NHO study course: Learn about Russian business life
2010-03-19
Last year, NHO arranged a course for Norwegian businesses about how to do business in Russia. This course is planned to be a yearly offer to Norwegian businesses that want to know more about Russia.
From the 26th of October to the 6th November in 2009, St. Petersburg was the arena where the course for doing business in Russia was carried out. This course is planned to be once a year, with new participants each year. The participants are then gathered for two weeks in St. Petersburg, learning about Russian way of doing business and learn to know Russian culture. This course is open for participants of all business areas in Norway, and the course gives a wide introduction to Russian business life and culture. This autumn 2010, a new course will be arranged. Russia is for many Norwegians an unknown terrain, and this course is a contribution to Norwegian businesses so that they can be able to enter the Russian market.
Representatives from St.Petersburg business life, municipalities and professors are lecturing during this course. Also, the themes presented aim to give the participants a wide understanding about potential possibilities in the Russian market. Important subjects in this course is; how Russian business life is organized, the financial crisis, infrastructure and international cooperation. The last days of the course is used for individual meetings. There the participants can meet businesses where possible cooperation can emerge. The aim for these meetings is to create contacts in Russian businesses for business opportunities or to know more about how to operate in Russia.
The course offered by NHO is financed by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Expenses for travel, hotel and arrangements are covered. In 2010 this course has 15 seats for employees from Norwegian businesses.
Employees in businesses that want to go into the Russian market are favored when electing the participants for the course. It has to be a certain number of participants for the course to be carried out. Deadline for applying to the course in 2010 will be announced later.
For more information about participation this year, contact Halvor Willadssen in NHO at hlw@nho.no or cell: +47 23 09 80 92.
Source: press release
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