Event: International Leadership Training RED TRADE: Innovative Local / Regional Economic Development and Trade Promotion (2010-2013)

International Leadership Training

RED TRADE: Innovative Local / Regional Economic

Development and Trade Promotion (2010-2013)

Long-term Training (12 Months) in Germany for Participants from SADC

Introduction: International Leadership Training

 

The International Leadership Training (ILT) programme of InWEnt provides a unique innovation and capacity building course for qualified and highly motivated junior executives and managerial personnel from private businesses, or local and regional consultancy and service providers, SME, economic development or spatial planning agencies, related public service or research institutions in the SADC region. It is based on a best practice approach combining an intensive German language course with internships in highly competitive German companies and support institutions as well as with modules of additional skills by international and German experts on LRED and TP. The objective of the ILT Training is not to blueprint European experience but to provide cutting edge knowledge insights. On this basis the participating experts will develop together with experienced economic development practitioners innovative transformation and change approaches for LRED and TP in their home countries. 

 

 

ILT participants will spend one year in Germany consolidating their technical knowhow, their  management skills and their capacity to implement change. In the run-up to this, they will already have undertaken a technical and language preparatory course in their native countries, while continuing their professional work in parallel. In Germany, after a German language course which concentrates on technical terms, the advanced professional training on local / regional economic development and trade promotion will be offered, followed by a practical training within a German company or institution. During this internship, participants can consolidate their newly-gained knowledge and develop professional contacts as well as their own innovative approaches. 

 

In the course of their training, ILT participants use InWEnt’s Global Campus 21® advanced Internet training platform. Once they have gained their ILT qualification, the successful participants remain in touch with each other through InWEnt’s global network of former participants. With its International Leadership Training programme, InWEnt is making an important contribution towards global “capacity building”, through the development of specific individuals.

Structure and Timetable

• Application phase: August – December (2010/2011)
• Interviews and selection of participants: January (2012)
• German language course in the home country or region, most probably in Johannesburg/South Africa (4 weeks): June/ July (2012)
• Arrival in Germany: 1 August (/2012)
• Introductory module (1,0 month), German language course (3,0 months) : 
• August – November (2012)
• Management course I and II (each 1 week) and professional training course (3 
• months): December- mid March (2012/2013)
• Interim evaluation, preparation for internship and workshop on transfer projects
• (2 weeks): March (2013)
• Internship in a German company or institution (4 months): 
• Mid March-mid July (2013)
• Management course III and final module (2 weeks): July (2013)
• Return to home countries: End of July (2013)
• Transfer project phase: August -January  ( 2013-2014)
• Transfer project workshop for Alumni in the SADC-region: January/February 2014