Enterprise Ireland has just launched a new “Graduates for International Growth Programme”. The 18 month project is designed to provide ambitious graduates with a chance to launch a successful career in international business.
Martha Cappalo, a colleague from the German Irish Club sent me through some information on an Irish Day which wil take place on September 11th in Leverkusen. The action kicks off at 2pm and will run until 10pm.
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Konrad Zuse, the German computer pioneer, a German university class was asked in a straw pole about their career plans. Surprisingly for me, there was a real disinterest within the group to start their own business after university. Most preferred to follow a career instead in a multinational like BMW, Bosch, SAP or similar. If you asked a similar class in Ireland, I am sure the response would be entirely different. How could a nation driven be entrepreneurship and innovation have such an outlook?
Publication of CSO National Accounts Figures for Quarter 1 2010
The Minister for Finance, Mr. Brian Lenihan T.D., today (30th June 2010) welcomed the publication of the Central Statistics Office’s National Accounts figures for the first quarter of 2010. Commenting on the data, the Minister stated:
“These economic figures show that Ireland is out of recession with GDP expanding by 2.7 per cent between the final quarter of last year and the first quarter of this year, which is the fastest growth rate in the OECD”
Right hand drive, top spec BMW in excellent condition with low mileage. Forced sale due to move to the US. Would suit an Irish/British expat perfectly that is going back over the next couple of years.
The German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce would like to invite you to the seminar “Branding – Legal Issues: Trade Marks, Advertising and Sponsorship”. This seminar is organised in conjunction with our long standing member LK Shields Solicitors.
It will be followed by the Midsummer Ball of the European Chamber of Ireland on the same evening at the same venue. If you wish to attend the Midsummer Ball as well, please contact Patrick Bamming (email below).
The European Community and the Unification of Germany
In early November 1989, I was part of a team of diplomats at the Irish Foreign Ministry which was busy planning for our looming European Community Presidency. I had just returned from a CSCE meeting in Sofia which, although we had no inkling of this at the time, turned out to be the last East-West diplomatic conference of the Cold War. Until the Berlin Wall was swept aside on that unforgettable November night, our 1990 Presidency looked like being an unspectacular term of office. By the year’s end, we knew that we were living in momentous times and that our Presidency would be a major challenge for us.
As our EC Presidency commenced, there was no inevitability about the future course of events in Europe as a whole and in Germany in particular. At that time, leading political commentators were far more preoccupied with the problems generated by the events of November 1989 than with their opportunities.
Qumas and Neeb & Partner Present:
Why DMS is important through all Phases of Development?
For all Irish Business Network members who wish to learn about the Document Management Solutions for lifesciences offered by Enterprise Ireland client QUMAS and their partner in Germany, Neeb & Partner, please come to their event on Thursday 10th June 2010, at Hotel Erzgiesserei Europe, Erzgiessereistrasse 15, 80335 Munich
Derek Scally, Berlin correspondent for the Irish Times, has very kindly agreed to join us for the next regional meeting of the Irish Business Network. Many of you will have read Derek’s very interesting articles. One that I was drawn to very recently was on the Rhein-Ruhr area
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0508/1224269933576.html
Derek will speak on the topic “Is Ireland back in Germany’s Good Books?”
The event will take place on May 27th in the Orchard of McLaughlin’s Irish Pub in Düsseldorf @ 7pm. For those of you not familiar with McLaughlin’s, it is located on Kurze Strasse 11 in the Düsseldorfer Altstadt. Our event will take place in the back function room. This event is of course open to all IBN Members!
Events will be coming up after the summer in Munich and Stuttgart so please keep visiting the IBN website as well as our LinkedIn and Xing pages over the summer for updates.
I would appreciate for organisational purposes if you could drop a quick mail to mark.gillett@enterprise-ireland.com to let me know if you can make it next Thursday.
As the sun set on the second day of ‘Medtec 2010’, internationally acclaimed medical device trade fair, for some150 chosen guests, their day at the Messe was not yet over, as they congregated at Stand 528 Hall 4 for the Enterprise Ireland (EI) Guinness reception.
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