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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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14 May 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Is Low Carbon a Blessing for CEE?

Guest post by Christian Egenhofer, Associate Senior Research Fellow and head of the Energy and Climate Program, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Brussels

Poorer eastern EU member states are privileged when it comes to low-carbon transition but the window of opportunity is closing fast. While the transition to a low-carbon economy is all about technology, it is ultimately government policy that matters. Nowhere is this truer than in the poorer member states in Central and Eastern Europe. Contrary to what we think, Central and Eastern European EU member states are in a privileged position, but only if they seize their opportunities.

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9 May 2012 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

GE Aviation Expands in Russia

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

Let me share with you some great news from the Czech GE Aviation regarding our activities in the Russian market. Sokol JSC, a leading service provider known throughout the Russian Federation, has signed an agreement with GE Aviation to become an Authorized Service Center (ASC) for GE’s M601 and H80 turboprop aircraft engines. The agrement allows our business to extend its services to Russia and to get even more support in the CIS region.

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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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16 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

A New European Dream

Guest post by Tomáš Sedláček, Czech economist and author Thanks to the current economic crisis, the European Dream is also widely being discussed. But paradoxically enough, all this may even give rise to a New European Dream, argues Czech economist Tomáš Sedláček . But  in an article written for Hospodarske noviny, the Czech equivalent to The Financial Times, and published on his blog on aktualne.cz he asks is there such a concept, or we just chase the American dream and try to adopt it?

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