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.
Swisscontact, together with the Economic Development and Financing Facility (EDFF) have launched a new program, called Peningkatan Ekonomi Kakao Aceh (PEKA). Addressing the development of the cocoa sub-sector in the Aceh province, this program will reach out into five selected districts and 12.500 cocoa farmers throughout the province.
Prior to the program’s implementation, the MoU between […]
H.E. Mr. Heinz Edmund Walker, the new Swiss Ambassador, and Mr. Joerg Schneider representative of SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) visited Swisscontact on February 9th 2010. The Regional Director for SE Asia, Mr. Peter Bissegger gave a briefing on Swisscontact activities and achievements.
Five years after the tsunami, SPAN comes to an end in December 2009. At the occasion of the project phase-out, Swisscontact invited the Government and development partners to a seminar on ‘Business Recovery in Aceh’ that took place in Jakarta on the 17th of November 2009. The purpose of the event was to share results […]
