The Suisse Romande chapter of a nationwide Swiss volunteer organization is calling on retired professionals to help them in a range of benevolent projects throughout Switzerland.
Set up in 2006 with the support of Pour-cent Culturel Migros and the Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Lucerne – Travail Social, Innovage makes use of the considerable expertise of retired professional staff to help them in a wide range of voluntary projects where the costs of employing highly skilled consultants would normally be prohibitively expensive.
Today, Innovage is made of 9 different chapters throughout Switzerland, each with its own team of 10 to 30 retired or semi-retired professionals, typically aged between 55 and 75 years old, each keen to support volunteer organizations in whatever areas they can, depending on their needs and the expertise available.
In the past, typical projects have included replacing the computing and network infrastructure for the Alzheimer’s Association in Switzerland, helping teenagers who are between school and apprenticeship, or simply advising on the restructure of a professional team. You can find out more information on the projects in which Innovage Suisse Romande (ISR) has been involved over the last few years, by clicking here.
Zoé4life, a registered non-profit organization based in the Suisse Romande region, is hosting a special event in the beautiful lake-side town of Rolle on 1 October 2016. Called Day4Life, this team-building and family-friendly event will mark the end of International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September, during which many awareness activities will take place, including the illumination in gold of Geneva’s Jet d’eau for the 4th year in a row.
To help them prepare for this day of solidarity, the charity organizers are asking local businesses to offer their support by becoming a partner in the event. There is a large range of sponsorship opportunities, to suit all budget levels. For example, for Fr. 200.-, businesses can have their logo printed on placemats that will be distributed in local cafés and restaurants from July 2016 onwards. For Fr. 10,000.- organizations can expect to receive a full package of benefits including: their logo on banners, posters, and flyers; a logo and link back to their website from the charity website supporting the event: a company booth at the event: and last, but not least, the option to take part in a great team-building event, all in the name of a great cause.
You can see the full range of options by downloading the sponsorship package here.
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Given the highly international environment that we live and work in, it is perhaps surprising that we don’t get more recommendations for translation companies from our readers. Although many are multilingual, speaking 2 or 3 different languages fluently, there can be few readers who have the level of expertise required to provide the perfect translation of a complex legal contract, financial agreement or medical document.
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Featured on our site last year, the Access MBA Tour, worldwide leader in One-to-One business education events, will return to Geneva on 1 October, 2015 at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
“Access MBA is designed to bridge the distance between business executives and elite MBA programmes from around the world through personalised One-to-One meetings between candidates and school representatives”, said Christophe Coutat, Managing Director of the organizing media agency for this event, Advent Group.
The One-to-One meetings enable business professionals to find a top MBA programme that corresponds to their background and expectations. Each MBA candidate undergoes a selection and matching process by business education experts. Qualifying attendees are then given a custom event agenda for a series of 25-minute long meetings with admissions directors.
At Know-it-all passport we are often asked for recommendations of places where you can hire rooms, either for business functions or private events.
We don’t have a specific section for this in the guide book so thought we would start with making a few suggestions on the website.
Whilst most of the suggestions are for places where you might expect to see rooms for hire, we also have a couple, less well known places to recommend, that you may not have considered.
On the hotel front, two Geneva hotels stand out amongst the rest as offering a professional service, with a wide range of rooms for hire plus optional extras.
