The 2018 SelectUSA Summit Registration is Open ! The SelectUSA Investment Summit, June 20-22 is the highest-profile event dedicated to promoting foreign direct investment (FDI) in the United States. Featuring senior government officials, C-Suite business executives, and other thought leaders, each Summit focuses on a timely theme related to the U.S. investment environment, industry trends, and new opportunities. As SelectUSA’s signature event, …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 15 May, 2018 | Topics: Business, Events, News | Tags: SelectUSA
On November 31 and December 1, 2017, the U.S. Embassy organized the Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge (AEC) finals in Helsinki. This nationwide program invites middle and high school students to form teams of up to four to pitch, in three-minutes, an original entrepreneurial concept in English. Post received more than 150 applications in early October from which it selected …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 1 December, 2017 | Topics: Business, Embassy, Events, Exclude, News, Public Affairs | Tags: AEC, Ambassador's Entrepreneurial Challenge
Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge 2017 – an entrepreneurial contest for students around Finland – is culminating in national finals this week. On Thursday, November 30, 15 teams arriving from different regions (Rovaniemi, Oulu, Turku, Tampere, Vaasa, Kuopio, Jyväskylä, and the capital area) meet in Helsinki for a day of exciting workshops. On Friday, December 1, teams pitch their ideas to …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 30 November, 2017 | Topics: Business, Embassy, News | Tags: AEC, Ambassador's Entrepreneurial Challenge
(Helsinki – June 30, 2017) It’s been three weeks of summer holiday and our trip to America is starting to feel more and more real. It’s hard to believe that in less than a week we are actually going to hop on a plane taking us to spend an entire month in the U.S. As …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 19 July, 2017 | Topics: Alumni, Business, Doing Business in the U.S., Education, Embassy | Tags: Ambassador's Entrepreneurial Challenge, Blog, Youth programs
U.S. Embassy Finland is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge – Team Moo Free (in Finnish: Ei Muuta)! These two young ladies, Ella Martikainen (15) and Kukka Walden (15), who recently became vegans, noticed to their annoyance that there are no vegan ice cream substitute products here in Finland that …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 2 December, 2016 | Topics: Business, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News, Public Affairs | Tags: AEC, Entrepreneurship
Hats off to Team AMVibrate who won the Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge 2015 with their groundbreaking hearing device! This fantastic team from Schildt High School in Jyväskylä left the AEC Grand Final with some seed money for their business and boarding passes to the United States to study entrepreneurship there. The runner-ups in the final was …
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 13 November, 2015 | Topics: Business, Events, Former U.S. Ambassadors, News | Tags: AEC, Entrepreneurship
Ambassador Adams kicked off a visit to Tampere on October 21st meeting with the Tampere Chamber of Commerce and members of the business community. He also visited the Kanjoni Elementary School in the Hervanta neighborhood where he received a special invitation.
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 21 October, 2015 | Topics: Business, Education, Former U.S. Ambassadors | Tags: AEC, Ambassador Adams, Entrepreneurship, Tampere
Team Nuoriosaa.fi is the winner of 2014 Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge. The team seeks to address unemployment among youth aged 15-24 in Finland. The final of this year’s AEC took place on Thursday, November 20, 2014. Team Nuoriosaa.fi comes from Cygnaeus-lukio in Jyväskylä. More images available through the U.S. Embassy Finland Flickr album . More information about the Ambassador’s Entrepreneurial Challenge .
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By U.S. Embassy Finland | 20 November, 2014 | Topics: Business, Education, Former U.S. Ambassadors | Tags: AEC, Entrepreneurship
