Applicants in this category have all developed an exceptional project of international scope. Out of 12 applicants, the five chambers below have been selected by the jury to present their projects at the ICC WCF 8th World Chambers Congress in Doha, Qatar, 22-25 April.
The Ankara Shopping Fest is an event combining shopping with entertainment, in which participating brands offer attractive deals to consumers through discounts, bringing dynamism to the city's domestic and international tourism and vitalizing its trade.
Acorn Interactive is a web platform which supports exporters with all aspects of international trade. It has been developed and financed by Bristol Chamber of Commerce.
Against the backdrop of weak global economic recovery and China’s shifting foreign trade policy focusing on import expansion, China Chamber of International Commerce has developed the project "China International Import Expo" to create the first largest professional import trading platform nationwide in the Yangtze River Delta, help expand imports from foreign countries, promote international trade, and boost global economic growth.
This project aims to boost women’s entrepreneurship and cooperation in Slovakia and Austria by providing various educational and networking activities.
Project REGIONFEMME is a Slovak – Austrian project focused on the support of women entrepreneurship, support of cross-border cooperation, strengthening and improving managerial and soft skills of women and to extend their business activities abroad.
The NTBS Project is designed to enable the private sector to address the issue of NTBs through enhancing their reporting, monitoring and elimination. NTBs impact negatively on trade and increase the cost of doing business in terms of time and money. Private sector has a role to play in ensuring that there is proper mechanisms of reporting and monitoring the NTBs and collaborate with the government to eliminate the reported NTBs. NTBs prevalence is indeed a regional problem that calls for the efforts from the private sector to ensure that governments take deliberate moves in the removal of NTBs.
The NTBs SMS and online reporting and monitoring mechanism's major objective is to simplify the reporting, monitoring and elimination of NTBs.