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18 May 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Ring the Bell

One of the goals of this blog is to facilitate best practice sharing among CEE countries to speed up their development. The below one is definitely an educational best practice that brings business and schools closer in Romania. Guest blog post by Valentina Capotă, Inspector for the Economic Fields of Studies, Bucharest Educational Inspectorate, Romania I think school bells sounded differently in Romania in the first week of April, following the initiative of the Ministry of Education to implement a program entitled “A Different School”. The pilot program gave schools full flexibility to take initiatives and set their timetable in synergy with students’ interests and talents, connecting them with business and society.

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16 May 2012 Posted by Carmen Georgeta Neagu

Accelerating Like an Airplane

It may sound strange, but in a way a gas turbine in a power station can really accelerate like an airplane engine, thanks to the “aeroderivative” gas turbine technology which results in an unmatched combination of speed, reliability and efficiency.  Being the result of imagination at work and based on a well-kown track record of life-changing innovations, the aeroderivative technology builds flexible and efficient natural-gas power plants, allowing them to quickly increase or decrease their electricity generation to compensate for variations in wind or solar power, making it easier to use intermittent sources of renewable energy. An aeroderivative gas turbine like the FlexAero LM6000 - assembled at the GE Energy plant in Veresegyház, Hungary - can generate enough electricity for a town with as many as 50,000 homes and it can get from cold iron to 50 megawatts in just 10 minutes.

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2 May 2012 Posted by Adriana Mirela Mircea

Greening Agriculture

“How can leading companies contribute to the conservation and protection of water in the agricultural sector within the Danube River Basin?” This was the main question at the Business Friends of the Danube - Agricultural Forum in Budapest recently. The Forum gathered stakeholders from 14 Danube countries such as experts, governments, large corporations and NGOs. The conference was organized by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), which is the efforts coordinator to protect water resources and improve water quality in the Danube region. The goal of the program was to foster dialogue and facilitate transfer of know-how between countries and companies, while increasing awareness about agricultural concerns and challenges.

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19 April 2012 Posted by Spiewak Elzbieta

Passion about Innovation for Healthcare

Guest post by Pál Tegzes, Chairman of GE Healthcare Hungary Technical Council

What do 180 medical software developers, a scientist professor, a regional vice-president of a mobile communications company and a professional public speaker have in common? They all gathered recently in Budapest for GE Healthcare Hungary’s 4th Annual Technology Symposium and told how passion and innovation were crucial components for their success.  Innovation in healthcare and mobile communications can be linked very well, for example in remote healthcare monitoring, centralized medical administration or digital analysis of diseases with the help of cloud computing.

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10 April 2012 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Remember and Prepare

GE Company Polska and the Warsaw Institute of Aviation offer a Scholarship Program to commemorate the victims of the Smolensk crash that happened two years ago.  The scholarship is financed from a special grant that GE Aviation and GE Energy funded after the tragedy to be used for a cause benefiting Polish citizens. The Warsaw Institute of Aviation matched that grant with additional funding, increasing the total amount.

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4 April 2012 Posted by Ewa Piwowar

Local and Leading

Guest post by Viktor Tóth, Head of Budapest Bank’s commercial division This year’s Budapest Bank’s Partner Award was won by the Körös-Maros Biofarm, a cattle breeding company in Békés County, Hungary. The jury appreciated the company’s participation in numerous research and development projects in partnership with Hungarian universities and research centers, thereby contributing to the popularization of ecological farming and the development of the region.

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2 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Civil Society for Transparency

Guest post by Dusan Ondrusek, Director of “Partners for Democratic Change” in Slovakia, and Julia Roig, President of “Partners for Democratic Change” in the US

As with many countries in the region with common history, Slovakia’s emergence from an opaque and authoritarian civic culture is still a work in progress, with corruption and a lack of transparency presenting significant obstacles to a flourishing and vibrant public sector.  Administrations come and go, as evidenced by the political turnover resulting from the elections in Slovakia on March 11; therefore, the role of NGO’s are crucial in providing continuity to transparency and accountability initiatives becomes increasingly important. On the other hand, the region needs a common approach to create long term strategies that are rolling over the election cycles (administrations), instead of short-term focused governance as social progress need attention overarching several terms for the benefit of the people living in CEE.

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26 March 2012 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

New Turboprop Engine Certified

Guest post by Milan Šlapák, Commercial Director at GE Aviation Czech

„This is really just a beginning. My vision is that we create a center of excellence around turboprop engines here in Prague, along with the rest of our network of engineering and manufacturing capabilities,” says David Joyce, President and CEO at GE Aviation in Prague. On March 14, 2012 GE Aviation’s new H80 turboprop engine received type certification from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), paving the way for the engine to enter service in more applications, including the Thrush 510G aircraft. On December 13, 2011, the new engine had officially been launched and representatives of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) handed over their type certification.

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