In 2011, for the 3rd time, the Gansu Leadership Programme (GLP) with Gansu Training Center for Senior Management Officials offered participants from a wide range of organisations a three-month full-time training programme hosted by the School of Business FHNW. The GLP programme combines input from FHNW lecturers, specialists and practitioners to offer concrete learning opportunities for participants in both theory and practice. The programme focuses in developing transferable skills which can be applied by the participants in their home environment.

According to Dang Jianwu, Head of the 2009 Gansu Delegation, "through the GLP, our biggest harvest in Switzerland is not about knowing the huge achievements Swiss people have made, but learning how they have managed to get there."

Specialist seminars and visits include all levels of Swiss public administration from the commune through city, cantonal and national level including receptions and meetings with legislators and executives at all levels; regional promotion, inward investment and utilities, energy, health, innovation, public communication, hr management including Standortmarketing Basel, Canton Solothurn; the City of Olten, regiozofingen, all levels of the education system, power generation plants; Alpiq, public and private energy and water treatment facilities.

2009 Participants Yang Hui and Zhang Bing commented, “We find that lessons are very well prepared here and the professors are very experienced and at a high level. What we also appreciate are the different companies and institutions who deliver guest input. They have great working experience and we could profit form their knowledge of industry”.

The programme is a key element of the FHNW China activities which, in addition to our longstanding cooperation with the province of Gansu, include partnerships with the Beijing Foreign Studies University, Shanghai Economic Management College, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Q-Tech University (Qingdao).

The FHNW has worked with the province of Gansu since the early 1990's developing training programmes in business administration, public management, tourism management and human resources management.

The curriculum and visitors are updated each year based on the needs and interests of the participants.

For more information on this programme or a similar programme for your institution, contact:

Fan Neifer, fan.neifer@fhnw.ch

P +41 62 286 01 23 (direct)
P +41 848 821 011 (switchboard)