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Business Events Australia (BEA) is working on recovery plans to optimise Australia’s positioning now and once events and travel resume, to drive more business for Australian industry. For more information, please use the link HERE
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The Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) has partnered with social learning platform, FutureLearn.com to provide free online courses and help students stay ahead of the learning curve. Many students have been impacted by travel restrictions globally. Providing access to high-quality online learning resources from leading Australian education providers is a simple way to continue to support international students’ in their education and learning goals during this challenging time.
The ‘Study with Australia’ campaign will be available until 30 June, allowing students to study with top Australian universities and learn new skills. Students will get full access to a variety of courses across business, digital technologies, STEM, healthcare and teaching courses, to name a few, and the chance to earn a digital certificate for free.
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Following the ABIE & GABC joint webinar with guest speaker John W. H. Denton AO, ICC Secretary General, on the ICC’S Global Engagement to Mobilise Business in the Fight Against Covid-19 (Event Review here) which was held on the 21st April 2020, the ICC has invited all ABIE members to complete the ICC – WHO Global Survey of Business for WHO in the Fight Against COVID-19.
The aim of this survey is to gather more information on how businesses are responding to the pandemic and to help identify solutions to prevent its spread. The responses to the survey will be used to provide updated information to businesses and to develop solutions that will help companies deal with the consequences of the pandemic.
The survey can be accessed at: https://survey3.medallia.com/?icc-who-covid-19
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GABC Members and Friends are invited to an online event hosted by Bruegel on the impact of COVID-19 on global trade. The session will be held on Thursday, the 30th of April, 2020 from 9.30am Berlin time.
The speakers are:
Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham, Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment
Maria Demertzis, Deputy Director, Bruegel
Rebecca Fatima Sta Maria, Executive Director, APEC Secretariat, Singapore
André Sapir, Senior Fellow, Bruegel
For more information and a registration link, please click below:
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According to The Heritage Foundation (Heritage), a US research institution, Australia now ranks fourth in terms of how free its economy is, compared to 180 other countries. For more information see:
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The KAS recently released a report entitled Australian and New Zealand- like-mind partners at the other end of the world- diverse ways of dealing with the Corona crisis.
A link to the German language full report authored by Dr Beatrice Gorawantschy can be found below:
https://www.kas.de/de/laenderberichte/detail/-/content/australien-und-neuseeland
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The AHK is holding a webinar on the 8th of April, 2020 to provide information on the effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic on Australian business.
The webinar will be held in German at 9am Berlin time.
For more information and a link to register, please click on the following pdf link
Ankuendigungsflyer_COVID-19 Webinarreihe_Teil 1_AngelikaYates
All queries should be directed to enrica.mertens@germany.org.au
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Sonic Healthcare, a corporate member of the Business Council, has processed more than 800 000 COVID-19 tests in Germany since early March. Many hundreds of employees are working around the clock in 20 laboratories to deliver rapid diagnostic results and assist medical teams to deliver prompt and appropriate treatment.
To read more about this essential work, please click on the link below:
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Business Council Members and Friends from other ABIE organisations were featured in an AFN article on the Corona crisis this week. See the attached article below.
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The German Red Cross is accepting financial donations to assist in the Australian bushfire relief campaign.
More information can be found at the following page: https://www.drk.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/meldung/buschfeuer/