Berlin: The Ambassador of Serbia opened the virtual workshops series for Serbian entrepreneurs

28. Mar 2022.
Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to Germany Snežana Janković opened a series of virtual workshops for Serbian entrepreneurs entitled “Knowledge Transfer - Entrepreneurial Diaspora as a generator of cross-border economic cooperation with Germany”.

Workshops are intended for small and medium-size enterprises that plan to engage in the German market. In the next three days business leaders from Čačak, Kraljevo and Kruševac will participate in the workshops and the project is being implemented through the initiative of the Central Council of Serbs in Germany with the financial support of GIZ and German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

In her address, Ambassador Janković emphasised that economic cooperation occupied a particularly important place in the very good overall bilateral relations between Serbia and Germany. Over 500 companies with German capital operate in Serbia and employ about 73 thousand people. The Embassy is witnessing the emergence of new companies interested in investing in Serbia or establishing some kind of business cooperation with Serbia, and it is to be expected that economic relations between Serbia and Germany will continue to rise. It is certainly a very favourable environment for business connections and expanding Serbia's presence on the German market.

Ambassador Janković pointed out that transfer of knowledge and experience of our business people from Germany, as a traditionally entrepreneurial economy, was very important, not only for strengthening entrepreneurship, but also for establishment of a dual education system, by which Serbia has been striving to transform the education system and radically reduce the youth unemployment rate.

Ambassador Janković emphasised that the possibilities of our business diaspora were great in the international context as well, and networking of Serbian business associations and business people in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Canada and other countries where our diaspora is numerous, would help and bring remarkable results in the presence of our small and medium enterprises and the placement of their products on foreign markets.

Finally, she said that the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Germany was always at the disposal of all interested businessmen from Serbia, to provide information and support in their efforts to ensure a presence in the German market, but also in the other direction, for businessmen from the diaspora to consider investments and business activity with partners in the Republic of Serbia.