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Graduate initiative launched to boost exports
30.08.2010
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation Batt O'Keeffe TD has launched a Government plan to drive exports through placing 50 top-level college graduates in export-led Irish firms.
Graduates 4 International Growth (G4IG), developed and delivered by Enterprise Ireland in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, will last for 18 months.
Graduates will undertake an initial six-month intensive training and skills development programme in an Enterprise Ireland client firm followed by a 12-month placement in a relevant overseas market.
G4IG is aimed at developing firms’ export market development strategies and at the same time advancing graduates’ international business skills.
It is geared towards Irish firms in the manufacturing and internationally traded services sectors with ambitious international business growth plans.
Successful graduate participants will be awarded a Post-Graduate Diploma in International Growth by UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School.
“By expanding Irish firms’ export footprints, we can create new jobs at home and drive our emergence from recession and back to economic growth,” said Minister O’Keeffe.
“The resilience of our exports in the face of the global downturn shows that the Government has adopted the right strategy in maintaining an open economy, seeking new foreign direct investment opportunities, supporting our indigenous export base and developing our services trade.”
