Diana Suruceanu 
  Manager Branch No.7, "FinComBank" SA  

 The participation in the "MANAGER TRAINING PROGRAMME GERMANY-MOLDOVA" brought a number of advantages, related to professional and personal development, exchange of experience in management, implemention of new management techniques to management- staff relationship.
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Adela Cazac
Administrator SKYTOWER Business Centre

I believe that organizing the event "Contacts. Ideas. Partnership. The 4-th Regional Forum GIZ Moldova-Ukraine-Belarus Programme Allumnihas a real importance for the development of cooperation between Moldova, Belarus and Ukraine. Furthemore, it is a perfect environment for efficient communication and exchange of informations between local and foreign companies. Read more...

Veronika Raețchi  
Manager Chateau Vartely Travel Agency 

Immediately after my return from Germany, I really wanted to share with as many   people as possible, about the extraordinary experience during my internship   program. Next years I encouraged numerous people to apply for this program,   offering useful advices.   Read more...  

Iurie Șalaru
Manager Public Media Grup

Honestly before going to Germany, I did not understand the selection criteria of the group of which I was a member. Moreover, I could not understand why the group was so diverse group as business activities: agriculture, medicine, security, pharmaceutical, software, stores - retail, banking, advertising, furniture, travel. Read more...

Contact Forum for Alumni from Moldova

The alumni association ONG INVENT Moldova fosters and develops Moldovan-German relations. With a contact forum in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau on 13 November 2012, graduates of the Manager Training Programme (MP) were supported in their business activities. Written by Mihai Bostan.

110 graduates in three and a half years: this is the impressive result of the advanced training programme for executives Moldova. As well as the quantity, the quality also speaks for itself. Graduates are active in more than 25 economic sectors, such as logistics, tourism, the financial sector, consulting, agriculture and light industry, trade, the IT sector, mechanical engineering and the health sector. According to the Moldovan Alumni Association, two thirds of all graduates are leaders of companies or departments. The training and study of experiences and methods of management in Germany, as well as their introduction into their own companies, happened in a relatively short time and thus ensured a long-term competitive advantage. Many businesses have become reliable partners for German business people in Moldova. They began to operate on foreign markets, diversified their business activities and found partners for mutually beneficial cooperation.

INVENT Moldova was founded in 2010 because Programme participants wanted to build a network. Together with GIZ, the alumni association organised training modules in cooperation with German business trainers. A memorandum on cooperation with ten alumni associations in the Programme’s different partner countries has already been signed. They are planning a cooperative partnership with the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (BWA) and with Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI), the German society for foreign trade and location marketing. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Moldova is an official partner of GIZ for the implementation of the Programme and welcomes the association’s activities.

Over half of the Moldovan graduates of the training programme for executives were present at the contact forum in November, which was organised by INVENT Moldova and GIZ. Sixty graduates from various groups not only had the opportunity to get to know each other and exchange ideas, they also got to talk about their experiences of developing business relations with German companies in order to open up new areas and fields of business. In this way, the contact forum became a platform for informal dialogue and topic-based discussions on business areas that offer links for cooperation. Direct contact with those who make the decisions as well as discussion on long-term prospects dominated the meeting.

For example Andrei Shuleanski has been offering services based around computers for years. He seized the opportunity to speak with Diana Suruceanu from FinComBank, one of the biggest financial institutions in Moldova about which customer-friendly options there are to allow for payments to be carried out simply and securely. Another participant Emil Gutu has completely changed his profile. For two years, he has been running an agriculture business with 6,000 hectares of cultivated land. He used the contact forum to make links with his colleagues from the same sector and to learn more about personal motivation and qualification. He discussed credit terms with bank representatives. It turned out that one of the GIZ graduates had been buying his products for years through an intermediary. He and Gutu have since agreed to conclude a direct purchase agreement.

The visit from a representative of the Moldovan-German Economic Association lent even more significance to the event. The value of the contact forum was also clear from the participants’ reactions, which emphasised the ‘need for such a platform’ and the ‘significance of the event’. In this way, the meeting helped to link up the Programme’s graduates and advance the association’s project in the economic region of the Republic of Moldova.

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First Eurasian forum of business communities BUSINESS FOR has brought together on 25-27 April this year in Novosibirsk more than 150 representatives from 12 countries, including Russia: graduates Presidential Programmes, GIZ programmes for CIS countries and China - the next generation of highly qualified senior managers focused on co-operation with East and West, on a dialogue with authorities and society, in order to discuss the problems of interaction between business while entering international markets.

The main goal of the Forum was the unification of business communities, development of international business cooperation. The discussion was focused on, inter alia, issues such as mutual aid of businesses while entering international markets, the practice of addressing these issues by business communities of Europe and Asia.

The forum that was held in Novosibirsk Expocentre and Technology Park, being supported by several discussion panels on the development of business Internet portals, business cooperation, as well as territories marketing and tourism development.

The Forum was organized with the support of the regional government, within the framework of the Presidential Management Training Programme, in the presence of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Siberian Federal District (Novosibirsk) Mr. Victor Tolokonski and high level discussions took place on prospects of business-government intercalation, in order to help the public organizations of Project’s alumni.

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Have you asked yourself about how is INVENT Moldova?

INVENT Moldova is preparing a cross-regional conference of the four countries in order to create a platform for business communication and business opportunities between the four countries.

To achieve this goal in two days, 15-16 March 2013, a seminar was held in Moldovan Chamber of Commerce, «Fundamentals of Management events. Planning, organization and promotion of the conference GIZ». Teachers from Russia an Ukraine, Mrs. Anna Sucicova and Mrs. Olena Bay took the floor.

INVENT Moldova’s team took part in this training, as well. In order to maintain relationship with the countries participating in this project, Mr. Ivan Rak from Belarus has attended the workshop as special guest. He is also one of the graduates of this program.

While small and medium size businesses are developed in Moldova, "Eastern Europe: Contacts. Ideas. Partnership" workshop was meant to meet the needs of networking through workshops and business games,offered by best experts in this area.