Azubi-Europainternship calendar

13th of April – 24th of April 2015Czech Republic & Croatia

by Norman Freitagapprenticeship as wholesale management assistantat Handelshof Bitterfeld GmbH

Structure1. The Czech Republic1.1. The first day1.2. The CSOB1.3. Vocational school Střední odborná škola a Střední

odborné učiliště Praha 1.4. CzechInvest and BDO s.r.o.

2. Croatia2.1. Helle Travel Croatia DMC and the port „Luka d.d.

Split2.2. The HGK Split2.3. University of Split2.4. Project work

3. Summary

4. Sources

1. Introduction in the Czech Republic

Important facts- Capital: Prague (Praha)- Official languages: Czech- Government: parliamentary republic- Independence: 1st of January 1993- Area: 78.864 km²- Population: 10.513.209- Currency: Czech koruna (CZK)

1.1. The first official day – workshop and city rallye (14th of April) - it started with working in the conference room of our hotel- we learned something about the most important things about the Czech

Republic and the people living there- also we have prepared our city tour of Prague for the afternoon

City rallye- we organized a city tour of some special buildings in

Prague- we have different team of 2 or 3 persons and every

group had to present some tourist attractions

The first station of our tour was the Wenzelplatz.

The second part of the tour was the Pulverturm.

After that we went over to the third station, the Karlsbrücke. It was the best attraction of our tour.

Time for a group foto.

Back to work after that, we visited the the National Theatre of Prague.

The last station was the Altstädter Ring directly on the market place of Prague.

It was impressive and a good start for the next days.

1.2. CSOB and workshop about the school system (15th of April 2015)- stands for Československá obchodní banka- one of hte largest commercial banks operating in the Czech

Republic- is a universal bank that offers a full range of banking services to

individuals and companies- is owned by Belgium-based KBC Bank- we learned interesting things about investment possibilities and

about banking operating system

1.3. Vocational school Střední odborná škola a Střední odborné učiliště Praha (16th of April)

- On 16th of april we were guest in a vocational school in Prague. The school was housed in a beautiful old building.

- After the welcome, the students presented the city of Prague and their school and also the school system in the czech republic.

- After that, we presented our school systems. It was very interesting to see the difference between the school systems in Germany and the Czech republic.

- Then we had the opportunity to speak with the students and exchange ideas.

1.4. CzechInvest and BDO s.r.o. (17th of April)- on Friday, the 17th of April, our last

day in prague we visited the firm CzechInvest

- it is an Investment and Business Development Agency

- we learned some important facts about the role and tasks of the agency and about the possibilities to in invest in the Czech Republic

- in the afternoon we had an appointment with BDO s.r.o.

- BDO has Member Firms in 138 countries, employed 55.000 workers in 1.204 offices throughout the world.

- Each BDO member firm is an independant legal entity in its own country.

- German customers for example: Kärcher, Ravensburger Hüttenes, Wacker Chemie

- The departments are law, accounting and IT management.

The weekend – arrival at Croatia and workshop about Croatia (18th of April and 19th of April 2015)

2. Introduction in Croatia

Important facts- Capital: Zagreb- Official languages: Croatian- Government: Pariliamentary republic- Independence: 25th of June 1993- Area: 56.542 km²- Population: 4.300.000- Currency: Croatia Kuna (HRK)

2.1. Helle Travel Croatia DMC and the port „Luka d.d. Split- on Monday the 20th of April, the morning started with a meeting

at a tourism agency named Helle Travel Croatia DMC- we learned how one working day looks and that the job is a

24/7 fulltime job- after the the presentation we went on a sight-seeing trip

- after the trip into the city we travelled to the port of split, „Luka d.d. Split“

- we were led around the harbour area- we got to know also the meaning of the harbour for

Croati‘s import and export

2.2. The HGK Split (21st of April)- is a local organization of businesses and companies in Split with

the intention to develop and further the interests of of the Croatien economy

- we 've learned that the members of a Chamber of Commerce are usually international and local operating companies examples: import and export businesses, banks, tourism companies, manufacturing companies etc.

- main activities of the HGK: civil society, safeguarding business interests and sharing business experiences and business interests

2.3. University of Split – 22th of April- was founded in 1974 as a public University- many different departments for examples Mechanical Engineering,

Information Technology, Tourism, Finance and Accounting- 72 College professors and over 22.000 Students- the second biggest University in Croatia- it was very informative and interesting and the universaty campus was

very impressive- after that we travelled to the city of split to eat something or for sight-

seeing

2.4. Project work- in our 2nd week at Croatia we had three different workshops- we learned a lot about tradition, economy and history- last but not least we trained our skills in business Englisch with role

plays in business situation- at the end of our trip we wrote a final test which everybody passed

with a good grade

3. Summary

The project Azubi-Europa was very instructive and i would always do it again. We met new people from Czech republic and Croatia. With the help of this project we could improve our business english and learn a few words of czech and croatian. Mostly we could extend our communivative skills, our team work skills and our sense of responsibility.

I learned a lot about the MOE countries and gained a lot of experience in intercultural communication.

In the end I have to say, that I‘m really glat that I did this project. All the people of our group, and of course our coach Mister Dargatz, were really nice and it was great toi work together with them.

4. Sources- http://www.azubi-europa.de/- Reiseplan CZ_HR April 2015 für Azubis- the homepages of the companies and organizations

- http://www,csob.cz- www.stredniskoladrtinova.cz- www.czechinvest.org- http://eng.unist.hr/

- the DVD „Azubi Europa“- my notes from the journey

Thank you for your attention!

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