The document announces a seminar to discuss increasing student exchange between India and Sweden. It will explore how both countries can benefit from collaboration between education and industry sectors. Topics will include student/labor mobility programs, attracting Indian students to Swedish universities, and giving Swedish students opportunities in India's IT industry. The seminar aims to facilitate partnerships through initiatives like the Global Engineering Program between Swedish firms and Indian universities. It will feature discussions on current collaborations and how to further cooperation between the two regions.

1. Global Resources in a Changing World
What can be done by the city, universities and high schools to increase a flow of students between India and Sweden?
This seminar is for you if you are working as a International Coordinators or if you are interested in developing the international relations for your
organization or company such as Gymnasiums (High School), Universities, Companies with international operations and Cities (like Göteborg).
Friday, 8 June 2012
13:00-16:00 Workshop and Panel Debate - 16:00-18:00 Drink and Mingle
Elite Park Avenue Hotel, Bankettsalen, Kungsportsavenyn 36-38, Göteborg

2. Global Resources in a Changing World
Synergies between India and Sweden. Sweden is a highly industrialized country, with successful firms like Ikea, Volvo, Ericsson,
SKF present all over the world. Paradoxically, its citizens here are not sufficiently exposed to the global world, especially India
and China. Sweden also is trying to attract foreign students to its shores, but has a branding issue and faces many
challenges. India is going through a prolonged period of growth, fuelled by industries like IT, Biotechnology,
textiles to name a few. It has a youthful population and faces interesting challenges of its own,
in providing skills and opportunities to the youngest world force in the world.
Panel Debate to talk about: What can be done by the city, universities and high schools”
to increase a flow of students between India and Sweden?
Half day seminar ending in an evening mingle.
Global Engineering Program
Global Engineering Program a program that finding the right resources for companies either
directly from university or with the right mix of experience required. A pilot project with Volvo,
which has seen 15 students recruited by Volvo and Dfind, in collaboration with Resource Point AB.
Friday, 8 June 2012
13:00-16:00 Workshop and Panel Debate - 16:00-18:00 Drink and Mingle
Elite Park Avenue Hotel, Bankettsalen, Kungsportsavenyn 36-38, Göteborg

3. What can be done by the city, universities and high schools
to increase a flow of students between India and Sweden?
The meet is entitled “Global Resources in a changing world” and will explore how Sweden can benefit by providing
opportunities for people here to go to India for partaking in world class IT knowledge and opportunities, at the same
time attracting quality Indian students to its cutting edge universities for mutual benefit. The inevitability of close
collaboration of industry-academia will be explored for enhancing the attractiveness of Sweden as an education
destination.
Themes
How can students/labor in both countries benefit by exchange programs, internships and enhanced
labor mobility. How can one facilitate and increase the flow of quality Indian students from Indian
Schools and Colleges to Sweden and vice versa.
Issues
Indian perspective: How to provide education and work opportunities for
the youngest labor force in the world. Increase Interaction with Swedish
Industry for mutual benefit. Swedish perspective: Branding itself as a
education hub to rival UK and US –quality and price. Give students
and labor IT skills and outsourcing experience using India’s vast
pool of knowledge intensive industries.
Chief Guest Ashok Sajjanhar - The Indian Ambassador
Friday, 8 June 2012
13:00-16:00 Workshop and Panel Debate - 16:00-18:00 Drink and Mingle
Elite Park Avenue Hotel, Bankettsalen, Kungsportsavenyn 36-38, Göteborg

4. Welcome Address by the Governor (Landshövding) Lars Bäckström or the
13:00 Toastmaster Ulf Gustavsson introduces the program and speakers. Mayor Anneli Hulthen (to be confirmed)
What is the current state of education and business in India? What is the scope of improving
13:10 collaborations in academia and industry? How can cooperation between India and West Sweden The Indian Ambassador - Ashok Sajjanhar
be improved?
How does the city handle foreign companies? What is the state of contacts between India and Roger Strömberg, Director of Business Establishment and Investment,
13:35 Gothenburg
West Sweden?
Cecilia Hillman- International Student Recruitment, Chalmers //
13:45 The experience of Chalmers, and what is the way forward? Question & Answers
What are the possibilities we offer to Universities and High Schools to facilitate exchange? What
13.55 Madelene Johansson - Desk Officer, International Program Office
is happening today and what more can be done?
Bogdan Bunea -Recruitment Manager of Volvo IT- and students from
14:05 Volvo IT’s experiment with Global Engineering Program the Global Engineering Program present their experiences. // Do cross
cultural trips work? // What is the benefit to students & to Volvo?
Martin Jonson, principle for Donner High School, will present the
experiences of students? //What were the learning’s of this trip and did
14:20 Project Trip to India- Experience of Donner High Schools students the students gain anything? //We hear the first hand experience of
students who had gone on this tip.
14:35 COFFEE
15:00 Global Engineer Program -A Recruitment support for firms and a facilitator of student exchange David Armini/Mikael Hillerström - Resource Point AB
Moderator: Ulf Gustavsson, Ulf Gustavsson is the former president of
Panel Debate- What is being done /should be done the Teknikbrostilftelsen (Technology Link Foundation),
Hasselbladsstiftelsen, and the Department of Trade and Industry,
15:15 Need for such meeting again//Make Swedish students aware of India// Make Indian students
Gothenburg. Participants: Jan Smith- Director of the IT University
come to Sweden with help of GEP type initiatives (University of Gothenburg and Chalmers), Martin Jonson- Principle,
Donner High School, Bogdan Bunea -Recruitment Manager of Volvo IT
Friday, 8 June 2012
13:00-16:00 Workshop and Panel Debate - 16:00-18:00 Drink and Mingle
Elite Park Avenue Hotel, Bankettsalen, Kungsportsavenyn 36-38, Göteborg

5. Onsite Management and Offshore Development
A successful model in developing software
Our India partner, Travancore Analytics, will explain with case studies about how offshoring works – how it works effectively delivering value -and the
important facts that a company should be aware of to establish a successful engagement model with development team in India.
Resource Point AB will share its experience and advantages of having a local Swedish partner.
The floor will be open for any questions or discussions concerning the subject.
This is a one-hour seminar and begins at 16:00 and finishes at 17:00.
We will then have some Indian snacks and drinks and see an Indian dance performance.
Registration: The Embassy of India and Resource Point AB are sponsoring the event. We will be offering some light Indian snacks, one beer and wine.
The bar will be open for those wanting to stay longer.
Special Note: A confirmation is binding and a no-show will have to be invoiced at 500 SEK (unless a cancellation is sent before the event).
Resource Point AB is an 15 year old IT consultancy service, that is specialized on finding, screening, recruiting and
selling highly skilled IT resources to companies. The customers range form large firms like Volvo,
Ericsson, ABB to smaller firms having 5-10 employees.