On the occasion of the opening of the Swiss Embassy in Prishtina, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey was paying a visit to Kosovo. In addition to attending the inauguration, she embarked on a comprehensive programme of visits.
On her agenda was a visit to the commercial college in Gjilan. It was here that her attention was particularly drawn to a teaching module; a practice company, in which business students, are learning in a permanent and realistic simulated environment. One of the students, who had lived as a refugee in Switzerland for a year, guided the Federal Councillor through the virtual enterprise.
Purchasing, sales, book keeping, marketing, administration – the students are absorbing all the skills a firm needs to survive in the marketplace. Swisscontact helped to set up this firm and to connect it to a worldwide network of practice companies. Federal Councillor Calmy-Rey successfully tested the model by making an ebanking payment in its name.
The Minister of disadvantaged areas of the Republic of Indonesia (PDT), Ir. H. A Helmy Faisal Zaini visited one site of the Peningkatan Ekonomi Kakao Aceh (PEKA) project, sub-project Aceh-EDFF in the district of Pidie Jaya on Thursday, the 9th of June, 2011. Hosted by the Regent and Vice Regent of Pidie Jaya, the Minister […]
Swisscontact Asia Report 2010 provides an overview of Swisscontact’s activties and projects under the two Regional Offices in South Asia and South East Asia based in Dhaka and Jakarta respectively. The pdf version of the publication can be found here.
Swisscontact, through its project Peningkatan Ekonomi Kakao Aceh (Improvement of the Aceh Cocoa Economy), a sub project of the Aceh Economic Development Financing Facility (EDFF), has successfully organized the 1st cocoa conference in Aceh. The Aceh Cocoa Conference (ACC) was specifically held to discuss the cocoa commodity in Aceh. The event, which took place in […]
