Rastislav Káčer among students

On November 26, 2008 Rastislav Káčer, ambassador (Ret.) of Slovakia to the U. S. A. and a Chairman of the consulting company FIPRA Slovakia visited the Faculty of Political Sciences and International Relations in Banská Bystrica, where he discussed the topic of America´s foreign policy after the Presidential Election with students. The President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission (SAC) introduced in Banská Bystrica also the activity of SAC, the establishment of which in 1993 he supported and where he holds, since July 2008, a representative office of the President. The Board of the Faculty also participated in the discussion with the students, the working language was Slovak.

Foundations – Professional players of non-profit sector

Since year 2002, Forum of donors, has every year organized annual conference with an aim to provide space for a change of knowledge and experience and to introduce actual challenges of donor community in Slovak republic and abroad. Since 2006, this conference is being prepared in 2-year intervals and the last one was held under name Foundations – Professional players of non-profit sector in Bratislava on November 25, 2008. The program of the conference included the most important issues that foundations deal with. The objective is mainly resourcing, investing, communication, public relations and personal management. Within the frame Foundations are people Alexandra Lichvárová, senior manager of AMROP HEVER Slovakia, had speech not just about the importance of recruitment and selection of employees but also about the importance of keeping them and defining the correct strategy of human capital management.

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Best annual report

The ninth year of the competition Best annual report, which partner is for several years also consulting company AMROP HEVER Slovakia, culminated on November 11, 2008 by a solemn declaration of results. This year the competition involved 52 companies and 36 non-governmental organizations. A professional jury evaluated not only information, financial, but also the communication level of annual reports. In the case of printed annual reports was assessed the awareness of stakeholders on the activities of the organization, the financial part of and a communication and technical level. In the case of electronic annual reports experts evaluated the aforementioned criteria and the quality of the Web site, and thus the availability of the reports. The awards ceremony attended also Igor Šulík, Managing Partner AMROP HEVER Slovakia, which along with Ľuboš Vančo, Managing Partner of KPMG Slovakia, on behalf of sponsors of professional competition awarded the main prizes to the winners in the category of business.

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Learning region of Prešov municipality

Community Foundation Prešov, in cooperation with the Learning Centre Prešov organizes under the project supported by the European Social Fund conference Learning region of Prešov Municipality. Expert forum, which took place on November 5, 2008 in Prešov, is the culmination of the implementation of the project’s initial part and the implementation of the strategy of learning region. On the one hand, its aim was to present the local strategy and compare it with the strategy of Ministry of Education, on the other hand, the organizers aimed to define a new form of communication between the parties as necessary conditions for effective networking while implementing lifelong learning strategies. On the conference had a speech also Marek Mitošinka, the EPPP think-tank program officer. Under his leadership authorial EPPP team developed a Learning Region Strategy of Prešov Municipality containing the identification of priorities, goals and concrete follow-up measures facilitating the complete system of further education, development, monitoring and evaluation, which will be the main content of his speech.

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EQUAL Community Initiative

In connection with the completion of the implementation of the EQUAL Community Initiative in Slovakia has been in Bratislava on November 4, 2008 held the final conference. Its organizers have set themselves the objective of following the mainstreaming strategy of developing partnerships and making the verified practices, achievements and innovative products brought to the attention of a wide range of experts from the public and the private sector and to get these practices reflected in the wider practice. The basic mission of the initiative as a whole was to create conditions and provide space for the search, verification and implementation of new approaches to solving problems in the fight against all forms of discrimination and inequality in the labour market. In the initiative through the activities of the National Thematic Network (NTS-C), aiming to promote the adaptability of firms and employees to structural changes has also participated the think-tank EPPP. Marek Mitošinka, EPPP program officer, acts as its Vice-Chairman since 2006. Among other things, he has greatly contributed to the elaboration and implementation of Thematic mainstreaming strategy, which assessment and the message was presented on the final conference. The chairman of NTS-C for the Business Alliance of Slovakia is Martin Krekáč, co-founder and chairman of the EPPP Board.

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Languages Mean Business

Leonard Orban, the European Commissioner responsible for multilingualism, visited Slovakia on October 23 and 24, 2008. During the second day of his visit to Bratislava he attended an event organized by the European Commission’s Representation in Slovakia with a strong assistance and support of Patrik Zoltvány, Senior Partner of the consulting company FIPRA Slovakia. Discussion Forum/Business Breakfast on the topic of Languages mean business took place in premises of the European Information Centre, where Commissioner L. Orban met with business sector representatives in the presence of Henri Maloss, President of the Employers Group of the European Economic and Social Committee and Patrik Zoltvány, member – advisor of the European Economic and Social Committee for the National Union of Employers. The participants of the meeting vividly discussed the issues of lifelong learning in the area of languages and successful participation of job applicants having the advantage of commanding a number of languages in the labour market.

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American vs. European lobbing – which model for Slovakia?

Ecopress, a. s., publishing house organized on October 23, 2008 in congress hall of Bratislava’s hotel SAS Carlton another HNClub. Its main theme was American vs. European lobbing – which model for Slovakia? Event partner was FIPRA Slovakia consultancy group and two of the speakers was Ambassador (Ret.) Rastislav Káčer, FIPRA Slovakia chairman and president of the Slovak Atlantic Committee, and Patrik Zoltvány, FIPRA Slovakia co-founder and senior partner and member – advisor of the European Economic and Social Committee.

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JENEWEIN Chess Match 2008

Holding company JENEWEIN GROUP as a pioneer and a carrier of innovative ideas has decided to promote the game of the kings in Slovakia. The company has chosen chess and its philosophy as one of the key elements and motives of its corporate identity already in the past. That’s why JENEWEIN GROUP was co-organizing a chess match of Slovak and Czech top managers and under the name JENEWEIN Chess Match it wants to promote elegance and beauty of chess game to the public while creating new tradition of chess playing in Slovakia. Event was held on October 10 and 11, 2008 in Art Hotel William and Central Passage in Bratislava where selected Czech and Slovak top managers challenged each other. Level is set high as JENEWEIN Group has not invited only great teams, but also a legend of chess world and history. Twelfth world champion and Russian grandmaster Anatolij Karpov opened the match of top managers on Friday, October 10th and on Saturday, October 11, in front of more than 200 invited guests, played the exhibition match with Slovak grandmaster Sergej Movsesjan.

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AMROP HEVER Slovakia has built amrop analytics

Consultancy Company AMROP HEVER Slovakia to further expand the wealth of knowledge has built and introduced a new analytical engine under the brand amrop analytics. It is a research and analysis unit dedicated to monitoring, investigating and analyzing the latest leadership issues and trends in the human capital area in Slovakia. amrop analytics originates and publishes innovative research utilizing AMROP HEVER unparalleled expertise in Executive Search, leadership assessment and leadership development, and it is fully dedicated to improving of knowledge of human capital issues for businesses. Moreover, it also analyzes specific human capital issues in various industry sectors. Original research and its unique findings are at the heart of AMROP HEVER Slovakia approach which is used also in delivering optimal solutions to its clients.

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Ambassador (ret.) Rastislav Káčer and FIPRA Slovakia have joined forces

Rastislav Káčer joined FIPRA Slovakia as Chairman in September 2008 after completion of his five year term in Washington DC as the Ambassador of Slovakia to the United States. Prior to this Rastislav served at different levels of government for 16 years. Rastislav began his career as policy analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rising to Head of the Analytical Unit. Between 1994 and 1998 he served at NATO Headquarters in Brussels and on this return from Brussels became head of Policy Planning Staff and the Director General for Security Policy and Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry. In 2001 he became the Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defense responsible for the negotiations and accession process of Slovakia to NATO. In July 2008, Rastislav was elected President of the Slovak Atlantic Commission which is a member the Atlantic Treaty Association. Rastislav is widely recognized as expert on U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policy, Transatlantic Relations, Defense and Security Issues. Currently Rastislav oversees FIPRA assignments in Strategic Government Relations for Foreign Investors,Governments and International Institutions. Ratislav also serves as a Special Adviser to the FIPRA Group in Defense Policy and Procurement Team.

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