MP to learn more about work practices at medical facilities in Germany and network with German hospitals. Continue reading
Economic Development and Promotion Made in Germany
This would have been a suitable motto for the four-week training course at DMAN within the framework of the Manager Training Programme (MP) for Kyrgyz entrepreneurs. The participants, most of them also the owners of the firms, represented very diverse small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly in Bishkek. The industries ranged from food, building, textile production, printing, gas and oil to rose-growing. And the participants’ interests were just as varied. Continue reading
Zhanajar Tapalov – Business success thanks to training in intercultural management skills
Zhanajar Tapalov decided he wanted to become self-employed back in the year 2000. With Infradin GmbH he established a small company for the production and maintenance of water, electricity and heating meters. At the time, meters were still a rarity in the central Asian country, which is blessed with oil and gas reserves and is one of the world’s largest oil exporters. Continue reading
Trade Fair Lessons
In Mai 2017, a group of 20 executives from China arrived in Germany to take part in the Manager Training Programme. On May 10, they visited the world’s largest packaging sector trade fair, the Interpack in Dusseldorf, a key event for a range of different industries. Participants prepared for the fair, completing a “How to Do Business” seminar the day before to learn how to take advantage of the exhibition, and establish contact with new business partners. Continue reading
Exploring business cultures: Indian executives visit Hamburg
Every year, the Akademie International in Hamburg welcomes more than 80 executives from abroad. In March 2017, it was the turn of a group of 21 Indian visitors, first and second generation entrepreneurs, to embark on a journey of discovering the Hanseatic city according to the motto of “How to do business with Germany”. Continue reading
Management Professionals from Egypt at ABB
Between Tradition and Industry 4.0
The first Iranian Manager Training Programme participants came to Germany at the end of 2016. The curriculum included expert seminars and company visits to traditional German firms which use innovative management to ensure their success on the global market. Continue reading
„Das sind gewaltige Dimensionen“
Der Münsterländer Maschinenbauingenieur Jens Wensing hat im November 2012 an einer Fortbildungsreise der GIZ im Rahmen des Programms „Fit für das Chinageschäft“ teilgenommen. Während des China-Besuchs schloss er einen Vertrag mit einem chinesischen Partner, inzwischen schickt er seine Anlagen an Automobilzulieferer im Reich der Mitte. Continue reading




