Read it here
The Nordic Mentorship Program - Open for Applications!
Through the Mentorship Program, FBC together with the other Nordic Business Councils link ambitious professionals with knowledgeable executives and entrepreneurs. Our mission is to promote a mutual exchange of ideas and experience between mentors and mentees. The program provides participants with personal career guidance, ideas, business training and networking opportunities to foster the relationships between the more experienced members and the young professionals. The goal is to create valuable synergies between mentors and mentees, where both can grow from each other’s experiences.
Mentees, an FBC Member, will get the chance to learn from professionals who have extensive experience in their particular field of expertise. Get professional support with resumes, tips on how to cope with challenges in the workplace, how to make the most out of the career, as well as realizing business ideas and goals will also be part of the framework.
Mentors an FBC Member, will surely be amazed with new ideas and fresh ways of thinking, insights of potential recruits and, perhaps most importantly, the joy of seeing a mentee nourish, grow and succeed.
The Mentorship Program will benefit both parties in the fields of interest agreed upon by the mentor and the mentee and can be done in person or online. The program is done in collaboration with the other Nordic Business Councils in the UAE.
Click here for the suggested framework for the program.
The next mentorship program will start in October 2023.
If you are interested in participating in the program, either as a mentor or mentee please apply through these application forms below before the 22nd September 2023.
Please note that all applicants must be members of FBC or any of the other three Nordic Business Councils in Dubai. There is limited availability and mentee priority will be given to Young Professionals. The participation in the program is free of charge and is subject to availability of a suitable mentor and a mentee.
Save the butts waste to value - Beach clean-up
2023 has been named the Year of Sustainability in the UAE. The highlight will be COP28, the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, taking place in Expo City Dubai in December.
Finnish Business Council is organizing a series of sustainability related events and activities leading up to COP28 - one of them was the beach clean up we did at Kite Beach on the 18th of May.
We teamed up with Goumbook and their Save The Butts Campaign. Save the Butts – Waste to Value' is the first sustainability initiative run in the UAE that adopts a Circular Economy approach to environmental pollution, by converting discarded cigarette butts into a sustainable alternative to plywood. Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, and it takes 10-25 years for them to decompose as 95% of the butt is made out of plastic fibers.
On the 18th of May 20 Finnish Business Council members gathered ready to get their hands dirty. Marta Roman, Campaign Leader from Goumbook started off with a thought-provoking awareness session about how we can all contribute to keeping our oceans and environment clean.
In less than an hour in the Dubai summer heat, we had collected a total of 3300 cigarette butts which would otherwise have been left on the beach for at least another decade.
Thank you to all participants and to our fantastic main sponsor Kool Kollekt, who made this beach clean-up possible by covering the license cost. Scan Global Logistics and Bird Collaborative made sure we could all enjoy a well deserved breakfast after the activity!
Welcome our new member Meyer Floating Solutions
MEYER Floating Solutions (MFS), a subsidiary of the MEYER Group, is a marine construction and design firm, headquartered in Finland, that is disrupting the conventional real estate development industry with its unique and innovative overwater solutions either floating or built on offshore pilings. Amongst their several notable projects are the 10,000 sqm terrace extension for The Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai and the world's largest floating villa (6,000 sqm) in Abu Dhabi. The delivered projects showcase that MFS’ turnkey solutions guarantee greater returns for developers, shorter project timelines and minimal environmental impact.
Contact us at
inquiries@meyerfloatingsolutions.com
www.meyerfloatingsolutions.com
@meyerfloatingsolutions
May Newsletter
Read it here
Welcome our new member Kool Kollekt
Kool Kollekt is a tech-enabled chilled last mile home delivery company providing all deliveries done in an unbroken cold-chain. Our core values are excellent customer service and sustainability and these are implemented deeply into our business model. We focus both in B2C and B2B in Food, Flowers and Pharma. Our purpose is to be the most sustainable chilled last-mile delivery company in the world.
Contact details:
charles.kuhlman@koolkollekt.com
Welcome our new member Aquabiostep
Aquabiostep Water Treatment Equipment Trading LLC:
Wastewater treatment & Reuse. Sustainable solutions that treat simultaneously both black & grey domestic wastewater. Require No Energy, No Chemicals, No maintenance, doesn't produce any Sludge, Nor Noise, Nor Smell and the treated water is perfect for Irrigation or other Reuse purposes. Over 200000 installations Worldwide.
Numerous International Certifications including the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label for Clean and Profitable!
Contact detail:
meriem.bestani@aquabiostep.com
April Newsletter
Read it here
FBC Goes COP28 - Beach Clean Up
2023 has been named the Year of Sustainability in the UAE. The highlight will be COP28, the 28th UN Climate Change Conference, taking place in Expo City Dubai in December.
Finnish Business Council is organizing a series of sustainability related events and activities leading up to COP28 - one of them being a beach clean up together with Goumbook and their Save The Butts Campaign
Save the Butts – Waste to Value' is the first sustainability initiative run in the UAE that adopts a Circular Economy approach to environmental pollution, by converting discarded cigarette butts into a sustainable alternative to plywood. Engaging with community members to clean the environment by collecting cigarette butts from public and private locations such as beaches, showing the value of their impact.
We are now challenging the Finnish Business Council Members to get in volved and looking for sponsors for this event happening in May! Contact us for more information: erika@fbcuae.fi
Agenda: (orientative timing)
8.00am: meet and greet
8.05-8.30am: awareness session & debate
8.30-9.30am: cleanup time & footage
9.30-10am: wrap up session, debate, photo group
Light breakfast
After the activity the company will receive:
Participation certificate
Impact report
Activity video
We look forward to hearing from you!
Welcome our new member Wadi al Andalus
Wadi Al Andalus FZ-LLC is a United Arab Emirates based company with it's headquarter in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
We are expert in several types of Industrial & home electrical appliances, electronic equipments, IT products & related spare parts, accessories etc.
With it's multinational management team and due to our long experience in this field and potential international contacts we do trade and also provide you complete solution for your leftovers and not needed materials for selling or sending for recycling to our well known recycling partner abroad.
We believe in green and clean planet for all of us.
Contact details:
Asad Qureshi
asad@wadialandalus.com
+971 54 237 0490
