Education
The Friendly Appeal School Rating
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Nordea works towards improvement of the public educational level by supporting schoolchildren and students of Latvia. Since 2009, Nordea supports the challenge Friendly Appeal Award, established by the Friendly Appeal Foundation, awarded for academic accomplishments of schoolchildren and schools during the previous study year.
The Friendly Invitation is a tradition established in 1935 by Karlis Ulmanis, the former president of the Republic of Latvia – a tradition with the original idea to appeal to everyone to donate books to schools. At that time this friendly call gained huge popularity and the idea was brought back to life in 1994, when the Friendly Appeal Foundation was founded (Draudzīgā aicinājuma fonds), which established the Friendly Appeal Award in 1997. This award was granted to Latvian schools praising their performance during study year. The end of 2010 marked a decade since awarding the challenge award of Friendly Appeal.
In 2011, Nordea along with the Friendly Appeal Foundation and supporters – the ad and communications agency Airport, revives the Friendly Appeal movement by launching a new programme in support of schools – School SOS, and introducing a yet unseen, objective and calculation-based rating of Latvian schools.
Pictures from the Press conference of The Friendly Appeal School Rating available here.
Sales GURU
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The Sales GURU annual competition, organized by the web-based staff selection and recruitment company CV-Online Latvia, has been on for the seventh time already in Latvia, with Nordea as the prime sponsor and supporter of this competition since 2009.
The Sales GURU annual competition welcomes sales professionals (customer managers, trade reps, etc.), sales unit leaders, and anyone else, willing to become a successful trader and test one’s skills and knowledge, and above that – to display that inner talent in selling ideas, goods and services.
Pictures from the Sales Guru contest available here.
Riga Business School
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Nordea and Riga Business School (RBS) have been closely linked for many years already. That link was forged by Nordea employees – RBS alumni or those still studying there. Nordea has signed a cooperation agreement with Riga Business School, thus becoming the Gold Member of RBS Alumni Association and corporate cooperation partner of the college.
The agreement addresses cooperation issues in study lending as well as various common initiatives in implementing applicable education of quality and know-how workshop projects with broad involvement of representatives of the Bank.
Centre for Latvian New Entrepreneurs “Jobs & Society”
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Starting 2011, Nordea has begun cooperation with and provision of support to the Centre for Latvian New Entrepreneurs “Jobs & Society”.
The major goals of the organization are assisting new businesses at their initial stage, so that the newly established enterprises could develop their ideas in a more professional manner or present their idea as good as possible, and, depending on the reception, abandon it; stimulate cooperation opportunities between the private and public sectors, to evaluate and develop business efforts in the Republic of Latvia and facilitate the emergence of new vacancies; consulting on such significant aspects of business as privatization of public services, staff reduction problems, as a result of which new companies may be established, tax issues, etc.
for more information please visit www.jaunaisuznemejs.lv
The Client School of the Financial and Capital Market Commission
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The Financial and Capital Market Commission (FCMC) has launched a website klientuskola.lv, which provides information on relevance of products and services that are most popular in Latvia, and assessment of the potential future risks. The website compiles information explaining the nature of monitoring the financial sector, roles of the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the Fund for the Protection of the Insured and competence areas of the supervisory institution of each respective industry.
For more information about the Client School of the FCMC, please refer to www.klientuskola.lv.
