INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Some of the companies and organizations participating in our 2009 program are listed here:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a contract research organisation involved in many international assignments. With its 3000 employees, VTT provides a wide range of technology and applied research services for its clients, private companies, institutions and the public sector. VTT is again engaging IBD teams this year.
Atonus has been developing computer based information systems for hospitals
and image analysis applications both on the biomedical field (semen, chromosome,
skin lesion) and industrial field (automobile control panel calibration).
The Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild lands through careful science, international conservation, education, and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks. For the second year WCS has engaged a number of Haas IBD consulting teams.
Comaco is a model for rural development that supports natural resource management. It operates through a community-owned trading centre, registered as a non-profit company, called the Conservation Farmer Wildlife Producer Trading Centre.
This program offers an exceptional learning
opportunity to mid-career professionals and policy makers
to gain expertise, enhance their skills and broaden their
perspectives on sustainable environmental management.
For the third year, graduates of the BELP are engaging IBD
teams through the Beahrs Small Grants Initiative. This year
we will be working in Egypt . Previous years saw teams in Nepal, Kalimantan,
Indonesia, Cameroon and the Republic of South Africa.
Elephant Pepper
The Elephant Pepper Development Trust aims to promote the livelihood of farmers living in elephant range through training, the deployment of appropriate conflict mitigation methods and development of agricultural techniques which promote elephant conservation.
Dar Al-Hekma College as a learning community is committed to the furtherance and enhancement of creativity, excellence, intellect and independent thinking among its students. The graduates of Dar Al-Hekma will be capable of bringing about positive change for the betterment of self, family, society and humanity with the aim of serving and pleasing the Creator. The College awards bachelor’s degrees to students who successfully complete a four-year, college-level curriculum. The degrees are awarded to those who successfully complete two years of a bachelor’s degree program. The College is managed and operated by highly qualified Saudi and expatriate faculty and staff to provide the highest standards of academic services.
loveLife is South Africa’s national HIV prevention programme for youth. loveLife has brought together a broad based coalition of international foundations working in HIV/AIDS prevention, major South African media organizations and private corporations, the government of South Africa, and leading South African non-government organizations with one shared goal – to turn back the epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and related epidemics of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, among South Africa’s young people.
Our vision is to create a different kind of market where the promise of organic
farming can be realized. A market where farmers are known and celebrated, where
innovation design, social equity and stewardship of the land go hand in hand,
where healthy and fair returns are shared by everyone in the supply chain and
culminates in the delivery of functional, beautiful, sustainable products to
consumers everywhere.
Fundación Chile is a privately owned, non-profit institution, created in 1976 by the Government of Chile and ITT Corporation of the United States. In 2005, BHP Billiton, Escondida Minning, became a co-founding partner.
Its mission is to introduce innovations and to develop human capital in the Chilean economy´s key clusters through technology management and in alliance with local and global knowledge network.
Its vision is to become the country's leading technological institution, acclaimed nationally and internationally, for the creation and dissemination of innovative businesses that have a high impact on the institution's target sectors.
Last updated June 26, 2009
