How to become a Ukrainian participant
The application period for 2024 is closed.
Applicant profile
You are a management-level professional from the private sector in Ukraine. You are currently residing in Germany and would like to gain insight into the workings of a German company. You are planning to return to Ukraine to re-start your company or to newly found a business, or you work in a management position at a Ukrainian company and wish to build connections with German companies. Your vision for a partnership with a German company is that it will benefit both parties.
If this description applies to you, we offer you the prospect of taking part in the Partnering in Business with Germany’s Special Initiative for Ukraine. We invite you to take this opportunity to expand your professional horizon and to make useful contacts. Broaden your management skills through practical training and multi-week job-shadowing units at one of our German host companies.
The benefits you will derive from taking part in the Partnering in Business with Germany’s Special Initiative for Ukraine programme are manifold:
Access to German companies and networks
The two four-week job-shadowing components at a host company as well as specialised tutoring at selected Business Development Centres will give you easier access to German businesses and networks. The programme provides a wide array of opportunities for dialogue with experts, for exploring possible cooperation and for developing collaborative projects. The connections you make and the enduring opportunity for future ideas sharing can also become a sustainable foundation for further bilateral collaborations down the road.
Intensification of management and cooperation competencies
A German host company will give you insight into its business practices. That kind of insider perspective on its workings can be highly inspirational. And, during the course of your participation in the job-shadowing phases, you will be guided by in-house members of staff and have discussion partners available to you. Those seasoned specialists will expertly guide you and help you to expand your own management and cooperation skills. The Special Initiative is also designed to develop participants’ intercultural understanding and their know-how about markets that function differently to their own.
Support for the recovery and re-building of the Ukraine economy
Upon return to Ukraine, you will be able to make use of the knowledge and skills newly acquired and the connections made to re-start your business or found a new enterprise. The focus of the job-shadowing programme is predominantly on business sectors relevant to the recovery and re-building of the economy of Ukraine. Bilateral economic collaboration between companies in both countries is additionally aimed at bringing Ukraine incrementally closer to EU integration.