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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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8 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Don’t Reign, but Inspire

“CEOs must be able to make people dream. They should be able to inspire people and allow them to face challenges. What is management? Management is service for the organization. Imagine a reversed pyramid. A CEO is not someone who stands at the vertex, reigning over the people. A CEO should be able to provide services for employees, who are standing above. This is the role of the CEO. CEOs, in the meantime, have experienced every part of the pyramid, during their journey toward the top.”

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25 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Inventing the Future: George Emil Palade

Healthcare in the 21st century is mostly like a second degree equation; a mix of technology and skills which are all adding up to a manual of the human body and ho wto treat it. Nowadays, we go down to the level of cells and their “life” in determining the nature of a disease or the health status of a patient. We all heard about ribosomes and learnt about their importance in the domain of modern molecular cell biology.  We thank much of that knowledge to the work of George Emil Palade (1912-2008) in the biology domain.

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3 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Growing With a Growth Market

In an exclusive interview of The Globe and Mail with Jeffrey R. Immelt, he talkes about how to grow together. " J. Immelt has closely followed the debate that has erupted in this country about the uneven benefits of the natural resources boom. Many worry that relentless demand for Canadian energy, metals and other resources is undermining the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector by driving up the Canadian dollar and making goods here more expensive in global trade. The higher currency only adds to long-running pressures that threaten manufacturing jobs in North America in a world of global markets and abundant, cheap labour."

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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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30 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Meet GE People: Lucian Stoica

Guest post by Lucian Stoica, Research Engineer at GE’s Global Research Center in Munich Already as a child I dreamt of becoming a researcher, doing lots of experiments and trying out things. I’m proud to say I followed my heart and today I introduce myself as Lucian Stoica, Research Engineer and Doctor of Science, Romanian born but living and working in Germany at GE’s Global Research Center in Munich.

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14 March 2012 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Adapt to Change

Guest post by Pawel Buczek, Mechanical Systems Sub-Section Manager at the Engineering Design Center (EDC), Warsaw

The first time I heard about the Edison Engineering Development Program (EEDP), a special training program designed for fresh graduates by the GE Engineering Design Center (EDC) in Warsaw in Poland, I thought it would be a real challenge and I knew another opportunity like this might not come again soon. I became one of the three young engineers with whom the program started in 2006. Today, I am Sub-Section Manager in the aviation part of the Design Center where I lead a team of almost 40 engineers responsible for various engine lines.

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12 March 2012 Posted by Elma Peters

Smart Grid Experiences

“There are now around 800 smart grid projects all over the world. (…) a lot is going on and we tend to forget that there are already some energy companies which saw for themselves what makes sense and what doesn’t, and we should learn from their experiences,” said Dr. Bartosz Wojszczyk, Global Smart Grid Technical Solutions Leader at GE Energy.

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