The Albanian Institute of SMEs “SMEs Albania” organize their second Summer Academy for SMEs on “training on export management”.
In the program during 25-29 June entrepreneurs and small businesses will find a focus on international business. Topics like:

• Documentation and Export procedures
• International Trade
• Barriers for export
• Internationalization of businesses
  

The Summer Academy is visited by SMEs that are exporting or have a potential in finding new markets. Future exporters are also among the attendees as students are invited to participate.

The presenter list, with a mix of international and domestic speakers and lecturers, is indicating a very inspiring and fully packed week of knowledge and experience that will be shared. One of the speakers will be our own founder of the SME Academy, Kenneth OE Sundin .

The event will take place at Hotel Tirana International, in Tirana, Albania.

On 9th of March SME Academy arranged a Workshop in Robotics and 3D printing - with focus on SMEs and the new skills that are required for individuals. In the session Dr. Paul Quantock gave a  brief summary of a research report with some very interesting details regarding the situation and vision in European SMEs as well as some challenges they will meet - or are already meeting. The report was created by the ROTENA project and has served as a base for a package of training modules in Robotics, 3D printing  and how to construct your own robot..

In the second part Lino Ferreira, CEPROF, and Rafaele Silva , Ovar Forma, presented the training modules and their work to develop them. The base for the curriculum and the level of the training modules was to aim at individual with little or no understanding in Robotics and 3D printing. The target group is SMEs and their entrepreneurs, managers and employees as well as students and individuals that want to get inspiration for a new career.
In the discussion from the Workshop you will find different approaches and challenges discusses as well as the situation in the market.