Focus India 10 was successfully concluded with student presentations on May 7, 2010.

Now the time has come to say thank you to the sponsors, supporters and bid good bye to the project team, PR team, as well as all the participants of Focus India 2010. Heartfelt thanks to all of you! I am keenly aware of the fact that the project would not have been as successful as it was this year without you, and your support.

Just a couple of words about the final presentations that were made on May , 2010, the concluding event of Focus India 2010:

The list of topics on which presentations were made is accessible here!

Examples presentations are accessible below:

1. Climate Change & India

2. Entering Indian Market

Mails have gone out to the current second year students of the International Management bachelor program inviting them to apply for positions in the project team of Focus India 2011. I plan to have a project team, worthy of the teams from the previous years, up and running by September. They will start the process of getting the next PR team together, collecting participants, approaching and winning sponsors and supporters, ... with the one and only goal of ensuring that Focus India 2011 will also be a great success!

The new project team will take over the website in September 2010.

Till then, thank you all for all the support!
Chandra Holm

On Saturday, 8th May 2010 Sharmila Rao will open up the anniversary year 2010/2011 of the Nateschwara Theatre with a wonderful classical Indian dance spectacle. The Nateschwara Academy is one of the biggest Indian Dance Schools in Europe and will celebrate its 30 years' existence. Click here for more information about this special event.

This Thursday the delegation will start its journey to India. During their time in India the members of the delegation will write a blog about their experiences in Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Pune.

If you are curious to learn more about their impressions please click here to access the Focus India blog.

The University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland is celebrating its anniversary "10 Years Global Know-How". Click on the yellow suitcase in order to read more!

We look back to an incredible one-week intensive preparatory seminar at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland. The seminar took place from Monday 8th until Friday 12th February 2010 in Olten.

It was marked by several speeches about business, economic, social, religious, and political issues and a visit to the Museum Rietberg in Zurich. We were very proud to welcome experts from various backgrounds, who shared their knowledge and experiences about India. With this year's motto "Nurturing Knowledge - Breaking Barriers" the seminar helped to reduce prejudices regarding India - by opening minds and learning from its ancient history, multifaceted culture and emerging economical power.

The seminar was concluded with a panel discussion and the director of FHNW Prof. Dr. Ruedi Nützi handing over yellow suitcases to the project teams of Focus India, Insight China, and Networking New York due to the university's "10 Years Global Know-How".

To find out more about this fascinating week, please click here to see some pictures of the seminar and have a look at the first newsletter, which can be found on our homepage in a week's time.

Focus India and its co-project Insight China have recently conducted a very interesting interview with Ms. Inés Constantin, Head of University Relations at global ALSTOM Power. Please click here to read the whole interview.

Which guest lecturers are going to give a speech at the preparatory seminar from 8th until 12th February 2010? And what does the program look like in general? To find out please have a look at the definite seminar schedule here.

On Wednesday, 10th February 2010 the Indian restaurant Sitar will cater a typical Indian lunch buffet for the seminar participants. We are looking forward to this culinary highligh and thank Sitar for this generous contribution.

Why are the individual participants interested in taking part in the Focus India Project 2010?

Click here to see who is participating and select a name to learn more about each person's motivation and expectations. 

In our new section "India Today" you can find interesting articles about India's history and about its present development. If you are curious, click here to read, hear or see more about this fascinating country.

Mrs. Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch kindly accepted our invitation to our preparatory seminar and will give a speech on Friday, 12th February 2010. As the Head of Worldtrade and Member of the Management Board of SECO, Mrs. Ineichen-Fleisch will address especially the economical ties between Switzerland, India, China and the USA.

We are looking forward to this event and warmly welcome everybody to attend her introductory speech to our panel discussion on Friday, 12th February 2010 starting at 1:30pm.

The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) invites to attend SDC's Traverse "Financial crisis and banking with the poor and excluded: Indian and Swiss perspectives" at SDC Berne on February 2, 2010 with Vijay Mahajan (Basix India), Arthur Vayloyan (Credit Suisse) and Roger de Weck (Author). Access the flyer including further details here.

The Focus India Team wishes you and your family a merry Christmas and the best wishes for health, happiness and prosperity in the New Year!

We want to thank MBW Calibration Ltd. and Burckhardt Compression AG for sponsoring or supporting Focus India 2010 and are looking forward to a successful partnership with both companies.

Focus India has created a group on facebook. Click on the icon in order to join us!

We warmly welcome the participants of Focus India 2010, which have been selected this week. We are looking forward to meeting you at the kick-off meeting on 16th December and of course we cannot wait to explore India together with you!