Ensuring the sustainability of the results from the Management Training Programme in the partner countries and Germany is the primary objective of the work done by GIZ alumni. This includes the task of maintaining lasting links and connections between the alumni or their companies with the German industry. Continue reading
Partner countries
From automobile tyres to water hoses
Recycling automobile tyres had been the primary business activity of Schynbolat Baikulow and his company KazKauchuk GmbH since 2010. They collected discarded tires and then had the Kazakhstan Rubber Recycling Plant process them to produce rubber granulate with various degrees of grain size. Continue reading
Focusing on HR
Already during the selection process, Uzbek executives from SMEs stressed how important it was to them to learn modern methods of personnel management in Germany. Continue reading
Water and Waste Management in Hamburg and Berlin
For four weeks, the participants in an industry-specific group from the water and waste management industry in Russia and Azerbaijan visited a variety of – mainly municipal – enterprises in Hamburg and Berlin and learnt about new technologies. Continue reading
Modern Management for a Vietnamese Industrial Park
Hung Yen. Le Manh Hung is Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at Pho Noi Textile and Garment Infrastructure Development in the Vietnamese province of Hung Yen, which develops and manages industrial sites for investors – mainly from the textile and clothing industry. Continue reading
Business Development in Volatile Markets
What characterises volatile markets? What challenges do volatile markets pose for business development? What strategies for action are successful when dealing with volatile markets? These and further questions on the topic of business development were discussed by 15 Indian entrepreneurs and executives at the follow-up in Delhi. Continue reading
Over one thousand MP graduates in Ukraine
Quality management for sea buckthorn
Of all fruits, it turned out to be the sea buckthorn – a type of berry largely unknown in Mexico – that was the centre of attention for Mexican executives who visited the company Christine Berger GmbH & Co. KG in Petzow at Potsdam, in late September of 2015 as part of their management Training Programme. Continue reading
Learning about lived sustainability
At first the 24 MP participants from Ukraine and Belarus had difficulty imagining that the topic of sustainability would be presented by a company in the business of producing chemical products. Continue reading
Future Energy for Central Asia
Future Energy is the theme of the Expo 2017 trade fair, which is to be held in the summer of 2017 in the Kazakh capital city of Astana. This is no coincidence, since renewable energy is a topic widely talked about in Central Asia. Continue reading




