Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce(LNCC) and Norwegian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce(NLCC) are proud to invite you to a seminar about the Public Procurement in Norway. We invite Difi (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment in Norway) and Oslo Municipality to give their first-hand knowledge about the topic, as well as special guest from Lithuania to share how an international startupers can also succeed with the public procurement in Norway. The seminar is in English. The seminar is in English.

WHEN: May 6th 2015 | TIME: 8:45-12:00
WHERE: Infobalt, Mokslininkų 2, Vilnius
PRICE: 27 EUR for Members | 37 EUR for Non-members
REGISTRATION: mail@lncc.no

The Norwegian public sector is an important market. Annually public entities buy goods and services for approximately EUR 50 mlrd. The contracts vary widely in scope, which implies that, both Norwegian or non-Norwegian private enterprises should be able to tender for profitable opportunities. The seminar will cover following topics:

• How does Public tender system works in Norway
• How to find public tender information
• How to qualify for participating in tenders
• Issues that non-Norwegian enterprises must know
• Filing of tender documents
• What needs that contractor for the Public tender in Norway has when writing a tender proposal
• How to win a Public tender in Norway

PROGRAMME:

08:45 REGISTRATION

09:00 SEMINAR

• “Difi about the public tender system in Norway” – Ms Elisabeth Sundholm, Senior Adviser, Difi – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

• “Insiders Tricks and Tips when searching in the Norwegian Tender Database” – Ms Elisabeth Sundholm, Senior Adviser, Difi – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

• “5 dos and donts on how to win the contractors attention – view from the public tender contractor Oslo Municipality” – Ms Ingvild Lundin Nordahl, Oslo Municipality

• SPECIAL GUEST: Bergblaa prosjekt AS is a small startup Norwegian-Lithuanian company. Their business model is based on winning the Public Tenders in Norway. The company is working on tender projects in the field of heritage protection, buildings and art restoration and conservation. Founded in 2014 it had turnover of 2,7 MNOK same year. Mr. Laurynas Dalgeda will share their success story and tips for small companies on how to succeed.

11:30 Q & A SESSION WITH THE SPEAKERS

11:45 MINGLING

NOTE! The price for this event is 100 NOK. This event is FREE for members of Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and Oslo International Hub.

Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce(LNCC), Norwegian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce(NLCC) and Oslo International Hub (OIH) are proud to invite you to a seminar about the Public Procurement in Norway. We invite Difi (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment in Norway) and Oslo Municipality to give their first-hand knowledge about the topic, as well as special guest from Lithuania to share how an international startupers can also succeed with public procurement in Norway. The seminar is in English.

WHEN: 14. April 2015 | TIME 8:45-12:00
WHERE: Oslo International Hub, Oscars gate 27, Oslo 0366
COST: 1oo NOK | Free for OIH and LNCC members
REGISTRATION: please go here.

The Norwegian public sector is an important market. Annually public entities buy goods and services for approximately NOK 400 billion. The contracts vary widely in scope, which implies that, both Norwegian or non-Norwegian private enterprises should be able to tender for profitable opportunities. The seminar will cover following topics:

• How does Public tender system works in Norway
• How to find public tender information
• How to qualify for participating in tenders
• Issues that non-Norwegian enterprises must know
• Filing of tender documents
• What needs that contractor for the Public tender in Norway has when writing a tender proposal
• How to win a Public tender in Norway

PROGRAMME:

08:45 REGISTRATION

09:00 SEMINAR

• “Difi about the public tender system in Norway” – Ms Elisabeth Sundholm, Senior Adviser, Difi – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

• “5 dos and donts on how to win the contractors attention – view from the public tender contractor Oslo Municipality” – Ms Ingvild Lundin Nordahl, Oslo Municipality

• SPECIAL GUEST: Bergblaa prosjekt AS is a small startup Norwegian-Lithuanian company. Their business model is based on winning the Public Tenders in Norway. The company is working on tender projects in the field of heritage protection, buildings and art restoration and conservation. Founded in 2014 it had turnover of 2,7 MNOK same year. Mr. Laurynas Dalgeda will share their success story and tips for small companies on how to succeed.

• “Insiders Tricks and Tips when searching in the Norwegian Tender Database” – Ms Elisabeth Sundholm, Senior Adviser, Difi – Agency for Public Management and eGovernment

11:30 Q & A SESSION WITH THE SPEAKERS

11:45 MINGLING

Oslo International Hub and Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with DNB, is inviting you to a seminar/workshop with DNB on how to make a solid presentation.

NB! This event is primarily for Oslo International Hub and LNCC members. The number of seats is limited, therefore “first-come, first-served” principle applies.

Register for the event: HERE
After the event we continue with the Friday Social in the house and participants are welcome to join.

Key to successful business – conveying and convincing presentations

Ins and outs of making presentations that your readers, listeners and audience will remember. Insiders knowledge delivered by DNB startup enthusiasts.

With insight from working in Norway’s largest financial institution DNB, David and Marius shares their knowledge about how to get through with your message, may it be a business idea, for a loan application or in project management.

The seminar concentrates on three parts:

·   Theory – The pyramid principle, structuring the message, organization of arguments and active headers.

·   How to structure presentations – Storyboarding, key questions to ask yourself, and use of the pyramid principle in practice.

·   The power of a Powerpoint slide – tips & tricks, illustrations, presentation vs. documentation slides.

We cannot promise that you will become a communication expert after this seminar, but you will be given a set of tools that will help you take your presentations to the next level.

The seminar will have a mixture of lecture, discussion, and exercises and you are expected to actively participate in the session.
David Scheuer
David currently works with credit analysis for DNB’s Shipping, Offshore & Logistics clients. Prior, as a business development manager, he has been running projects and trainings on behalf of DNB’s top management responsible for the Baltic operations. He holds a German degree (equivalent to a Master) in Business and Economics. David has an entrepreneurial mind set and is constantly seeking the new experiences, may it be web page development or a new sport.

www.linkedin.com/in/davidscheuer

Marius Styczen
Marius works as a Senior Business Developer for DNB Baltics with a wide array of different tasks. Financial analysis, corporate governance, strategy and communication to mention a few. Marius has for long pursued an international oriented career and has both worked and studied abroad. Marius holds an M.Sc. in Financial Economics from NHH and Master in Management from CEMS. Marius is an entrepreneurial spirit and has recently started his own company in his spare time.

www.linkedin.com/in/styczen

The EU Chambers of Commerce in Norway kindly invite members and guests to their annual Norwegian Economic Outlook. Frank Jullum, Danske Bankens Chief Economist will give his latest insight and analysis on the Norwegian Economic Outlook for 2015.

Oil prices have been halved since last summer. Which might be positive for the global economy. Meanwhile, for some countries, such as Norway, it results in a dramatic deterioration of the framework conditions. Interest cuts, weaker Norwegian currency and the oil fund-mechanisms will meanwhile dampen the negative effects from the lower oil price.

PROGRAMME

08.00 am Coffee and light breakfast
08.30 am Welcome by Tone Lunde Bakker, Country Manager, Danske Bank Norway
08.40 am Norwegian Economic Outlook 2015 by Frank Jullum, Chief Economist
09.40 am Q & A
10.00 am End

SPEAKERS

Tone Lunde Bakker was appointed Country Manager at Danske Bank Norway in June 2012. She holds an MBA from Arizona State University in Finance and International Business. She began her career in Christiania Bank and Kreditkassen and joined Focus Bank – now Danske Bank – in 1997, where she has held several positions, e.g. Director, Head of Large Corporates, Executive Vice President for Eastern Region and Executive Vice President Corporate & Institutional Business.

Frank Jullum has a Master’s Degree in Social Economy from the University of Oslo, and is currently Chief Economist in Danske Markets Norway. He has previously been employed with Ministry of Finance, Financial Supervisory Authority and Christiania Markets – now Nordea Markets. He joined Danske Bank in 2001.

Danske Bank, previously Fokus Bank, is the third largest commercial bank in Norway. It has a market share of 5%. The bank was founded in 1859 in Trondheim, and became part of Danske Bank in 1999. The bank has about 1,000 employees, 41 branches and almost 200 bn. NOK in total assets.

ATTENDANCE

The meeting is free of charge and will be held in English. Please register as soon as possible due to limited seats available and no later than 10th March.

REGISTRATION

This event is organised on behalf of the EU Chambers of Commerce in Norway:
The Austrian Trade Commission, The Embassy of Belgium, The British-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Royal Danish Embassy in Oslo, The Finnish-Norwegian Commercial Association, The French-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Irish-Norwegian Business Association, The Italian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Embassy of the Republic of Latvia / Investment and Development Agency of Latvia, The Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Spanish-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Swedish-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, The Polish-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Embassy of the Republic of Hungary, Embassy of the Slovak Republic

Last week Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce had its Annual General Assembly and a seminar about the status quo and learnings about the Norwegian companies in Lithuania and Lithuanian companies in Norway. Gathering was open for all who are interested in Lithuanian-Norwegian business cooperation.We had a pleasure to welcome nearly 40 representatives from different companies from both Lithuania and Norway and the Headquarters of DNB in Oslo.The goal of the gathering was to exchange learnings and give better insights in the status of the Norwegian investments in Lithuania, but also learn more about how Lithuanian companies in Norway are viewing the challenges and advantages of working in the Norwegian market.

Photo: Mantas Grigaliunas

Former Ambassador of Norway to Lithuania Mr Leif Arne Ulland shared some valuable insights into the status of Norwegian investments in Norway. According to the recent data the Norway is soon to be the 4th biggest investment country in Lithuania. Lithuania exports 5 times more to Norway, than Norway to Lithuania. However, Lithuania is an important transit country for Norwegian product going to other countries, such like Kazakhstan. Lithuanian investments in Norway are rather marginal and results to bare 0.93 mil. LTL. About 45% of the Norwegian investments are based in Vilnius. Norway has a strong business presence via collaboration called “Team Norway”, gathering Norwegian Embassy in Norway, Honorary Consuls in Lithuania, Norwegian-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce and business people with a long experience doing business between the two countries. Mr. Ulland stressed the importance of establishing such a collaboration in Norway, also the need of establishing “Team Lithuania” network.

Many of our guests were impressed with the presentations of two Lithuanian business professionals Ausra Vankeviciute from Staticus Norway AS and Paulius Kvedaras from Kvedaru Ukis.

Photo: Mantas Grigaliunas

Ausra Vankeviciute is a CEO of a Lithuanian steel construction company with 390 employees and a turnover over 35 MLN EUR. She explained that Staticus became so successful in Norway only because they were met with trust by many Norwegian institutions and companies. Ms Vankeviciute stressed the importance of focusing on quality, not quantity, and having the right certificates for the job that the company wants to do. In 2013 Staticus was voted to be Lithuanian Exporter of the year.

Paulius Kvedaras represented a family business from Lithuanian – Kvedaru Ukis, with an established and sound business in Lithuania. However due to the changing political landscape Kvedaru Ukis decided to explore the business possibilities in Scandinavia, and first and foremost in Norway. Mr Kvedaras admitted that it is not easy to find the information about the Norwegian market in English, but was impressed with the competence and service level he met in his encounter with the Norwegian Custom Office. His presentation of how Kvedaru Ukis is executing market research about Norway impressed even the most experienced business professionals in the audience. Some of them even applauded Mr Kvedaras for a perfect schoolbook example of how to do a market research.

After the presentations everybody had a chance to get to know each other closer by sharing a platter of the most delicious tapas and Spanish vine, specially selected for the occasion by, Hjørdis B. Rasmussen from DNB, who assisted LNCC in organising this great event. Big thanks to Ms Rasmussen.

Quite a few of our guests found relevant business contacts during the gathering. This makes our event a total success for the Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce, especially because our goal is to establish a lasting business network in Norway, that could gather business professionals from both countries and in this way strengthen the business relations between Norway and Lithuania.

For photos after the event, please visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ltchamber

Photo: Mantas Grigaliunas

Photo: Mantas Grigaliunas

We welcome present and prospect members to a seminar and LNCC General Assembly.

16:00   REGISTRATION
16:30   ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY
16:45   SEMINAR: Norwegian companies in Lithuania and Lithuanian companies in Norway – status quo and learnings

• “Norwegian businesses in Lithuania” by Mr Leif Arne Ulland, former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Norway to the Republic of Lithuania
• “Building a successful Lithuanian business in Norway” by Ausra Vankeviciute, CEO Staticus Norge AS
• “Market research in Norway – a newcomer’s view into the Norwegian market” by Paulius Kvedaras, Kvedaru Ukis

17:30   SNACKS & DRINKS

Date: February 10th, 2015
Time: 16:00-19:00
Venue: DNB Headquarters, Dronning Eufemias gate 30, 0191 Oslo
Dress Code: Business Casual
Registration: Closed

Visma is proud, in cooperation with Difi (Agency for Public Management and eGovernment), to invite you to a seminar regarding public procurement in Norway. The seminar is in English and is free of charge.

The Norwegian public sector is an important market. Annually public entities buy goods and services for approximately NOK 400 billion. The contracts vary widely in scope, which implies that both Norwegian or non-Norwegian private enterprises should be able to tender for profitable opportunities. The seminar will cover topics as:

• How to find public tender invitations
• How to qualify for participating in tenders
• Issues that non-Norwegian enterprises must know
• Filing of tender documents
• e-invoicing
• Legal issues – handling of complaints

Time: Thursday 22 January 2015. Registration 08.45-09.00, seminar 09.00-11.30. Where: Visma building at Bjørvika, Dronning Eufemias gate 16. BNCC

You can register here.

At the previous Extraordinary General Assembly, on the 3rd of December, Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce elected  Hans Petter Evensen as a new member of the board.

Hans Petter joins LNCC as a representative of DNB and has a long Business Development background. Until recently he has been living and working in Lithuania as a Head of Product Development for the Baltics, DNB.

We are very happy to welcome Hans Petter Evnsen as a our new team member and we look forward working together.

Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce (LNCC) in cooperation with the Lithuanian community in Bergen (BLB) and Startup Weekend Bergenis welcoming to a discussion meeting on how to build the entrepreneurship culture among the Lithuanians in Norway.

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       During event we will introduce you to LNCC activities and goals, we will share information about business environment and entrepreneurial experience in Norway, we will introduce you to one of the great opportunities to build up a team of professionals and start your own business, and invite for open discussion in order to find out the real challenges of starting and developing business in Norway.

PROGRAMME:

– Opening note by Edita Jakubkiene, BLB Director.

– Vita Melinauskaite, Managing Director, LNCC will present organization and activities.

– Giedrius Statulevicius, Serial Entrepreneur, sharing his experiences of entering the entrepreneurship culture and environment in Norway.

– Startup Weekend Bergen will present their event.

– Open discussion and Workshop “Challenges starting and developing business in Norway”

Date:  2014 10 19d.,  12:00

Place: Christiesgate 16, 5015 Bergen. St. Paul school, 2floor.

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Lithuanian-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce in cooperation with Oslo International Hub is welcoming to a discussion meeting on how to build the entrepreneurship culture among the Lithuanians in Norway.