Africa Business Week
The Africa Business Week is a week of the conference, dedicated to Euro-African economic relations and cooperations. The event is a joint project of the Afrika-Verein der Deutschen Wirtschaft eV and the Maleki Group. The Maleki Group is a communications company from Frankfurt am Main that initiated the event. In addition to the exchange of content, the aim of the event is to promote personal contacts between European and African experts and decision-makers from business, politics and institutions.
The first Africa Business Week (May 21-25, 2012) was under the patronage of Dirk Niebel , Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier . Approx. 120 experts from Africa and Europe spoke in Frankfurt am Main and around 1000 visitors took part in the discussion rounds. In 2013, Africa Business Week will also take place in Frankfurt am Main from April 22nd to 26th.
The subject of the conference week is typically current issues of European-African economic and trade relations. The focus is on the potential of the African continent for European investors and companies.
At the Africa Business Week 2012, in addition to numerous examples of successful entrepreneurial engagements in Africa, risks and instruments for hedging against risks were discussed on the subject of “Investing in Africa”. The Federal Chancellor's Africa Commissioner, Günter Nooke , presented the Federal Government's Africa concept in front. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research took over the patronage for the topic “Capacity Development” and discussed opportunities, needs and possibilities of German-African educational cooperation with international experts. With a two-day financial focus, the focus of the week was on the access of African small and medium-sized companies to the capital market. This also included regionally specific needs such as microloans , Islam-compliant financial transactions and the special features of African stock exchanges. Other topics of the week included raw materials and mining, the political development of North Africa under the sign of the “ Arab Spring ” and European-African energy partnerships. The “ Sustainable Energy for All ” initiative of the United Nations was presented by the President of the European Investment Bank , Werner Hoyer , and State Secretary Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz ( Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development ) and then discussed.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Hermann Reuter (July 1, 2012): "Africa Business Week 2012". In: Diplomatisches Magazin 7/2012: Pages 20 f: Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Deutsche Welle dossier: [1] , accessed on August 10, 2012.
- ^ Adrian Kriesch: "Unemployment and the shortage of experts in Africa". [2] , accessed August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Benjamin Kleemann (May 16, 2012): "We always got our money" Beate Bischoff from BHF-BANK in an NfA interview / Africa Business Week starts on Monday. In: News for Foreign Trade
- ↑ Stefanie Duckstein (May 31, 2012): “Africa wants to get out of the raw material trap”. In: Deutsche Welle, [3] , accessed on August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz, State Secretary, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (May 25, 2012): “New image of Africa needed in the energy sector”: Archive link ( memento of August 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 10, 2012.
